UPDATE: Despite the woman at GameStop assuring me that "A Boy And His Blob" was coming out today, it got moved to next week. Boo.

Dear god, let us get past this week. The games aren't all bad, despite Tim's overwhelming negativity, but I wouldn't say that we're flush with options. Next week there's a whole swath of awesomeness coming your way, but in the meantime we have a couple decent alternatives.

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by John Constantine

Sorry “Wii Fit” fans. While the upgrades in “Wii Fit Plus” may not seem worth spending fifty more dollars on another disc, current balance board enthusiasts will not be able to download the new package’s upgrades. During a Nintendo booth tour at E3, Nintendo PR rep Kit Ellis confirmed that the new yoga and strength exercises, as well as the workout planner, in “Wii Fit Plus” will not be offered via WiiWare. He also confirmed that the current “Wii Fit” software will be completely phased out, so anyone buying a “Wii Fit” and balance board package in the few months before “Plus”’s fall release will be out of luck.

by John Constantine

In this evening’s Developer Roundtable, the indomitable Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that the sticky sweet tropical paradise that players romp through in games like “Wii Sports Resort”, “Wii Fit”, and the upcoming “Wii Fit Plus” has itself a name: Woo Hoo Island. What he did say is that he’s spent a long time thinking about treating a game’s setting like it’s a specific character, a location that he can use as a license in the same way that Mario, Link, and Samus carry their own multi-title, multi-genre game franchises. Miyamoto went on to describe possible games that would be set on Woo Hoo. Say you spot a hotel while going on your morning “Wii Fit” constitutional. Miyamoto wants to set a murder mystery there! Wii “Hotel Dusk” confirmed! Nah. That would rule though.