Mario Kart 64 is coming to Wii’s Virtual Console next week for 1000 Wii Points.

Also, today will see the launch of the first version of the News Channel. Once downloaded, the News Channel provides instant on demand news from around the world at the press of a button.

Since launch, 1.5 million games have been downloaded worldwide from the service.
Later in the year a second version of the News Channel will be available.