Now up to 16 games for Europe and 11 for Australia and New Zealand.

With just a day before the Wii launches in Australia, and two days before Europe's, the Wii Shop has been updated again with a wider selection of titles.

Adding to the initial NES selection of Donkey Kong, Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Wario's Woods, four Sega Mega Drive, two Super Nintendo,... Read more...

There is no joy in Rossville.

We all thought it was an April Fools' joke when Bob Ross Inc. and developer AGFRAG announced that a Wii and DS game based on the late Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting public television show. It turned out not to be, and there was much rejoicing.

The status of the game has taken a turn for the worse, though. Developer AGFRAG has posted a notice on their website stating the following:

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Ubisoft launches Rayman Raving Rabbids(TM) Hall of Fame feature on raymanzone.com

SAN FRANCISCO – December 5, 2006 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers announced the launch of the Rayman Raving Rabbids(TM)... Read more...

You know you're in a good position if people think your biggest competition is your own product.

The Reuters news service recently interviewed Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata, who said that there is "an emerging possibility" that Nintendo will exceed their DS sales forecast of 20 million units by the time their fiscal year ends in March. (Nintendo had previously raised the figure from 17... Read more...

It should come as no surprise that the Japanese love the Wii...but damn.

Everyone expected the Wii to take Japan by storm as much as the Nintendo DS has, and if the first sales figures are any indication, Nintendo is well on their way to installing their white boxes of fun in every Japanese household.

Japanese magazine Famitsu calculates that in the first two days... Read more...

Through the magic of Bluetooth you can use your Wii remote as a PC game controller.

Thanks in part to information provided by WiiLi researchers, clever programmer Carl Kenner has begun incorporating the Wii Remote into his input emulator software, GlovePIE. Since the Wii remote and console uses Bluetooth to communicate, the Wii remote is also able to pair up with other Bluetooth devices…such as a Bluetooth adapter running on Windows XP.

Though game sales are still strong, declining review scores could be a sign that EA needs to shape up.

Electronic Arts gets a lot of flak for releasing the "same old game" every year. While that's not completely true, critics have said that EA could be doing a lot more with innovation and bringing new IPs to the table. Whether or not the publisher has listened to these outcries is up for debate, but now that someone that can affect EA's bottom line—a financial analyst—has spoken out, there might be changes on the horizon.

Even more games are in the pipeline for Japan.

Nintendo has posted their Virtual Console release list for December. Besides the 38 launch games, new games will be made available every Tuesday (or Wednesday for PC Engine titles). 12 more games are scheduled for December. The full list follows below.

In addition, Nintendo and Hudson are... Read more...

Anywhere from three to nine games, depending on country.

Virtual Console games for countries in PAL regions are now available, though the Wii itself will not be launched until next week. Interestingly, games are being released by country rather than region.

The TurboGrafx system never made it to Australia and New Zealand, and those countries will... Read more...

Check out the first video of SSX running on the Wii.

In a recent episode of SpikeTV's "GameHead" program, the first video footage of EA's upcoming SSX game for the Wii, now titled SSX Blur, was revealed. You can check out the first video footage of the game on YouTube.

As an SSX fan myself, I'm sure the level shown is from a prior SSX game. Whether or not the entire game will use old courses is unknown at this point. The character and interface, though, are totally new.