So many people have probably already heard that Mario Kart Wii will include motorcycles … but check out the cool moves you can pull even in the regular karts … that’s some serious aerial manoeuvring !!

This week the Australian Virtual Console had two Super Nintendo titles added to the ranks: Axelay and Super Metroid.

Axelay (SNES)

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There were five releases to the Australian Wii Shop this week, including the first Wii release of a game from a new system, the NeoGeo.

We got Fatal Fury King of Fighters (NeoGeo) and three Sega Megadrive titles, Golden Axe III, Landstalker, Streets of Rage III and Super Thunderblade. All in all, three fight games / beat-em-ups. Everyone better get used to that, since with all the future NeoGeo releases planned, we are going to be getting quite a few fight games in the coming months I suspect.

Fatal Fury King of Fighters (NeoGeo)

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Remember Aaron Davies, the Wii fan who made it his mission to find out why Nintendo first-party releases were always delayed in Australia and New Zealand ?

Aaron produced a convincing report detailing the significant lag times between the Australian and North American release dates. After discussions with Nintendo, he was asked to submit questions for Nintendo Australia to address. You can see his questions relating to localization, release delays and region locking on his site. And the response from Nintendo, after requesting said questions ?

“Nintendo Australia has no comment; Nintendo Australia does not comment on these issues.“

Beyond lame, refusing to comment is just insulting to their customers. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know what to say. The first word that came to mind was “Wow”. The second was “Q-Bert ?” !!

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