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Fast Draw Coming to WiiWare

Digital Leisure is planning to release the lesser-known American Laser Games’ FMV title Fast Draw Showdown to WiiWare. Those used to other light gun shooters such as Lethal Enforcers (or a more appropriate comparison, its Western themed sequel Gunfighters) or Mad Dog McCree will probably a little disappointed. Fast Draw is typically a one-on-one showdown of [...]

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Ninja Gaiden (Arcade) on Virtual Console

Ninja Gaiden has an odd history. Unlike other familiar NES ports such as Contra (from Konami), which took the arcade game and expanded it, Ninja Gaiden is a radically different title on the home console. In fact, the genre isn’t even the same. Instead of a beautifully paced, smooth, and engaging platformer, Ninja Gaiden began life [...]

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ClayFighter Reborn on WiiWare, DSiWare

Here’s a retro-redux no one saw coming. Interplay has announced they will be releasing downloadable updates to the ClayFighter Series. The studio doing the work is StudioBlack Games, comprised of some staff of the original games. The franchise began on the SNES and Genesis as a parody of the fighting genre which had grown too large [...]

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New Contra Announced for WiiWare

Let’s get the basics out of the way so we can rant for a bit. Contra is coming to WiiWare for 1,000 Points ($10), titled Contra ReBirth. No details on whether it’s a remake, reboot, restart, sequel, or continuation of Contra DS (although it does use the same sprites as the latter). It’s Contra, so [...]

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WiiWare Threshold Revealed

Unlike other online game services (we’re looking at PSN and XBLA here), WiiWare developers don’t get paid for every unit sold. Depending on the region, it could be 6,000 units before any money has made it to the developer. The breakdown works out like this: In the US, a WiiWare game over 16MB has to sell [...]

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Wii Storage Kinda Fixed

Well, it’s a start. With all of those nifty WiiWare titles and Virtual Console games already out there, it’s likely you’re out of space on the meager internal memory of the Wii. That’s about to be fixed… sort of. While the internal storage will remain the same, you’ll finally be able to play games directly [...]

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Nintendo Charges $5 for WiiWare Screensaver

Sometimes, it’s nice to wake up Monday morning and see the latest offering from Nintendo on WiiWare. Lost Winds, Gyrostarr, and some others have been mildly memorable releases. Then you get crap like My Aquarium from Hudson. This is $5 of real money for an aquarium “simulator.” Really. Oh, but according to the trailer, it’s therapeutic [...]

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