Race ahead of your friends this week as SpeedX 3D arrives on Nintendo 3DS. This dramatic tunnel racer game will test your reactions and skills, transporting you in to a fantasy world pumping out electronic music and hypnotizing images. This game isn’t for the faint hearted though with four game modes to choose from; Stages, Endless, Survival and Zones. You’ll be faced with lots of challenging locations at ever faster speeds and it’s up to you to keep your concentration until you reach the finish line.

The role-playing Game Boy™ classic The Sword of Hope II is arriving in Europe for the very first time – on Virtual Console for Nintendo 3DS. The evil demon Zakdos has somehow managed to escape his prison and evil reigns once again. As the young Prince Theo, it’s up to you to set out on a journey to retrieve the stolen magical Sword of Hope. The way is full of perils and challenges but you’ll be aided by loyal allies, including warriors and magicians you’ll be able to recruit on the way.

Elsewhere this week, why not test your sporting mettle in the two Nintendo DSiWare games available this week. 90’s Pool is an entertaining and realistic pool simulator which includes 20 trick shot missions and allows you to play against your friends as well as the computer. And try blasting through over 100 fun tables in four exciting worlds filled with eye-popping detail in 101 Pinball World. Over on Wii, Successfully Learning English Year 3 is packed full of fun exercises helping you to learn English in a playful way.

Be sure to check out The Incredible Barbazan: Raging Bull – the latest 3D video clip featuring Barbazan, the world’s worst magician, available from the Nintendo eShop this week.

With the greatest sporting show on earth well and truly under way, this week we bring you the first in a series of entertaining clips to get you in the sporting mood. This series of clips, titled Nintendo Video Sports Highlights will be available to watch via Nintendo Video on your Nintendo 3DS, and with one clip becoming available per week for the next seven weeks, there is plenty to look forward to. Make sure to keep an eye out for an exciting surprise when the first clip becomes available this week!

Available again this week via Nintendo Video is a compilation displaying some of the best winning photos from the Nintendo 3DS 3D Photo Contest which took place across Europe from April to June 2012. We received 138,069 photos from 22,423 registered users across 6 different categories and we wanted to showcase the very best of the best from the 19 participating European countries.


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