The week of minor PR mistakes continues with "Prince of Perisa"!

Soundrop's Chillout room is the only thing between me and smashing everything in sight.

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Today sees the much-anticipated downloadable demos hit the 3DS eShop, so we've put together a very handy guide to help you get the most from your free demo experience.

What Demos Are Available?

New demos will be announced throughout the year but here are the ones we know about so far:

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Rising Star Games just announced its 2012 line-up, but while it's bringing Rune Factory: Oceans on PlayStation 3 to Europe, Rune Factory: Oceans for Wii is missing from the publisher's slate.

We asked product marketing manager Yen Hau why Wii owners in Europe won't be able to continue their Rune Factory adventures.

Rising Star Games have always had, and continue to have, a strong relationship with Nintendo and its products. We will always look to publish products on Nintendo platforms and try our best to bring PAL gamers the titles they want to play. Unfortunately, it is regrettable that this time the Wii version of Rune Factory Oceans was not on the table for us.

It's undeniably disappointing that Wii gamers will miss out while PlayStation 3 owners will get the fully localised game, but with five 3DS games on Rising Star's 2012 schedule — including Harvest Moon 3D: The Tale of Two Towns — it's clear the publisher is behind Nintendo.

What's your take on Rune Factory: Oceans not coming to Europe on Wii?

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Resi demo is a fairly meaty 147MB. That's the same size as three and a half WiiWare games. Nintendo learns! (maybe)

The first 3DS demo lands

While there's some good games available to buy this week, we're pretty sure the most downloaded software this week will be the free Resident Evil Revelations demo, available from 9am PST/12pm EST today.

3DS Demo

Resident Evil Revelations (Capcom, free) — The first trial game comes to the eShop with this playable sample of Capcom's upcoming fright fest. We'll have a full guide to 3DS demos later on today.

3DS Virtual Console

Lock 'n' Chase (Game Boy, G-Mode, $2.99) — Good to see this Virtual Console title reach North America: it's a little gem, as our Lock 'n' Chase review explains.

DSiWare

Gaia's Moon (EnjoyUp Games, 200pts) — There's a lot of fun to be had in this simple title, as you can read in our full Gaia's Moon review.

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"In terms of gameplay ideas and innovation, Vita's Near is like Pandora's Box" err, you know how that story ended, right?

Capcom announced "the demo is available!", but it's not. Stand down, guys.

If this Resi demo is up in the eShop then, er, how do you download it? Not in Recent Software, doesn't turn up when you search "demo"...

Gotta get down on Thursday

The 12th January Nintendo Download brought two new DSiWare games to the eShop: let's see how they performed.

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