Animal Crossing Wii

T-U-R-T-L-E power reigned supreme in Australia last week, with the latest PlayStation 2 adventures of Donatello and the gang taking the top spot in the overall Australian game charts for the week of April 23 to April 29.

TMNT took the number-one spot from Diddy Kong Racing for the Nintendo DS, which slipped back a place to land in second position, according to data trackers GfK Australia. Nintendo games had a strong showing in the overall top 10, with five entrants including Sonic and the Secret Rings and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii, and Bratz: Forever Diamondz and Animal Crossing: Wild World for the Nintendo DS.

The PlayStation 3 port of last year's role-playing game hit The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had a strong debut Down Under, coming in at fourth spot in the overall charts.

My Sims DS and Wii Play

My Sims has such a different gameplay feel between the DS and the Wii that I think you could love one and hate the other. Since the DS versions seems very Animal Crossing-esque, I'll have to love that Wii and hate the DS version, I suspect. Brian Crecente.

Icarus Soaring onto Nintendo Wii

While perhaps not the most familiar name to video gamers, to development studios Icarus Studios is but one of many companies offering middleware for virtual worlds. Earlier this week, the announced the completion of their next generation tool suite. Of course, that in and of itself probably isn’t that exciting, except when you consider that it is also under development for the Nintendo Wii...at least if Nintendo-specific website The Wiire is to be believed.

According to the Wiire, a representative for Icarus Studios informed them that, while it is not currently available for Nintendo’s latest home console endeavor, it is in the works for the Wii. Unfortunately, while we’d like to believe this information based just on their word, the only quote included in the story comes straight from the general press release (which we’ve, of course, included below), with no specific mention of any system.

Mario Kart en Wii podrÃa ser una realidad

["I have had the privilege over the past 48 hours to witness history in the making at the (Pre E3) Nintendo Media Event here in Seattle, WA. All of the information I have to share with you is under embargo, but as the true fans and the true gamers, I believe you are entitled to it. As a regular lurker on these forums I know what this means to all of you, and I decided early yesterday to disseminate this information to those that deserved to have it. No worries I have taken the appropriate measures to ensure that my identity cannot be identified so that I will not face consequences for my actions. I hope you will enjoy learning this information and that you share my enthusiasm for the future of Nintendo.Where to begin?Following Reggie Fils-Aimes speech yesterday (now widely reported) we were invited to a room to play a number of already announced games.