It’s been revealed today that games originally developed for the Sega Master System will soon be ported to and available on the Wii’s Virtual Console. Game prices are set to be around 500 points and the releases are set to begin in February, with Fist of the North Star and Fantasy Zone finding their way onto the virtual console. It might be a while longer before we see them here though, with these initially touted dates expected only to be Japanese release dates.

While many were shocked by the uniting of two of the gaming industry’s biggest rivals, Mario and Sonic’s groundbreaking truce has lead to an unlikely Christmas period bestseller. Mario and Sonic at the Olympics for the Nintendo Wii was the top selling game over the holidays (based on US stats), beating Call of Duty 4 for the Xbox 360 and many other great games to the number one spot. We haven’t got our hands on a copy yet but based on these figures maybe we should.

A member on tehskeen.com, a lesser known tech community, has released a small piece of software which enables users to decode the ISO’s from which Wii games are run. They essentially store all the info about that game and by being able to see this info, it’s thought that we are now only a whisker away from seeing the Wii fully open up to homebrew software.

Yes Mario, you have every right to be angry and confused as Nintendo having already delayed the North American release date of the Wii version of Super Smash Bros, will still not give us a release date for PAL regions Europe and Australia. At least we have one bit of info which is that the Sheikh, a character in the Zelda series will be making their fighting debut in Brawl.

Nintendo has released a statement responding to reports of their annual and seasonal sales totals. Not only were the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii the top sellers over the christmas period, they were top sellers for the entire of 2007. Although the statistics quoted are from a US report, it can be expected that similar results will be announced here in Australia. After the comparitive flop that was the Gamecube, it seems Nintendo has pulled out of the rut and our on the up and up.