"Australians did not have to wait long after their overseas cousins for Nintendo's WiiWare service, with the first downloadable games available on the Wii Shop Channel from today.

Whereas Nintendo's Virtual Console service allows consumers to download classic games from systems like the SNES, N64 and Megadrive, WiiWare offers brand new titles and is an opportunity for video game developers to create innovative new games."

After first launching in Japan, and two weeks ago reaching North American shores, WiiWare, Nintendo's new development platform now makes its way to European shores, bring it six games available at launch, with all of the games drawing from Nintendo of Europe's released list of launch window games.

The six titles made available for European WiiWare are the following:

Dr. Mario & Germ Buster, Nintendo, 1-4 Players, 1000 Points

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, Square Eni...

"Dutch developer Two Tribes has released nine new screenshots for its Wii Software game Toki Tori.

The game is an update of the 'critically acclaimed' Game Boy Colour game (one person in the office has heard of it) and apparently improves the original on every front.

As we've never played the original version we can't verify that, but we like the look of the screenshots. They remind us of the classic platforming games we used to play on our Spectrums and C64s. Except prettier, obviously."