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Art of Balance on WiiWare is one of the service's best puzzlers — the second highest-rated puzzler on Wii, according to Metacritic — so an enhanced, portable version for 3DS sounds like a winner. Surprise! It is.
Popular internet phone service Skype comes to PlayStation Vita this week as a free app.
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Excited about Heroes of Ruin and its online multiplayer? This video is right up your alley, then.
Get tanked
If you've decided to make Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor one of your Kinect purchases this year, now the question is "where will you buy it from?" as Capcom's revealed three separate pre-order bonuses for three separate retailers.
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Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure was an early attempt at an original franchise for Wii, and looked to have everything going for it: originality, charm and quality in spades. Shame, then, that it bombed at retail, an early warning sign of the troubles ahead for third-party publishers. The game's producer Hironobu Takeshita is still fond of the game though, and would love to work on it again, he told Nintendo Power.
You decide
Many of us know The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time's Hyrule like the back of our hands, but did you ever stop to consider what the Great Deku Tree might look like Link to the Past-style?
Last year, Atari published The Kore Gang in North America, over a year after Pixonauts published it in Europe. So far, so simple, but Pixonauts has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to publish the game again.
One stop shop
Nintendo console owners in the UK have a new resource at their disposal: Nintendo Service Centre.
Blocks, worms and Gnomz
There's a definite creative slant to this week's Nintendo Download, with 3DS and DSi owners able to make something for themselves. Here's what's available to download from 2pm this Thursday.
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Animal Crossing 3DS has an official title and release window for Japan, those lucky blighters.
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