August 30, 2010
Newly available on the WiiWare™ service, Tales of Elastic Boy – Mission 1 truly stretches the possibilities for console adventure. On the Nintendo DSiWare™ service, you'll discover epic space battles in Cosmos X2, create customized notes with myNotebook: Pearl™, and learn to play timeless melodies with Music on: Learning Piano.
Whether you're headed back to school or simply flipping another
calendar page, these new offerings will help freshen up your gaming
regimen as you head into fall.
WiiWare
Tales of Elastic Boy – Mission 1 Publisher: Lexis Numerique Players: 1-2 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief Price: 600 Wii Points™ Description: Tales of Elastic Boy
offers a totally innovative and unique style of game play that takes
full advantage of the Wii Remote™ controller. To fulfill your quest and
save your planet, you'll have to travel through many lands, defeat
various enemies, meet unexpected friends and solve tricky puzzles. Play
in single-player mode or with your friends and discover funny games. Use
your stretching arms to swing and punch, roll as fast as you can or
jump onto your enemies. Based on a powerful physics engine, Tales of Elastic Boy offers a truly original and entertaining gaming experience that's easy to learn but challenging to master.
Nintendo DSiWare
Cosmos X2 Publisher: Saturnine Games Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Mild Fantasy Violence Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points™ Description: Pilot
the Cosmos X2 to defend your planet against an alien invasion. Battle
your way through the solar system to the alien home world to defeat
their army. Equip your ship with two weapons of your choice and switch
between them at any time during battle. Your active weapon takes damage
when your ship gets hit. Defeating enemies regenerates energy in your
inactive weapon. The key to your survival lies in finding a balance in
your weapon usage. Battle your way through six levels of action and test
your skills with three difficulty levels. Three bonus modes provide
additional challenges.
myNotebook: Pearl Publisher: Nnooo Players: 1 Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: myNotebook allows
you to take notes wherever you go. Just pop open your Nintendo DSi
system and jot down your thoughts. Make a list and cross it off, or play
your favorite pen-and-paper games (games not included). You can even
personalize your notebook by drawing on the cover and changing the paper
type with 24 different unlockable paper styles. Use the pen or pencil
to make your notes or doodles and then erase the bits you don't like.
With five ink colors, you'll always be able to make your notes and
doodles look stylish. myNotebook also includes 128 pages to write on and the ability to export your pages to your Nintendo DSi Photo Album.
Music on: Learning Piano Publisher: Abylight Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points Description: An
entire orchestra follows your performance of 15 great classics. By
playing each day, your ability may increase. Earn the bronze, silver and
gold medals for each song, completing each different level. A
simplified music score is shown on the upper screen and a full piano
keyboard appears on the touch screen, guiding beginners note by note on
their first steps. Learn works by famous composers including Beethoven,
Pachelbel, Bach, Strauss and Verdi.
Nintendo adds new titles to
the Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time on
Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access can redeem Wii Points or
Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased
in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the
Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card™ can be purchased at retail
locations. All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in
either the Nintendo DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not
transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.
Remember
that both Wii and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let
adults manage the content their children can access. For more
information about this and other features, visit http://wii.com or http://www.nintendodsi.com.
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