Beavers and aliens invade WiiWare, the Virtual Console receives a shot of the old west, and DSiWare sees the most releases this week.

This week, DSiWare leads the way with four new titles available for download. The first of these is X-Scape. Published by Nintendo, X-Scape is a shooter modeled to look like a retro 3D game. There are two modes of play: Tunnel Mode and Free Mode. In Tunnel Mode you will fight off enemies in dark tunnels. When these missions are complete you unlock Free Mode, where you can roam around the planets and take on missions. X-Scape can be downloaded for 800 DSi points ($8.00).

From Gameloft is Hero of Sparta. An action/adventure title, players take on the role of a Spartan hero, explore the land, solve puzzles and battle enemies. Weapons and equipment can be upgraded in order to battle hordes of enemies. Hero of Sparta is available now for 800 DSi Points ($8.00).

EA Sports is developing an ice hockey title for Wii that will ship with a hockey stick peripheral and feature one of the greatest hockey players of all time.

Unlike last year, The NHL 2K series will no longer be the only choice in town for Wii hockey fans. The QMI Agency is reporting that EA Sports will soon announce their first ice hockey title for Wii called NHL Slapshot.

Each copy of NHL Slapshot will ship with a 21-inch hockey stick peripheral. Built with slots for the Wii Remote and nunchuk, NHL Slapshot producer Joe Nickolls says that the peripheral will offer greater accuracy than the Wii Remote alone as well as make Wii MotionPlus support redundant. "Just the motions of the wrist shot and the slapshot and checking somebody, to be able to actually do those in your living room, it's hockey in your living room as opposed to just playing with a controller," explained Nickolls. Other control schemes include using the Wii Remote and nunchuk without the peripheral, or only the Wii Remote.

Nintendo investigates working conditions in response to recent suicides at the production firm.

MarketWatch has reported that the Japanese business daily Nikkei confirmed that Nintendo will be joining companies including Apple in investigating the working conditions at Foxconn, the company responsible for assembling Wii consoles. This is in response to the recent suicides at the Shenzhen facility, operated by Foxconn Technology Group.

An article published on Times Business goes into further detail, suggesting that due to fears about company image, clients including Nintendo, Apple, Sony, Hewlett Packard, and Dell are all running investigations in parallel, with Nintendo’s investigation said to have started this year. There have been ten suicides over the last few months at Foxconn’s largest factory, with workers there under severe conditions.

Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals is coming out this fall on DS courtesy of Natsume.

Natsume recently announced that they are bringing Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals to North Ameirca in fall 2010.

Curse of the Sinistrals, a DS remake of the Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, originally came out in Japan in February 2010. It is a prequel to the original Lufia game, and follows the story of the ancestors of the first game's main character and the origins of the war between mankind and the Sinistrals, who are the four legendary harbingers of doom.

Originally, Lufia II was a turn-based role-playing game, but in the remake of the 1996 Super Nintendo version, the game is being changed into an action RPG. Additionally, the remake will feature 3D graphics and voice acting.

The covers for each game will feature new legendary Pokémon Reshiram and Zekrom.

Today, Nintendo announced what we all knew was coming: Pokémon Black and White, the upcoming entries in the popular series, are coming to North America and Europe.

Due for a spring 2011 release, roughly a year after Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, Black and White's covers will feature Reshiram and Zekrom respectively.

POKÉMON BLACK VERSION AND POKÉMON WHITE VERSION FOR NINTENDO DS COMING TO EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA IN SPRING 2011

New Legendary Pokémon Reshiram and Zekrom Grace Covers of All-New Releases

Welcome to the first, and only, almost entirely automated feature at Nintendo World Report: The Deal Machine.

The Deal Machine is our newest serial feature aimed at giving automated shopping advice. That's right, automated. Let The Deal Machine do the shopping for you!

So, how does it work? Well The Deal Machine itself is a little tool I set up that scours the Information Superhighway to find you good games on the cheap. Every month I'm going to set The Machine loose on a mission to find four games for Wii or DS that cost under $20 and $15 respectively. Not only that, the games have to have earned a respectable, if not amazing, average review score.

Longtime favorites see huge dips in this week's Japanese sales charts.

Despite 13 new games debuting in the top 30 this week, with six of those being in the top 10, no game managed to exceed the 100,000 mark, though Lost Planet 2 for the PlayStation 3 came pretty close.

In the top spot with sales of 85,000 was Lost Planet 2 from Capcom, followed by Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 with 62,000 units sold (down 51%). Three different versions of Konami’s latest Winning Eleven title debuted in top the 10, all for Sony’s consoles. The Wii counterpart started at position 15, with sales close to 10,000.

New console Pokémon game due out soon.

Pokémon spin-offs are anything but rare on the Wii, with games such as Pokémon Battle Revolution, Pokémon Rumble, and My Pokémon Ranch being released over the past few years. Adding to that list of games is Creature’s unique take on the Pokémon franchise, in which Pikachu and pals find themselves in a mysterious area known as the PokéPark, where they must befriend other Pokémon to help aid those in need.

PokéPark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure is a minigame compilation at heart, where different "attractions" are scattered across the land that resemble a unique mini-game. Mini-games can range from foot races to water slide courses, and aerial dogfights.

Players without a Classic Controller Pro can obtain one along with the game.

Capcom has announced that they will be releasing a special limited edition version of Sengoku Basara 3. The bundle will include a Classic Controller Pro. This version of the game will be sold for 6,990 Yen ($77.00). Those wishing to get the game only can buy it for 5,990 Yen ($66.00).

Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes was a Japan-only release on Wii and PS2. Previously, the first game in this action series was released as Devil Kings in Western territories. A North American release of Sengoku Basara 3 is expected later this year, as Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes.

The DS RPG will be coming stateside courtesy of Atlus.

The latest issue of Nintendo Power confirmed that the third entry in the Etrian Odyssey series, The Drowned City, will be coming to North America. Atlus, who published the two first games, will be publishing the third game.

The Drowned City is a first-person RPG that takes place in the sea city of Amroad. Party of the city was sunk to the bottom of the sea thanks to the “Great Disaster”, a giant earthquake that happened 100 years ago. When the quake ended it left a hole with a labyrinth along with lost technology.