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Level 3 teaches us of using fireballs on rats in this WiiWare title.

Get the ropes of Rooms from the demo on Nintendo Wii.

More challenging rooms follow in the demo for Rooms on the Wii.

Take your family on a race through the plains, ice and even downtown in this WiiWare game.

Hit jumps and get some hang-time on the various tracks of Family Go-Kart Racing on WiiWare.

Nintendo's media summit's coming up! What can we expect? And other goodies.

In this week's meat-related game news, Super Meat Boy devs "Team Meat" (a.k.a. Edmund McMillen and a few others) has confirmed the game's release for XBLA with the above screen via its Twitter account. The studio further confirmed the news to IGN, who also found out that the team is hoping for a summer release. According to the report, SMB will find his way into thousands of inglorious deaths on the Xbox 360 first, with WiiWare and PC/Mac support coming afterward. No PSN release was announced, but the team would say that it has the little meaty platformer up and running on a PlayStation 3 dev kit.

The reason for the move is said to be at least in part due to the space restrictions enforced by Nintendo and Microsoft, with the latter offering more space and thus more options for extra content. Super Meat Boy is claimed to be "about half finished," with the game's developers hoping for a summer release, just in time for grill season. Talk about synergy!
Source 1 - Super Meat Boy Twitter account
Source 2 - IGN

Take a deep breath and dive once again on the Nintendo Wii

At this point, nothing has really been confirmed about this whole "DS2" thing -- motion-sensitivity and snazzy graphics were both apparently hinted at by Iwata (via Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun). Later, he said those statements were "misinterpretations," but it hasn't kept some from thinking Nintendo's prepping a new handheld for sometime later this year

Now, the latest chapter in this ongoing tale comes from a January 28 update to a Nintendo patent from back in 2005, which describes a system of force feedback (aka rumble) produced by an interaction between an apparatus (likely a stylus) and a LCD touch-screen. The vibration is presented as dynamic, with the example being that an enemy being struck with a stick in the background only vibrates the device lightly, whereas interaction with an enemy in the foreground produces a stronger vibration.

Current Nintendo handhelds have no such built-in functionality, leading many to believe this is in reference to brand-new hardware -- a possible DS successor -- and with GDC and E3 quickly approaching, if it's coming, an announcement likely isn't that far off. We'll keep you posted.

[Via Broke My Controller and Eurogamer]

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As you may have gathered from the lack of a Virtual Console release in the the latest NintendoWare Weekly update, there won't be a VC in Brief video today. The disturbance in your heart lack of a new VC game is probably confirmation enough, but in the interest of "playing it safe," we present this post ...

Yeah, so, it's by no means a suitable substitute, however, if you're itching for some video to watch, check out the VC in Brief archive. It'll bring up, like, a bunch of videos!

Can you survive this bad looking game?

“We knew we weren’t making a realistic survivor horror game to compete with the other titles out there like Resident Evil or Dead Space, because the roots of House of the Dead is arcade. We needed to make everything exaggerated, almost unbelievable. And that was really what centralized the game. A crazy story that [...]

Lagiacrus: Know as the sea wyvern, the Lagiacrus are at the top of the food chain. Feared by sailors as the “Lords of the Seas”, they store enough electricity in their spinal organs to make the oceans surge. Occasionally seen resting on land.

Pair up and dominate the battlegrounds in a fantastic 2v2 skirmish in Total War on PC.

The undead will be kept at bay until at least the next Call of Duty installment.

Use the experimental unit Pulinsmash to draw your enemies to their doom.

Auction here HUGE Nintendo OLD display CES convention Nintendo World Championships 1990 Certificate NEW FACTORY SEALED Jack Bros.

State of Play: The game is the story and the story is the game.

First chapter needed additional testing and development.

Jigsaw World: Daigekitou! Jig-Battle Heroes never came to the states, but we covered the hell out of it for a few months. Now the title is getting an arcade conversion that’s going to land in Japan, which is what you see above. How come no one picked this title up for localization?!

Fanboys will likely never agree on whether or not a 3D gameworld is appropriate for the Castlevania franchise. But if Castlevania: Lords of Shadow producer Dave Cox is to be believed, there won't be any forum bloodshed over which version, the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 one, looks and runs better.

Cox told VG247 that the PS3 was chosen as the lead platform solely because that was the best way for developer Mercury Steam to make both versions of the game identical, though he understands the risk, admitting, "If you develop for Xbox 360 and port to PS3, or indeed vice versa, you can end up with a game that is great on one but lousy on another."

Even if Lords of Shadow isn't up for any GOTYs, perhaps a Nobel Peace Prize could be in Mercury Steam's future? The NPPOTY, if you will.

Rain death from above with the AC1000 experimental unit.

With a lengthy campaign, multiplayer mode and a new rewind feature, the XBLA iteration of Duke Nukem 3D is arguably the best installment in the franchise, and easily the most ... well, released. Fortunately, the pig-mutant massacring simulator is the current Xbox Live Deal of the Week, and has its price temporarily reduced from 800 ($10) to 400 ($5).

We'd suggest checking the game out right now, as whatever player base it might still possess is probably going to get stolen away when that other revamped shooter comes out on XBLA next month.