I’ve complied a list of 10 things you can use your Wii for until Smash Brothers Brawl hits us across the face this fall.

1. Play Free Flash Games
There are a few web sites out there devoted specifically to providing links to flash games that work well on the Wii, some of the sites even feature news RSS feeds and such. Here are some links to a few Wii flash game web sites.

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2. Watch Streaming Video
While you can just head over to YouTube and check out videos there, there are again, many sites dedicated to the Wii’s Opera browser and streaming videos.

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3. Play the past top 25 Gamecube games
Despite it’s lower market share and small size, the Nintendo GameCube has a TON of great games that a lot of people missed out on. Check out IGN’s list of the top 25 games on the little system.

4. Play older classic games
The Wii has something the other systems don’t- a huge back library of classic games waiting for people to download (and pay cash for). Although some people think the Wii’s Shop Channel is a little pricey, some of these classics are wroth the admission. There are a ton of games from the NES, SNES, TubroGraphix, and Genesis, with more to be released every Monday morning in the North America and Friday’s in Europe.

5. Create celebrity Mii’s
I think I’ve had more fun creating Mii’s that didn’t look like myself, but looked like characters I saw in Movies and TV shows. Then I stumbled upon this little gem of a web site that has a TON of celebrity Miis including Master Chief, Samus, Sponge Bob, Storm Troopers, R2D2, and the classic Chuck Norris!

6. Use it as a portable presentation system
There are a few things that make the Wii great for doing presentations if you don’t have a laptop. It’s very portable and easy to hook up to a projector, it has a wireless remote and pointer, and an SD card slot. Most presentation software, like Keynote and PowerPoint, have the ability to export your slides as JPEG images. Dump those slides onto an SD card, launch the Wii’s Photo Channel and you’re good to go!

7. Use the free channels
Almost everyday I turn on my Wii. Lately, it hasn’t been for games, but the great little FREE channels that Nintendo has been releasing over the months. I usually start by checking out the weather from around the world on the Weather Channel, then hop over to the News Channel and check out the headlines, then lastly hop into the Everybody Votes Channel to give me opinion on some weird, but fun polls. It’s entertaining for a few minutes, and heck, some of the information that you get is actually worth it!

8. Use it as a free streaming media server
Orb is a piece of software that allows you to stream your media from your PC to any web browser (including the Wii’s Opera browser). Check it out, it’s free and works pretty well.

9. Lose weight and have fun doing it
There have been a lot of articles popping up online about people using the wii to loose weight. Simple pop in your copy of Wii Sports and do a few rounds of boxing and you’ll see how it’s possible. Maybe Nintendo will release an official exercise game in the future that’s more focused on weight loss, rather than using the sports titles for it.

10. E-mail yourself reminders
You can setup yourself as a friend on your wii via an email address. This makes it possible to email your Wii- complete with photos. The nice thing about this is, the Wii has a bright blue light that pulsates when you have a new message. The light is VERY hard to miss and forget about so it easily reminds you to check your messages. Violla! 21st century reminder system!

If you have any other ideas please feel free to post them in the comments for other users to see. Hopefully this will keep people using their Wii, while we all wait for the next AAA title to be released.

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Alien Abduction II follows the never released Alien Abduction I, in which you must abduct people while staying out of sight of the agents. If an agent spots you, you can drop ANYTHING on them to kill them. Everything, from igloos to people, can double as weapons when dropped from on high.

The game will feature 10 unique levels (4 from the unreleased AAI game), numerous enemies aside from agents including tanks and hell demons, and various other twists. The game will tie into Bagunk’s very brand new High Score System, making it the first game to promote the API. The game also sports an “unlock” mode where you can spend bonus points to purchase content that didn’t make it into the game. This includes the elusive “bonus” level and the original ship design.

Below are 3 screenshots of some of the new levels:

Since I was a little gamer growing up on Atari and Sega Genesis, I’ve always liked arcade style games. As we’ve moved toward complex first person shooter games, I keep finding myself gravitating toward those simpler times. Taking a new twist on classic games like Pong and Tetris, for instance, is a sure fire way to create an enjoyable, addicting game that I can’t stop playing. When you add that simplicity to a beautiful design, like Flow does so well, it brings the classic into a whole new realm.

But aside from that, games that inject a sense of humor or sarcasm into my day have my automatic approval. Though I can’t seem to win the McDonald’s Video Game, I still love its weird take on consumerism and our fast food nation.

So on that note I reveal the new Editor’s Top Ten:

• Flow
• The Fancy Pants Adventure
• Bubble Islands
• Bugs
• McDonald’s Video Game
• South Park Dodge Ball
• Club Penguin
• Dodge That Anvil!
• Acid Factory
• Bauns

But what is your top ten?

Well, I’ve been thinking recently that I should search for some good, new, and fresh winter games and post them here for you guys. However, I’m too lazy to do that, so instead you will all have to deal with some old ones that have been posted here for some time. Ok, so one or two have been only recently posted, but some that are about to be featured are as ancient as Bagunk itself…

But like many great web games on the internets, you may have overlooked these fine snow time masterpieces, and so you should be thanking me for shoving them back in your face.

The first of which is Aggressive Alpine Skiing. I can only describe it as skiing meets Japanese crack- it’s delicious and hypnotic music will suck you in and never let truly quit, only promise family members and loved ones that you can quit anytime. You can ski jump into outer space to collect happy smiling stars- that’s a wonderful thing.

For a more casual and laid back drug of choice, I recommend Snow Day. It feels like a game right out of Orisinal with it’s slumber inducing soft music and simple addictive gameplay. Chuck the ice cubes into clouds to keep the snow falling and school from returning.

Requested feature: If creating snow clouds should fail, shouldn’t we just be able to call in sick?

A toxic spill has just occurred at the chemical plant you work at. Your boss and co-workers are mutated and there’s a fatal green acid leaking everywhere. Nothing could be more aggravating on a Monday morning.

That’s the story behind the action game Acid Factory. Harry the smiling, goggled lab worker is stranded in a toxic place of work and has to gather battery power to get his portal out up and running. Cruise through the factory gathering batteries while avoiding zombified co-workers, acid monster blobs, robots gone awry and pools of acid. Conserve your precious air supply by getting though the level quickly for futher added points and health. With 24 levels to complete, the game only gets more challenging.

Everything is pretty straightforward at first glance (the zombies are slow moving and the batteries are initially easy to get) until you learn that the acid is more dangerous than meets the eye. Acid pools will kill you immediately and touching any of the various monsters will seriously deplete your health. However, if you do become victim to the acid expect to see a clever death scene, like Harry’s skeleton floating to the surface of an acid bath. Good times!

But now the cast is off and my hand, though previously limp, casted, and unable to type- is reborn anew, now with the strength of two hands!

So expect a lot more to be coming out for Bagunk. I make here now yet another unbreakable oath to continue posting to this blog and developing great features for Bagunk- several of which are about to be released. We’ve also got a complete overhaul and redesign of the site underway which is planned for release at the end of February, so keep on the watch for that.

Long live Bagunk!

Club Penguin, an interactive gaming wonderland from New Horizon Interactive out of Canada, is blazing the path for the next generation of online gamers. In this virtual world users choose and name a penguin and enter an interactive island where they can explore, meet other penguins and play games. The world is targeted toward 7-12 year olds but even adults can appreciate the quirky graphics and smart mini-games.

After the controversy surrounding Myspace and protecting its underaged users, smart developers are thinking outside the box and creating interactive communities that cater to the growing number of pre-teen internet users. They’re also grooming the next generation of online gamers.

Most of the games in Club Penguin are simple and addictive, with digital versions of board games like Mancala and Connect 4 making an appearance along with games in-sync with the interactive world. Penguins, for instance, can have an inner tube race down a snowy hill or a hockey game on an ice rink, all playing alongside other users.

The other side of Club Penguin is interacting with your enviroment. Penguins can chat with other penguins, walk freely around their virtual world, go in and out of buildings and even buy some penguin swag with coins earned by playing games.

The concept may have been used before but Club Penguin is taking it to a new level by making a virtual world that is both appealing and safe for kids. In a few years their users will be graduating into more diverse online gaming.

Club Penguin is free to use for people of all ages, but to take advantage of all its features requires full membership and a small fee. Check out Club Penguin for fun, winter themed games or introduce it to a young gamer near you.