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A relatively obscure sequel to a very popular NES game appears on the 3DS eShop this week: Sunsoft's Blaster Master: Enemy Below for Game Boy Color. It's time to return to the world of upside-down space trucks and floating cyborg head things.

WiiWare offers a new Carmen Sandiego game (what?) about math (what?) and DSiWare shows it is possible to offer a retail DS game as a download -- though that functionality has so far been almost the exclusive domain of tiny publishers. For example, today we have Elite Forces: Unit 77 from Gammick Entertainment, and a game in the spirit of a retail DS release: a new sequel to 2007's WordJong.

A portion of a Nintendo Life review...

The ability to export to an SD card is a great inclusion, making sure that your work isn't trapped on the Wii. It's let down, however, by its lacking variety of tools, but you'll still have a great time painting as a group, even with your family's youngest of gamers.

Full review here

Paint Splash is one of those games that makes you wonder why Nintendo didn't think it up themselves since it is, basically, a four-player version of the SNES classic Mario Paint. Just like that 1992 hit that turned your Super Nintendo and TV into a virtual artist's studio and let you go wild on the...