Braid: Not Coming To A Wii Near You

Jonathan Blow, creator of the puzzle platformer Braid, reveals that there’s no hope for a Wii version of the critically acclaimed game.
WiiWare is not going to happen for this game because the model is just not right - like, Braid is too big of a game to be downloadable on WiiWare and stored on someone’s [...]

Platformer Fans Bid Farewell…

There’s been a lot of reaction press concerning Eternity’s Child to say the least. Critics hate it, many fans love it - and one creator is devastated. After pouring heart and soul into his creation, Luc Bernard has decided that video games are not the best medium to convey his wonderful ideas.
A post on his [...]

Eternity’s Child: The Lost Chapter

Before it was a WiiWare title, Eternity’s Child was being manufactured for mobile phones. Rather than just scrapping the project or vaulting it, creator Luc Bernard has made it available - for free - through the Eternity’s Child website! Sporting it’s wonderfully beautiful, hand drawn style graphics, there’s no reason not to check this title [...]

LostWinds Almost Lost…For Real?

Frontier Developments front man David Braben spoke at the Developers Conference and admitted, through the normal channels, LostWinds wasn’t going to make it.
It’s a fantastic way of de-risking publishing. This is a game we probably wouldn’t have done through normal publishing channels. It was a very difficult game to work out who’s going to buy [...]

Eternity’s Child Previewed

WiiWare-World was sent a preview build of upcoming WiiWare platformer Eternity’s Child.
For the most part, the game plays out like a traditional platformer. Although running and jumping your way through the levels will take up the majority of your attention, you also have the ability to fire shots via a heart-shaped targeting icon that you [...]

Toki Tori, a puzzle platformer coming for WiiWare launch

If you have not heard of Toki Tori you are not alone. The reason is because his last game was released on the Gameboy Color right towards the end of it’s lifespan before the release of the GBA, so it was only normal that the game got overlooked, I was one of them since I [...]

Use the power of the wind in the WiiWare game ‘LostWinds’

WiiWare’s future looks very bright indeed if it can pop out more unique titles such as ‘LostWinds’ being developed by Frontier Developments exclusively for the upcoming Wii download service WiiWare. It’s games like this that make me proud to be a gamer. The video below shows how the game will work, however let me break [...]