New Wii games developer comes onboard

Playbox Games is a small UK based game developer which employs six full-time staff. After a trade mission to Japan it was added to a world-wide short list of companies approved by Nintendo to design games for its new Wii console.

Nintendo's Wii is the fastest selling games console and the company applies strict criteria before it places games developers on its approved list.

Those on the list, including Playbox, get privileged access to the software used on the console.

Playbox is also discussing projects with another of the video game world's biggest names. Capcom, which created the best-selling Street Fighter and Resident Evil games, has recently made a visit to see the studio after a successful meeting in Japan.