Category:  Nintendo Wii

World of Goo heads to European shores (officially)

By Andrew Bryant, November 12, 2008 0 Nintendo Wii, PC

RockPaperShotgun have nicely pointed out that 2D Boy ‘s magnum opus, World of Goo , is heading for final approach on european shores, with both Retail and Steam releases imminent for PC & Wii/WiiWare.

If you haven’t already bought it direct from their online store (you know who you are, heathens), then expect to find it boxed in-store by the end of the year.  Good Times!

On a related note, the above article includes a quote from 2D Boys Ron Carmel that of the ~150,000 people who have played the game, over 90% are pirated copies.

Sad news indeed, which … Read More…

LEGO Batman Review

By Andrew Bryant, November 4, 2008 33 Industry News, Nintendo 3DS/DS, Nintendo Wii, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Reviews, XBOX 360

Andrew Bryant packs his LEGO Bat Shark Repellent and joins the (plastic) dynamic duo in their fight against crime.… Read More…

Nintendo October Conference roundup

By Barry Hodgson, October 2, 2008 0 Nintendo 3DS/DS, Nintendo Wii

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At Nintendos October conference in japan, they made a couple of announcements.First is the rumoured new DS called the DSi, it has a SD slot, no GBA slot, downloadable games (bought with the newly renamed Nintendo points) and apparently both screens are touch screens but we havent confirmed this yet, but we expect to get confirmation at the american conference later today.

Also announced were the following games:

Sin and Punishment 2 (Wii)
New Tales of…..(Wii)
Punch Out!! (Wii)
Another Code (Wii)
Mario & Luigi 3 (DS)

There was loads more, and we’ll bring you more later today.

Wiiware titles for 26/09/08

By Barry Hodgson, September 26, 2008 0 Nintendo Wii

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The titles available on Wiiware this week are:Megaman 9
Helix
Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 2

We’ll have a review of Megaman 9 as soon as we can actually finish the first level!

Rock Band instrument pack gets price cut

By Barry Hodgson, September 8, 2008 1 Nintendo Wii, PS3, XBOX 360

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EA has sent along word that as of friday, the Rock Band instrument pack will start to retail for £110.

This is ahead of the game launching on PS2, PS3 and Wii.

Now to just wait a long time for Rock Band 2.

This weeks Virtual Console title is……..Super Mario RPG!

By Barry Hodgson, August 22, 2008 0 Nintendo Wii

Nintendo have released Super Mario RPG onto the european virtual console.

This Squaresoft classic has never made it to europe before and is bloody good so go download it now!

As it is a hanabi festival title, it costs more than the average SNES game, and will set you back 900 points and is well worth it! … Read More…

Quick Fire Reviews: Issue 1

By Barry Hodgson, August 13, 2008 1 Nintendo Wii, PC, PS3, Reviews, XBOX 360

We get a lot of games sent to us for Review here at Computers N Stuff, and unfortunately we don’t get the time to review them all.

Lately, we’d been getting more than usual, and with me redesigning the site and relaunching, i just didn’t have time to review a lot of the games that we were sent. So with that in mind, and so i don’t let down the fantastic PR people who send me these games. I’ve decided to do Quick Fire Reviews, so basically a couple of lines about why i think you should get the game, … Read More…

Sega Confirms Sonic and the Black Knight

By Barry Hodgson, July 21, 2008 5 Nintendo Wii

Sega has confirmed that the Nintendo Power Scans showing “Sonic and the Black Knight” are indeed true.

The game is a followup to Sonic and The Secret Rings, and continues the storybook theme as the game sees Sonic transported to Medieval England to help King Arthur…or something. It’s being made by Sonic Team Japan, presumably the same guys behind Secret Rings (which we quite liked) so we’re kind of looking forward to this.

“After the success of Sonic and the Secret Rings we’re delighted to announce a second title in the Storybook Series,” said Gary Knight, European Marketing Director, SEGA … Read More…