In an incredibly bizarre situation, the upcoming World Of Goo game for WiiWare will only be appearing as such in North America - it will not be released as a downloadable in Europe!

Instead, Europe will have to deal with a retail release, different to that of NA. WiiWare World has the scoop:

"Our European publisher, RTL Playtainment, is planning to release both the Wii and PC versions as retail titles. We're going to add some extra content to the European version that won't be available in North America or Japan."

2D Boy, the creators of World Of Goo, went on to say that the European retail release will be different, with more levels and other exclusive content that the NA release will never get.

Continue reading over at Wiiware World.

Being in Australia I was really hoping for the WiiWare release of this game. Now it looks like I won't get it, and even the supposed "cheaper, but not that cheap" price for the retail release has put me off that almost straight away. This is only a singular case, but this sort of thing really should not happen, and I hope doesn't happen again.

While a little similar to the Echocrome PSN / PSP business, at least both versions are being released for buyers to decide which version they want.