We're just about as excited as we could be for the next iteration in the long-running Mario & Luigi RPG series, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. It's been so long since we last got to try our hand at timing-centric, turn-based combat in the Mushroom Kingdom and, well, we really enjoyed our time with the game at E3. The newest trailer shows off a good deal of what we described from E3, with the ill-fated plumbers working with Bowser from the inside to solve problems in the outside world. Now all we need is a bit more of a solid release date than "this fall" -- how about it, Nintendo?
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There aren't any concrete plans for a sequel to Tatsunoko vs. Capcom yet (but it's Capcom, so there will be a sequel), but producer Ryota Niitsuma has some ideas about one, as revealed in an interview with Siliconera. Asked whether a followup game would appear on the Wii or HD consoles, he said "As the way I'm seeing it now, the sequels will be on the Wii as well." He actually had some nice, fan-friendly reasoning for the declaration, different from his earlier statement about technical issues keeping the series on Wii. "If people are going to invest in this game, like we want them to," he said, "they're going to go out and buy arcade sticks. It would be a disservice to fans to just put out this one game that they buy sticks for and then they have nothing more to play."Niitsuma also spoke a little more about the absence of Hakushon Daimao and the plan to replace him with "around three to four, maybe more" and the difficulty of designing online games for Wii.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

A few lucky Japanese WiiWare shoppers who pick up the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games next week will get limited-edition gifts from Club Nintendo. Fifty people who buy at least two of the three WiiWare roguelikes will get this pop-up book thing, which is, honestly, not that exciting of a pop-up. It's basically a paper dome. Two hundred people who purchase just one of the games will randomly be drawn to win a Wiimote/DS strap featuring artwork from the game they purchased.Meanwhile, Nintendo of America has indicated no plans to release the games, and it won't indicate any such plans until they magically appear on the Wii Shop. Don't expect any promotions like this, or, really, any promotion at all.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

If you don't remember the WiiWare title Discipline, which was announced at TGS last year, we'll sum up the prison-escape for you in a way that's certain to jog your memory: alien worm Wiimote shell. According to IGN's summary of some details from Famitsu, the gross-looking green controller shell (which now doesn't seem likely to actually be released) is the least weird thing about the title.In Discipline, you help fellow inmates in a high-security prison solve their problems, with the use of -- and there's no way not to make this sound awful -- "You Fluid" from your "You-Con" (the controller). You hold up the Wiimote to gather You Fluid while the guard's attention is elsewhere, and then interact with the world by, uh, squirting You Fluid at stuff. One example: you draw a prisoner's attention to a poster on the wall by shooting You Fluid at it.If you help a prisoner enough, you'll break down his "Heart Walls" and learn more about the character's backstory, receiving a special item in the process. The funny thing is that this would all be pretty innocuous -- using the Wiimote to interact in a first-person world, helping solve people's issues, adventure-game style, if not for the "You Fluid" business. We'll find out more about just how embarrassed this game will make us as the August 25 Japanese release approaches.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments