The best example of add-on content I've seen.

Fallblox has new levels being released by Nintendo in the form of QR codes.

The advantage of having this rather than some company's server is that the new content can be saved as JPGs and distributed by anyone.

MechaGamezilla, the Irish Consolevania

Ok what I said in the title may be bold of me but seriously this man is talented. Go check out his YouTube channel as soon as you can please.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MechaGamezilla/

Watch all the videos too. The first one is a review of Tomb Raider II which cleverly portrays it as a clone of Namco's tank game Battle City(it's because Lara moves like a tank right? ohohohohoho).

The recent one about E3 2012 is what made me truly notice the guy when I saw it as a part of ChuckieDregs episode 2 (which itself is a nice return for Consolevania's Ryan MacLeod). My favourite part was where Link was giving directions through the Lost Woods in a northern accent. Moments like that are good for the Irish video game fan's heart!

Got 3DS Letter from Taku Sugioka, director of Pullblox

Nice surprise to see this today. It was sent to everyone who bought Pullblox and it was a nice message thanking us for playing the game and that the sequel Fallblox is out in the eShop. It also had a link to the game's section of the eShop.

I already bought the sequel so I didn't need to follow it.

Donkey Kong Country 1, 2 and 3 are being removed from the Shopping Channel

You can redownload them if you bought them already but I just have to ask why are they doing this?

They're some of the best games on the VC and it's not like there are licensing issues or anything... Nintendo themselves own the rights to those games.

I consider these games essential and they run smoother than any unofficial emulator I've tried them on so be sure to buy them before 25th of this month!

Bear in mind though, we still have no idea what the Wii U's proprietary Virtual Console is going to be like so think carefully about all this.

Reggie visits fans queueing for the Wii U launch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jkaYNtD55-I

Isn't this nice! I really enjoy stuff like this. That Triforce guy wasn't there and I bet he regrets it. I kinda wish I was there so I could StreetPass Reggie's Mii. I wonder if it's a special one like Iwata that wears gold pants? I also would've shouted out during the "request a game from Reggie" part that I want Dragon Quest X and VII and Rocket Slime to come out in Europe!

Imagine if I went to a Wii U launch here in Ireland and Satoru Shibata appeared like this? It would be pretty cool to get his StreetPass too. If that really did happen I would go up to him and tell him that I bought Pokémon Typing and thought it was awesome. Then he would look me straight in the eye, shake my hand and say:

"You are a true Irish Nintendo Fan".

t'would be brilliant...

Got my third NSMB2 StreetPass challenge

This one's coin score was just over 2000 coins so it wasn't too difficult to beat. It doesn't tell you what the score is initially before you complete the three stages and that made me think there was some special reward for beating the score on my first go but that wasn't the case at all.

Virtue's Last Reward has a demo on the eShop

I nabbed this demo today when it came out and had a try. The puzzles are quite decent but you're moving around in this fairly clunky 3D environment. It doesn't feel that great to look around a room this way and the camera panning is stuttery.

Aside from Alice's immediate appeal of being this lovely, tall, busty amazonian there's nothing particularly interesting about the characters but they're not too bad.

The "Saw"-like theme still isn't my favourite and it seems that just like 999 for the DS by the same developer, it seems like it's going to be a game that's not particularly remarkable but is overall ok and does the job of getting you through your bus/train commute.

The game has an auto/skip feature, which I hope will be handy in the full game! A good skip feature ought to be compulsory in these types of games.