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Wiiware EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Ain't no objections: Phoenix Wright for Wiiware 21 Raised in a family of real-life defense attorneys, I've been interested in seeing how Capcom could take something as serious as law and transform it into a game. While I'm not that interested in ... Nintendo DLC Update: WiiWare demo, Pokemon, Indiana Jones 11 Another week, another batch of downloadable games on the little console that could (and did, and continues to do). If you jump onto the Wii Shop Channel, you'll see the usual addition of Virtual ... Phalanx coming to WiiWare, banjo accessory not confirmed 13 I have never played Phalanx. The SNES/Sharp X68000 computer game was never something I had the pleasure of playing. Beyond the fact that it's a space shooter I know absolutely nothing about it. N... Monsteca Corral has 'ambient feel' of Flower, Pikmin 9 How does an indie developer grab our attention? Well, throw around the names of games like Flower and Pikmin, of course. Developer Onteca is saying its upcoming WiiWare title, Monsteca Corra... Review: Gravitronix 4 Rght around the time that WiiWare was just becoming known to the public, a little company in New Hampshire called Medaverse Studios announced that they would be jumping in on the fun with a game ... Free beats: Update available for Bit.Trip Beat 5 Not playing Modern Warfare 2? Well then, chances are high that you'd like Bit.Trip Beat. The game is pretty much the anti-Call of Duty, and it's one of my all time favorites. If you haven't playe... Ten Minute Taste: Excitebike World Rally 14 Out of the blue, Nintendo recently announced an update to its classic NES title, Excitebike. Called Excitebike: World Rally, the WiiWare title is just like the original that you know and love, j... Nintendo DLC: Excitebike, Frogger, Electroplankton 15 Three words -- Excitebike: World Rally (1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points). The WiiWare update of the original that was just recently announced is available today, with online multiplayer, updated v... Cave Story Wii gets closer to release, much more yellow 35 It's good news/bad news time again. Good news first- Cave Story Wii has been resubmitted to Nintendo for approval. The game was supposed to be out months ago, but for reasons unknown, Nintendo ha... Art imitates life: Bit.Trip VOID in time for Thanksgiving 6 Bit.Trip VOID is a game that you can play with your family, where you compete to see who can get fatter the fastest. Thanksgiving (link NSFW) is a holiday where families do the same thing, except... Hudson's bringing back the Bonk 18 Most gamers can remember the so-called console wars of the 16-bit generation. At the time, each of the console competitors used every advantage they could to show how their system was the right s... Nintendo sort of interested in WiiWare demos ... maybe 19 One of the smartest things Microsoft has done with Xbox LIVE Arcade is make demos a requirement for each and every game, and furthermore, made it so upgrading to the full version is a mere button... Tomena Sanner is still crazy, even in English 9 We just recently learned that the strangest Japanese WiiWare one-button side-scrolling game is coming to the US. Tomena Sanner, they call it, and Konami is working on releasing it here early nex... Review: Lost Winds: The Winter of the Melodias 17 When I heard the news that a second Lost Winds game was coming out I knew I had to finally download the first game and become a big fan of it. So I did download it and I did become a big fan of i... Nintendo DLC Update: Fighting Street and stuff 18 There isn’t a nice package to wrap the Nintendo downloads in this week, unlike the previous two which had Halloween or Domo themes. Still, games came out and the point of this is to tell yo... Meat Boy Twitter updates: Contests, menus, and creeps 7 Time for another update from the Super Meat Boy twitter. First off are a few images from "incidental" aspects of the game. We get a look at the silhouette of a mysterious dude (Tim? LL Cool J?), ... Yes! Tomena Sanner confirmed for US WiiWare 11 Remember that weird-ass Japanese game where a breakdancing salaryman was doing flips and sh*t? Yeah, that one. It's right up my alley, and it's probably right up yours as well. When we first hea... Frogger is totally returning to PSN, WiiWare this fall 11 Finally, the years of handwritten letters and dozens of signatures to your online petition have paid off! Konami has announced that it'll be releasing Frogger Returns, an update to the arcade cla... Come watch Doc Louis take a beating 17 The Club Nintendo-exclusive stand-alone WiiWare game Doc Louis' Punch-Out!! appears to be finalized and ready to download for those who spent their "coins" (or whatever magical currency... SPOILERS: Full game of Castlevania Rebirth on Youtube 33 Yesterday, the Nintendo Week showed us about 12 seconds of the new WiiWare title Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth. Now, less than 24 hours later, someone has played through the entire game and ... There's Castlevania Rebirth footage somewhere in here 15 Look, if Jonathan Holmes can make four little screens of Castlevania Rebirth work, I can do the same with these tiny snippets of video.Sure, there's only a few seconds of hot new Castlevania Reb... First look at Excitebike World Rally for WiiWare 31 Big news for fans of the original NES Excitebike -- an all new, updated version of the game will be hitting WiiWare on November 9. Called Excitebike World Rally, the game will feature the sa... CONFIRMED: LL Cool J is playable in Super Meat Boy 29 I may not post much news on the Destructoid front page, but I do, occasionally, have my moments. I've been known to investigate things. I once reported something. Every so often, when the sun is ... Too much Super Meat Boy news to fit in this headline 24 Crap, I forgot to read the Super Meat Boy twitter for a few days, and it turns out that I missed a f*ck-ton of news. First is the above video, that shows us exactly how terrifying Super Meat Boy ... More Castlevania Rebirth screens = more sexy fun for you 42 So, this is what I do with my life now. I find screenshots of videogames and sexy people, put them together, then post them on the internet. Why do I do this? Well, the technical reasons are stil... Review: BIT.TRIP Void 26 Fans of BIT.TRIP Beat and BIT.TRIP Core will be thrilled to hear that the development team at Gaijin Games has been hard at work on a third game in the BIT.TRIP series called BIT.TRIP Void. While... Contest winner is going on a BIT.TRIP! 9 Remember how earlier this week I announced that Gaijin Games was so kind as to offer a pretty damn amazing series of prizes to hand out to a lucky community member? You know what I'm talking abou... Game 4: Coming next in the BIT.TRIP series 7 This has been quite a week in Gaijin Games. We've brought you all sorts of exclusive coverage, from the latest game in the series, BIT.TRIP Void, the past and future of Gaijin Games, defending Ni... Defending Nintendo: Gaijin's support of Wiiware 17 If you notice one thing about Gaijin Games current profile of titles, there's one thing the unites them all: they all have released on Nintendo's WiiWare service. Say what you will about Nintendo... Out of the Void and beyond the Beat, the Future of Gaijin 7 If you've been following along our week long series on Gaijin Games, the studio behind the BIT.TRIP series for the Wii, you know that they have an interesting story to tell about how they came to... In case you've forgotten: 20+ new La-Mulana screenshots 8 I'll be the first to admit that I'm not familiar with Nigoro's action-adventure Metroidvania La-Mulana or the MSX games (like Maze of Galious) to which it pays homage. (In brief, you have to guid... A Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth screen (and friends) 44 Forgive the less-than-classy use of space up there. I didn't want to stretch the above screenshot to fit Destructoid's header size requirements, and other than decorating the borders with as many... Germany getting Muscle March, may be hope for us 19 Hey you!Muscle March, the WiiWare game that almost defies explanation, was a Japan-only title for awhile now. But now it seems that Germany is also going to be able to enjoy muscle-bound men cha... How CommanderVideo ended up in Super Meat Boy 8 The BIT.TRIP series is faced by one adorable little CommanderVideo. The hero if Gaijin Games' mini-epic is an ambitious little figure, a spaceman with whom the different genres of the BIT.TRIP se... BIT.Tripping back in the day with Gaijin Games 4 It's a story we have all heard before. The almost mythical creation of tiny companies in the 70's and 80's who would later transform into epic mega corporations of today. It's the Cinderella stor... Last Flight dev on what it means to be 'hardcore' 21 Wii owners with that itch to swing their Wii Remotes to slice up bloodthirsty vampires on an aircraft will have their chance soon. Developer Bloober Team tells us the first episode of its WiiWare... Shadow Walker looks shady...get it? 5 This is the happiest trailer I've ever seen in my entire life. The music itself is like eating powered sugar (I'm betting Noriyuki Iwadare did the score). You'd think a game about walking in sha... Gaijin Games: Moving to a Different Beat 4 Arguably, there are three major elements to a BIT.TRIP game: classical gameplay elements evoking an earlier era of games, retro-inspired graphics that embody and celebrate constraints, and the mu... Contest! Win exclusive BIT.TRIP Void artwork and more 218 Hopefully by now you've had a chance to check out my little round table with the guys of Gaijin Games and the latest game they have coming: BIT.TRIP Void. We have some more content coming son, wh... Gaijin Games leaps into the Void 12 Gaijin Games and BIT.TRIP. It's a dev team and a game series that has worked entirely within the the constraints of Nintendo's WiiWare downloadable channel. For those who have given their previou... Nintendo says that downloadable services help retail 29 For years now people have been discussing the downfall of retail thanks to the ever increasing use of digital distribution. Of course retail is still here as that inevitable downfall is a long wa... Super Meat Boy's twitter updates got the 2600 meat funk 11 Looking forward to Super Meat Boy? Then should been keeping up with the game on Twitter, where all the major Meat Boy news first goes public. Here's a recap of the latest from Tweet Boy's meats, ... LostWinds sequel hits North American WiiWare this Monday 5 Frontier and Nintendo of America have announced that the sequel to LostWinds will be available on WiiWare in North America this Monday. Rejoice!LostWinds: Winter of Melodias has already made its ... Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth screens pop up 22 Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth has come a long, long way since the GameBoy days, if these new screens that were recently shown in Famitsu are any indication. The WiiWare title has been confir... Nintendo Wii downloads: Final Fight 2 and stuff 10 Things have happened on the Nintendo downloadable front. This morning ushers in one title on each of the publisher’s three digital platforms. Don’t expect the amazing, but don’t... LostWinds lands in UK, the rest of the world gets trailer 15 How's it going UK? Your weekend going well? Playing lots of games? Good, good. Say, what's that one? That... that looks like LostWinds: Winter of Molodias. You've had it since Friday! It marked ... Learn about evolution and lizard men with Shootanto 22 Ask any true blooded bible thumper and they'll tell you that evolution is a crock. Our great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great (etc.) grandparent... This is Shadow Walker and I want it bad 12 Oh hi, Shadow Walker. My name's Colette Bennett. Nice to meet you. Is it impolite of me to come right out of the gate and out my real feelings on the table? Because I want you. At first sight. Pu... Vamps on a Plane: Details on WiiWare's Last Flight 16 Revealed awhile back, Bloober Team is finally ready to talk more about Last Flight, an upcoming downloadable title, designed exclusively for the Wii and WiiWare. What happens when Anna, a mysteri... Nintendo DLC Update: Final Fantasy, tanks, and words 17 A bright spot on a dreary Monday, Nintendo has updated the offerings on its various digital download services. This week delivers a bite-size of fantasy, and even some a touch of word search acti... Review: Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 3 10 Another chapter in the Telltale Games' Tales of Monkey Island episodic series was released yesterday afternoon. Chapter 3, or the “Lair of the Leviathan” kicks off as a powerful whale... Exclusive: The sights & sounds of Retro Super Meat Boy 23 [Surprise, a Destructoid exclusive! You saw it here first!] How do you feel about this whole "retro-revival" thing? If you're going to play a retro game, do you want it to go whole hog ... Nintendo DLC Update: Dragon Quest: Wars and Altered Beast 11 It’s Monday and that means more stuff is hitting Nintendo’s various digital distribution services. Prepare for the below.Looking forward to looking backward again this week on WiiWare... Arkanoid making a comeback on WiiWare 9 Square Enix and Taito are have updated the classic Arkanoid for WiiWare. Arkanoid Plus! will have multiplayer, co-op, arcade mode, time mode, 122 levels and tons of upgrades and power-ups. There'... Behold, the coming of a giant: Zombie Panic in Wonderland 43 There are some videogames that people would rather talk about than play. For instance, folks have spent more than a year prattling on about how much they "appreciate the significance" o... Nintendo DLC: Cubes, tennis, ninjas, sims, and cards 11 Nintendo surprises (at least me) this week with an original WiiWare title called You, Me, and the Cubes (1-2 players, 1,000 Wii Points). The physics-based puzzle/action game where players control... Vogster still intends to release Robocalypse for WiiWare 1 When we was heard Vogster was 'reallocating' its 'resources' (read: cutting staff) to focus on post-launch CrimeCraft, we were worried. What would happened to the Robocalypse series, particularly... This Super Meat Boy footage is highly impressive 25 Taking into consideration the fact that I don't need fancy graphics to "wow" me, yeah, the first official gameplay footage of Super Meat Boy was impressive. Sometimes less is more, and ... Preview: Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan 6 My dear Tales of Monkey Island,Telltale has treated you so good, turning you into a successful episodic franchise. Many would say you do the original justice, which is a wonderful thing to see. O... LostWinds could come to the PS3 or Xbox 360 15 As we learned this morning, studios are chattering about the possibility of porting their Wii titles to the PS3 post-motion sensing wand. 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