There's no #Stewsday today as I'm making a chicken pie. Normal service will resume in two weeks.

Congrats to @TomPhillips151 for finally learning the difference between Virtual Console and WiiWare! ;)

Looks like my SFxTK review will be the lowest score on Metacritic by some way. Ready for the hate!

Lots on the horizon

While Europe is celebrating something of a Virtual Console revival this month, North America has a stack of 3DS eShop content on the way in the coming weeks and months.

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Minigolf ahoy

It's a big old Nintendo Download this week, with a 3DS demo, Game Boy game, two Wii Virtual Console games and original 3DS download software hits alongside DSiWare puzzlers and a WiiWare demo. Let's get to it.

3DS Virtual Console

Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters (Game Boy, Nintendo, £2.70/€3) — Pit's second adventure comes to 3DS ahead of the release of Kid Icarus: Uprising. Find out if it's worth a punt in our upcoming review.

3DS Download Software

Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH! (Shin'en Multimedia, £4.50/€5) — A much-enhanced follow-up to Shin'en's WiiWare original, we recently took this for a spin with our Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH preview ready to read ahead of our review, coming soon.

3DS Demo

Dead or Alive: Dimensions (Tecmo Koei) — Tecmo's sensationalist fighting series gets a free version from the eShop this week. You can read our Dead or Alive: Dimensions review to learn more about its ample charms.

Virtual Console

Mega Man X (Super NES, Capcom, 800pts) — Only 11 months after it launched in North America, the Blue Bomber's legendary 16-bit adventure comes to Europe. Read our Mega Man X review and get those Points at the ready.

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Wow, big EU Nintendo Download this week. Don't miss it!

On guard

Tecmo Koei scrapper Dead or Alive: Dimensions is the latest 3DS game to get a playable demo in Europe this week.

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Romance is alive

Communication freebie Nintendo Letter Box/Swapnote is ideal for sketchy doodles and sharing glorious 3D photos of your dinner, but could it have a higher purpose? Could it be used to bring about a life of blissful matrimony? Yes.

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It's a particularly beautiful and heart-warming day of content @nintendolife today.

So looks like Sonic Blast (Game Gear) is coming to 3DS Virtual Console. One Sonic game even I haven't gone near :\