Nintendo downloads this week in America and Europe. The games go live at 9AM Pacific time on Thursdays.
Nintendo has now added these new/classic games to the Wii Shop Channel, Nintendo DSi Shop and Nintendo 3DS eShop. Users with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. While the Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service, where virtual wallets are added to using a credit card or by purchasing a Nintendo 3DS Prepaid Card at a retail store and entering the code from the card. A Nintendo Points Card can be purchased at retail locations or Amazon.com.
American Nintendo Downloads
This week’s 3DSWare eShop game is:
• Gargoyle’s Quest (Capcom, Game Boy, $2.99)
Description: Gargoyle’s Quest Brings Big-Screen Action to Game Boy! You are Firebrand-gargoyle and proud guardian of the Ghoul Realm. The Destroyers have returned to wipe out your planet… and they take no prisoners! Use your breath of fire and your flying ability to combat the enemy. Fight heroically, and you’ll recover stolen magic items that will strengthen you for your many battles.
New on the Nintendo 3DS Video Channel:
• Blue Man Group, “Upgrade Your Life” – Ding Dong! It’s the Upgrade Your Life Kit via special delivery for Blue Man Group! Hit the red button to change your world and upgrade to 3D with a flip of a switch!
• Moving Still – No surprises at the starting point, no surprises at the point of arrival. To feel the monotony of a recurring journey made too many times.
This week’s new DSiWare games are:
• Let’s Create! Pottery (Infinite Dreams Inc., 500 DSi Points / $4.99)
Description: Free your creativity. Making ceramics has never been more simple and fun. Become a true artist by creating one-of-a-kind pottery items and sharing them with your friends. Throw the clay on the wheel, apply your artistic talents and use dozens of materials to create your own design. Even when you glaze and fire your very first pot, you’ll feel accomplished and relaxed. Pottery is a way to help relieve your everyday stress and find your inner peace. (For Nintendo 3DS / Nintendo DSi)
• Magical Whip: Wizards of Phantasmal Forest (Agetec, 200 DSi Points / $1.99)
Description: Defeat monsters! Slay dragons! Avoid the grim reaper and escape death! The two apprentice wizards had become lost amid a tangled sea of trees. The Phantasmal Forest, a dark, dangerous place ruled by monsters… It bewitches people with its strange power. The wizards can only use a single spell – one that turns their wands into a magical whip. Defeat enemies and collect valuable items as you battle your way through the forest in this exciting action game. You can select either the male or female character and use their magical whips to capture enemies and defeat them. Your magical whip doesn’t do much damage on its own, but with combos, it becomes a powerful weapon capable of defeating a mighty dragon with a single strike. Combos are performed by capturing a falling enemy with your magical whip and use the captured monster to attack others. Can the wizards escape the evil forest before they become lost forever within its darkness? (For Nintendo 3DS / Nintendo DSi)
• Calculator (Cinemax, 200 DSi Points / $1.99)
Description: Calculator combines the basic and scientific calculators with a unit conversion utility. Calculator handles 135 measurement units and constants of most types which ordinary people use every day, including length, weight, temperature, speed, volume, area, and time. It’s always available in your pocket, instead of pulling out your web-enabled mobile device to realize your lab walls blocks most wireless Internet access. (For Nintendo 3DS / Nintendo DSi)
This week’s new Wii Virtual Console game is:
• The Ignition Factor (Jaleco, Wii Points)
Description: Take control of a brave firefighter as he battles to save people from towering infernos and flame-filled factories. Can you keep your cool and save everyone in a constantly changing environment? (For Wii)
This week’s new WiiWare game is:
• Kyotokei demo version (Microforum, free)
European Nintendo Downloads
Nintendo 3DS eShop:
• Gargoyle’s Quest (Capcom, Game Boy, £2.70 / €3)
Nintendo DSiWare & 3DS eShop:
• Bridge (GameOn, 500 DSi Points / £4.50 / €5)
Description: Bridge – the king of trick-taking card games, now on Nintendo DSiWare! You can modify the rules of the game and set the AI opponents from beginner to pro difficulty level. Challenge your friends in a local multiplayer game with up to 4 players per game copy. Celebrate your victories and use the integrated speech and text chat functions. Funny comic-style 3D graphics on the beach, varied textures and using your own photo in the game make this collection a fabulous package. Download the game and have lots of fun playing Bridge!
Watch the Bridge trailer here. (For Nintendo 3DS / Nintendo DSi)
Nintendo WiiWare:
• Aya and the Cubes of Light (Object Vision, 1000 Wii Points)
Description: What’s gotten into Cseom?! Instead of keeping the Cubes running, he’s taking the Energy Packs out of the terminals! The Cubes are the power sources of the stars, and if they stop working it gets dark! You play Aya, the daughter of the Cube Corporation. Teleport onto the Cubes to collect the Energy Packs to get the Cube engines working again. But it’s not that easy to find your way around; you’ll have to think outside the box and mustn’t get disorientated, even when you’re upside down! Sometimes you must think carefully about what to do, while in other situations it’s all down to good timing. Pursue Cseom around three constellations, each with ten Cubes. You’ll have some really hard puzzles to solve at the end! Play with other gamers to see who will be first to get the Cube working again, or play for the Bonus Cubes.
Future Downloadable 3DS Games:
- September 15, 2011: Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge (Capcom) – Virtual Console (Game Boy)
- September 22, 2011: 3D Classics: TwinBee (Nintendo) – Nintendo 3DS eShop Download Software
- September 2011: Pyramids (Enjoy Gaming LTD) – Nintendo 3DS eShop Download Software
- December 2011: Mutant Mudds (Renegade Kid) – Nintendo 3DS eShop Download Software
- Fall 2011: Mighty Switch Force (WayForward) – Nintendo 3DS eShop Download Software
- Late 2011: Zen Pinball 3D (Zen Studios) – Nintendo 3DS eShop Download Software
- Late 2011: Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Nintendo) – Virtual Console (Game Boy)
- Late 2011: Metroid II: Return of Samus (Nintendo) – Virtual Console (Game Boy)
- Late 2011: Bionic Commando (Capcom) – Virtual Console (Game Boy)