And Earthworm Jim (Sega Genesis version) on the Virtual Console, to boot. Another decent update for our US brethren and those of us fortunate enough to own an American Wii.

Art Style ROTOHEX is the third in the series formerly known as Bit Generations, this time an embiggened version of Bit Generations: DIALHEX. It’s 600 points and 107 blocks, and I’ll have a review of that for you later on.

Meanwhile, Strong Bad Episode 3: Baddest of the Bands is, coincidentally and rather obviously, also the third in its series. It costs 1000 points and will take up a massive 321 blocks. Which makes it, in my estimation, exactly three times as good as ROTOHEX. Oh, if only it were that simple.

I’ve downloaded ROTOHEX but not Strong Bad, because I absolutely have to keep World of Goo and Tetris Party on my Wii, and I’m not clearing out Art Style CUBELLO either. Find out why shortly…

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“Nintendo to reveal Wii HD tomorrow?” asks Eurogamer. “Doubt it,” answers Chris Schilling, though I’m well prepared to be proven wrong (and indeed have been, on numerous occasions. In fact, why believe me? Go with Eurogamer’s guess. They probably know something I don’t, after all).

Anyway, this is the story on What They Play, which has veteran games journo John Davison waxing lyrical about Nintendo’s next console, how it’s already been shown to publishers and developers, and Nintendo’s spent loads of money on R+D in the last year so it must be true.

But be still, my cynical tongue. Assuming this is all true, Wii HD will arrive in 2011, it’ll be more about “what the consumer will hold in their hands” than the console itself, and will be all about the digital distribution, baby. Which means much larger storage space. So, knowing Nintendo, that’s 2GB of Flash memory, tee hee.

If true, it will apparently mark a step forwards that’s roughly akin to “Game Boy to Game Boy Advance”. Oh, and backwards compatibility is confirmed. Which, to me, says one thing: Super Mario Galaxy in HD. I’m salivating like a dog chained up outside a butchers as I type this.

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Here. According to Google Translate:

“Sambo was a giant! “DOSSUN field,” appeared in the Battle of Sambo. Sambo gigantic sunshade in the attack, while soldiers with bomb attacks please.”

Shocking. Looks to me like a Pokey which you have to defeat in the quickest time possible - certainly the pics suggest so - but I’m not sure quite what to expect after that description. Any ideas, readers?

The tournament runs from 1st October to the 10th. I might just give this one a go, and revive the old beat-my-time competition. Watch this space.

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Japanese Wii owners woke this morning to find their console’s disk slot flashing blue. The reason? There’s a brand new channel which allows you to upload any photographs on an SD card, turn them into notebooks, business cards or photo albums and get them all printed out by FujiFilm.

I had a quick play around with the channel earlier on, and it seems you can even create a set of business cards with your Mii on. It’s all relatively straightforward (if you live in Japan, that is) to set up, and very reasonably priced - prints of your shots are 30 yen each, with a Wii photobook a mere 1575 yen.

Here’s hoping it comes to the west, though US Wii owners shouldn’t get too excited if they see a blue light too - that’s merely an update for the Photo Channel which, according to Nintendo, provides behind-the-scenes support for the Japanese-only service. Way to rub it in, Nintendo.

No suggestions that this might be coming to the US and/or Europe, but I’ll let you know if I hear any different.

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