This Weeks WiiWare, DSiWare, And Virtual Console Releases

Here are the games coming out in the USA on the WiiWare and DSiWare stores. there are no Virtual console releases this week, but in all there are 2 new WiiWare and 4 new DSiWare games.

WiiWare

My Aquarium 2
This is a 1 player only game that costs 500 Wii Points. the theme of this aquarium is the deep sea, so the fish you have in the game are all found in the deep sea. you can customise your aquarium, with things like coloured lights. you can breed fish to create a whole school. the game links with the Forecast Channel so your aquarium reflects the weather, and My Aquarium 2 also links with WiiConnect24 so you can send your aquariums to friends.


Enjoy your massage!
This is a 1 player only game that costs 500 Wii Points. you are an apprentice masseur and you have to learn new massage combinations and use them on customers. if your good, you could become the director of the customer, but if your bad you will get fired.


DSiWare

TURN: The Lost Artifact
This is a 1 player only game that costs 800 DSi Points. this is an adventure puzzler game with 3 worlds, each with nine levels of 10 rooms, for you to play through as you try to find the artefact. you have the ability to rotate rooms to try and solve puzzles.


Rhythm Core Alpha
This is a 1 player only game that costs 500 DSi Points. this is an advanced music creation system for performing live music in front of an audience.


Absolute Chess
This is a 1-2 player game that costs 200 DSi Points. this chess game explains the games basic rules and strategies. there are 2 game modes, free play and challenge mode. you can also play with friends via download play.


Did It Myself ABC123
This is a 1 player only game that costs 200 DSi Points. this game is aimed at a younger audience and helps to try and stimulate their brains.


Press Release

As always, Monday is an especially fun day for Wii™ and Nintendo DSi™ owners, kicking off the week with a wide variety of new downloadable games. On the WiiWare™ service, My Aquarium 2 offers a fresh selection of virtual deep-sea creatures to arrange and admire. Also, things are a bit topsy-turvy on the Nintendo DSiWare™ service as TURN: The Lost Artifactinvites players to meddle with the forces of gravity in fascinating ways. A total of six new games are now available for download, giving Nintendo fans easy access to yet another slew of extraordinary gaming experiences.

WiiWare

My Aquarium 2
Publisher: Hudson Entertainment
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Wii Points™
Description: My Aquarium 2, the sequel to the hit WiiWare title My Aquarium, is here. This time, the theme is the mysterious deep sea. With a single Wii Remote™ controller, you can raise fascinating creatures of all shapes and sizes, including deep-sea fish and glowing jellyfish. As with the original My Aquarium, you can customize your aquarium, by choosing which fish to include and where to place various decorations. You can also choose from a variety of colored lights to illuminate your aquarium. In time, your fish might breed to give you a whole new school. Create your very own aquarium for endless hours of relaxing fun and entertainment. This sequel features a larger selection of fish and objects than the original. You can also link up to the Forecast Channel to have your aquarium's appearance reflect the actual weather, or send your aquariums to registered friends via WiiConnect24™. Additional content will be available for purchase at a later date. Dive in and see all the wonderful creatures of the deep blue sea!

Enjoy your massage!
Publisher: Microforum
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) - Mild Suggestive Themes
Price: 500 Wii Points
Description: Congratulations! You have just been hired as an apprentice masseur at Giselle's beauty farm, one of the most famous in the city. Learn new relaxing massage combinations and use them on your stressed customers. As an apprentice, you'll have to do your best. If your client gets angry, no one will save you from losing your job, but if you prove capable, you might even become the director of the whole beauty farm. So, what are you waiting for? Six clients are waiting for your help!

Nintendo DSiWare

TURN: The Lost Artifact
Publisher: Creative Patterns
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Mild Cartoon Violence
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points™
Description: TURN: The Lost Artifact is an adventure puzzler with fun, intuitive game play. Kurt and Camila are explorers on a mysterious journey to find a lost artifact. You guide them through rooms filled with various dangers, from enemies to rolling boulders. Your main power is the ability to rotate the rooms 90 degrees to the left or to the right. Mastering the law of gravity is essential to your success. Everything and everyone in the room is subjected to gravity and falls when you turn the room. Watch your head! Featuring three worlds with nine levels of about 10 rooms each, the game promises a whole lot of brain-twisting fun on your Nintendo DSi system.

Rhythm Core Alpha
Publisher: SoftEgg
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Make music with your Nintendo DSi system! Rhythm Core Alpha is an advanced music creation system, designed for creating and performing live music in front of an audience.Rhythm Core Alpha makes it easy to build drum and instrument loops, and then allows you to play solos over them using the stylus. It automatically detects the key and scale of the music you have created and allows you to change chords at the press of a button. All notes in the solo match the selected key and scale, so you can never hit a wrong note. Rhythm Core Alphaalso includes a powerful pattern mode that allows you to set up chord changes and arrange your sequenced parts, enabling you to build a whole song or make sections that you can play back as you desire. Hundreds of adjustable drum and instrument sounds are included. You can edit while the song is playing, so you really can build the song in front of an audience.

Absolute Chess
Publisher: Tasuke
Players: 1-2
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: This easy-to-understand chess game explains everything from basic rules to aggressive strategies. There are two modes of play. In Free Play, you can play against a number of preset characters, ranging from a young kid to a grouchy old man. The Challenge mode gives players multiple levels and missions to complete. Player support features include a function to indicate possible moves for the player and the opponent, as well as the ability to undo your previous move. You can also enjoy matches with friends via DS Download Play.

Did It Myself ABC123
Publisher: Powerhead Games
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: EC (Early Childhood)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Did It Myself ABC123 is packed with different activities to stimulate your young child's brain, including counting, colors, letters, drawing and music. The target age range is roughly 2 to 3, but kids aged 1 through 5 should be able to enjoy Did It Myself ABC123. There are options for parents to adjust the counting range, the amount of games to play in "shuffle" mode, and the overall game speed. "Slow" and "medium" are recommended for younger kids, while older kids may enjoy "fast" and "ridiculous."

Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in either the Nintendo DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.

Remember that both Wii and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visithttp://wii.com or http://www.nintendodsi.com.

Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th

This is all the news from Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th August.

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• QTE Blog: The Re-Cap: News From QTE Gamers From Friday 6th August http://ht.ly/18tdCl
• QTE Blog: Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Friday 6th August http://ht.ly/18tfzt
• PS3: Square Reveal Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon is coming to the PSN as a PS1 Classic in Japan http://ht.ly/2mnhH
• PC: The System requirements for Civilisation 5 have been revealed. Dual Core CPU and 2GB RAM minimum http://ht.ly/2mnix
• 360: rumoured DLC for Castlevania: Harmony of Despair has been found. 2 additional characters and a pyramid stage http://ht.ly/2mnjz
• 360: Its reported Kinect can read American Sign Language and input into something whats being signed to it http://ht.ly/2mnkc
• EA posted NHL 11 create a player boosts on XBL, in all there are 156 boosts with prices from 80-160MS Points http://ht.ly/2moM0
• Fumito Ueda has revealed that he's revealing something at the Tokyo Game Show, The last Guardian expected. http://ht.ly/2moZI
• 360: pictures of the insides of a Kinect camera have been released, not alot of space left over inside http://ht.ly/2mBSE
• PS3: listings Have Emerged For Splinter Cell Trilogy and Prince of Persia Trilogy, HD remakes of PS2 Games, http://ht.ly/2mBVc
• QTE Blog: What Have You Played This Week? http://ht.ly/18u7zp
• QTE Blog: QTE Tweets Of The Week http://ht.ly/18ucVj

QTE Tweets Of The Week

This top 10 shows the most clicked tweets from my News in brief Twitter stream. There was a verity of news making it into the top 10. there was no clear run away story this week with the top 10 being very close in the amount of tweets that were clicked.

10 iPhone: The Latest iOS4 beta removes Game Center Support For 2nd Gen iPod Touch and iPhone 3g. http://ht.ly/2l5xy

9 360: Mediatonic's Playstation Mini, Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess, is coming to Xbox Indie Games http://ht.ly/2kiEb

8 QTE Blog: National Geographic Announce National Geographic Animal Jam Is Now Online http://ht.ly/18pOdn

7 360: MTV/Harmonix says Kinect can achieve 1:1 tracking, Dance Central achieves it. http://ht.ly/2jVsY

6 PC: Fable 3 is no longer coming out on 26th October. no new release date has been announced. http://ht.ly/2kiGC

5 UK Game Charts, StarCraft II, Toy Story 3, Red Dead Redemption, Dance On Broadway, Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 top 5 http://ht.ly/2jRa8

4 360: Ubisoft's internal "Kinect expert" Frederic Blais says Kinect uses less than 1% of the 360's CPU http://ht.ly/2kn6j

3 QTE Blog: Sony Have Released An Updated Firmware 3.41 For Those Having HDD Issues http://ht.ly/18py4j

2 WP7: Microsoft's Kevin Turner reveals Windows Phone 7 is coming to EU in October, November in USA http://ht.ly/2jJnZ


1 PS3: its rumoured that a new feature for Playstation Plus will be the ability to chance your Username http://ht.ly/2jLXy

What Have You Played This Week?

Another week where I had hopes of playing more than I managed. Its a shame i'm not playing more than I do, but with the amount of work I have to put into the site, I don't leave myself a lot of spare time to put much gaming in.

Football Manager 10 – PC – My season in the Championship with Havant & Waterlooville is going fine. I'm past Christmas now and into the end of season. I still think I won't get relegated and a mi-table position should be achievable.

3D Dot Game Heroes – PS3 – The third dungeon is done and i've already found the forth dungeon. Its safe to say the game is hard, but its not taken away any fun. There is a fair amount of try and die in not just getting through a dungeon but also trying to navigate the landscape. I can see and understand if and why people would find this annoying, but for me i'm getting further each time, i'm not failing at the same point. What's also fun is that I have the bestiality, which means I have a book to attack enemies with to put them in the book. From this I can see i'll need to battle the bosses again, but with the improvements you can do to swords and the fact you know what to do, it shouldn't be that difficult.

Transformers: War For Cybertron – PS3 – Still playing, trying to get some multiplayer trophies, but without a double XP weekend it will take some time. Also, still annoyed with the lack of separation between those trying to game with and without the DLC maps.

Monsters (probably) Stole My Princess – Mini – PSP – I've finished the games story mode, and whilst it is very short, it is still fun. There is a nice twist at the end, the animation is great and so is the script. There is a Score Attack mode and trophies still to get in the game and I can see myself playing it a few times as yet. If your interested in trying out a Minis, this has everything you'd expect from a Mini and more.

Did you manage to play more games than I have over the week, or do you have any comments on my experiences or questions about the games i've played? If you do, feel free to add them in the comments section.

Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Friday 6th August

This is all the news from Friday 6th August.

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The Re-Cap: News From QTE Gamers From Friday 6th August

• QTE Blog: The Re-Cap: News From QTE Gamers From Thursday 5th August http://ht.ly/18sk7B
• QTE Blog: Hit X: The News Recapping Podcast For Thursday 5th August http://ht.ly/18smXk
• United Front Games announce True Crime: Hong Kong has been delayed until 2011 http://ht.ly/2lXhk
• QTE Blog: D3 Announce Jillian Michaels: Fitness Ultimatum 2011 Exclusively For The Nintendo Wii http://ht.ly/18sph4
• 360: The OFLC has rated Avatar Superstars Poker from Microsoft. Speculation is its an XBLA game http://ht.ly/2lXiA
• Bungie reveal that Halo Reach has gone gold and the Halo Team has moved onto the next Bungie game http://ht.ly/2lXk6
• QTE Blog: Konami Reveal More Tracks In Def Jam Rapstar http://ht.ly/18ssoN
• QTE Blog: Codemasters Announce Operation Flashpoint: Red River And That Its Coming To The PS3, Xbox 360, And PC In 2... http://ht.ly/18ssoM
• Activision have said that they're increasing the importance of DLC to limit pre-owned games, looking at other initiatives http://ht.ly/2lXmj
• 360: Patents for Kinect have emerged. the patent was filed on 23rd Feb 2009. shows depth camera based gesture reading http://ht.ly/2lXoR
• QTE Blog: Black Bean Have Released New WRC 2010 Screenshots http://ht.ly/18svrq
• QTE Blog: Nintendo Have Released New Screenshots For Metroid: Other M http://ht.ly/18svrp
• Activision reveal they had over 5K applications for positions at Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer games, 60 were selected http://ht.ly/2lXqN
• PS3: Square Have Tweeted that they're considering releasing Parasite Eve 1+2 as a PS1 Classic due to fan support http://ht.ly/2lXtc
• QTE Blog: Atlus Have Released A New Video For Etrian Odyssey III Showing Map Making http://ht.ly/18sypV
• QTE Blog: Sega Have Released New Screenshots And A Trailer For Vanquish http://ht.ly/18sypW
• Borderlands was recently updated on Steam. it revealed new DLC for the game, the focus is on Claptraps http://ht.ly/2lXwy
• Activision's Bobby Kotick reveals Blizzards upcoming MMO is a new IP, ground up original idea. http://ht.ly/2lXzt
• Square’s Tetsuya Nomura says any sequel to 3rd birthday would be in HD. a demo for 3rd Birthday is being considered http://ht.ly/2lXB7
• Warren Spector admits that Epic Mickey could come to the PS3 and 360 because of Move and Kinect. not his decision to make http://ht.ly/2lXDe
• PS3: There are reports Sony has added a new notification system. you get a message from PSN regarding fixes and such http://ht.ly/2lXFG
• PC: its rumoured that a trailer for Doom 4 is coming soon, possibly at Quakecon http://ht.ly/2lXHG
• QTE Blog: This Weeks UK WiiWare, DSiWare, And Virtual Console Releases http://ht.ly/18sF78
• QTE Blog: Sony Have Released The First Screenshots For Heavy Rain Move Edition http://ht.ly/18sF77
• Its reported Google have bought Slide, a casual developer, for $187M http://ht.ly/2lXJ1
• Zynga have bought Japanese developer Unoh. Unoh are a social game developer founded in 2001. http://ht.ly/2lXN1
• QTE Blog: Sega Have Released A New Trailer For Sonic Colours http://ht.ly/18sHFN
• JP Consoles, PSP 48.603, PS3 45.224, DSiLL 23.120, Wii 20.038, DSi 17.950, 360 6.929, DS 4.058, PS2 1.444, PSPgo 777 http://ht.ly/2lXP8
• 360: the 4GB Kinect Bundle has been spotted with reference to a Xbox 360 Slim 250GB Kinect Bundle http://ht.ly/2md00
• PC: Puzzle Quest II is coming to Steam on 12th August for $19.99 http://ht.ly/2md51
• 360:Online Co-op, leaderboards, + voice chat will be patched into Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on1 8th September http://ht.ly/2md7R
• Namco Bandai clear confusion regarding Tekken at GamesCom, only Street Fighter X Tekken will make an appearance http://ht.ly/2mdbb
• Namco Bandai announce Tekken 6 has sold over 3 Million units world wide http://ht.ly/2mdcl
• People Can Fly reveal it was difficult porting Bulletstorm to 360+PS3 from PC due to their lack of memory. Graphics fine http://ht.ly/2mde7
• Nippon Ichi reveal they've cancelled 3 games even though they've already spent ¥21M on them. http://ht.ly/2mdfN
• PS3: Voice actor David Kaye says he's working on more Ratchet & Clank, suggests Insomniac are working on it to http://ht.ly/2mdj0