WiiWare Arrives in Europe, Includes Dr. Mario Demo

By Jorge Ba-oh 20.05.2008 13

The WiiWare downloadable library has arrived in Europe, with 5 fresh titles to make their home on your ickle white box.

WiiWare promises to deliver original content from reputable and smaller studios, with small budgets and big ideas. Recent reports suggest new titles will become available fortnightly, at the very least.

The original European announcement promised a selection of 8 titles for the launch period, and at time of writing 6 of these have made the launch day itself, including a cheeky Dr. Mario Demo.

  • Dr. Mario & Germ Buster (Nintendo, 1000pts)
  • Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (Square Enix, 1500pts)
  • Lost Winds (Frontier, 1000pts)
  • Star Soldier R (Hudson, 800pts)
  • Toki Tori (Two Tribes, 900pts)
  • TV Show King (Gameloft, 1,000 pts)
  • Pop and Pirates are due for a release at a later stage.

    Those wanting a sample of the action can get their mitts on a demo version of Dr. Mario - but unfortunately, although free, comes at the expense of requiring a Wi-Fi enabled friend to have bought the game to be able to use it.

    Wii points cards are available from retailers, or can be downloaded at 1000, 3000 or 500 points starting from �7 for the lower end and �35 at the higher scale.

    Our WiiWare listings page will be available shortly.

    Will you be buying/have bought any of these launch titles? Be sure to have your say on the WiiWare service in our comments forum below.

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    The demo restriction is weeeeird.

    Probably getting LostWinds and depending on reviews maby TokiTori.

    ( Edited 20.05.2008 01:34 by Blade2t3 )

    XBL Gamertag: James2t3

    <3 lostwinds i saw they was up at 12 and start playing it not 2.41am XD

    Yeah, I'm not quite clear on why they'd limit it to friends of people that bought it--maybe they figure since it's a game about playing with drugs, they'd try and see if they could build a community of pushers.

    cant wait for tetris and bomberman

    A fail so epic, it may just be a win.

    Got LostWinds, which looks really nice!

    Got Lost Winds, My Life As King and Toki Tori.

    Stayed up last night to download them as soon as they appeared Smilie

    Then played my life as a king for an hour, it is quite hard to stop!

    Lost winds and toki tori look good but only took a quick look at them so far, didnt want to start them properly that late at night.

    I nabbed myself Crystal Chronicles - initially a bit disappointed, but strangely addictive!

    Cubed3 Admin/Founder & Designer

    I haven't got any Wii Points at the moment and I'm desperate for some. I'm really wanting Lost Winds, it looks amazing from what I've seen.

    lostwind is the best 3rd party game on wii if u ask me XD not long but it only �7 ^^ i cant wait for the next part *fingers cross*

    I downloaded the Dr Mario demo.

    I'm still waiting for a souped up Starwing.

    360 Gamertag: shiptoncraig
    PSN: shiptoncraig
    Steam: Guess what?

    I have bought lost winds. I think it is really good. I don't want to stop playing but I'm off to school... damn

    1000, 3000 and 5000 points, right? Europe got Dr. Mario and Toki Tori, the Americas got Defend your Castle and the Blackjack game... hopefully Toki Tori will be released here next monday.

    I wish Wii Point cards were a tad cheaper. Smilie

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