Are the sights and sounds of Independence Day fireworks still dancing in your head? With a lineup of new game downloads for Wii^™ and Nintendo DSi^™ systems, Nintendo is pleased to deliver even more eye-popping spectacles for you to enjoy this week and beyond. Fans of high-flying air combat games will cheer for the arrival of Pearl Harbor Trilogy – Red Sun Rising on the WiiWare^™ service. For the Nintendo DSiWare^™ service, new additions include the wild and wooly fun of QuickPick Farmer, the shadowy adventure of Soul of Darkness and the strategic kicks of SteamWorld^™ Tower Defense. We’ve also got new arrivals in the “Big Name Games” section of the WarioWare^™: D.I.Y. series, which features downloadable microgames from some of the industry’s most talented figures. This week we have some new additions from the Treehouse, Nintendo’s game localization team. New “Big Name Games” will be added every Monday through July 26, all available to download for zero Nintendo DSi Points^™ to anyone with broadband Internet access and a copy of either WarioWare: D.I.Y. for the Nintendo DS^™ family of systems or WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase software for the WiiWare service. Visit the Nintendo Channel on your Wii system today to learn more about these games. WiiWare Pearl Harbor Trilogy – 1941: Red Sun Rising Publisher: Legendo Entertainment Players: 1 ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Violence Price: 700 Wii Points^™ Description: Pearl Harbor Trilogy – 1941: Red Sun Rising is the first title in a trilogy of air-combat action games for the WiiWare service. Take off from aircraft carrier decks and historic military bases as you conduct covert strikes, engage in furious dogfights and fly search-and-destroy missions. Pilot the most prolific fighter, bomber and torpedo-bearing aircraft of the World War II Pacific Theatre. Featuring two campaigns spanning the early years of the Pacific War, you can play as the United States Naval Air Force or the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force. You can also choose to practice your combat skills in the Avenging Ace or Survival dogfight modes. Cruise Party Publisher: Enjoy Gaming Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Simulated Gambling Price: 800 Wii Points Description: Welcome aboard! Here you’ll find four fabulous games to satisfy your appetite for gambling: Slot Machines, Roulette, Black Jack and “Video” Poker. Once on deck, you will be able to choose between Competition mode and Quick Play mode. If you beat a record, you’ll have to enter your name in order to appear in the high scores table. Beware of bankruptcy! Nintendo DSiWare QuickPick Farmer Publisher: Dancing Dots Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points Description: It’s time to shear your sheep, but a wolf named George is prowling around your farm, and he’s hungry. Hurry up and put the wool in the barns for safekeeping. Use the stylus to round up identical sheep, shear them, collect the balls of wool and catapult them into the barns. If George is getting too close to your flock, fire a ball right at his muzzle to chase him away and gain some time. Experience 30 crazy levels, a nonstop mode, striped sheep, spotted sheep and a goofy wolf. Test your powers of observation, your reflexes and your tactics in the wacky world of QuickPick Farmer. Soul of Darkness Publisher: Gameloft Players: 1 ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Animated Blood, Fantasy Violence Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Enter a fascinating gothic world as the mysterious and powerful Kale. Try to save your beloved’s life and soul by freeing her from an evil vampire’s clutches. Explore dark woods, caves, huge castles and impressive cathedrals under the full moon’s light. Master and upgrade your sword and spear, and learn how to control your powers. Use the Fire and the Ice or transform into your enemies to overcome the numerous obstacles in your way. Face and defeat foes such as werewolves, succubae, gargoyles and zombies. Exclusive camera features let you use your environment to gain power-ups and upgrades. Good or evil – be the sole master of your destiny! SteamWorld Tower Defense Publisher: Image & Form Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Mild Cartoon Violence Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Welcome to Cowbot County, home of the robotic master race of SteamWorld! As the sheriff, you must stop the human invaders in their mad hunt for gold. Build attack robots next to the roads they roam, then watch the invaders go down. Use your robots’ special skills to your advantage in this original tower defense variation where strategy and execution are equally important. There’s an Easy mode for rookies, but everyone will find a unique challenge in the great Western reaches. 101 Shark Pets Publisher: Teyon Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Choose from more than 101 baby sharks or simply adopt them all. Discover their personalities as you feed, clean and care for your new pets. Bring out each pet’s talents by training sharks in a variety of fun and wacky activities. Enter your shark into pet shows and earn money to buy exciting upgrades, including toys, food, clothes and accessories. The more tricks you teach and the more games you play, the more fun you’ll have! Hello Flowerz Publisher: Enjoy Gaming Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Welcome to Hello Flowerz, the gardening game where you have fun with flowers. Sow your favorite flowers and look after them every day, helping them grow into healthy, beautiful flowers. Use your flowers to create wonderful bouquets and enter them in regular competitions. Landscape your own gardens, transplant flowers and arrange various items. Put on your gloves, grab your tools and start showing off your flowers! Flips: The Folk of the Faraway Tree Publisher: Electronic Arts Players: 1 Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Jo, Bessie and Fanny have a visit from their snooty friend Connie. Connie won’t believe in the Faraway Tree and the magical people who live there: Moon-face, Silky the fairy and Saucepan Man. There’s only one way to prove her wrong. Together the children climb the tree and visit some of the lands at the top of it, such as the Land of Secrets and the Land of Treats. And after a few adventures, Connie learns to be a nicer person altogether! Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card^™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in either the Nintendo DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems. Remember that both Wii and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit http://wii.com or http://www.nintendodsi.com.

Three … two … one! Happy Half Year! Well, 2010 is just about half way behind us now (or, if you’re an optimist, half way ahead of us). Either way, why not make a half-resolution to try out some new downloadable games? This week Jett Rocket zooms onto the WiiWare^™ service to thwart the plans of the awesomely named Power Plant Posse. The Nintendo 64^™ classic Mario Tennis^™ on the Virtual Console^™ service reminds tennis fans that most matches last less than 11 hours. And Maestro! Green Groove on the Nintendo DSiWare^™ service lets you become a virtuoso, as everything you do in the game becomes music. We’ve also got new arrivals in the “Big Name Games” section of the WarioWare^™: D.I.Y. series, which features downloadable microgames from some of the industry’s most talented figures. This week we have some new additions from the Treehouse, Nintendo’s game localization team. New “Big Name Games” will be added every Monday through July 26, all available to download for zero Nintendo DSi Points^™ to anyone with broadband Internet access and a copy of either WarioWare: D.I.Y. for the Nintendo DS^™ family of systems or WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase software for the WiiWare service. Visit the Nintendo Channel on your Wii^™ system today to learn more about these games. WiiWare Jett Rocket Publisher: Shin’en Multimedia Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Mild Cartoon Violence Price: 1,000 Wii Points^™ Description: Jump and run and fly. Let Jett Rocket explore the beautiful planet of Yoroppa and find out why it has been attacked by the evil Power Plant Posse. Visit tropical islands, poisonous swamps and freezingly cold glaciers. Ride the ocean on your Jet Boat, parachute from giant cliffs, speed through arctic regions on your Jet Snowboard or skyrocket with your Jet Turbine. You will need everything you’ve got to fight back and save Yoroppa. Just be Jett Rocket in this epic futuristic full 3D action adventure. Pong Toss Pro – Frat Party Games^® Publisher: JV Games Inc. Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Alcohol Reference, Comic Mischief, Mild Language Price: 600 Wii Points Description: Born on college campuses, Pong Toss is the ultimate party-game favorite. Now Pong Toss Pro takes it to the next level by featuring a completely redesigned throwing system for complete accuracy and improved graphics. Also new to Pong Toss Pro is Tournament Mode. You can have a four-, eight-, or 16-team bracket play in Pong Toss & Speed Pong. Pong Toss Pro features six regulation tables and the ability to modify simple house rules. Rock it with a high-energy rock soundtrack; listen to the announcer commenting on your play. Rule the table with Fireball bonuses for consecutive shots. In Speed Pong, up to three challengers can compete at the same time. Speed and strategy are the keys to this fast-paced game. Jack up your opponents by using a slew of power-ups that will slow them down. The first one who sinks the last cup wins it all. Robin Hood: The Return of Richard Publisher: Nordcurrent Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E 10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Violence Price: 500 Wii Points Description: While Richard, the true King of England, is absent from his throne, his country rages in chaos. England has been invaded, and enemies burn and destroy local towns and villages. After the house of expert archer and hunter Robin Hood was burned down, he, together with a group of free archers like himself, hides in Sherwood Forest and begins his fight for justice. The fate of the people now lies in your hands. Help Robin to defeat the villains and restore peace in this shooting game. Features:

• Complete 12 levels, defeating numerous enemies and visiting different locations in medieval England
• Search for hidden objects to get bonus points
• Fight with super villains, such as the Sheriff of Nottingham
• Replay the game to improve your score in the High Score Table

Virtual Console Mario Tennis Original platform: Nintendo 64 Publisher: Nintendo Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 1,000 Wii Points Description: The Mushroom Kingdom welcomes another sport to its lineup in the Nintendo 64 smash Mario Tennis. In addition to the bright graphics and intuitive, but incredibly tight, controls that all Mario^™ games are known for, a cast of 16 Nintendo characters (including the first introduction of Waluigi^™) is ready to take to the court. Along with the ability to unnerve an opponent by varying shots and precisely target their destination, each character has specific attributes in categories such as speed, power and control, all of which combine to offer multiple play styles to choose from. A variety of game modes ranging from a standard tournament to the crazy, item-filled Bowser Stage will keep you – and up to three of your friends – running around the court for quite some time. Whether trying to unlock all the secrets in single-player mode or challenging friends with some intense fun in multiplayer mode, this is a game that definitely holds its serve. Nintendo DSiWare Maestro! Green Groove Publisher: Neko Entertainment Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Animated Blood, Comic Mischief Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Hello. Do you like music? Do you like platforms? Do you like pink bird-like things? Do you like the jungle? You’ll love Maestro! Green Groove edition! So jump in and enjoy this wonderful feeling of being a virtuoso using your heart, stylus and voice. Everything you do is music – EVERYTHING! Hit the spiders to play some drums, shoot the fruit to bring out the melody, pinch the strings to play the tune and so on. Challenge the mischievous Staccato the Spider in a melodious battle in which the most talented one will win. For those of you who have no fear, once you have finished the adventure, you can activate the SING/WHISTLE mode to bug everyone around you with your precious talents. And for the talented ones, there is an improvisation mode in which you’ll play the levels with the instruments and at the speed of your choice. Enjoy, Maestros from all around the world! Date or Ditch Publisher: Gameloft Players: 1 ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Mild Suggestive Themes Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Think you’re a real Casanova? Let’s see how you act in real-life situations when you face a whole gamut of dates, from romantic to wild. Date or Ditch is an absorbing dating adventure for both guys and girls, testing you through an evolving scenario. Discover unique game play mixing social simulation, hilarious face-to-face conversations and fun quizzes. Randomly meet someone at a party, go to the movies together, invite your date to dinner and more. And a surprise visit from your ex may spice up your love story a bit. Enter even deeper into the game thanks to the exclusive camera feature: Add your photo within the game and change your face according to your feelings. In real life, make sure you are compatible with your date by taking the Love Test: Based on your names and appearance, are you made for each other? Love has always been a game. We just made it more fun. Animal Color Cross Publisher: Little Worlds Studio Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Get hooked on colorful puzzles. The goal of the game is to reconstruct a mysterious animal image that lies beneath the grid. You just need to fill in each square of the grid with one of the appropriate colors available. To solve the puzzle, you can simply deduce the right color by using the numbers written around the grid. Don’t worry, a short tutorial shows you the basic rules within a minute. Puzzle-solving champs, sudoku fans or even kids can enjoy the game. You can play 72 individual grids in up to 50 hours of game play. Players can select among eight levels presented as geographical zones including Europe, Oceania, North Pole, Pacific, North America and South America to discover local fauna. Enter a new world filled with fancy colored pixel art. Ancient Tribe Publisher: CIRCLE Entertainment Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Cartoon Violence Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: In the ancient world of Savage, you play the god of an ancient tribe in this real-time strategy game. Expand your village by guiding its inhabitants on the hunting grounds to find food and resources. Use them to upgrade your village and increase its population. When the primitive tribe develops to a certain level, they will build a temple to pay tribute to your mightiness. You can recruit new troops and research new classes of tribal people by upgrading the existing tribe’s equipment and technology. Besides improving your tribe you can improve your godly powers by sacrificing some of your tribesmen and resources. On the hunting ground your tribe will explore forests, deserts, volcanoes and frozen lands. They will meet various kinds of beasts such as boars, elephants and even dinosaurs. You can help trap and tame them so your tribe can ride on them as part of your army and hunting troop. Brain Drain^™ Publisher: Enjoy Gaming Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points Description: Brain Drain is a funny and challenging puzzle game. You have to place the elements of a scrambled puzzle according to a given model. Select four elements at a time with the stylus and spin them to move the elements to the right positions. Some puzzles may feature malicious game effects that will slow you down during your puzzle solving. There are three game modes to choose from:

• Challenge: 200 fixed puzzles with preset best times to solve and beat.
• Race: A stream of puzzles and best time tables to beat in four difficulty levels.
• Random: Relaxed, random puzzling that continues endlessly.

Battle of Giants^™: Mutant Insects – Revenge Publisher: Ubisoft Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: E 10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Animated Blood, Mild Fantasy Violence Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points Description: After the defeat of the Mutant King, the Mutant Queen rose up from the core of the Earth and forced the remaining giant insects into submission. Now it is your job to locate and free the Scorpion Champion, the only giant insect with the ability to defeat the Mutant Queen. Complete 10 new missions, defeat your enemies and liberate the Scorpion Champion! Customize your giant insect with tribal stripes, equip it with special powers and enhance your abilities. Challenge your friends to duels of supremacy on the Nintendo DS^™ system. Are you strong enough to win this Battle of Giants^™? Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card^™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in either the Nintendo DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems. Remember that both Wii and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit Wii.com or NintendoDSi.com.

Deepak, You'll need to buy a router with wireless networking capabilities. Hook it up to your home Internet connection. Then turn on the Wii and choose Connection Settings from the Menu. PAGE 54 in your grey Wii Operations Manual –Channels and Settings (not the white Manual). Once you are connected, watch the Quicktime movie above.

The new expansion set "Carcassonne: King and Baron" available via Xbox Live Download, adds 7 new tiles to the game. A King and Robber tile add a new level of strategy to this brilliant game.