May2021

  • News Cursed Castilla Collector's Edition For Switch Is Particularly Cool

    A cardboard mini arcade cabinet, why not?

    An area that sets the audience for Nintendo Switch apart from its gaming hardware rivals, arguably, is the desire for limited editions of download games. It's an industry of its own, and certainly a lucrative one, as quality eShop games that typically cost less than $20 get limited runs of physical copies...

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  • News Musicverse: Electronic Keyboard Gets a European Release Date

    Hitting the right notes

    The 3DS eShop has apps to cover various hobbies - for example you can draw, code games in BASIC and, of course, create music. Musicverse: Electronic Keyboard has some competition in the music composition area, but it's keen to make its mark on the portable. Having arrived in North America on 18th February, it's now confirmed...

January2016

April2013

  • News Carps & Dragons is the Sort-Of Sequel to Fish-em All

    Yes, really

    You may have spotted a good few eShop game announcements in the last day or so, which are courtesy of iDÉAME13, the Nintendo-hosted Indie Developer's Conference held in Madrid over the weekend. Earlier on today we also told you about Cut the Rope being brought to the 3DS eShop by Abylight; the developer is also weighing in with an...

  • News Freshly-Sliced Version Of Cut The Rope Coming To 3DS eShop

    The adorable Om Nom is back for more munching

    ZeptoLab has confirmed that the 3DS eShop will be getting a new version of the insanely popular Cut The Rope, developed by Abylight. The physics-based puzzler has been downloaded over 100 million times since its 2010 release. Based on the iOS original, the developers are promising that this new version...

December2010

November2010

  • News DSi Shop Getting Stormed by Dairojo! Samurai Defenders

    New tower defence game on the way

    Following its recent medley of musical releases, Abylight is getting ready to publish its upcoming tower defence game that's developed for the DSiWare service by Japanese studio Kawamoto Industrial, and we have the official trailer that shows the kind of multi-tasking gamers will have to perform when it launches...

October2010

September2010

  • News Strum Along with Music On: Acoustic Guitar Next Week

    Abylight hoping it strikes a chord

    If you like using your DSi to make beautiful music, you've so far been mostly limited to keyboards and studio software, with few to no alternatives. Abylight's Music On series is about to throw a new six-stringed option into the mix with the launch of Music On: Acoustic Guitar next week. Selling at the same 200...

August2010

  • News Learn Piano with the Latest Music On Title this Monday

    200 Points to tinkle the ivories

    If you've been following Abylight's Music On series you'll have already dabbled with an Electronic Keyboard and a Retro Keyboard, and with an Acoustic Guitar, but the next release in the series looks like taking the studio's musical offerings to a higher level. Titled Music On: Learning Piano and released on Monday,...

July2010

  • News Abylight Tuning Up Music On: Acoustic Guitar

    Latest in DSiWare music series on the way

    We've already had the chance to tinkle the DSiWare ivories with Music On: Electronic Keyboard and Retro Keyboard, but developer Abylight isn't limiting itself to black-and-white keys and is branching out into stringed instruments with Music On: Acoustic Guitar on the way to the service in the near future...

June2010

  • News Music On: Retro Keyboard Takes You Back in Musical Time

    Get tuned into retro gaming sounds

    European DSi owners have already had the chance to tinker with the first entry in Abylight's 'Music On' series, the straightforwardly-named Music On: Electronic Keyboard, but the Spanish developer-publisher is ready to unleash a second bout of musical noodling with the imminent arrival of Music On: Retro Keyboard...

  • News Get Your European Tangram on with Neves Plus Next Friday

    Puzzle game finds its way across the pond at last

    It's been so long since Neves Plus was released in North America – nearly a year, in fact – that we'd almost given up hope of ever seeing it reach Europe. It seems our faith needn't have wavered though, as Abylight has announced it's bringing the game, along with new subtitle Pantheon of Tangrams...

  • Nintendo Download 4th June 2010 (Europe)

    Beavers and Brains

    Beavers and Brains on Wii, Books, Music, Upside-Down Puzzling and still more Sudoku on DSi this week in Europe. Retro fans will be disappointed at another week without a Virtual Console release, but hopefully we'll be seeing Wild Guns here soon. Otherwise it's mainly a catch-up week for Europe on Wii and DSi. WiiWare:...