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Jungle Speed, Table Tennis on WiiWare

Plus Lonpos downloadable content.

Nintendo's WiiWare service has received its usual biweekly update today, bringing two new titles and some DLC to market.

Top of the list is Jungle Speed at 1000 Wii Points (GBP 7 / EUR 10 approx), which isn't the tropical drug-fest we'd hoped for, but rather a reflex-based card game centred on grabbing a totem at the right point. Rules change rapidly as new cards are laid out.

The second slighty fluffy chocolate in today's box is Family Table Tennis, which distinguishes itself from regular table tennis with its total abstinence from wanton sexual contact and flagrant drug and alcohol abuse.

It features indoor and outdoor tables, although we're not sure what the difference is [nature - Ed], versus and single-player modes, three mini-games and four characters: Mummy, Daddy, Sarah and Billy. It's also 1000 Wii Points (GBP 7 / EUR 10 approx).

Lastly, and almost certainly leastly, is a DLC update for puzzle game Lonpos, featuring several puzzle packs for download, each offering 25 new challenges at 300 Wii Points a pop (GBP 2.10 / EUR 3 approx). Each pack also includes new background and visuals. Lovely.