This list is much longer than I intended, but I do play a lot of games. I was supposed to have one list for everything that happened this year, music movies, games, websites, and so on. I have to do the other things later, though, so here's the long games list. Let me know what you think of my picks, the full list is after the jump. Downloadable Game of the Year Band of Bugs (XBLA) Band of Bugs is still my top-played Xbox Live Arcade game. I have really enjoyed Fire Emblem in the past, but it is a pretty heavy game. Band of Bugs is the perfect casual turn-based tactical game. It's colourful and has wonderful variety, a great selection of multiplayer modes and a stellar level designer. Band of Bugs was also the first game to fully utilize the Gamescore policy and add an extra three Achievements with downloadable campaigns, which were also great. Honourable Mention Carcassone (XBLA), Super Metroid (VC) Carcassone is the perfect port of a board game to a video game. Super Metroid finally getting re-released was also a great gaming experience for me, as now my Metroid collection is complete.

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A bunch of info for the Wii was announced today. It'll launch on November 19th for $280 Canadian. It includes The Wii remote with a strap, similar to the DS, nunchuck attachment, Wii AC adaptor, Wii A/V cable, Wii console stand, sensor bar, sensor bar stand and two AA batteries. Besides the delay of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, almost all the news was good. I'm not going to detail it all, but DSmeet has a good summary of all the major announcements. I'm especially looking forward to the newly announced channel features, which are essentially sub-categories on the Wii menu. The Wii's weather channel, Opera browser, Virtual Console and Mii features are all set up like this. Wii.com describes Mii in some detail on their site: Fun 3-D caricatured portraits of users, or Miis, created in this channel can be used on characters across a variety of Wii software. ...

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