Corner a panda

If you're heading to PAX East this Friday or Saturday, make sure you keep your eyes open for our man on the ground, Jon Wahlgren.

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Release due soon

After a long wait, Intrinsic Games' Amoebattle is nearly ready to infect DSiWare.

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Try before you buy

It's that time of year when Nintendo takes its wares on the road across the UK, with the first three events dated.

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Strategise open

Yesterday's announcement of Pokémon Conquest — that's the English name for Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition — for North America now brings with it a brace of trailers.

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Ah crap. "There are just two months to go until E3" RT @MCVonline: E3 2012 countdown: two months to go http://t.co/ety87WRX

TNT, Colors and more

A long-awaited 3DS art package, a DSiWare puzzler and a WiiWare racer make up this week's digital downloads in North America. Here's the Nintendo Download: 5th April 2012 for Europe.

3DS Download Software

Colors! 3D (Collecting Smiles, $6.99, 226 blocks) — A much-anticipated release for 3DS, this 3D art software was supposed to land late last year but was held back. While waiting for our upcoming review, check out our interview: Collecting Smiles — Colors! 3D to find out how this release came to be.

DSiWare

Penguin Patrol (Grab LLC, 200pts, 45 blocks) — The game features a walrus in sunglasses and the official description starts with "Waddle We Do?", which is almost enough to earn it a 10/10 review score. It's also created by Divergent Shift and Amoebattle developer Intrinsic Games, so could be interesting. We'll bring you a more considered verdict on this slip-slidey puzzle game in the near future.

WiiWare

TNT Racers (dtp entertainment, 1000pts) — A pretty good arcade racer with a few quirks, merging Micro Machines with Mario Kart. Our TNT Racers review has the full verdict.

Nintendo eShop Video

Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Two and Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion video interview with Warren Spector.

Nintendo Video

Worldwide Exclusive Premiere The Rifle's Spiral by The Shins (available April 6)
The band's jaw-dropping new video for The Rifle's Spiral was directed by Jamie Caliri. Don't miss his stop-motion animation masterpiece off the band's new album, Port of Morrow.

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Nintendo email about Mario Tennis Open contains this link. Best graphics on 3DS yet! http://t.co/rxBGpYQH

Nintendo Download [NA] so far: Colors! 3D (3DS, $6.99), Penguin Patrol (DSiWare, 200pts), TNT Racers (WiiWare, 1000pts)

Really

Update: The correct release date is 19th April, not 12th as previously stated.

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Another big week

Last week 3DS sales jumped 50% thanks to Kid Icarus: Uprising; this week it's Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance bringing about the rise.

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