Hot on the heels of Hori’s Wii Fighting Stick comes this sweet looking arcade stick from SNK-Playmore and Sega Logistics. Hey, SNK knows fight games, so this has gotta be good right ? It is supposed to work with both Virtual Console and regular Wii games. Let’s hope it works nicely with the real “King of Fight Games”, Street Fighter II.

Via wiitech.info and Wii Fanboy.

Update: Turns out this is not the Pop I thought it was. See the bottom of this post:

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I just noticed this new soo-to-be-released Wii game on the BigW online store. It’s Pop!, a game I’ve written about previously being produced by Nnooo. Strange thing is, this game is supposed to be released via the WiiWare download service.I’m not quite sure what’s going on here … is Pop! going to be a dual retail disc / Wiiware release ? Is it not going to hit Wiiware after all, or is there going to be some kind of staggered release with an (almost) full price retail disc, followed by a cheaper Wiiware release ?

Alternatively, has BigW just got it plain wrong ?

Watch this space … according to BigW the release date is Feb 14th, 2008

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Update: A quick email exchange with Nic from Nnooo has clarified things … the Pop! in the BigW catalog is a different game, with the same name (apart from the “!“. Nnooo’s Pop has no exclamation mark). It’s actually the (much less cool) game known as Balloon Pop in North America. An unscrupulous company in the UK decided to rename Balloon Pop simply Pop! in PAL regions, creating a name clash. If this is trying to capitalize on the (pre-)success of Nnooo’s Pop, before it’s even been released, I think it’s a real indication of the anticipation for this WiiWare title. The “real” Pop, developed by Nnooo, will ONLY be released on WiiWare, will certainly be cheaper and by all indications will be a better game than Balloon Pop.

I just noticed there is a new developer diary (aka blog) up for Blast Works : Build, Trade, Destroy, (previously titled Blast Works : Build, Fuse & Destroy) which will be released around May this year by Majesco (of Cooking Mama fame).

Blast Works is being adapted from the incredible work of Kenta Cho, and the first post goes into some detail about how they have ‘deconstructed and rebuilt’ his scrolling space shooter TUMIKI fighters to become Blast Works. Looks like Blast Works will enable players to build their own enemies with an in game editor, before blasting them to pieces. I just hope they have managed to maintain the coolness of the original TUMIKI fighers; if so, it should be a solid little shooter … I can’t wait !

(Oh, anyone who hasn’t should play Kenta’s freeware PC games .. they rock so hard it hurts).

This new video of Namco Museum Remix reveals which games will be included. In the retro department are the original arcade versions of Pac & Pal, Dig Dug, Cutie-O, Mappy, Galaga, Galaxian, Gaplus, Xevious and Super Pac-Man. In the remix department are PacMoto, Gator Panic, Rally-X Remix, Galaga Remix and Pac’n Roll. This is shaping up to be a nice compilation, assuming it is budget priced.

Nnooo, an Australian developer, has recently announced that they are developing a game called . Essentially, it is a bubble popping game (aka a bubble shooter) which resembles several simple Flash games available on the web (like Bubble Pop on WiiCade); check out the video on their site . It will support up to 4 simultaneous players.

While is sounds (and probably is) very simple, it doesn’t mean it won’t be fun (Wii Play, anyone ?). As usually the case with simple arcade games, the devil is in the detail and I’m sure tweaks to the playability and scoring will ultimately make or break this game. Here’s hoping Nnooo get it right !!

(The guys at Nnooo are clearly big Nintendo fans too … check out their opinions page, where they review various new Wii and DS games from a developer and designers perspective).

(originally) via The Tanooki.