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  • NintendoWare weekly: Bejeweled, Blaster Master, Earthworm Jim 2

    by 
    David Hinkle
    David Hinkle
    12.14.2009

    As promised, Sunsoft's brought Blaster Master to the Virtual Console -- though we think the impact is somewhat dulled by the quantity of other games available for download this week. There's a total of 11 different games available, so head past the break for the full list.

  • Diatomic puts WiiWare action under the microscope

    by 
    JC Fletcher
    JC Fletcher
    02.17.2009

    Grendel Games has announced a new arcade-style action game for WiiWare that's less of a shooter and more of a ... whipper? That may be the best description for Diatomic, which puts players in the role of a microorganism in a petri dish, whose main method of both attack and defense is a whiplike flagellum that can be used as both a melee weapon and a shield. Enemy diatoms invade your dish, and you must fight them off, collecting "mystic spinergy power-ups" and deploying the "all-devastating spinball move."Okay, so it's not exactly a biology lesson. But it is a new action game whose style (as seen in this concept art) is like an organic Geometry Wars. And we are happy to see more action games on WiiWare.