Indie hit 'Machinarium' coming to WiiWare

By Hector Cortez Sep 10, 2010, 23:58 GMT

Amanita\'s puzzle-adventure game, Machinarium, is coming to a new audience of Wii gamers via WiiWare.

XGen Studios and Amanita Design today announced the two studios have teamed up to bring Amanita's award-winning puzzle-adventure game, Machinarium, to a new audience of Wii gamers via WiiWare.

Machinarium is a point-and-click puzzle-adventure game released in 2009 for PC & Mac. The game features a little robot hero who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city and must return to confront the Black Cap Brotherhood and rescue his robot girlfriend.

Machinarium received the Excellence in Visual Art award at the 12th annual Independent Games Festival, as well as the Best Soundtrack award from PC Gamer in 2009. It was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and a Milthon award in the Best Indie Games category at the Paris Game Festival. Various publications have named it Adventure Game of The Year and Best Indie Game, as well as runner-up for PC Game of the Year 2009.

“As the subject of enormous critical acclaim, this is an honor long overdue for Machinarium,” said Jordan Dubuc of XGen. “We’re very fortunate to be working with the talented team at Amanita to share this interactive work of art with a whole new audience of gamers.”