Tag archive: Shop Channel

Almost a full year after Nintendo first allowed gamers to peak under the lid on WiiWare, the company has finally pushed it live. The freshly launched service allows Internet-connected Wiis to access an online collection of games for download. The primary appeal of WiiWare since its announcement has been its potential as a channel for smaller game studios to put out games without the cost of distributing them through conventional means. The… Read More

Just in time for the holidays, Nintendo has unveiled a new gifting feature for its Wii Shop Channel. Beginning this week, owners of Nintendo's Wii video game console will be able to purchase classic games using the Wii Shop Channel, and send them to other Wii owners with whom they've already traded Friend Codes. And if the intended recipient already has the game you're trying to give them, no worries: buyers will receive a… Read More

Nintendo is attempting to reach out to smaller game developers and simultaneously build available content for the Wii by launching WiiWare, an online channel for distributing games without the barriers involved with traditional publishing. Although the unusable channel has been visible to Wii gamers for some time, Nintendo officially announced their intentions for WiiWare Tuesday morning. “Independent developers armed… Read More

Nintendo has announced it will be adding Zelda III—The Adventure of Link to its Wii Shop Channel on June 4, marking the 100th “classic” game the company has made available to Wii owners since the console's launch in November, 2006. Owners of Nintendo's hot-selling Wii game console can access the Wii Shop channel and spend Wii Points to download video games originally developed for the NES, SuperNES, Nintendo 64,… Read More

p> In a move aimed to make it's popular new Wii gaming console that much more the center of its owners' lives—and further widen the systems'demographic appeal—Nintendo today announced it plans to launch the Wii News Channel this Saturday, offering Wii users with broadband Internet service thecapability to access news stories and photographs via the Wii version of the Opera Web browser. Nintendo began offering… Read More

A trial version of the Opera Web browser is now available for download for Nintendo's Wii video game console. Assuming Wii owners have connected their systems' to a home network or otherwise set them up for Internet access, the browser can be downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel on the Wii menu; from there, click Wii Ware (or Wii Software in the EU), then click Download the Internet Channel. (There's even a comic explaining… Read More