As Astrella reported a couple weeks ago, Nintendo is all set to start offering WiiWare demos for those of us savvy enough to be on this new-fangled internet.  With as short as most WiiWare games are, I don’t think I would have ever expected to try them out before buying.  The list of demos available thus far is fairly short, but offers up some good picks.  They also announced a new Pokémon game, and you Spawn Kill readers know how much we here love Pokémon.  Just listen to our latest podcast for a testament to that love.  Pokémon aside, hit the jump for the full demo list.

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Recently, Nintendo’s CEO, Satoru Iwata, announced that WiiWare will be offering downloadable demos before the end of this month. This will include the online stores for both the Wii and DSi platforms.

Iwata realizes that the overall sales of the WiiWare games are very low while XBLA and PSN sales are very high. He believes offering demos will increase the WiiWare sales, but it may not be the ultimate solution. For now, only a small number of games will be offering a free demo. Nothing was mentioned as to if Nintendo will increase the amount of demos offered in the future.

This could be the beginning of more powerful marketing for the WiiWare store. Perhaps not enough to compete with XBLA and PSN, but it’s a start for sure.

[Source: Gamasutra]

Early yesterday, April 23rd, THQ released the UFC^® 2009 Undisputed demo to the world via Xbox LIVE. When I received the e-mail press release I immediately dropped everything I was doing to check it out, and was not disappointed! While the demo proves that the full game is going to be amazing, I can’t say that it’s without fault, and unfortunately I doubt there’s time for these to be fixed before the official release.

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