August 30, 2010 - Newly available on the WiiWare™ service, Tales of Elastic Boy – Mission 1 truly stretches the possibilities for console adventure. On the Nintendo DSiWare™ service, you’ll discover epic space battles in Cosmos X2, create customized notes with myNotebook: Pearl™, and learn to play timeless melodies with Music on: Learning Piano. Whether you’re headed back to school or simply flipping another calendar page, these new offerings will help freshen up your gaming regimen as you head into fall.
- Larry Adelman is the main character
- knives, cleavers, mops, guitars and more as weapons
- most likely rated M
- an action game at heart
- inspired by hack-and-slash arcade titles such as Golden Axe, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe, Bayonetta
- entire game takes place on an airplane
- Larry is overweight, bald, and not really a likeable guy
- move Larry with the thumbstick, swing Wiimote and Nunchuk as left and right hands
- chain together motions for combos
- multiple finishing moves
- finishing move example: ripping a Vampire’s head off its shoulders
- multiple combos possible
- devs were going for a lighthearted atmosphere with stylized, cartoony visuals
- pop culture references
- hoping to finish development this Summer
- this is still part 1 of a 4-part series
- devs are looking for feedback from fans
- may include co-op
More details and comments from the developer here.
Get the most out of your Wii or Nintendo DSi by downloading new software directly from the Wii Shop Channel or Nintendo DSi Shop in exchange for Nintendo Points. More information on WiiWare and Nintendo DSiWare can be found at the bottom of this article. This week, the following new releases are available from Friday:
Aug. 23, 2010 - Rules are made to be broken – or at least bent a little, right? This week, the latest downloadable games for the Wii™ and Nintendo DSi™ systems offer some fun ways to defy convention. The award-winning And Yet It Moves for the WiiWare™ service invites players to mess with the laws of physics and turn their worlds upside-down. In the imported NES™ classic UFROURIA™: THE SAGA, you’ll need to switch between characters and do whatever it takes to complete a challenging quest. On the Nintendo DSiWare™ service, Rytmik lets you create your own musical compositions, while G.G Series NINJA KARAKURI DEN lets you play by your own rules as a stealthy ninja. If there’s one rule you shouldn’t break while using Nintendo systems, it’s this one: Have a blast!
This week sees something for everyone on DSiWare, WiiWare and Virtual Console with Nintendo’s range of relaxing, challenging and downright difficult games.
Making a comeback is FATAL FURY 3TM on Virtual Console, offering brand new moves, plus bigger and better tactics than any previously seen in the series.
DSiWare will see you testing your mental ability with its ancient tile trials in 3D Mahjong, or triggering a chain reaction of colours and points with Primrose. Hospital Havoc will raise your heart rate in a challenge which sees you diagnosing and treating your own peculiar patients.
Cologne, GamesCom – August 18th, 2010 – Today Ubisoft announced the full tracklist of its anticipated game Just Dance 2. After the success of the first installment, which has sold more than four million units to date, Just Dance returns with a brand new tracklist of more than 40 popular songs, each track featuring its own choreography.
Just Dance 2’s tracklist offers a wide range of songs drawn from classic hits and legendary songs to today’s chart-toppers, including Donna Summer’s Hot Stuff, I Got You by James Brown but also Rihanna’s S.O.S., When I Grow Up by the Pussycat Dolls and many other famous songs for perfect dancing parties! It also features new music styles such as Bollywood or Reggaeton. And for those who still want more, they will be able to download tracks from an expanding catalogue of new hits using WiiWare.
Aug. 16, 2010 – Believe it or not, September is just around the corner. How do you want to spend the waning days of summer? You could plunge yourself into an intergalactic battle with Space Trek or A Monsteca Corral: Monsters vs. Robots for the WiiWare™ service. You’ve also got some interesting hand-held options to consider via the Nintendo DSiWare™ service: rule two screens at once in Divergent Shift, enjoy classic tile-matching in 3D Mahjong, take note of the world around you with myNotebook: Carbon™ or try karaoke with a soccer-loving twist in Just SING! National Anthems. Choose any or all of the above and savor the downloadable fun before another summer slips away.
Sparks are flying this week on the Wii Shop Channel and the Nintendo DSi Shop
Get ready for action with Drift Street International for Nintendo DSiWare. Speed around the city streets of the world in daring drag races, or explore the wondrous world of Disney at night launching your own rockets over different Disney kingdoms with Disney Fireworks.
There’s yet more action-packed excitement on the Wii with Wild GunsTM for Virtual Console and HoopWorldTM: BasketBrawl on WiiWare. Shoot your way past robots and outlaws in an explosive 2-player co-op mode, or challenge friends to arcade-style basketball games set in mysterious ancient ruins.
SAN MATEO, CA – Aug 9, 2010 – Wii™ owners can dive right into underwater adventures this summer as Hudson Entertainment, the North and South American subsidiary of HUDSON SOFT, invites players to explore and create their own deep sea world, complete with real-world weather, with My Aquarium 2, now available for download on the Nintendo Wii™ for 500 Nintendo WiiPoints™.
Aug. 9, 2010 - As always, Monday is an especially fun day for Wii™ and Nintendo DSi™ owners, kicking off the week with a wide variety of new downloadable games. On the WiiWare™ service, My Aquarium 2 offers a fresh selection of virtual deep-sea creatures to arrange and admire. Also, things are a bit topsy-turvy on the Nintendo DSiWare™ service as TURN: The Lost Artifact invites players to meddle with the forces of gravity in fascinating ways. A total of six new games are now available for download, giving Nintendo fans easy access to yet another slew of extraordinary gaming experiences.
