Check out this video commemorating the first year for Nintendo WiiWare… Enjoy!

Check out the trailer for the Nintendo WiiWare game Diner Dash… Enjoy!

Here’s a hilarious take on how Luigi longs for fame and respect, always being second compared to Mario. He did, however, get Luigi’s Mansion, which Mario pokes fun of in the video. You gotta watch this!

Gunstar Heroes
First released in 1993, this quirky game is well-loved for its exciting running and shooting action and its non-stop intense gameplay. You’ll also like the game’s manga-style look and the guns that could be mixed and matched to create your very own custom-designed shooter. Choose from a flamethrower, a homing shot, a machine gun and a laser. But no matter how big your gun gets, your enemies either multiply or get bigger themselves, so you never run out of challenges.

If you enjoyed the arcade games of the past like Street Fighter II and Contra, you’ll like this game even better. The levels, thankfully enough, are brief so you’re not stuck with long-winding stages of mindless gunplay. Two players can also play simultaneously.

Trauma Center: Second Opinion
If you’ve played Trauma Center before, you’ve probably met Dr. Derek Stiles, who just completed his residency. The story progresses through text dialogue and still images, but it’s interesting enough with the incorporation of some serious material, like euthanasia to suicidal patients. As Dr. Derek Stiles, you are gifted with the Healing Touch.

In the world you will inhabit, forces that point to bioterrorism are threatening the world with an epidemic. You will be performing surgery on patients, although it’s not as gory as you might think. You get to use a multiple array of surgical tools through the analog stick of the Wii’s nunchuk attachment. And it’s not just about surgery. You do have to mind your patient’s health – if their heart stops, you have to do something. This game isn’t easy so you’ll be challenged throughout.

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Rock all day and night with the new Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock by Nintendo. Guitar Hero III is the company’s most innovative and comprehensive Rock music video experience. Loaded with music from Guns, N’ Roses, Sex Pistols, The Rolling Stones, Metallica and more, the dynamic on stage sensation puts the Wii guitarist center stage in dazzling new arenas and accompanied by hand-picked action packed musicians.

Nintendo has stepped up the graphics and put out a new line of prospective band members that enable the lead guitarist to take the stage with hand selected backups. The new arenas have sparkling lighting effects and all the commotion enthused audiences generate. Adding to the vivid setting improvements are the wireless Les Gibson guitar controllers. Practice your moves and let your music persona erupt with this technologically advanced musical weapon.

At the center of Guitar Hero III is a compilation of 40 years of memorable rock music from various genres. Nintendo’s sound track takes in all the best and lets the guitarist jam with the best doing their best. The best from Europe and the best from America have come together and Wii guitarists can now reap the rewards. When entering Crank Level 11, let it all hang out.

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Fantastic combat and smart writing give Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier an edge over its cookie-cutter trappings.

Score: 7.0 / good

Get the full review at GameSpot

LucasArts’ action-oriented space opera games arriving to PSP, DS courtesy of Rebellion, n-Space later this year.

The Entertainment Software Rating Board hasn’t been as reliable as it has been in year’s past when it comes to inadvertently revealing publishers’ upcoming new releases. However, the industry rating board did slip up last week, listing the as-yet-announced Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for the Nintendo DS and PSP with an E10+ ratings as well as fantasy violence descriptors of the lightsaber and blaster rifle kind.

Elite Squadron on the PSP.

Thunder thus stolen, LucasArts today officially announced Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, saying the handheld title would arrive for the DS and PSP this fall. Rebellion Software has been tasked with the PSP edition of Elite Squadron, having crafted the well-regarded Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron for Sony’s handheld in 2007. LucasArts also confirmed for GameSpot that n-Space has been tasked with the DS edition of the game.

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First two GameCube titles get motion-sensing overhaul, bundled together with 2007’s Metroid Prime: Corruption in one $49.99 package.

While Nintendo fans are looking to the company’s press briefing at next month’s Electronic Entertainment Expo with hopes of new game announcements, the Wii maker today padded its release list by one more game. Or three, depending on how one looks at it.

There’s just more of her to love.

Nintendo today announced Metroid Prime Trilogy for release on the Wii in North America. The compilation will include 2007’s current-generation debut of the space-faring adventure franchise–Metroid Prime 3: Corruption–as well as revamps of the series’ two GameCube installments on a single disc. Originally released in 2002, Metroid Prime brought the series into 3D to overwhelming acclaim and was followed up two years later by the similarly lauded Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

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We get a quick tour of this creature-infested arena fighter on the Nintendo DS.

Spore Creatures did extremely well for Electronic Arts last year, so it’s no surprise that the company would want to continue the trend by bringing Spore once again to Nintendo’s handheld. At an Electronic Arts press event in Los Angeles, we got our first glance at Spore Hero Arena and tinkered a bit with the creature creator. We weren’t given too many details except that this is going to be very much focused on action, but we did get to see how the controls work and what is potentially in store for Spore Hero Arena.

This is Spore, gladiator style.

The premise of the game is to become a galactic champion by competing in arena-based battles. The story is set in the same universe as the Wii game, except instead of riding on the tail of a meteor and crash-landing on a mysterious planet, your ship gets hit by this meteor and you wind up stranded on an unknown planet anyway. You meet the Forgotten Master, who tells you about the evil creatures that spawned from the red meteors and have corrupted all of the arena champions by creating championship medals. You are immune to this corruption, so your job is to win back the medals and become the new champion.

The game is built from the ground up with an easy-to-use creature-creator system in which you can check out your creation in 3D and give it new parts and abilities. There’s some light exploration involved in the game, but we weren’t given any details beyond that. We did get to jump in and watch a battle in the arena against three other creatures. We watched as the EA rep, using the stylus to move, attacked with bites and punches that were mapped to the D pad. The goal is to knock your opponents off of the platform, which is easier if you’ve already taken out a chunk of their health. Special abilities can be executed by holding the shoulder button and drawing with the stylus. A circle around your creature will execute an area attack, and tapping on an enemy individually or drawing a line between them are other ways of getting aggressive.

There is going to be a strong multiplayer component, which will be available locally and through Nintendo’s Wi-Fi connection. You’ll have preset arenas to pick from, and you can pull any one of your custom creations from your sporepedia to battle head-on. We didn’t get to see too much of the game beyond a fight and the creation tool, but a good portable multiplayer brawler is always welcome. Developer Maxis has had many opportunities to fine-tune the creature creator, so by now it’s extremely easy to create your ultimate galactic gladiator.

Customize your arena fighter to be the best it can be.

We’ll update with further information when we get a more in-depth look during the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Spore Hero Arena is expected to ship this fall.

We get another look at Spore’s migration to an action role-playing game on the Nintendo Wii.

At another Electronic Arts event, this time down in Los Angeles, we got another opportunity to check out Spore Hero for the Nintendo Wii. This is an entirely new game built specifically for the Wii, in which you’ll play as a hero that is destined to save the planet. The easy-to-use creature creator is included, of course, so you can customize and evolve your creature as the game goes on. The story unfolds as you help the locals by completing a variety of quests, which will also earn you new parts. We had previously gotten a glimpse of the new planet that our hero had landed on, but this time we were given a tour of the beautiful underground area called the Bioluminescent Forest. We couldn’t actually play the game, but we watched as our hero picked delectable moon fruit from vines and continued to evolve with the body parts it acquired.

Customize and upgrade your hero.

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