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Nintendo Download: 8th March 2012 (North America) - Nintendo Life http://t.co/gC2E9ml4 via @nintendolife

Minigolf and Mr Dream

Next week sees Game Gear games come to North America, but until then you can engage in some sporting digital delights, with golf and boxing represented in this week's download leaderboard. Here's what's competing for your cash.

3DS Download Software

Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH! (Shin'en, $4.99) — A much-enhanced version of Shin'en's WiiWare minigolf game, you can read our Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH! preview while you're waiting for our review in the coming days.

3DS Virtual Console

Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream (NES, Nintendo, $4.99) — Little Mac and his motley crew of oddball opponents return in the first non-Ambassador NES game to reach Virtual Console. Check out our Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream review for the lowdown.

Wii Virtual Console

King of Fighters '97 (Neo Geo, D4 Enterprise, 900pts) — The legendary fighters return to Wii with the first Neo Geo release in quite some time. Read up on our King of Fighters '97 review to see if this is worth your Points or not.

DSiWare

Zuma's Revenge (Popcap Games, 800pts) — Popcap's ever-popular ball-blaster comes to DSiWare at a premium price point. Our upcoming examination will tell you if you'll have a ball or not.

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War inside and out

Capcom's Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor isn't just a game about enormous robots smashing things: it's also about humans and emotions and things. At least, that's what this trailer thinks.

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More adverts. Should be this straight. To the point. http://t.co/aktLBHvZ

Quotes from the master

Shigeru Miyamoto knows a thing or two about making games. As general manager of Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis Division he's worked with staff including Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takeshi Tezuka and many more. One of his protégés is Koichi Hayashida, director of Super Mario 3D Land, who took to the stage at GDC 2012 yesterday and recounted some of his mentor's advice.

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I love Andriasang forever for this http://t.co/KhsylDKi

Cockroaches too

Super Mario 3D Land director Koichi Hayashida took to the stage at Game Developers Conference and revealed some of the stranger ideas Nintendo's EAD team cooked up but ultimately left out of last year's platformer.

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Talismanic game creator Peter Molyneux will leave Lionhead and Microsoft Game Studios after completing work on Fable: The Journey.

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Holy moly! RT @SEGA: Simply amazing! RT @carlita_bonita: @SEGA Sonic the Hedgehog latte art: http://t.co/DEQ3natA