In addition to the producer interview contained in the Zack and Wiki reviewer's guide, the Wired blog also has a fiery little interview with the Zack and Wiki producer Hironobu Takeshita. In addition to correctly putting the blame for getting owned by the game's devilish puzzles squarely on the shoulders of *you*, the scrubby player, Takeshita also gives Spelunker (one of the most hated games of my misspent youth) a shout-out. Good stuff.

Capcom has started sending out some really cool paper guides alongside games we send to the press for review. They aren't quite Prima-style guides, but they're about 100x more fun than most instruction manuals, and offer more detailed (and more fun) pointers on how to use the Wii-mote in game, walk-throughs for a few puzzles (there's your spoiler warning), and an interview with the producer Takeshita-san. Anyway it's filled with good info and great art, so we thought we'd share. Whee!

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The Zack & Wiki love continues to flow from IGN! Everyone's favorite flying-magic- monkey-junior-pirate-Wii-puzzle-brain game has just been nominated as the site's Game of the Month, amazingly beating out Guitar Hero III (a game in heavy rotation around the Capcom offices -- who else has developed the GH clawhand from too many late night sessions? Throw up the devil horns with your mangled paw). Check out their high praise indeed here. Amongst all the ah-shucks inducing praise from the IGN crew comes this line: "Easily one of the most inspired, innovative, and intuitive games on Wii thus far, Capcom's evolution of the classic point-and-click adventure genre is simply stunning." Thanks, IGN, for all your kind words about Z-Dub!

IGN has always been one of the biggest supporters of Zack & Wiki since the beginning, even starting a "Buy Zack & Wiki" hype-campaign. On the eve of "Z-Dub's" release, IGN finished reviewing the game just in time to give it a whopping 9 out of 10.

We've been running the Buy Zack & Wiki in 2007 Campaign since we first discovered the game's appeal and now that we've finally quested for all of Barbaros' treasure, we can definitively state that Z-Dub belongs in your library. Indeed, Z-Dub presents some of the smartest and most rewarding challenges in any adventure game we've ever played and it's for this very reason that you will appreciate the title.

Not only did they have kind words for the game, to further stress their campaign, they dedicated their latest IGN Toons to Zack & Wiki as well.