Episodic adventure mastermind Telltale Games will give you a free episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People on Wii if you take a couple of minutes out of your time and fill out a short survey.

Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free will be your prize, and free copies are limited, so apply post-haste. This promotion ends when there’s enough data collected, which Telltale told Eurogamer should be around 300 responses.

The data, incidentally, hopes to shed a bit more light on European customers, particularly those in the UK and Germany.

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Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has admitted that Nintendo is “not good” at creating “core” games, and needs to actively court third-parties to make more mature titles like BioShock 2 for the platform.

“The fact of the matter is we know we create great content for younger consumers, we know we’ve got great content for more casual players, and we want fantastic content for that more active player who loves Metroid or Zelda but maybe also wants something like a BioShock 2 to play as well,” he told Industry Gamers at GDC.

“And we also recognize that we don’t create that type of content ourselves. We’re not good at it and it’s not a key focus area. We want that content on our platform, so we have to court third-party developers and encourage them to make [those games].”

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Nintendo’s Hanabi Festival returns today, making NeoGeo game Iron Clad and NES game Lode Runner available in Europe for the first time.

That’s so brilliant that Nintendo has bumped up the price, raising Iron Clad from 900 to 1000 Wii Points (£7/€10), and Lode Runner from 500 to 600 Wii Points (£4.20/€6).

On WiiWare today is Military Madness, a moon-based, turn-based, hexagonal-grid strategy game that requires three hyphens to describe. This costs 1000 Wii Points (£7/€10). There’s a website.

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Nintendo has announced that the Hanabi Festival returns to Virtual Console starting this week, and that Castlevania: Rondo of Blood is among the games due out during its latest run.

The Hanabi Festival is Nintendo’s way of flogging retro games previously only released in Japan through WiiWare, and is named after a Japanese fireworks festival.

The latest Hanabi kicks off on Friday 12th March, and will include Rondo of Blood (originally only released on the PC Engine in Japan), Milon’s Secret Castle (NES), Ironclad (NeoGeo) and Lode Runner (NES). Exact dates for those games are TBC.

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On WiiWare today you’ll find Mega Man 10, Capcom’s new and retro-styled instalment in the platform series. A new adventure awaits for 1000 Wii Points (£7/€10).

Something more alternative awaits in Aksys Games’ music experience Bit.Trip Void. Make beats with up to four friends in co-op for 600 Wii Points (£4.20/€6).

The “number one football game on DSiWare”, Real Football, returns today, refreshed with feature updates and more clubs and players than ever before. They’ve bred. Gameloft’s behind this one and asking 800 DSi Points (£7.20/€8) for the privilege.

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Monster Hunter creators Ryozo Tsujimoto and Kaname Fujioka have said the game isn’t seen as a hardcore title in Japan – more of a typical action adventure.

Tsujimoto thinks that the co-op nature of the beast, something more easily taken advantage of on Wii than PSP, is the key to enjoying the game properly as a noob.

“Actually, Monster Hunter has never been seen as a hardcore series in Japan. Because of the co-op approach of the game, one or two of the players need not be too experienced, the others can carry them to a degree,” he said,

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Nintendo Europe has announced European dates for Super Mario Galaxy 2 and other titles at its London press event.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be released on 11th June in Europe. It’s out in the US on 23rd May.

It will be preceded by Monster Hunter Tri on 23rd April and Sin & Punishment 2 on 7th May.

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Ubisoft has revealed co-op support for the Wii version of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.

This will allow a friend to join the action and “manipulate traps, slow down enemies, uncover hidden secrets and utilise powers”, according to a Ubisoft fact sheet.

More importantly, this will be the first “true co-op experience” introduced into a Prince of Persia game.

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Nintendo’s US marketing boss Cammie Dunaway has said that we won’t see a successor to Wii for a while.

“I don’t think it will be any time soon,” Dunaway told GameSpot (thanks VG247), explaining that comparing the US sales of Wii to PS2 suggests there’s still a lot of headroom to explore.

“That being said, part of Nintendo’s heritage is to always be looking at innovation and to start working on new hardware as soon as we launch a platform, so we’ll have it ready when we think the time is right.”

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