For 1000 Points

It's been a long road to release for Aya and the Cubes of Light: originally set for distribution last year, developer Object Vision delayed the game to respond to feedback from its audience. Now the company is ready to let its game take off with a European release date set.

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It's been a long and arduous path to this moment, but we can reveal that Nintendo eShop cards are finally making their way out to stores in the UK.

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Stretching the word "classic"

Europe gets its third 3D Classic this week, letting console owners indulge in a little three-dimensional fighting in the street. Elsewhere there's a bit of air traffic control, some Asian farming and extreme off-roading. Come with us, but look out for any manholes.

3DS eShop

3D Classics: Urban Champion (Nintendo, €5) — The NES brawler is given a new 3D look to bring it into the modern day. There's local multiplayer if you and a friend both purchase the game too. We'll take a swing at a review this week.

WiiWare

Flight Control (Firemint, 500pts) — The classic guiding-airplanes-in-to-land game makes it to WiiWare after years of circling the runway. After Flight Control DSiWare and Flight Control HD on PlayStation Move, will the WiiWare version be economy or first class? We'll see how it fares later this week.

DSiWare

Moto eXtreme (Chillingo, 800pts) — Motorcycle platforming doesn't sound like a brilliant merge of genres, but that's what you get with this two-stroke package. Read our Moto eXtreme review to see if it's eXcellent or eXcrement.

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Classic gaming! Hard to believe this was 12 years ago now. #dreamcast http://t.co/RPlbtqb

+1 Might

Heroes of Ruin is one of the 3DS's most promising third-party titles for next year, and Square Enix has just released a brand new trailer showing you what to expect in 2012.

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In October

It's been a while since that fateful E3 performance of Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, and now we have a fresh trailer showing more of Double Fine's upcoming puppet-'em-up.

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