Not too much to mention this week. For WiiWare, Sandy Beach by Konami (500 Wii Points), and for the VC, Kirby’s Dream Land 3 (Super NES, 800 Wii Points).

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The Crystal Chronicles series is really shaping up in my eyes, and although there isn’t much information I can throw out, let’s recap at what games we have seen thus far.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles came out for the Nintendo GameCube in 2004, ages ago. In this game, you travel around the continent search for myrrh to place inside your hometown’s crystal chalice. Single player mode teams you up with a Moogle named Mog (he carries the chalice for you in the overworld). You collect weapons, designs, artifacts to boost strengths, materials, and other things as you defeat monsters and restore your town’s chalice with myrrh year after year.
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Here are several pictures of NSider2 staff and other forum members celebrating New Years with a turtle and his giant LCD countdown display.

(Images provided by Matt and Kodiack)

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WiiWare and Virtual Console Update for December 29th:

WiiWare

Maboshi’s Arcade™ (800 Wii Points)

Cue Sports – Pool Revolution (500 Wii Points)

Virtual Console

Zoda’s Revenge™: StarTropics II™ (NES™,500 Wii Points)

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So recently NeoGaf member Huelen 10 (who you might know from our forums as well) posted probably one of the absurd stories of a blunder his neighbor’s mom went through while tiring to put her credit card info onto to the Wii in order to buy a VC game.

Still don’t get it?

I’ll let the story speak for itself:

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I’m going to admit the last couple of days I’ve been a bit lazy when it comes to posting news. However in order to kill a bunch of birds with one stone here are some of the big stories you may have missed due to my laziness.

Guitar Hero: Modern Hits leaked via ERSB website (Source: Kotaku)
Wii Video Service Coming in 2009 to Japan (Source: Infendo)
Wii Lens Cleaner Now Aviable in the US (Source: Kotaku)
Rock Band DLC On the Way (Source: Our Forums)

Hope you NSiders are enjoying your holiday break, so far I have been enjoying mine.

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