In a surprising twist of events, the three Virtual Console games that were purportedly supposed to release today, Mega Man, Ys Book I & II, and Samurai Shodown II, we get none of them. Instead on the Virtual Console side of things, we get the 8-bit version of the Blue Blur's first adventure, and the return of Rick, who once again has to save his girlfriend Jennifer.

The WiiWare title today is Wild West Guns, developed by GameLoft. It is a Wild West-styled lightgun shooter, utilizing the ...

It's kind of hard to compete when last month had one of the best weeks ever. But somehow, just somehow, Nintendo manages to cook up a month that is a ridiculously good follow-up to their June releases. Why can't they show this kind of love to outside Japan?

Famicom:

Dig Dug [Wiki] (July 1st)

Chack'n Pop

Donkey Kong 3 [Wiki]

Super Famicom:

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 [Wiki]

Nintendo 64:
-Nothing

Sega Master System:

Space Harrier [Wiki]

Sega Mega Drive:

Splatterhouse 2 [Wi...

"Splatterhouse is arguably the first survival horror game ever. Sure, it was a bit heavy on the horror and light on the survival, but it's hard to come up with an earlier example of a game with as much bloodshed and terror as this arcade beat-em-up. Purveyors of violence and filth that we videogame folk are, we couldn't be more excited to present the exclusive reveal of Namco Bandai's next-gen resurrection of the Splatterhouse franchise in the upcoming June issue of EGM."