Colors!, Rush Rush, paid video and more
Europe gets its first taste of paid-for 3D video this week, alongside an art application and a WiiWare racer. Here's what's under starter's orders for this week.
3DS Download Software
Colors! 3D (Collecting Smiles, 231 blocks, £5.40/€6) — An excellent addition to the 3DS suite of creative tools, find out more in our
Colors! 3D review.
WiiWare
Rush Rush Rally Racing (redspot games, 900 Points) — A WiiWare version of a Dreamcast title, R4 wants to evoke memories of classic 2D top-down racers like
Micro Machines and more. We'll see if it's got the grunt to take the chequered flag in our review.
DSiWare
Escape Trick: Convenience Store (Gamebridge, 500pts) — Prepare for the inevitable occasion you're trapped in a convenience store with no obvious way out in Gamebridge's escapology simulator. Or don't, as our
Escape Trick: Convenience Store review makes clear it's not worth the time.
Nintendo Video
The 3D Machine (Ka-Ching Cartoons, £0.90/€1) — The first paid video to hit 3DS in Europe, the description reads thusly: "After an inventor makes a breakthrough, he leaves his incapable assistant alone with his new wonder invention, which leads to wealth, love...and catastrophe!" Sounds like any normal week at Nintendo Life HQ, to be honest.
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