Defend Your Castle for WiiWare dated, priced

Prepare for a siege, folks! We’ve just learned about a new game that’s slated to come out during the launch of Nintendo’s WiiWare service. It’s XGen Studios‘ Defend Your Castle, and as you can guess, it pits you against an endless wave of foes who want nothing more than to raze your pretty home. More after the jump!

WiiWare game”>XGen Studios recently announced a WiiWare game they’ve been developing, and it certainly takes the whole castle defense series of gaming to a whole new level. This game, called Defend Your Castle, pits you against a horde of cute little barbarians who want nothing more than to raze your castle to the ground.

Defend Your Castle will be released on May 12, the same day as the launch of the WiiWare service, and will cost gamers 500 Wii Points.

As you can probably see, we’ve also managed to acquire some screenshots of the game, as well as some additional details regarding gameplay. You can find the goodies below. Enjoy!

• 4 Player jump-in cooperative gameplay – Defend your Castle with up to 3 pals!
• Compete with your friends for kingship – Get crowned for dominating other players and earn the right to manage the Kingdom!
• Completely new visuals and animation – “The graphics now have more style, colour and life to them, as if they were drawn by a three year-old hyped up on sugar with unlimited supplies of Crayola.” – N-Europe
• Enhanced physics & particle effects
• Repel even faster and more massive waves of invaders
• Not a port of the original – Defend Your Castle has been re-created from the ground up to utilize the unique capabilities of the Nintendo Wii and Wii Remote
• Unlimited levels – Continue to grow the strength of your Kingdom indefinitely