The WiiWare and DSiWare releases in Europe are startlingly uniform this week.All three WiiWare releases cost 1,000 Wii Points each, and all four DSiWare games cost 500 points. Well, we say games , but really we mean three games and an interactive book thing . Terror in Cubicle Four is actually a downloadable e-book — a…

The 2010 Nintendo Media Summit has come and gone, and sent a wave of huge Ni…

Okay, so it isn’t Rondo of Blood this week in Europe. Nintendo instead chose to inaugurate the latest Hanabi Festival with the pre-rendered Neo Geo shooter Ironclad and Lode Runner for NES. It&…

This week on the Japanese Wii Shop, the Virtual Console is host to two rare Konami sequels: Gofer’s Ambition Episode 2 , a Gradius game exclusive to the MSX platform, and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake , the real Metal Gear sequel that we didn’t see in North America until the limited edition release of Metal Gear Soli…

This week’s releases largely belong to DSiWare, at least in terms of volume. Three Game & Watch simulators are joined by a downloadable version of The Price is Right , the surprise hit Faceez and Alphabounce , a Breakout clone with … RPG elements? But in terms of quality, the Wii has the advantage, with both…

Capcom’s about a month late to use a classic Mega Man game as a promotional tool for Mega Man 10 , but that’s okay! Mega Man 4 is now available on the European Virtual Console, and even though it’s slightly mis-timed, the end result is that you can buy another Mega Man game right now. Also available on Wii …

The Virtual Console and DSiWare are stuffed full of games this week in Japan! The Virtual Console has the first Metal Max Famicom game (a series that eventually led to Metal Saga on PS2, with a DS sequel upcoming), as well as two Neo Geo fighting games. The bizarre Waku Waku 7 from Sunsoft stars robot tanks, Totoro-esque cre…

Look — the above TV spots for Super Mario Galaxy 2 are really slick and all, but now we’ve got one thing on our mind: pancakes. Now that we know there’s a stack of flapjacks out there with its own gravitational pull, we just can’t wait to dig in . Thankfully, we won’t have to wait too long to sa…

This week, WiiWare offers another reborn indie game. Toribash doesn’t quite have the reputation of Cave Story , but it does have nonsensical violence and the ability to control fighters one limb at a time. If you’re looking for something different from a fighting game, it doesn’t get much more different tha…