If you think you've played every Breakout clone, just wait until you see Nervous Brickdown. Developer Arkedo has made some awesome innovations to the genre while taking appropriate advantage of the DS hardware.
Earlier this week, word leaked that Bizarre Creations had passed on development duties for further Geometry Wars games on Nintendo DS and Wii to Kuju Entertainment, the same folks behind the Battalion Wars series.
Last year, Nintendo blew our minds quite literally, thanks with an outofleftfield release called Brain Age. Far from your typical savetheprincess action romp, Brain Age was targeted at wildly nontraditional gamers. Nontraditional as in retirees. It had been a smash in Japan due to the proliferation of nongame DS software and the nation's rapidlyaging populace, but its chances in the U.S. were more of a crap shoot.
Remember that Pokemon game, and how we thought it was all just a fad? Well, nearly 10 years later it's still selling as well as ever. So Nintendo can probably be forgiven for capitalizing on its seemingly perpetual success with a spinoff or two. Sometimes, those cashins are even sort of revolutionary.
With Super Paper Mario as one of the few Wii releases that provides a full gaming experiences instead of just minigames, Nintendoheads have Paper Mario on the brain. Perhaps seeking to capitalize on this, Nintendo is planning to release the original N64 Paper Mario on the Wii's Virtual Console soon according to an article in the latest issue of Nintendo Power (via Go Nintendo).
Rayman and the hilarious screaming Rabbids will be heading back to the Wii around Thanksgiving this year, with tons more multiplayer minigame silliness.