A well-known children’s favourite wiggles its way onto WiiWare this week to help children learn the alphabet. The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s ABCs uses fun and colourful flash cards to help little ones master their ABCs by associating words and pictures with each letter. There are also two add-ons available to download to keep the fun filled learning experience going.
Learning can also be fun on your Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DSi this week, as Successfully Learning Mathematics Year 3 launches for Nintendo DSiWare. If you fancy a break from learning, then make sure you float to safety by avoiding enemies and navigating your way through a series of tricky obstacles in the classic Game Boy game, Balloon Kid available on Nintendo 3DS. Also available this week on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DSi is Double Bloob where you will have to fight to save the planet and free Will, the little dolphin, from his captors all with the help of Doctor Maybe’s ingenious inventions. Check out all the other latest offerings which are available for download this Thursday via Nintendo eShop, Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii Shop Channel. Title Platform Available on Price Point Further Info Contact Balloon Kid™ (Nintendo) Nintendo 3DS (Virtual Console) Nintendo eShop €3.00 £2.70 (UK Only) nintendo@bell-pottinger.co.uk Game Description: Take to the skies on a trip through a land filled with danger, with nothing but balloons to keep you afloat. When her brother is swept away on the wind, Alice must save him by floating through eight perilous stages. Navigate your way through enemies and obstacles, collect balloons to earn bonuses, or let go of your balloons to face enemies on the ground. Double Bloob (Bloober Team) Nintendo 3DS (DSiWare) Nintendo eShop €5.00 £4.50 (UK Only) Piotr Bielatowicz, peter.bielatowicz@blooberteam.com Nintendo DSi (DSiWare) Nintendo DSi Shop 500 Nintendo DSi Points Game Description: In Double Bloob you must help two siblings, Aen and Niua, save the planet from an invasion of Bloobs and rescue a little dolphin named Will who has been taken hostage. With the help of Doctor Maybe’s inventions, try to set the little dolphin free while shooting hordes of Bloobs that fly out in the sky. With tons of weapons and power-ups, as well as eight different worlds and 48 levels, you’ll have hours of fun trying to save Will from the evil Bloobs. Successfully Learning Mathematics Year 3 (Tivola) Nintendo 3DS (DSiWare) Nintendo eShop €5.00 £4.50 (UK Only) Ralph Marko, marko@tivola.de Nintendo DSi (DSiWare) Nintendo DSi Shop 500 Nintendo DSi Points Game Description: In Successfully Learning: Mathematics, Year 3, your task is to complete a range of exercises which will help you to learn maths in a playful way. Along the way you’ll be aided by a little vampire friend, Freddy, who will motivate you and offer helpful tips and advice. The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s ABCs (CYBIRD) Wii (WiiWare) Wii Shop Channel 800 Wii Points Shimei Takizawa, takizawa@cybird.co.jp Game Description: You’ll enjoy learning to read and mastering the alphabet with the help of the Very Hungry Caterpillar. The game is based on the children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and helps young players learn the alphabet by associating words and pictures with each letter. With easy to understand quizzes and drawing and colouring exercises, you’ll find learning fun with the lovable caterpillar. The SpotPass™ feature on Nintendo 3DS allows you to automatically receive a host of exciting content such as 3D videos for Nintendo Video ™, notifications, add-on data for your software and system updates without lifting a finger. SpotPass content can be received automatically and free of charge from thousands of supported public Wi-Fi access points across Europe and through wireless broadband internet connections at home. It works even if the system is in Sleep Mode. Available this week via Nintendo Video, is the latest instalment of the Circus 3D series. Circus 3D is a series of clips which will transport you into a world of a real life circus and put you the viewer in the heart of the action wherever you may be. Take in a birds-eye view of an acrobat on parallel bars or feel like you are with the artists on stage through innovative points of views. Watch an aerial performance from the floor or the point of view from inside a cage with tigers. Circus 3D will offer you an exhilarating experience which immerses you into circus life as if you were actually there, all in 3D and in the palm of your hand. Available again this week via Nintendo Video is 3D Machine, the story of a brilliant inventor who finally makes a breakthrough creating a wondrous invention only to leave it in the hands of his incapable assistant leading to wealth and love, but inevitably ending in a catastrophe.