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Tons of original releases, Virtual Console titles, and demos are on the way.

Nintendo is known for many things, and chief among them would be their amazingly popular library of games. While that has kept the company firmly in the hearts and minds of millions of gamers, most hardcore fans would admit that the Big N hasn’t quite leveraged the digital space as well as they could. Nintendo is hoping to turn that sentiment around when it comes to the 3DS eShop. The eShop has seen some impressive original releases and some classics on the Virtual Console, but Nintendo is coming strong with a lineup of titles and content from October through the end of the year.

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There’s death a-plenty in the eShop’s gravity defying PC port.

Reviewing VVVVVV is about as tough as getting your head around its title.  It’s an odd game that sticks out in a crowd.  It’s simple, yet quirky.  It’s hard not to want to pick it up and play it, yet once consumed it becomes difficult to formulate an opinion on.  But that’s precisely my job, to form an opinion and disseminate that to you, the reader.  The review that follows almost mirrors the end experience with VVVVVV – somewhat unstable but worth taking in.

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According to NIS, its delay is due to "improvements to enhance gameplay."

In a brief NIS press release today, the company confirmed that Cave Story 3D has been officially delayed. The game will no longer make its late summer release date, instead it will be available in North America on the 3DS on November 8, 2011. Additional game improvements "to enhance gameplay" are currently holding up the release, but according to Jack Nilda of NIS America, the "changes are in the small details ... but [they] need to make sure the game is done right."

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Though originally planned for release this year, the game has been pushed to next year but will feature some new material.

Many players have been patiently awaiting the WiiWare release of the indy favorite, Cave Story. A number of technical issues have kept the game from releasing this year, but to compensate for the delay, Nicalis will be including a brand new feature.

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