Steve Haske writes, "For indie-minded gamers, today is both a day of happiness and sorrow. It marks the release of Bit.Trip Flux, the final game in Gaijin Games groundbreaking Bit.Trip series that blends clean 8-bit aesthetics with moden day design and chiptune tracks. The Wiiware series’ genesis, Bit.Trip Beat, debuted back in 2009, before the series’ consciousness-cum-protagonist Commander Video was much more than a black rectangle with a white slit for eyes seen only in cutscenes. Over the course of the games Video has evolved from a conceptual presence to a real character, just as the series’ beautiful-if-mercurial design has; for players that have been there from the beginning, witnessing Bit.Trip’s evolution unfold has been a mesmerizing, challenging and synaesthetic experience. Now that experience is coming to an end with Flux, a game that completes the lifecycle of the series with a literal reversal of its more humble origins."
When a game released exclusively digitally disappears from distribution, it becomes impossible to play it legally. Actually, quite a few gems have disappeared in this manner, with the legendary P.T. being just the beginning of the story.
Nice message and physical should always be supported, but I am not supporting this article being set across like nine pages.
The Wii Shop Channel will be going offline very soon. Here's everything you'll need to know if you want to make some last minute purchases, or want to preserve any games that you've previously bought.
Luckily with the Homebrew scene on the Wii being as big as it is, you could still get these afterwards.
The Switch VC can't come soon enough. I wish they'd wait until then to phase out the Wii's VC.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "The official end of the WiiWare service may not be until early 2019 but we wanted to give everybody as much of a chance as possible to remember all of the great games that Nintendo’s first every download service brought us. Last week we counted down the first 10 games in our look at the Top 20 WiiWare games ever made, and if you haven’t had the chance yet you can check out those picks right here but now we switch our focus over to the very best that WiiWare has to offer so if you still have a Wii (or a Wii U) kicking around make sure to download these games before they are lost forever."
