Wind up those Pokémon and send them into battle! Nintendo announces Melee! Pokémon Scramble! for WiiWare!!

And you thought Nintendo was done announcing games for the week? Wrong! The Big N in Japan have announced a new Pokémon title for WiiWare, downloadable from June 16th, less than a fortnight away. Named Melee! Pokémon Scramble!, it features wind-up Pokémon going into battle and will cost 1500 Points.

You must cast your Pokémon (more are earned by defeating others) into battle in a ring match with other critters, fighting to KO them all and progress until you get to a legendary Pokémon boss at the end of each level. Both four-player multiplayer and single-player modes are featured, with a huge number of Pokémon available.

You begin in the forest, battling wild Pokémon who sometimes will leave items or a toy incarnation of themselves behind. Picking this toy version of them up is how you collect more Pokémon during the game.

The title features very simple controls - usually just two buttons, A & B or 1 & 2 for example. Indeed, two players can play with just one Wii-mote and Nunchuck. The game sounds an interesting concept, and we'll hopefully be hearing a lot more as it nears its Japanese release - including news of the game making it to the West.

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