Bad News for Wii Emulation Fans

Widespread news reports state that titles owned by the company Rare will not be made available for download on the Nintendo Wii system. These include a great many games on my "wish lists", including Perfect Dark, Banjo-Kazooie, Blast Core, RC Pro Am, Cobra Triangle and, last but not least, GoldenEye 007. Because Microsoft owns a controlling interest in Rare, these games are not available to be licensed. Games Rare developed featuring Nintendo properties, such as the Donkey Kong Country series, are not affected. Darn, there goes a bunch of the games I was most interested in. Maybe they'll be available through the Xbox 360's online service instead.

In other GoldenEye news, a trailer for Goldeneye Source, a modification to the Half-Life 2 engine, was released last week. It's available here. Ah, so many memories!