October is a HUGE month for Wii, with over twenty new games coming out, not to mention the few TBA schedule games that might just pop up out of nowhere. There are also several major titles coming out in October, plus! a new Army Men game. For those of you who have played –and loved, Army Men games on the Playstation console, this is going to be awesome. I was a big fan, but who knows, I might just be a nerd. Here’s what to expect in October:

Major Titles

Army Men: Soldiers of Misfortune - Not much information on this one yet, but I’m pretty confident in its awesomeness. The release date will fall around either Oct. 1st, or Sept. 30th; we’ve got it in Oct. just in case.

Bratz: Girlz Really Rock!
Bratz Kidz: Slumber Party - Can we really even call these games major titles? The dolls are even more disproportional than Barbie, for god’s sake. These two new Bratz games will hit the shelves –and hopefully, they’ll stay there, –around the 21st. I’m not sure how popular Bratz are with kids these days, but for small female children, it’s probably highly anticipated. If your kids aren’t banging down the door asking for Bratz stuff, don’t go for it. While Barbie works for a living and has her own house, and car, Bratz live at home and still dress kind of skanky.

Dancing With The Stars: Get Your Dance On - We have to put this up here as mainstream because it was a tv show. Besides, it was a popular tv show, that I thankfully missed, –and the game could be a lot more entertaining than the show. Just think, you could be dancing around in your living room with your very own has-been celebrity on October 22nd.

Guitar Hero World Tour - Oh yes, reading through all that stuff about the Bratz games was worth it for this one. Why? Don’t you know?! The new Guitar Hero World Tour is going to be the FIRST in the series to include both drum, and microphone controllers. And, including to both Game Informer, and confirmed press information, that players will be able to create their own songs, as well as share and upload the songs they’ve created. Custom songs, and downloadable content will be coming to you on October 27th.

The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon - This is the third and last Spyro game, –sad but true. Though the main audience that Spyro’s been marketed to is teens and young adults, I’ve seen many a grown-up getting down with the dragon. Lots of new features in this game, such as the ability to fly all the time, whenever, dubbed “free-fly” mode. Comes out on October 7.

Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek - Maybe not quite as mainstream as Naruto or Guitar Hero, but still a big hit with the kids, and a much better game for children than that asinine Bratz stuff.

Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 - Another big event in gaming, is the second installment in the “Clash of Ninja Revolution” series. Lots of 3D fighting, and butt kicking, and will be much appreciated by all the hardcore Naruto anime/manga fans out there. Comes out October 21, 2008, and will even be in English!

Manufactured Beauty - Another hand drawn Luc Bernard creation. I put this under Major Titles, because even if Bernard is indie, his last game, Eternity’s Child, made a lot of fans. He has several other projects going right now. There’s little to no information out about Manufactured Beauty right now, though its creator was nice enough to release two images, –one of them is a girl who looks like Roger Rabbit’s girlfriend, playing a bloody cello, and the other is of a rabbit robot who also looks like he’d be handy as a kitchen appliance.

Music Related

Boogie SuperStar
DC Karaoke
The Naked Brothers Band: The Videogame

Sports

FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play
Guinness World Records: The Videogame
NBA Live 09 All-Play

And Everything Else

Build-A-Bear Workshop A Friend Fur All Seasons
Dokapon Kingdom
PBR: Out of the Chute
Pet Pals: Animal Doctor
Rubik’s Puzzle World
Tak and the Guardians of Gross

Wii in August

July 16, 2008    Category: Wii Gaming   No Comments »

The coming late summer and fall season is full of new Wii game releases specifically aimed at the back to school audiences, and the month of August is no exception. There’s plenty of sports, fantasy and other games, targeted mainly towards the younger audiences, coming out in August, but not nearly as many titles as there are coming out in the early and late fall months. My guess is, it’s summer in August, and kids are going to be outside as much as they can be. Which is why the best games are marketed to interrupt homework as much as possible. So, pay attention and let us know which ones you’re really counting on.

Sports games are the major event for August, and even Mario is tagging along, with the major Nintendo release of Mario Super Sluggers aka Super Mario Stadium Family Baseball, and to top off the baseball madness, is Little League World Series, also released in August. The baseball titles will be followed up by other sports games such as Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play, and Madden NFL 09 All-Play. If football, golf, and baseball don’t do it for you, there will also be two more puzzle/card games to tickle your Wii, such as Margot’s Word Brain, and King of Clubs. The younger audiences will no doubt appreciate titles such as “Defendin’ de Penguin”, and Sam & Max: Season One –you remember, the comic book from 1987 with the dog detective and that weird rabbit thing? They’re soon to be running amok in a living room near you.

For the rest of us, there are staged to be a few more adventure releases, that hopefully won’t turn anyone’s mind into total mush, or force us to learn six new ways to play solitaire. Brave: A Warrior’s Tale for Wii, sounds promising, despite there being some anonymity in regards to what exactly the game is about. Then there’s Brothers in Arms: Double Time, and Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk also set to emerge in August. More army propaganda that will have you ready to join the military after a solid twelve hours of game play.

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