World Wide Wii-velopers Wii-joice!

Now this is a tempting distraction... The Wii is being opened up to the mass market of independent developers who want to write mini-games, tinker or just have fun.

It's called WiiWare and there's a press statement from Nintendo about it.

I'll be really curious to see how this pans out. Oh, and apparently worldwide sales of the Wii have hit 8.5 million - only 1.5 million behind the XBox 360 - it's a huge installed base considering the platforms only been on sale six months.