A game where you play "rock, paper, scissors" to defeat the enemy (sounds intense, but I guess that's about as intense as it got in the 80's), high speed ships attacking aliens and a good ole fashion side-scrolling-hand-to-hand-combat action game enter the Virtual Console and WiiWare this week. For full descriptions view the full post.

Nintendo is running into some storage complaints and misunderstandings. People are saying the 512Mb of flash memory isn't enough for their saved games and downloadable content and with the launch of WiiWare the space is running thin. Now, the misunderstanding part - Nintendo's Managing Director of Marketing, Laurent Fischer, commented on the storage complaints and stated that it would only be an issue for "geeks and otaku." Oops. Really? You're in marketing right? This of course caused a ruckus among "hardcore" gamers and one industry person, God of War designer, David Jaffe, who says Fischers' comments, if true, "reek of junior high school vibe immaturity bullshit." It seems Jaffe and Fischer went to the same junior high then. Lets face it, if you worry about things like Hollywood ruining your favorite comic book hero or storage space for your video games, you're a geek - I know and Ironman was F'n awesome. Fischer has since appologized for the comments. Among other points in Fischer's comments, other than calling us all what we are, Nintendo has no plans of adopting an external hard drive for storage, but they do realize it is an issue and all of Japan is working on it now so we can save our Wii faces. [gamesindustry.biz]

Rumor has it that Sony is working on a 'break apart' controller for the PS3. Something similar to the Wii remote, where the controller will break apart into two separate units with motion sensing functionality. No official announcement date has been set but it is believed that the controller has been supplied to certain developer partners. The addition of this controller could help Sony reach similar gaiming audiences the Wii has had such success with. This in combination of the Playstation Network, the success of the Blu-Ray, the roll out of Home later in the year and release of additional high def games will make it the best all around home entertainment unit on the market. But will continue to be too expensive for any of us here at the 8bit offices to own sooo it doesn't really matter. To us, that is. [gamesindustry.biz]

Another block-breaker game, some fishing and a Samurai Shodown appear this week for WiiWare and in the Virtual Console. View the full post for complete title descriptions.

According to a study done by scientists from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark your team color can affect your chances of winning. This leaving relative skills aside. Based on results from 1347 online matches, 55% of the matches were won by the red team. Leading neuroscientist, Mihai Moldovan, concluded that the color red "may act as a psychological distractor for men, possibly because men flush and turn red when they are angry." Epic's Mark Rein has noted that as interesting as this is, because really it is, don't anticipate any immediate changes to team colors, just because the colors have been ingrained in the Unreal Tournament series for years. What I find interesting is they only used men for the study? Gotta love science and numbers.

More Pokemon for WiiWare and two classics added to the Virtual Console this week. This week in the Virtual Console is Dig Dug, which is by definition an NES classic, and more addictive than cigarettes. Also in the Virtual Console is an action adventure game for NES that was never released outside of Japan. For complete game descriptions view the full posting.

WiiWare
My Pokemon Ranch:
Nintendo, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone-Comic Mischief, 1,000 Wii Points

Virtual Console
DIG DUG: NES, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 600 Wii Points
BIO MIRACLE BOKUTTE UPA: NES, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone-Comic Mischief, 600 Wii Points
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