NintendoWare Weekly: Bit.Trip: Core becomes 100th WiiWare game

by David Hinkle { Jul 6th 2009 at 12:15PM }

Folks, it's time to break out the party hats and noise makers because, just as expected, Bit.Trip: Core is the 100th WiIWare game to release on the service. Why, we remember our little pal doing finger paintings and learning to ride a bike like it was yesterday. They grow up so fast!

DSiWare

Art Style: BASE 10 (Nintendo, 1 -2 players, 500 DSi Points): Art Style: BASE 10 combines those sliding puzzle games with numbers, tasking players with reorganizing numbers on a game board to come up with a sum of 10. The game sports three different modes of play, and if you enjoyed previous Art Style games, you might want to check this one out.
Asphalt 4: Elite Racing (Gameloft, 1 - 4 players, 800 DSi Points): Featuring 28 different cars, and eight 3D cities to race through, Asphalt 4 also provides functionality for the DSi camera. You can now have that LOLcat racing team you've always wanted.

WiiWare

Bit.Trip: Core (Aksys Games, 1 - 2 players, 600 Wii Points): In the second installment of the Bit.Trip series, players aren't charged with blocking incoming pellets from one side, but four different sides. That's a whole new axis to worry about!
Bust-A-Move Plus! (Taito, 1 - 2 players, 600 Wii Points): Taito's timeless puzzler comes to WiiWare with 135 stages of bubbles to bust, along with two already-available content packs (no word on price) that add on an additional 270 stages. If you're the type of person who opens a package just to pop the bubble wrap, this may be right up your alley.
Heracles Chariot Racing (Neko Entertainment, 1 - 4 players, 800 Wii Points): Yup, it's chariot racing, spanning three different racing cups across 10 courses, all set within five mythic landscapes. Somehow we think it won't be as exciting as Ben Hur, though.

Virtual Console

California Games (C64, 1 - 5 players, 500 Wii Points): The Golden State holds its annual competition with California Games. We should point out that aside from featuring an eclectic mixture of sports to compete in (all of that hacky sacking you've been doing at college is about to pay off!), California Games has a frisbee. And it's super fun.

Tags: bit-trip-beat, dsiware, gaijin-games, nintendo-dsi, nintendoware-weekly, virtual-console, wiiware

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

nofriendo @ Jul 6th 2009 12:21PM

Yeah, and I've bought all 100 of them.

[tre] @ Jul 6th 2009 12:27PM

Rich man alert!

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw @ Jul 6th 2009 12:29PM

Oh yeah? Well...the only one I've bought is Major League Eating. I haven't seen anything else that looks particularly appealing yet (Please don't spout off a huge list of games that I MUST play). MLE is pretty awesomely bad though.

nofriendo @ Jul 6th 2009 12:30PM

I didn't, that's my point. I didnt even know that there were 100 videogames in the world.

mr nimblewick @ Jul 6th 2009 1:13PM

Not a huge list, but come on, not even World of Goo?

Spilt_Milk @ Jul 6th 2009 12:21PM

What happened to Electroplankton?

Roto13 @ Jul 6th 2009 1:25PM

That's only been announced for Japan.

natureboy46 @ Jul 6th 2009 12:29PM

Wait - no Monkey Island? I thought it was coming out this week. Guess it's PC version only. I was just getting ready to go and download it too.

ab @ Jul 6th 2009 8:52PM

Yeah, the Wii version is TBA. That's what I read in the press release. Oh well, I got the PC version preordered, I couldn't pass up the DVD's. :P

Satellite TV for PC @ Jul 6th 2009 12:30PM

That's nice. Nintendo never fails to amaze me.
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Dreganfyre @ Jul 6th 2009 12:31PM

I was trying to figure out how on Earth "Satellite TV for PC" related to this week's releases, until I noticed it was your username...

Dreganfyre @ Jul 6th 2009 12:30PM

Yay 100! Also, 3 new chapters for Final Fantasy IV: The After Years are supposedly being released today. I'm enjoying the game quite a bit. :) The chapters are a bit short, but the challenge dungeons are giving them plenty of longevity. O_O

il_duce620 @ Jul 6th 2009 12:31PM

Dammit, where's Super Mario Kart?!?!?! Get your act together, Reggie!

ignfan69 @ Jul 6th 2009 12:31PM

Too bad bit.trip is a horrible game

Roto13 @ Jul 6th 2009 1:27PM

I agree completely, downvoters be damned. I thought Beat was plagued by a whole bunch of terrible design choices that kept it from being enjoyable and Core just looks a lot worse.

MLS @ Jul 6th 2009 12:34PM

too bad downvoted

MLS @ Jul 6th 2009 12:35PM

btw, where is our bit.trip soundtrack?

sergioalb64 @ Jul 6th 2009 1:37PM

Anyone know how to flip the screens for lefty mode in BASE 10? Can't seem to find it...

Zak Canard @ Jul 6th 2009 2:32PM

Here's a copy of the reply I got from Nintendo Europe when I asked them that same question shortly after Art Style Code landed in Europe back in April:

I’m afraid the decision to include a left handed mode in any downloadable application is a decision made by the developer of any particular title. Unfortunately, in this case, there was no decision to include a left handed mode in this game. It is possible that an update may be provided to include this functionality, but there is no details on this.