Final Fantasy fans and fans of RPGs in general have been waiting with baited breath to see what interesting projects Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker games development studio would come up with. Well now the wait is almost over, as according to Wired, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced Mistwalker’s first game for the Wii, entitled The Last Story, at a financial ... more.

Classic NES game fans are in for a treat next week when Excitebike: World Challenge is released on WiiWare in the UK. The first Excitebike game debuted in Japan in 1984, and now Nintendo has remodelled the original classic for a whole new generation of gamers. This brand new version, which was released on US WiiWare as Excitebike World Rally at the end of 2009, sees you racing to glory through nin... more.

Rising Star Games has today announced its first ever WiiWare game, Brain Cadets. Brain Cadets challenges you to complete a number of tests under the bossy gaze of a mean and moody Drill Sergeant. Brain Cadets promises to put your brain through “the most gruelling workout ever,” across two gameplay modes: Focus Training and Basic Training. After starting the game as a Private, you’ll get to t... more.

The sharp-eyed folks at Kombo.com have been studying the latest ESRB ratings and noticed a little gem lurking in the listings, namely Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. The title is listed for the Nintendo Wii, so it's probably safe to assume that it’s going to be coming out on the Virtual Console. As ever, the ESRB description is mouth-wateringly specific: This is a side-scrolling action game in... more.

According to a story on PC World today based on a report on the Japanese business website Nikkei Net, New Super Mario Bros. Wii can now claim to be the fastest selling single Wii game in the world, with sales having smashed through the magical 10 million units mark this January.  However, as PC World points out, the record is for Nintendo Wii games only, as Modern Warfare 2 is actually the fa... more.

As if Monster Hunter fans weren’t already excited enough about the imminent arrival of Monster Hunter Tri, the first ever Monster Hunter game on the Nintendo Wii, Capcom has today announced that in North America the game will come bundled with the new Classic Controller Pro for the Wii. The controller’s more traditional control configuration means that players can choose to have that old-s... more.

Ben 10 fans who can’t get enough of their shape-shifting hero will be excited to hear that Konami and Cartoon Network have today announced that the franchise’s first ever downloadable game for home consoles is coming to WiiWare in the first quarter of 2010. “We are excited to partner with Konami to introduce Ben 10 to the downloadable games market and are confident that Ben 10 Alien F... more.

Although cynics might say that the game only sold so well because of the free controller it came bundled with, it’s still a massive achievement that Nintendo’s Wii Play mini-games collection is the best-selling non-PC game of all time in the US, in figures just issued by NPD and reported in MCV today. You might recall that way back in March of 2009 Nintendo announced that Wii Play had exce... more.

With the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games almost upon us full marks to Teyon for coming up with the most original winter sports themed game, and even going one step further by adding a huge dollop of cuteness! The Polish developer has today announced Hubert the Teddy Bear: Winter Games, its first ever WiiWare title, to be released in the near future. Designed specifically for the whole family to... more.

Has your once-proud Wii Sports accessory pack now been rendered useless due to your bulky MotionPlus adaptor? It has? Well, today is your lucky day, as BLAZE has just announced the answer to all your ‘bulky-remote-too-big-for-sports-pack’ type problems, in the svelte shape of their all-new luxury sports pack with built-in Wii MotionPlus functionality. The BLAZE 10-in-1 Luxury Sports Pack i... more.

It had to happen sometime. As MCV reports today, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has finally been bumped off the top spot in the UK after 9 weeks’ rule. Even more amazingly, the game to do the dirty on MW2 is Ubisoft’s surprise hit, the Wii exclusive Just Dance. MCV points out that Just Dance is Ubisoft’s first number one since Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 in March 2008. The fun... more.