From family-friendly puzzles to crackling combat, this week's additions to the Wii™ Shop Channel offer a mix of downloadable delights. Fight fans can even choose between futuristic space missions and retro-styled martial arts battles. Take your pick and kick off the summer with an invigorating dose of Wii action. Click read more for the full list.

Even though many of us have had to do massive memory space rearranging to accomdate the downloaded WiiWare titles, Nintendo is still not offering a solution. Tom Prata, NOA's senior director of project development, spoke to IGN about WiiWare, and the upcoming 100 games slated for release. When asked about all the SD card copying and VC game deletion users are having to do, he basically repeated the Nintendo party line.

Tom Prata: Consumers have the option of either deleting the game and downloading it again for no additional Wii Points, or transferring the game from Wii to external SD memory card.

The WiiWare releases for this week are Dr. Mario Online and Family Table Tennis. This comes along with the VC releases of City Connection and Metal Slug, the classic SNK shooter. Click read more for the full info.

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This week's Wii-kly Update pretty much covers the full spectrum. Maybe you'll want to blast away with an arsenal of old-school weapons. But then again, three-day weekends are a good time to relax. So maybe you'll take a wild road trip or settle in for some table tennis. And if you overdo it, we have a physician standing by.

This week's Virtual Console and WiiWare releases have been revealed. Star Soldier R, and SKYKID are both on the roster. Click read more for the full info.

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Today begins a new phase for the Wii-kly Update. From now on, we'll have all the information about the arrival of both WiiWare™ and Virtual Console™ games. So basically you're getting access to the best games of the past and the coolest creations of the present. With this week's releases you can blast space-based enemies with your starfighter, fly the not-always-friendly skies or even corral some cute critters in the barnyard.

In an interview with Gamasutra, FF Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King co-creators Fumiaki Shiraishi and Toshihiro Tsuchida spoke about WiiWare, and their initial game. They speak about download limits, small game innovations, and even the possibility of an Actraiser update.

Well folks, today is the day. Nintendo has officially launched the WiiWare channel on their new console. A few games are available for download as of now, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is one of them, along with a poker game and a defend your castle type game. Click read more for the full list.

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REDMOND, Wash., May 12, 2008 - Nintendo's Wii™ console has already changed the way people play games. Now its new WiiWare™ service decisively tears down limitations for how developers create games - and the way people receive them.

Nintendo's jumped feet first into the console "arcade" environment with their latest endeavor, WiiWare. The service debuted last night (this morning in Japan), and launched with such titles as Star Solder R (impressions after the jump), Dr. Mario, and Pokemon Ranch.