Some shareholders were apparently not too pleased when Activision and Vivendi made known their plans to form a merger, and filed an injunction suit in an attempt to stop the development in its tracks. All was for naught, however, when the court denied the request to intervene in the planned merger. More details in the full article.

A game where you just create boxes and watch them fall and pile up. What's so exciting about that? You wouldn't know unless you try out Drawing Box, a homebrewed "child's game" for the Wii using exceptional Crayon physics. If you're still reluctant to know what Drawing Box is about, then at least check out the video clip in the full article.


Download: Drawing Box v1b

Knight0fDragon's Duck Hunt Wii is finally updated with more features, ensuring that the homebrew game will feel and play almost like the original Famicom game. The new features include support for the GameCube controller among others, most of them having to do with the annoying dog. More details in the full article.

Download: Duck Hunt Wii v1.7

In a PR faux pas, Nintendo of Europe's Marketing Director Laurent Fischer commented that the only people concerned with the Wii's limited flash memory are "geeks and otakus." This statement managed to raise the ire of God of War creator, David Jaffe. Check out Jaffe's heated response (when did he last issue a lukewarm statement, anyway?) in the full article.

Time to stop twiddling thumbs people, and go over the NPD results for top hardware and software sales for the month of May. Wii still maintains its lead, as well as the DS, and Niko Bellic is still on top of the food chain with the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV. And oh, what's this? The PS3 overtakes Microsoft Xbox 360? Check out the hardware and software charts in the full article.

Many Resident Evil fans have been asking the question whether or not the Wii release of Resident Evil 0 will see the light of day in the US, but as it turns out, it probably won't. At least, Capcom USA declined the localized release of the game not once, but twice. Read about it in the full article.

The saga continues...at least, when it comes to the Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive take-over bid. And in this particular story, Take-Two will still play coy and refuse any advances made by EA. At least, that's what's industry analyst Michael Pachter predicts. More in the full article.

Fans of memory games would probably like homebrew developer teknecal's Simon for the Wii. Modeled after the retro memory game Simon, the player needs to memorize the flashing colored lights in order to beat the game. More details in the full article.


Download: Simon v0.3

Now here's something good to while away the time with your Wii. Check out Kazart's Rock Paper Scissors, Wii homebrew game that...yes, lets you play Rock Paper Scissors. Check out the full article for more details.


Download: Rock Paper Scissors
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After Mario Strikers Charged comes Mario Super Sluggers, a souped-up Mario themed baseball game for the Wii. Not much is known about the game until the release of this trailer, but the game already looks sweet as it is, and the trailer in the full article shows why.