The start of this year for Wii will be mad, mad I say! There's a steady stream of good third-party software over the next 3 months, and the downloadable scene is shockingly vibrant. WiiWare has evolved so much in the year and a half since it launched on the Wii Shop Channel. I'd say it's on par with its rival services now, which are a fair bit older.

It's even better for Europeans because there's a handful of games which got released in '09 in America that are coming early this year for us. This includes Silent Hill (out in February), which I'm eagerly awaiting the review for.

The only noteworthy omission from your anticipated games discussion that I can immediately think of is Trauma Team. You spoke about that last episode though, so nice job on this feature.
I think that one is scheduled for April - yet another one to be excited about soon.

Snap! Trauma Team!

I think when I was prepping for this episode I subconsciously skipped over it because we talked about it recently. Or at least that's my excuse. I'm pretty jazzed for that game.

It's a few weeks off yet.  I've started the game, but I'm taking a trip from tomorrow through early next week that's going to prevent me from playing the game.  It will become priority number one after I get back.