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Eurogamer Reviews: Defend Your Castle

Eurogamer writes: "With so many games greedily - and presumptuously - placed in the premium 1000-Point WiiWare price bracket, it's refreshing to be able to report on a title that knows its limits.

A remake of the popular internet game, it asks you to live up to the title by repelling wave after wave of stick-men invaders. You do this by picking them up and flinging them as hard as you can so that they squish on the ground. In the original, this is a messy and bloody affair. Here, in Nintendo-land, it's all been sanitised with a deliberately lo-fi hand-made feel."

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eurogamer.net
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WiiWare Wednesday: Has the Castle Been Defended?

"Nintendo's WiiWare service started in North America on May 12, 2008. There were six WiiWare titles available for download on the WiiWare service's launch, and now there are more than 300 WiiWare games to choose from.
New WiiWare games are usually added to the Wii's Shop Channel each week, and games range in price from just $5, up to $15. Some of the WiiWare launch titles were original titles not found on other platforms, but one game had been released half a decade earlier for the PC, and that WiiWare game was Defend Your Castle(DYC).

Defend Your Castle was released on May 12, 2008 for the WiiWare service, and costs 500 Wii Points, which is $5. The game was developed and published by XGen Studios, and received an "Everyone" rating from the ESRB with "Cartoon Violence" listed as the only content for gamers/parents to be aware of.

How many hours have Wii owners spent defending their castles, with 1,114 days of game-play reported? Let's take a look!", says C...

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coffeewithgames.com
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The Wackiest Games on the Wii

BrightHub:

So you've had several rounds of Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Or Mario Kart, or Guitar Hero, etc.) and you're looking for something else to play. Competition is great, but sometimes you just need to play something fun just for the sake of playing. Heck, maybe you and your party are willing to make fools of yourselves while you play. The following is a list of games that I'm sure you'll get a laugh or two out of.

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