Bummer, I was really hoping for Cue Sports. Oh well...

Boingz already? You Americans have to say how that one is like!

At least I can go back to Alien CrushR

#2: No. Nobody here is going to comment on what Boingz is like . Its hard to tell Boingz quality from images. It looks like an N64 game but doesn't look like shovelware (at least in pictures). Sudoku is Sudoku, you probably have a version already.

I think Boingz is going to be a good game. Nintendo selected it to be featured for their October press event along with World of Goo, Tetris Party and Cave Story. I don't they would have picked a piece of shovelware. As for Sudoku Challenge! I think it looks pretty inoffensive at 500 points. How could the gameplay possibly be broken on a Sudoku game?

Its not that it'll be broken, but I think anyone who wants a Sudoku game would have got one already by now. And I hope Boingz looks better in the final version.

On Digital Leisure's website they have a page for their next WiiWare game, Texas Hold'em Tournament.

Darn it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO Space Invaders: Get Even, come on give us the cool Space Invaders, I say that they could have at least held off on Boingz or whatever for nother week, I get to frustrated at Sudoku, so this week is pure crap. Are we ever gonna get Space Invaders: Get Even or Maboshi??????? Two great games that we still do't have. Boingz just looks retarted and pretty horrible. No good games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also on VC where is my Castlevnia 3?, Devil World?, Clayfighter?, other decent titles for the N64 like: Super Smash Bros., The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Mario Tennis, the RPGs like Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, and everything else, heck I would even take E.T. and Superman 64 for laughs and to see how bad they really are, I'm out this week is pure crap, where the crap are the good games, My rampage ends here!!!!AH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meh week for VC and WiiWare.

When is MaBoShi coming out? I can`t wait anymore!

I agree with Versus22, WHEN ARE WE GONNA GET MABOSHI!!!

Did not see this one comming. I thought that Cue Sports was to come out today. It will be interesting to see how Boingz turns out.

Well, MaBoShi's Arcade is now ESRB rated. That at least shows that MindWare's not just wishful thinking.

How could the gameplay possibly be broken on a Sudoku game?
Wait for the review to find out Joking aside, control and interface stuff. If you ask me, Brain Training nailed Sudoku down perfectly once you get past number reconition issues.

Its nice to see 2 new games coming out but all this is doing is segmenting the regions up something wonderful. Which is bad.

Never expected Boingz so soon. Might get that one at some point if it's any good. Still waiting for Maboshi, Gradius Rebirth, and SI: Get Even...

#15: I'm sure we'll start to see some catch-up weeks between the two regions. I was fully expecting America to play a catch-up week to Europe today. Sadly not.

...

Wake me up when Cave Story gets here.

@Dazza - Very weird. MaBoShi is out everywhere else (at least in Europe and Japan).

I also wish Gyrostarr (and some other games that we got) would come to Europe as well... more catch-up weeks are needed!

This was the month that was November on the WiiWare

24: Boingz & Sudoku Challenge!
17: Strong Bad Ep 4 & Target Toss: Pro Bags
10: Brain Challenge & Yummy Yummy Cooking Jam
03: Alien Crush Returns & Home Sweet Home

Pretty average month really, it seems like there is a clear 'good' game and a clear 'poor' game for each week. Nothing really special though. Obviously I can't yet comment on today's games.

@Bass XO - All the titles on the left were good!

Anyone who knows anything about Sudoku knows that if a game generates multi-solution puzzles, it is worthless. I read the operations manual (available in the Wii Shop) and it said nothing about whether the puzzles have unique solutions or not. The fact that they don't mention it suggests they don't (which is bad).

Edit: Good news! See #27 below: no multi-solution puzzles according to Digital Leisure web site: http://www.digitalleisure.com/contents/wii.htm#sudoku

As I said in other news, America will get MaBoShi when we get WoG, that's NoJ evil reasoning with the updates. Don't kill the messenger.
Haven't got a clue really, having regions sucks. I understand the ratings, etc. But as the world tends to globalise, this fragmentation is...

@4: Nobody has said anything about Boingz yet. Guess they are waiting for the review.

Probably. 1000 points is a lot to spend on a game we know very little about.

Is space invaders worth it with all the dlc?

wondering if I should get it
Still, this is a pleasant surprise.

I HOPE Turtle Bay (from RealArcade) comes to WiiWare. I would get that in an INSTANT!

It says on the Digital Leisure website that the game features "absolutely no multi-solution puzzles" so that answers that one....which is a good sign. It's Sudoku -- It's fun and simple and for $5 why not.

Hmmm... Boingz could be all right...

I'm about to start playing Boingz, but what surprised me right off was that it was only 168 blocks.

@paulis23: Thanks! That's great news.

Yep, I was surprised as you are!

How many blocks is Sudoku Challenge?

P.S. I bey you didn't know this! Take Sudoku Challenge. 100 million puzzles for 500 pts. That's 200,000 puzzles per cent! Now, take the average Sudoku Puzzle Book. 100 Puzzles for about $5. How many books will it take to match the amount of Puzzles in Sudoku Challenge? That's right. 1 million books, or 5 million dollars to spend. Now, assume a Newspaper or Website has 2 puzzles a day. It would take thousands of years of puzzles to match what this game has. Basically, if you love Sudoku, and you have a wii connected to the internet, that Sudoku Challenge is a must.

@Reaver: BPlus did that one once, but I doubt any persuasion is needed for a sudoku game - if someone wants it, they'll get it. If they don't, they won't.
@BassXO: Home Sweet Home wasn't that bad actually, and this week looks pretty good.
I can't tell how good Boingz is at all though, and so I'll be awaiting the review. The only thing I'm worried about with Sudoku is the controls: are they pointer or D-Pad based, and how accurate are they? Still, I might as well just wait for the review.
EDIT: After watching your video, I think that whilst the presentation and controls for Sudoku could be better, it still looks fairly playable. I'm guessing that it may get a six.

@Reaver: Pretty perceptive on your part. Don't know who he is, but I do recall paulis23 accusing me of bias in my The Incredible Maze review.

@Wiiloveit: I'm pretty sure you can use point & click controlls on Sudoku, or you can just hold the Wii-Mote sideways to play using the buttons.

Anybody know the block count yet?

@Reaver: after checking out their 'site, the comment stating that their game has "absolutely no multi-solution puzzles", methinks you has found a secret agent. What's more, ACK! was right in stating that paulis23 also stated that TIM was good, which is good enough evidence for me. According to a quick Google search, Paulis23 has no friends or activity on some website's he's signed up to, and he is also currently searching for a female partner, and has favourited a selection of beauty products on stylefeeder. Erm... other than that though, he only appears to have posted things on Digital Leisure articles here, so all I have to say is:
PAULIS23: NOBODY WANTS YOU HERE
If you're not a publicity thingamabob, then sorry - even though I'm 95% sure you are.

@Wiiloveit- If he is a publicity guy, at least he doesn't leave after a bad review like WiiBoy.

All in all, meh week. Still hoping for MaBoShi...

I want Space Invaders Get Even, not more puzzle games!

@Slambert215: Yeah - I miss WiiBoy. At least if Paulis left, nobody would even notice

Boings kinda looks like the ds game mario vs. dk 2 march of the minis. that was a fun but short game, but was made up for in user generated content. the gameplay to these get all peeps to the end game is usually good, so i have high hopes. i just hope that it has user made content or DLC to make up for the short 30 levels. Otherwise WERE IS MABOSHI!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!!!!! maybe they are adding online leader boards hint hint

It was ESRB rated recently, but when it's actually arriving is anyone's guess.

Boingz is a mild surprise, hope its a good one. Hope Sudoku doesn't show us how it COULD possibly fail, but you never know...

well, i broke down and bought Boingz before the review. my thoughts after about a half hour of play? I think it is a good game overall. The control scheme is pretty creative. The 2 bad points i found were the fact that it only has single player mode, and that there isnt really any story linking it all together. That being said, the levels are well done, creative, and mostly fun to play. I would feel better recomending it if it were 800 points, 1000 is a little steep but if you want my opinion, i say buy it, but only if you are a fan of things sort of like world of goo or co-op puzzle games. i say, 8/10

Sudoku Challenge might be alright. As Charlie The Unicorn said earlier, it's great value for your money...as long as the controls work well. I don't think the game could be all that bad.

I won't give much away, but for those who thought the screenshots were a little lackluster...it doesn't get much better in the actual game. The visuals are not terribly good, even by WiiWare standards. Unless you just really love Playstation One graphics.

Was not expecting Boingz or Sudoku yet but there here now for the US so that's 2 games out of the way. Also wasn't expecting Boogerman. When that hits Europe, i will certainly be staying away from it

As for Boingz Visuals, unless horribly ugly, do not matter that much to me, although they do certainly help things. What really matters is the gameplay and that's what truly matters. I'm not going to say it's the only thing that matters because it's not but if you have everything else perfect but bad gameplay, there's no point. As long as Boingz has good gameplay, i'll be happy

From what i've seen of Sudoku Challenge, considering it's Sudoku, Visuals won't matter there that much either, aside from the backgrounds which don't look that bad from the screenshots. I generally find that Visuals don't matter that much when it comes to Puzzle games as long as they play well and the replay value is bound to be huge with 100 Million puzzles, provided they can keep you interested long enough.

Will await a review of Boingz, hopefully it will come good...

The only real surprise to me was Boingz, and glad Sudoku Challenge is finally out; I bet both will get AWESOME review scores and rise to the TOP of the Charts on Wendsday!!! Boingz could even CRACK the TOP 5; I'm guessing!

And like @ Supermarioman: I'm also getting majorly dissapointed and still angry, fed up, you know I love to complain because there's NO CASTLEVANIA 3!!!

Since I got World of Goo nothing has really interested me on WW.
WoG has satiated my gaming desires for the time being.

I'm not interested in any of today's releases, I play Sudoku on the internet (it's free, and you can find many of them), and Boingz, well I'll wait for the review, but it doesn't seem pretty good to me.
Right now, I'm waiting for MaBoShi and Cave Story, huuuurrrrrrrryyyy!!!!

Can not wait to see how these two games turn out. My two big questions are one: Did Digital Leisure mess up again? Two is Boingz any good?

Oh, when it comes to MaBoShi, I actually have a friend that works for Nintendo. When I asked him when it was coming out, he looked on his computer and said.... "Well, huh!" and he had a grin on his face.

Next week:
Space Invaders
+
MaBoShi
+
The Impossible Quiz Wii Collection
=
Happy Patrick!

(I wish...the latter isn't even ESRB rated yet!)

I never heard of Happy Patrick. What kind of game is that?

I'll stick to my DS sudoku games with handwriting recognition etc., like Brain Age and Sudoku Gridmaster... There is nothing worse than a bad Sudoku game, and after watching the trailer for Sudoku Challenge, it looked like it has a bad interface...

Lol. My NAME is Patrick!

Well the Boingz review has been submitted, so maybe it won't be too much longer before it's up. I won't spoil it for anyone.

@Sycoraxic98 (post 52) - O rly? That wouldn't be a bad week.

@Sycoraxic: But are you happy?