For various reasons, people didn’t believe me when I told them that a 32 player online game was planned for the Wii. Well, . Medal of Honor Heroes 2 is yet another WWII FPS and it’s scheduled to be released for the Wii on November 13th. It includes an on rails shooter mode on top of the regular mode. If you’re interested, you can check out this hands-on preview and this video.

Also good news is that Okami has been confirmed for the Wii.

[Joe]

I’ve been waiting to see Casshern for a while, and I was happy to see it’s now available on Netflix. It shipped tonight, so it should arrive tomorrow. Check out these review from Rotten Tomatoes:

“Overlong, heavy-handed and thoroughly humourless…”
– Anton Bitel, MOVIE GAZETTE

“The semiotic noise of this juiced-up virtual exhibit doesn’t exactly ask to be discerned.”
– Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE

With reviews like that, how could anyone refuse? OK, I’m fully aware of the likelihood that a viewing of this movie will turn into MST3K, but that’s good too, right?

[Joe]

One of the guys I met out in Seattle pointed me to xkcd, but I didn’t take a good look at it until this comic made it’s way on to Digg. After that I went back through some of the archives, and I have to say that for some reason I found this comic particularly amusing:

especially given some of the advice I’ve heard.

Nintendo’s spending a whole bunch of money to send these out to Wii owners. They’re out in Japan already, and will be released in North America on the 15th. You can go to the Official Nintendo Site to sign up to get yours, if you own a Wii.

[Joe]

Nintendo had their Fall 2007 Conference (Nintendo has a fall conference?) in Japan yesterday and released a few bits of interesting news. Nintendo announced their first Wii Ware titles (games that can be downloaded from the shop channel but are not from previous systems), Dr. Mario (updated and with online play), Pokemon Ranch Channel and a couple with only Japanese names. Third party companies will be releasing a Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles title and Star Soldier R. It’s my understanding that none of the Wii Ware titles will be out until early next year.
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Nintendo will also be releasing some new Wii channels: Mii Contest Channel and Everybody’s Nintendo Channel. Mii Contest Channel will let you judge other people’s Miis and have yours judged. Everybody’s Nintendo Channel will let you download game demos to your DS.
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Sonic will be in Smash Bros. Brawl.
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Fire Emblem for the DS was announced.
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Mario Kart is coming Spring 2008, and with motorcycles.
Super Mario Stadium Baseball was announced.
“Nintendo will put more emphasis on the Wii Vote channel in the future. You’ll be able to put rankings for games that you’ve played and search for games that fit your liking.”
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Before all this information came out, I put together a few lists of games for the Wii that interest me.

Wii Games Coming Out This Year:
October 23, 2007 Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure
October 28, 2007 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
October 29, 2007 Battalion Wars 2
November 5, 2007 Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
November 6, 2007 LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
November 12, 2007 Super Mario Galaxy
November 13, 2007 Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
November 13, 2007 Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
November 19, 2007 Link’s Crossbow Training

TBD Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Wii Games Coming Out Sometime Next Year:
January 2008 Wii Fit
Q1 2008 Mario Kart Wii
Q1 2008 Endless Ocean
Q2 2008 LEGO Indiana Jones: The Videogame
TBA 2008 Bob Ross: The Joy of Painting
TBA 2008 de Blob
TBA 2008 Disaster: Day of Crisis
TBA 2008 Wii Music

Games that are already out, but I don’t have (with IGN’s score):
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption 9.5
Super Paper Mario 8.9
Wario Ware: Smooth Moves 8.4
Mario Strikers Charged 8.3
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition 9.0
Elebits

Virtual Console Games:
Super Mario Bros. 9.0
Super Mario Bros. 2 8.5
Super Mario 64 9.0
Paper Mario 9.0
The Legend of Zelda 9.0
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 9.5
Donkey Kong Country 8.5
Donkey Kong Country 2 8.8
Super Metroid 9.5

edit: Smash Bros. delayed officially here in the US until Sunday, Feb. 10.

[Joe]