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Are you searching for some way to express your devotion to the Wii, but trapped in a corporate job that might disapprove of ill-considered tattoos or Mario outfits? Well, at least you can cart around your Excel spreadsheets in style — check out these Wiimote lookalike Wedisk flash drives from SolarMemo. The A button releases the USB connector… and that’s about as much fun as you can have with it, short of miming your sick WarioWare skills when no one’s looking. Available in sizes up to 8GB, but sadly there’s no pricing information available — but can the true fanboy really put a price on devotion?

2D fighting games may not be as popular as they used to be, but Arc System Works’ Guilty Gear series has continued to chug along over the years. The newest edition in the series is Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, and just in case the title didn’t make it obvious, this is the latest edition in a long-running series with a lot of different features that have evolved over time. Even so, casual fighting-game fans should be able to get into the game rather easily. It isn’t hard to get started dishing out big, long combination attacks by hammering away on various buttons. But hardcore Guilty Gear fans will get the most out of the new game because it has a few new features that make higher-level play a bit more interesting. Just make sure you have either a Classic or GameCube controller handy, because even though the game supports the Wii Remote with Nunchuk attachment, it’s best played on a more traditional controller.

Like with many other games of this sort, this 2D fighting game offers one-on-one matchups between characters inspired by Japanese anime cartoon designs who heroically shout out the names of their mighty fighting techniques in battle. In the Guilty Gear series, you can attack your opponent with a combination of punches, kicks, and two different types of “slashing” attacks (most characters carry a weapon or some equivalent) by stringing together punches, kicks, and slashes with other types of attacks on the ground, and also in the air as part of extended “juggle” attacks. But the game’s character designs are clearly intended to be as bizarre as possible. Among the roster, you’ll find a masked man who wields a pool cue as a weapon; a young girl whose weapon is a gigantic talking key that’s bigger than she is; and a hunched-over zombie who won’t stop talking to himself. Technically, none of the game’s default characters is all-new, but several characters have been updated and fine-tuned slightly for balance purposes. Pretty much all of the game’s characters seem strong enough to compete against each other.

The Smash Bros. Dojo has revealed that one of the series’ veteran fighters will be returning in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Princess Zelda’s alter-ego Sheik. Like Samus and Zero-Suit Samus, the gender-bending co-star of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has a different move set from his/her more royal form. Sheik and Zelda, however, do share a Final Smash. New Wii-caliber pics of Sheik are available at the Dojo Dump, for those who like tight outfits and don’t mind a masculine lady.

Call of Duty 4 was so good that even internet hyper-critic Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw hardly had a bad word to say about it. That all looks set to change though, as Activision has confirmed the next COD will be released on DS, PS2 and Wii.

As we reported earlier, in a financial conference call yesterday publisher Activision briefly mentioned the title would be available on all formats.

Couple this with the last effort to bring a Call of Duty game to the Wii, the rumors that COD 4 devs Infinity Ward are not involved with the project, and the extremely short development period, and you have a fantastic recipe for a sub-par port to Nintendo’s consoles.

Even worse, the game is going back to The Second World War, because obviously the contemporary setting wasn’t ever one of the most refreshing and interesting parts of Modern Warfare, and we all want to go back and fight the Nazis’ yet again.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer features Marvel Entertainment’s legendary super-powered foursome in its second big adventure. In the game and the film, Marvel’s first family of Super Heroes faces its greatest challenge yet as the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, the Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, the team must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost!

The game is based on both the popular comic book series, as well as the movie sequel, with exclusive plot elements that complement the film. It features all of the foursome’s over-the-top super powers, as well as a unique fusion attack system that allows players to combine forces with one, two or all teammates, in order to execute devastating team attacks against the opposition. In addition to fighting familiar enemies from the Fantastic Four universe, players can unlock alternative costumes, comic covers and more!

The WiiPhone is one of those mods just adored by the House of Giz. It’s the bastard son of a Wiimote and a common or garden-variety DoCoMo cellphone, stuck together by a clever guy who’s good at this kind of stuff. I particularly like the wrist strap, to stop unnecessary accidents (just ask another writer here, whose CrackBerry met an unfortunate end when it hurtled to the floor following a difference of opinion he had with his wife).

Eidos is bringing the PSP game Death Jr. 2: Root of Evil to the Wii in Summer 2008.

Developed by Backbone Entertainment, the game charts the adventures of the Grim Reaper’s son. Despite the ‘2′ in the title, this is actually the third game in the series.

We don’t like to be judgemental, but it’s hard to remain calm when we see a major publisher release a game ported from a handheld that only has a Metacritic rating of 68.

It’s also not a good sign that Konami, the previous distributor of the series, isn’t involved with this project.

Anyway, take a look at these screens, right here.

The Smash Bros. Dojo has revealed that one of the series’ veteran fighters will be returning in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Princess Zelda’s alter-ego Sheik. Like Samus and Zero-Suit Samus, the gender-bending co-star of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has a different move set from his/her more royal form. Sheik and Zelda, however, do share a Final Smash. New Wii-caliber pics of Sheik are available at the Dojo Dump, for those who like tight outfits and don’t mind a masculine lady.