Haha, that's pretty impressive - good skills. Maybe this will spur Nintendo into action!

I was really impressed with these, great models, however I suspect that Nintendo - as always - will be extremely protective over their IP and not allow this to happen. Shame really.

Love it. SO tempted to order them!

Retro Studios are world class, would be great to see what they can do with this franchise.

I think @Corbs makes a good point, by announcing this now it almost states that Nintendo understand its not a huge title for E3, hopefully they'll be something more juicy in LA in a couple of months.

Trying to convince the guys to buy this for the NLife office

@SanderEvers now that would be impressive!

It's 7 months away but I'm looking forward to it already!

Just for the record, everyone was beaten at F-Zero X again.

@Kirk we only have ads running some of the time, so you can turn off your adblock and live with them like everyone else

We try very hard to only secure relevant ads for actual games, none of the random banners for car insurance or mobile phones!

@WesCash whilst we're aware some people use adblock, that's actually the worst thing you can do if you want to support the site, the ads pay for the servers and without that there would be no site - support us by embracing the ads!

@Kirk thanks again for the feedback, it will certainly be considered - this is by no means the end of the changes - we'll continue to refine things this year. Whilst I understand your point of view your comments seem to be in the minority at the moment, we'll reflect on comments once everyone has had their say!

@VintageBoy we wanted to give everyone a level playing field, we've noticed that since the introduction of the flags people can pre-judge someone's comments based on where they are from - in a negative way, for example users from smaller countries often get ignored straight away - so to remove this prejudice we've removed the flags. Hopefully people can understand why!

@Kirk thanks for your feedback, we are reading every single comment on this page... I hope you learn to love the new design! We have to make changes, otherwise the site would be stuck in its previous form forever - which can't be a good thing. We also have to serve adverts, we can't pay for this site out of our own pockets, however we only ever want to bring the most relevant adverts to our readers, you'll find no spammy adverts here!

@Tethers looks like those redirects weren't quite working right, you should be able to access channel specific feeds like this: http://www.nintendolife.com/feeds/wiiware/reviews

@Terra thanks, I hope your right. The response has been generally very positive, obviously people aren't always welcome to change but everything should improve on the old site... just takes some people longer to adjust!

@Bass_X0 we're working on that, seems to be an issue with IE8 and the advert.

@WiiLovePeace hadn't noticed that, but it is similar - have to say ours is better!

@StarDust not yet, we'll be working on a mobile/3DS version in the near future though!

@Koto we're looking at doing something like that, yeah, not quite sure how/where it will sit just yet!

THIS. Looking forward to Saturday - can't wait to beat everyone at F-Zero X again!

@shonenjump86 we're going to bring Nintendo Life up to speed next, then maybe an xbox site one day!

Good job I buy all my games from Amazon now!

@RichIconNew thanks for commenting in such a constructive manner. I think you'll find a lot of Nintendo enthusiasts share your pain when it comes to WiiWare — we know it's not an easy ride for small developers. As a site we're quite critical of the service in general, which is not solely aimed at developers.

Nintendo fans are also used to such highly polished first party games; it's sometimes this that makes WiiWare a painful experience, especially when comparing prices/quality to that of iOS games.

We also understand that dev teams more often than not put a lot of love/effort into games, however that doesn't always translate into a quality product, nor should it be taken into consideration when rating a game. "A for effort" doesn't apply here.

Anyway, we wish you all the best with future platforms and hope that Nintendo's service (in the future) may give you a better platform for success!

Hope everyone is having a great new year so far! Thanks for all your support in 2011. Fantastic.

Sorry North Americans, but a European 3DS wouldn't be much use to you!

Thanks everybody, keep your votes coming! Remember you can change/update your vote at any time before the closing date!

@Classicgamer Metroid: Other M was released in 2010, catch up!

Fantastic article Thomas, thought provoking. It's strange how popular Mario is without any real character or concept. Love it.

I won't really get to play this until middle of December... due to a upcoming holiday. doh!

Head spin.

I would love to go back to this game in 3D, really hope this one happens..

That's nice, why was this not released earlier?!

Nintendo need a huge improvement on their online stuff... I hope they get on top of it!

@Corbs I think you would of loved it, it wasn't boring at all!

@Dyl_Doe your right, the official start time was 7.30 - it only started a few minutes late.

@Iz20XX as I wasn't at the American one I can't say for sure - the crowd we're great.

@battLeToaD there were no standing places, it really wasn't that kind of event! The first performance was between 7.30-8.45 we then had a 15-20 interval before the second half which was between 9.15-10.15 (including the encore). It was being recorded (video cameras were there) but we doubt it would be released on DVD.

@SuperDel you're quite right, we've included a special mention now!

@gamepopper you're not alone, our very own James Newton had to leave half way through in order to catch his train home - he was not happy!

@James great episode though, good to hear from Kev on Heroes of Ruin. Great debate with Peter on Mario Land 3D, good stuff!

Oops, Episode 21!

I really liked this game too, I feel like having an inquest into the score It deserves a (at-the-time) 7 or 8 in my opinion.

This looks really nice, can I swap my Aqua Blue for this please?

First Nintendo Life had our first annual meet up in Nottingham and now this, Nintendo are following our lead

@James trade-only to be exact, not just media but it is at least non-public.

@TwillightPrince we can assure you that Nintendo had nothing to do with our choices, in-fact a bunch of our reviewers voted between themselves to decide which games would be included in the list. There was no single one person making any choices. It's also not a ranking list!

@LordAndrew, yes, Nintendo appear to be calling them a "shelf" in our correspondence.

The one day I forget to bring my 3DS to the office... I'm missing out on all the fun.

@V8_Ninja interesting point, but let's not get caught up in details!

@YashaStepanovic, yeah that's a stand out game that's changed things... not sure about some of the others.

Awesome job Jon, so glad to see NLFM back!

Oh dear what on earth are they thinking..