"For Square Enix this news represents the second big international deal for the firm this week. Earlier in the week, Square Enix announced that it was forming a partnership with America's Gas Powered Games that will give birth to the realtime strategy game Supreme Commander 2."

"Earlier this week Nintendo's European marketing chief, Laurent Fischer, revealed that UK-developed LostWinds was the most popular title on the company's WiiWare online service.

To find out a bit more about the game, we spoke to Frontier Developments boss David Braben, who explained where the idea for the game came from, and offered his thoughts on small development teams and why the Wii controllers are so successful."

"Australians did not have to wait long after their overseas cousins for Nintendo's WiiWare service, with the first downloadable games available on the Wii Shop Channel from today.

Whereas Nintendo's Virtual Console service allows consumers to download classic games from systems like the SNES, N64 and Megadrive, WiiWare offers brand new titles and is an opportunity for video game developers to create innovative new games."

After first launching in Japan, and two weeks ago reaching North American shores, WiiWare, Nintendo's new development platform now makes its way to European shores, bring it six games available at launch, with all of the games drawing from Nintendo of Europe's released list of launch window games.

The six titles made available for European WiiWare are the following:

Dr. Mario & Germ Buster, Nintendo, 1-4 Players, 1000 Points

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, Square Eni...

"On its official website, Frontier features an option for readers to register for advance information on its "... forthcoming LostWinds sequel containing amazing new gameplay as Toku and Enril's incredible adventure to save Mistralis continues."

In previous interviews with IGN, Frontier's David Braben indicated that to cease work on the LostWinds franchise after only a single game would be a missed opportunity for the studio."