So does Paul's brother like...have a name?
The official description just keep's calling him Paul's brother.
Oh no that's his name isn't it? The parents just gave up and called him Paul's Brother.

It's not worthy of the same classic status as Out Run, feeling a little workmanlike in comparison,
Geez Louise, I thought that said womanlike. I was wondering what that even meant.
Maybe it was a compliment to Super Hang-On's curves. Right guys? Because of....racing?

@Hyperstar96 Kirby's Block Ball is totally coming next week if I read the eshop right. When there was a Coming Soon section awhile ago, even though the eshop itself didn't display the dates, we knew what most of them were cause of nintendo.com and it basically organized the games coming soon by release date.

Kirby's Block Ball was sandwiched between games confirmed coming today and next week so I'm now 100% sure it's coming next week.

Huh? Weren't most of these dates confirmed awhile ago? I remember seeing a bunch of these back in March. At least all the ones for May-July look familiar.

@FluttershyGuy That's not really a sign of anything. Ratings leaks for VC games are just more common through the OFLC than they are with the ESRB these days. Heck theres hardly any games anywhere getting leaked through ESRB these days. Most of the time, when ESRB posts a new listing it's for a game that's about to come out or just came out.

So no, it's not a sign of VC priority, just that ESRB in general is not as leak-y as it used to be.

The "rule" that NoA doesn't release 3DS VC and 3DS Downloads on the same day is silly. It happened for awhile last year and I was hoping when Punch-Out and Fun Fun Minigolf came out on the same day last month people would drop that silly theory. If I read the Coming Soon section in the eshop right, Kirby's Block Ball will be coming the same day as a 3DS Download, so hopefully people start dropping it then. It really irks me that people think this is a thing that is true.

Technically speaking Tokyo Collection is a prequel. I guess. If we can call these sequels and prequels. Japan got this one a few years ago, then Gothic a few months after, then they got two others after Gothic. They would be uh...Lolita and Princess Collections.

So it's not so much that Tokyo Collection removed things. We just uh...got these out of order.

And that is your useless trivia of the day!

Ok I always thought saying "VC is dead" during the western hiatus was silly, but while VC games are being added to the service?

Come on people...

How odd...why leave Sonic 3?
Somethings up here...

Hey I dunno if anyone cares but I get the feeling that Ketzal's Corridors is the US name for SpeedThru: Potzol's Puzzles.

@Tsuchinoko The company for these games are Irem and they've been having financial troubles for awhile.

@SkywardLink98 They came out here and it's likely they'll be removed here as well.

@25 But that's just it. There HAVE been exceptions. That means it's not a hard rule and I don't like seeing it exaggerated like "oh its impossible for 3DSWare and VC to come out at the same time." All it is is just coincidence.

(NoA is incapable of releasing 3DS downloads and VC on the same day)

This is 100% not true, we've had plenty of weeks with both on the same day.

Not like the promo was first announced for Europe first anyway

"could this be the first 3DS download to support DLC?"

Isn't that Zen Pinball?

Hey as it turns out, we did get Swapnote. It's just a case of the PR not mentioning it.

I think it should be noted that the Picross e games aren't published through Nintendo so that's likely why we haven't heard anything about them coming over yet.

@1 It was confirmed for an American release at E3 2010 before Layton 3 and 4 had come out.

@12 Wonderful! I was getting worried since it was taking quite a bit longer then usual.

Do they have plans to give us the Hip Hop one?

Not that I'm desperately waiting on it or anything, just curious.

I see Kirby's Adventure go for $10 on Amazon so $7 shouldn't really be a big deal.

@Link79
My guess is that the queue of VC games ready to be released in NA/EU is drastically low and rather then release one game as soon as its ready with weeks of nothing in between, they're building up a bigger queue so they can do consistent releases.

And if that's true, I wouldn't hold it against them.

Alternatively: Blame Namco for whatever reason is holding them back on putting their Arcade games out everywhere else.

Alternatively 2: Blame D4 for whatever reason is holding them back on putting their recent NeoGeo releases out everywhere. I have some hope that they'll pull through eventually though.

@pntjr If you're implying that Balloon Kid is simply Balloon Fight but on GB you'd be way off.

@the_dude
Before they were saying that the GBA ones wouldn't be transferrable but they later changed this and said they will transfer after all.

@Kevin
Where did you see the NES version confirmed for 3DS VC? Last thing I remember was GB version confirmed for today and NES version of Double Dragon 2 confirmed for Wii VC.

Game Boy R-Type? That's not on VC.

@Link79
No, Burn the Rope for WiiWare and Cut the Rope for DSiWare are not part of the same series. Just two games dealing with rope.

Nintendo published Final Fantasies seem unlikely to me. So far the games they're offering are being offered universally and seeing as Nintendo didn't publish the FF games in Japan, that already writes them off.

3DS DQ was already announced as another Slime game wasn't it?
I mean, that E3 list from way back then just meant Dragon Quest as a general franchise is coming to 3DS I thought and not some main entry.

@ville10
I'd expect it's a 2012 release.

AND reportedly games are being REMOVED from the Wii Shop Channel
It's not like this just happened or anything. People are only just now noticing.

@Vinsanity I don't think it's Nintendo's fault for the lack of Game Gear games. It could be that getting Game Gear to work on 3DS isn't ready yet. Which is probably more Sega's problem than Nintendo.

@StarDust
Japan had more games released for these systems in the first place, therefore they have a larger pool to choose from.

@WaltzElf

It's not actually

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ds/957981-101-in-1-explosive-megamix/data

Well if 101-in-1 games are good enough for Atlus to consider publishing...

@PhPhill
Regardless, if it's a port it'll most likely be more current.

@Kid_Crono

Wii U Assassins Creed isn't THE original title, it's AN original title.

This really just seems like one of those customer service cookie cutter e-mail responses. Like you'd get this exact same response if you asked them last week or last month.

@vherub La-Mulana's the only big hit right now. Unless Interplay remakes and Protocol are also on your wishlist.

@XCWarrior I'm certain FF6 was going to come out today regardless of the Rainfall business.

@Froggievilleus
Argh I hope you see this! Anyway, sometimes games announced in the PR don't have a page up yet on NoA's site. Or they do and it's just hidden. Typically they're all public around Tuesday.

However here you go:
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/Ptnk0th-z7YCEIyWdDadA9AmaB_qfq1m

@Henmii, the game is no longer called BurgerTime HD and I'm sure MonkeyPaw will follow through with the WiiWare version.

Abylight is still waiting for date? NIntendo's E3 list for upcoming DS games put this for a July 14 release.

@Yasume But....then nobody gets the facts.

Ok you know what James. I think you should just increase the font size on the sentence that says it's a partial list. Bold everything, underline it all, and type it in a crazy font. Way too many people are under the impression this is the final list.

@Kainard WiiWare and DSiWare announcements have moved to Thursdays too. These games listed here aren't formally announced in a Press Release, they're based off what's been dated so far on www.nintendo.com

@ocarinaoftime No, like it's been said, this is only a partial list. Nintendo almost certainly has updates for the Wii VC and the 3DS eShop, they just aren't public yet.

I'm on the fence about if I should download Nintendo 3DS Transferring Tool. The gameplay looks solid but repetitive. Is there even an ending? I need a review. I NEED A REVIEW!

Guys DSiWare is going to be there. It's right there in the second paragraph of the PR. Pokedex 3D and possibly Excitebike 3D constitutes as 3DSWare. Nintendo just isn't using 3DSWare as a branding.

Also @Link79 as far as we know, Thursday just means thats when the US and EU eShops will update but Wii/DSi will update like normal. I don't know if they confirmed Thursday in Japan yet but it seems likely.

@Chibi_Link eShop is confirmed for the evening of June 6 in Americaland while stimoultaneously confirmed for June 7 everywhere else. The big 3DS update will happen pretty much worldwide so it'll actually show up 12+ hours before the conference.