We head deeper into the USG Ishimura in our latest hands-on look at EA’s Wii-exclusive sci-fi horror game.

The bad news only gets worse for the USG Ishimura in the upcoming Wii-exclusive Dead Space Extraction from EA’s Visceral Games development studio. This platform-exclusive survival horror game functions as both a prequel and side story to the acclaimed Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 original. We’ve seen the game a number of times so far (most recently, at GamesCom 2009), and yesterday, EA dropped by with an updated build of the game to show off a new level and give GameSpot an exclusive peek at the first boss in the game.

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The popular Japanese arcade game series finally crosses the Pacific and finds a home on the Nintendo Wii.

The rhythm games just keep on coming, but Pop ‘n Music isn’t exactly something new. This music series has been around in Japan since 1998 and will be appearing in North America for the first time on the Nintendo Wii. It’s like Dance Dance Revolution except with your hands (and your heart rate won’t go up that much), but Pop ‘n Music has a catchier set of songs to groove to.

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Goku is after those Dragon Balls again, but this time, it’s on the Nintendo Wii.

Even after all these years, Goku, the feisty monkey-tailed boy hasn’t lost his charm. Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo revisits the original tale, starting with Goku’s quest to collect the seven Dragon Balls before the members of the Red Ribbon Army collect them. We stopped by Namco Bandai’s booth at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con and got to spend some time with this Wii-exclusive action platformer.

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We get another look at the upcoming Wii-exclusive sequel to Dead Space.

Touting its third-party collaborations, Nintendo used this morning’s E3 conference to talk more about three of its upcoming Wii titles: Sega’s The Conduit, Capcom’s Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, and EA’s Dead Space Extraction. Unfortunately, Nintendo said nothing new about the latter, save for airing a very short trailer.

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Atari is going to bring the Namco Bandai-developed Family Trainer to Europe this September.

This is the Wii-exclusive title that comes with its own dance mat for “total body gameplay”, according to this press release. It’s called Active Life: Athletic World in the US.

Family Trainer has you doing all sorts of things like rafting on the river, racing mine carts, jumping over logs or just skipping ropes. You can do it on your own because you’d rather no one watch, or with and against friends because you are drunk and have given up caring. All on one mat.