Gaijin Games’ Bit.Trip series has been one of my favorite bundles of fun to come out of Nintendo’s WiiWare service. By marrying minimalist gameplay mechanics with charming retro vibes, each of the three previous titles has turned blocky graphics and bleep-blooping chiptunes into addictive affairs. Bit.Trip Runner carries on this torch, but for the first time puts you in direct control of the rectangular, gold-grabbin’ CommanderVideo. Does this frantic platformer have the stamina to keep up with the quality of its predecessors, or should our pixelated hero have spent more time carbo-loading?

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Tired of rhythm games filled with glitz and glam, high-priced plastic instruments, and licensed music you may or may not enjoy? Commander Video comes to the rescue with Gaijin Games’ latest WiiWare title, Bit.Trip Runner.

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Alex Neuse: So basically, the initial concept behind Bit.Trip Runner in particular is that we wanted a sort of run-and-jump platforming game, kind of on par with some of those older games on the Atari 2600 like Pitfall!, Jungle Hunt, or even H.E.R.O., if you remember that one.

We also needed to evolve the character and story a bit by game four. It was a very deliberate move that we built up the abstract stuff in the first three games, which kind of represents the abstraction of what it means to be a human. And then we explore what it means to actually play as a human in game number four, with Bit.Trip Runner.

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Commander Video has descended onto Wiiware today! To celebrate Gaijin Games has created wall graphics in all different sizes so you can pimp out your pad’s walls, make your ride all siq, or keep it real on your laptop! Check’em out here!

But fans of the Commander never go empty handed! Here’s a free music download of Precious Hero’s Only A Man track from the video above.

Check out this cool BlazBlue themed graffiti Animation.

Yes, I know the store said June. That’s still true. See, we’re taking advantage of a new shipping technique, whereby packages are shot out to customers at speeds in excess of 186,000 miles per second. As they travel past the speed of light, time dilation inverts itself, and packages arrive before they are (were) sent. The benefit to you, the purchaser of a BlazBlue Tournament Arcade Stick (for PS3 or Xbox 360) is that you will be receiving your stick much, much sooner than June.

In other words, we are shipping them out right now. Now that you know, why not go buy one?