Just a couple of quick notes for those of us that like whacking around silver balls;

Alien Crush Returns hit WiiWare earlier this week. It’s 800 points, and with the original on the VC at 600 points it’s not that bad of a deal. We haven’t had a chance to get our hands on it yet but you can expect a full review when we do. If you can’t wait that long IGN has a review up. They gave it a 7.8. Sounds about right from everything we’ve seen, but who can really say until they’ve tried it for themselves? Don’t forget to check out our previous Alien Crush Returns coverage, featuring our interview with producer Peter Dassenko.

In other pinball news, Kotaku is reporting that a new Pinball FX table is set to release on November 12th. The theme? Super Street Fighter II Turbo. I’m a big fan of the licensed tables idea, even if the Rocky & Bullwinkle one was a little cluttered. No price has been set yet, but you can safely assume it’ll either be 200 points or free as a promotional tie-in to the upcoming Super Street Fighter II HD. Either way, it looks AWESOME. Kotaku has a gallery up, so you can check out the full set of images there.

Still don’t own Pinball FX? Maybe Dan’s review can turn you around.

Being closet pinball junkies, we here at theBBPS shit a collective brick when we first caught word that Alien Crush would be getting a modern update courtesy of Hudson Entertainment. Exclusively available through WiiWare, the title is set to capture everything we loved about the TurboGrafx 16 original (and we did love it — check out our review here) and bring it into the 21st century.

Recently I had the opportunity to run a few questions past Peter Dassenko, the games producer. Here’s what he had to say;

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