Thanks to another ESRB early rating slip-up we know that ActRaiser is on its way to the Nitnendo Wii one way or another, which almost certainly means it's set for a Virtual Console re-release. Also spotted as an early ESRB rating leak was Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos. We've seen ESRB leak Ninja Gaiden's Virtual Console appearance the same way in the past, although we're still waiting on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II arcade game to pop up one of these Mondays. If you're unfamiliar with ActRaiser, you can find out more at the number one game spot on the Top 10 Big Names That Disappeared list.

Last week's American Virtual Console versus European Virtual Console competition was a tough decision. I picked Ninja Gaiden and Pac-Man, but some of you picked Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Mario & Yoshi over the American updates. This week is another close call, with Europe getting the NES games Mach Rider and Super Mario Bros. 2 both for 500 Wii Points each.

Super Mario Bros 2. is a huge addition to the Wii archives, although I think I have to once again go with America's updates. Not only did we get the Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest game we missed the week before, we also got Streets of Rage 2, one of the best beat 'em up games of all time. Which of the two updates is the winner in your eyes?

I'll be honest, one of my favorite games for the advanced Xbox 360 is the measly Geometry Wars game on Xbox Live Arcade. Its simplicity combined with spectacular 2D graphics makes it the perfect game to bring to a handheld device, which is exactly what the rumors lately have pointed to. Thankfully, today they've been confirmed:

"Earlier this week, word leaked that Bizarre Creations had passed on development duties for further Geometry Wars games on Nintendo DS and Wii to Kuju Entertainment, the same folks behind the Battalion Wars series. Turns out that's actually happening; today, Sierra Entertainment, Bizarre and Kuju all confirmed the news is true. ... Don't think Bizarre's ditched working on these games, though. They prototyped control schemes on both platforms before development was handed to Kuju."

On the Wii and DS its name will be changed to Geometry Wars: Galaxies, and the expected release date for both is this Autumn. I'd like to see an actual sequel where even more enemies and gameplay mechanics are introduced. If it were possible to change the game to a 3D setting successfully that would also be great mindless fun for hours as you fly around in space shooting spaceships and sealing black holes with impressive particle effects all around you. Without adding overly detailed textures, they could add actual planets and galaxies with their own storylines, and we'd have an evolved Star Fox with less graphics and more gameplay that I think would sell a million copies with ease.

Nintendo updated their Super Smash Bros. Brawl official site, revealing pictures of Pit and the introduction of a new item for nefarious combat. As the protagonist in Kid Icarus, you'll be able to use Pit's bow in various ways. You can separate it into two separate blades, or use it to shoot beams of light with controllable trajectories. That should make him capable of keeping up with the damage the rest can dish out without being too similar to Link. Here's the details of how the gooey ball in the pictures below works:

"The Gooey Bomb is a bomb that adheres to most things. It's an explosive encased in a gummy goo. It's a little different from a Motion Sensing Bomb in the sense that it can attach itself not only to the terrain, but also to opponents.  However, it's possible to get a Gooey Bomb that's stuck to you to stick to someone else.Touching someone as you pass by may very well cause it to migrate when you least expect it!"

Hot potato tactics will be fun to fight around, I've always been good at Super Smash Bros. games, but my skills revolve around how high the item count is set at. If they're turned off I'll win occasionally, and if they're set to the max I usually win most of my matches with a skill for throwing any item across the entire screen at just the right time for a cheap kill steal. What characters do you guys usually play as in the Nintendo 64 and GameCube versions of the game? I dominated with Kirby on Nintendo 64, but with Melee I'd often use Young Link.

Scarface: The World is Yours has already sold 1.5 million copies worldwide on other platforms, and is coming to the Wii soon with a whole new layout of controls. Playing as the ruthless Tony Montana from the film, you're challenged to survive the climactic mansion shootout for the movie, and then continue your crime and murder spree throughout all of Miami, seeking revenge on everyone who threatens your evil empire. The video aboves has the Wiimote controls displayed over the game footage, and shows how graphic the game's weapons and taunt system is for the Nintendo console. A mini Grand Theft Auto that lets you dismember bodies is as good as any other game out for the Wii yet. A release date hasn't been confirmed, although it's suspected to come out in mid June.

The PlayStation 3 cures cancer and now the Wii is also on the path to panacea. After an intense boxing match and some rough blows to the head, Albert Liaw suffered a stroke and enough brain damage to put him in a wheelchair. With his left arm far from fully functional, the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital decided the Nintendo Wii would help him recover in the most natural method to him: playing Wii Boxing. Similar to phantom limb patients who use games to prevent their pain, playing on the Wii exercises his arm and lets him forget about the pain while he's having fun doing what he loves . . causing pain. I guess this means we can't rule out a seventh Rocky movie yet, I don't see how Rockii could be much worse than the Rocky Balboa movie.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 is still the leader of current generation console sales in America, with 5.4 million units sold so far. After about six months of sales, Nintendo follows with 2.5 million Wiis, and Sony's PS3 is still trailing behind with 1.3 million units sold. With the video game industry booming more than ever, and gaining far more press than the previous generation of console launches, it's hard to tell how far Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony will be able to push their statistics over the next few years. Nintendo's Senior Vice President of American Marketing thinks he has a good idea of what to expect though, George Harrison predicts that they'll have 35 million Wiis sold in America alone by 2012. Yep, 35 million, here's the audio clip of his confident goal.

The only long term sales reference point we have so far is the brick wall that Xbox 360 ran into at 10 million global sales. Even with the much cheaper price tag of the Wii, I can't see Nintendo going that far that fast. The inevitable price reductions will help, and five years gives Nintendo plenty of time to shoot for that goal, although it took the PlayStation 2 seven years to sell over 38 million units in America. There's no denying the Wii's domination lately, yet there's already people bored with it. Which is something I've never heard from a PS2 owner since the day my friend bought Summoner instead of SSX back in late 2000. It took an entire broken console for Xbox 360 owners to become equally frustrated in such a short amount of time, Wii's cheapness factor will eventually clash with its lack of luxury, and it will be interesting to see if there's a mass migration of Wii owners to the 360 and/or PS3 in two or three years from now.

You knew this was going to happen. Rabbits love to fuck and now Ubisoft is going to just keep letting them go until they fuck us over. Ubisoft's first Rayman Raving Rabbids game was a fun little polished tech demo for the Wii, and it got us used to the Wiimotes, and later this year they're going to try to sell us the same game again. They're working on a sequel for the Wii and DS, and they hope to be done by late 2007. They claim it will be more funny and have more mini-games content than the original, but this is one game I can't see turning into a successfully entertaining series. Rayman has to be pissed, give him his damn series back and stop screwing around with a lame Mario Party clone.

Update: I added a video to show you how terrible this game already looks. There's no way this is getting my money.

And by kinda, I mean you'd better bring along a plastic bag when you play it, so that when someone else walks in the room and sees the shit you can pick it up and apologize for shitting on their TV screen. Don't get me wrong, I bought a PS3 and 360 for awesome graphics and the long term investment, and I bought the Wii purely for innovative gameplay and all its possibilities. I don't expect great graphics from most Nintendo games, but the one game that warrants top of the line visuals is definitely Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. These pictures look okay at best, when they should be above and beyond what's already out on store shelves for the Wii.

I don't see how Nintendo can give some dude in overalls these awesome graphics, and then somehow make a cybernetic space pirate bounty hunter game on the Wii look possibly worse than its GameCube predecessors. I don't care at all if games like Manhunt 2 look terrible, but where's those 2-3 times better-than-GameCube graphics the Wii is supposed to deliver? Even fucking Luigi's Mansion looks better than this. I can't even tell what's going on in this picture, is Samus holding a black bowling pin? Because we already own Wii Bowling, and it looks better than this piece of shit.

In the vast desert of gamers looking for Wiis in stores, comes one dessert as the answer to all your prayers. Wendy's is launching their new Vanilla Frost Float treat to outdo Burger King's oppressive reign over obesity, because Wendy's cares about the small obese people out there (do they exist?). They're not just giving away cheap mascot games, from now until June 30th, they're giving away 800 Wiis, 800 Wii games, and 800 Wii point cards. Every time you purchase a Vanilla Frost Float at a U.S.A. Wendy's restaurant, you'll get a peel away code that you can enter online.

Even better though, if you sign up you can go to this site once a day, where it randomly picks a winner each day. That's a few dozen more desperate attempts at winning without paying for the two dollar dessert. Which no one will buy, everyone knows obese people are on strict chocolate-only dairy diets. Chocolate ice cream, chocolate milk, chocolate-cheese pizza made with milk-dud dough and peppermint patty pepperonis. I don't know if you could construct a balanced chocolate food pyramid, but if you could, we could eat it.