The Wii Shop Channel has been in a very shoot-em-up mood recently. Konami recently announced Gradius Rebirth for WiiWare, and this week's three offerings for the North American Wii Shop Channel are all of the shoot-em-up variety. Get your guns and beams ready, folks, in the form of one WiiWare game and two Virtual Console games.

The WiiWare game is one that Europe just recently got, and that is Pirates: The Key of Dreams, by Oxygen Games. Players will control a pirate ship that will hav...

This is the third week of Nintendo of Europe's Hanabi Festival for the European Virtual Console, where US and Japanese imports are made available to be downloaded. Whether this week will be the last for the Hanabi Festival is unknown, but there's a good chance it will be, given that WiiWare will launch in Europe next week.

After last week's release of Cho Aniki, NoE returns this week to release another three games, two of which are even more shoot-em-ups for the Virtual Console.

The fi...

In this edition of the Wii Virtual Console Wrapup, we'll review the two weeks that have gone by, and the new games that have been added to the three Virtual Consoles. For those who have been paying attention, the regular on-the-correct-day-non-late-and-actually-on-time articles will resume next week.

First of all, let's recap the last week of February, 02/25/08 - 03/02/08:
On Monday the 25th, the North American Virtual Console was updated with two new games, already previewed on GameGrep...