The Wii and "great hardware" are rarely used in the same sentence, but there will soon be some great hardware (of the robotic kind) coming to Nintendo's platform in the form of Amanita's acclaimed adventure Machinarium.

Surely you've heard of Machinarium by now, but if you've managed to miss the Czech studio's acclaimed successor to Samorost, the game tells the story of a little robot cast out of a great metal metropolis by a gang of thugs who plan to blow up the city. Now the little silent protagonist must overcome all obstacles in his efforts to get back and rescue his girlfriend from captivity, and save the city while he's at it.

The port is being handled by Canadian developers XGen Studios, and no target release date has been announced for the game's downloadable WiiWare release.