Night Sky is all about simplicity. Why bother with a humanoid character? Instead, players control a ball in this platform-puzzle game (think of all the love for the Weighted Companion Cubes of Portal before you question the logic of this) and roll through a beautiful and challenging landscape. Think darkness–Night Sky is done all in silhouettes and shadows.

But anyone can make something pretty. It’s what’s underneath that matters, and luckily, word is that Night Sky has plenty going for it beneath the hood. All signs point to an engaging puzzler with just enough challenge to keep players coming back–and all available at WiiWare prices sometime this winter.

Frontier Developments says that LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias will pick up Toku’s adventure while adding new aspects to the experience, like a new spirit who gives the power to change the seasons. And oh! The screenshots are absolutely beautiful. If all Wii games were LostWinds, life would be pretty okay.

When will the sequel be out? That is as yet unknown, but next week could not be soon enough.

[via Offworld]

You may be thinking of games like Steel Battalion right now, and while that game was certainly one answer for all your robot combat needs, the game was pricey and the peripheral more so. Is there a cheaper solution? With Overturn, maybe so. Studio Zan’s WiiWare (that means cheap!) game features a “regular” control scheme using the Wii remote and nunchuk… and also a mode that supports the Wii Balance Board so you can get your feet into the game. So the combination is still expensive, but not as much as we’ve seen for similar items in the past.

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Overturn hasn’t been officially announced for North America, but as the title turned up on the ESRB website recently, it seems a lock for the region. It’s already out in Japan.

[via Siliconera]

World of Goo, widely praised as one of the best Wii experiences so far, is an excellent launch title for Amazon’s service, though unlike XBLA titles, the conversion of Nintendo Points to dollars is much simpler than that with Microsoft points: one hundred Nintendo Points equals one dollar. That doesn’t mean it isn’t convenient to see a price in dollars, or to do your shopping through Amazon. And while the Wii has a gift-purchase feature for direct Virtual Console and WiiWare downloads, this way, non-Wii owners can buy games as gifts. Everybody wins.

World of Goo is $14.99 at Amazon, and is worth every little cent. Can’t wait to see what’s available next!

[via NeoGAF]

Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, which looks like the bastard child of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network and the recent Castle Crashers, is the product of four guys making games in those few hours of spare time they can carve out in a week. Man, I can barely keep up with the laundry, much less hand-draw all the art for a game. That’s right–Semnat Studios’ co-founder Daniel Coleman, who is also currently pursuing an art degree, did all the art for the game by hand. He must be a busy guy.

Semnat Studios is still working on Eduardo, but they hope to release the run-and-gun (what, you expected something with samurai swords?) game sometime this year.

[via IGN]

Pachinko machines, of course, are the wildly popular Japanese slots-style games, except they’re everywhere and even more addictive. This particular pachinko machine is home a robot family… and a lot of dungeons. Ah, the pitfalls of gambling.

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Planet Pachinko will debut on WiiWare next Monday for the price of 500 Nintendo points, which is the equivalent of five dollars.

[WiiWare World via NWF]