Nintendo issued a press release on Jan 23rd, listing some upcoming titles for first quarter 2007 (see below). Wii Play, slated for Feb 14th, comes with a Wii Remote and beefs up the Wii Sports lineup with Billiards, Fishing and Shooting Range, and a target game styled after Duck Hunt, a Nintendo classic. From the press release, supplemented with listed Amazon release dates where available.

Nintendo schedule for a dozen upcoming games plus info on twelve more games after the jump.

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Completing Flash Element TD, a game covered here a few days ago, is no great task; it might take several tries to get there, but blanketing the screen with combo rockets on level 39 does the trick and might leave you with a nice 13,000 points.

Strategy and Tips

But you will not get on the high score list, not even close. High scores depend on using compounding interest to build your fortunes. Once you have the gold, you can keep buying more lives, upgrading towers, whatever you need.

Walkthrough

Let’s walk through a basic route to 100K points or more. As you’ll see, the placement is not perfect and upgrades are not optimized. Had they been, the score would be better. Regardless, it will give you something on which to build your scores.

The screenshots were taken from a couple different runs through this walkthrough, so the exact placement of towers may shift from shot to shot, but the basic premise is the same. Tune to your liking.

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Great in-game video of a helicopter raid in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, due out this spring from Ubisoft. The constant commentary is a tad annoying but other than that this looks great. The Ghost Recon series, based on the Tom Clancy’s work, is superb and GRAW2 will no doubt be a hit too.

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Flash Element TD (Tower Defense) is an free online Flash-based game where you, not surprisingly, are tasked with building towers to defend against a wide variety of invaders (called “creeps”). David Scott programmed this from scratch and used Adobe Photoshop and the Warcraft III level editor to create the graphics and sounds.

Let’s take a look at the game and some FETD strategies.

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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is slated to be out in sometime during the spring of 2007. Ubisoft is targeting several platforms; from the press release:
is currently in development for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system and Windows® PC.
Game Trailers …

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Flashback to August of 1995. Westwood Studios released Command & Conquer, a real-time strategy game (RTS) pitting the UN-backed GDI forces against the Brotherhood of Nod. The Brotherhood was supposed to be evil, but GDI was the UN, so it was a tough call to pick your poison. C&C was a fun game. So much so that several sequels and expansion packs were released, including Covert Operations, Sole Survivor, Tiberian Sun, TS Firestorm, and Renegade. An alternate universe series, Red Alert, was also released. It included C&C: Red Alert (1996), Counterstrike and The Aftermath (1997), Red Alert 2 (2000), and Yuri’s Revenge (2001). Another related game is C&C: Generals and its expansion pack, Zero Hour.

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If the Command & Conquer 3 trailer embedded below is any indication, EA’s upcoming title is sure to be a success when it arrives on March 28, 2007.
C&C3 will be released in two editions, the standard Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars package and in a collector’s Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars: Kane Edition …

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An interesting twist on shoot-the-incoming-robots games, Word Shoot has you typing in the words under each robot that’s working its way towards you. If you let a robot get too close, it will start shooting at you. Other items appear on the screen occasionally, such as “detonate” and “fullhealth” which act as a smart bomb …

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If you have a Wii, you might be interested to know that Nintendo World Report has an article detailing what they call Wii Secrets and Tricks.
Don’t expect anything earth shattering but they’ll show you how to send more than 20 Miis per day, change your bowling ball color in Wii bowling, stow your SD card …

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OpenArena is a free (GPL) content package for the Quake III Arena engine (with which it comes packaged). Essentially you download and run this 72.8 MB installer and end up with a free first person shooter based on the QIIIA engine. The graphics are not too bad (for free that is) and it supports single …

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