Ah, the Wiimote. A virtue and a vice all in one. It's motion capabilities and pointer functionality have rendered peripherals near useless, allowing users less hardware to worry about, but the shells, oh the shells! They look nice and are usually at least a tad useful, but I know many gamers feel they are a waste since there aren't any guts to a shell.

This one, however, is necessary.

Samba De Amigo for the Wii was announced nearly a year ago and though everyone was excited, the knowledge that the maraca peripherals were half the fun overshadowed its joyous return.

Gearbox/Sega luckily felt the same way and we're now getting maraca shells to accompany the game. They even kept the zany color scheme, opting away from Wii's clean as snow motif. No price has been announced, but hopefully Mario Kart Wii has set a precedent. There's also no word if beads are in the shells to give full maraca action, but we speculate that there's something in those beautiful bulbous shells.

Exepct to hear more about this title at E3.