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Sakurai's latest Post of the Day on Miiverse might have been a shocker if you hadn't been following your Super Smash Bros. news on September 9th. About six hours before Sakurai's PotD, the first stories were breaking of Japan having a demo for the upcoming game.

The Demo contains several of the menu screens Mr. Sakurai has been recently revealing in his updates, with five brawlers being available to...

Released earlier this year, the original Tappingo delivered a streamlined, yet addicitve, fun puzzle game for 3DS owners at a budget price. Quickly attempting to replicate the success original, Goodbye Galaxy Games developed and released Tappingo 2; a sequel of sorts, one which offers more of what made the original great along with some minor improvements.

A puzzle...

Thinking back on Mario Kart's start, you have to wonder how the series became the hit franchise it is today. The premise of the game was strange at best; with platforming and arcade characters racing around tracks, throwing bananas at each other from boxes on the ground, Mario Kart was certainly an odd idea.

Thankfully for everyone, Nintendo knew what they...

Demon King Box is the kind of game that wouldn't have made it to release until recent years; with a professional feel meeting a budget price point, Circle Entertainment would have had trouble releasing a game like this to a market which didn't exist for these games. Thankfully for us, modern platforms like the eShop exist, and allow us to experience smaller games we would...

Raise your hand if you have ever heard of the original Thorium Wars? It's ok if you haven't, the DSiWare game launched back in 2009, and sported a 1000 Nintendo Points price tag. At the time, this was the first game to go above 800 points on DSiWare, and was rather controversial. Thorium Wars: Attack of the Skyfighter is available for $7.99, and while the price drop compared to the original...

Steel Empire is a shoot 'em up classic from the 16-Bit era, gloriously remade for the 3DS, and ported to the North American eShop by Teyon. There is no disputing whether or not this is a good game, but the real question is whether or not it is worth the asking price. Teyon is charging $30 USD for this steampunk shooter, and if the game is worth that price or if Teyon is asking for the moon is up to the buyer.

Ah, Comic Workshop, a tool for artists that promises to leave you with some fun drawing experience. Now, some info about the game. It released on the 3DS eShop on July 17th, 2014 in the US. It is also $7.99 in US Dollars. It requires 941 Blocks on your 3DS SD Card to download. But the main question is, is Comic Workshop worth the $7.99? Well, if you want to know, keep reading.

The Nintendo eShop has become one of the hottest places for developers to release their games in the past few years, specifically Indie developers, some of which have found unexpected success on the platform. Sales of games such as Shovel Knight show an increased performance on the eShop when compared to competing platforms;...

Strike Force Foxx feels as if it was taken straight out of an 80's action film and put on to a game console. The plot is just as cheesy as one might suspect, along with all of the main characters falling into stereotypes, but does the game have enough fresh content to rescue itself?

You play as Captain Foxx, a cocky helicopter pilot who has been called in to rescue hostages captured by a terrorist...

One simply doesn't mess with the Regginator. After showing gamers what he and his robot doppelganger are capable of at E3 2014 this should be more well known than ever. Thankfully, that didn't stop Microsoft's Phil Spenser from challenging Reggie to a dousing with ice water

This particular challenge has been rather popular recently, with the goal to raise public awareness for ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)...

We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Matt Donatelli of Graphite Lab, a company who has taken its first game to Kickstarter in the past weeks. Hive Jump is still working on reaching its goal of being funded, but the game looks spetacular, and the odds for its success seem high. Here to tell you more about their game is Matt:

We did it! 8 Bit Forward has hit a total of 100 Followers on Twitter, a total of 25,000 pageviews, and over 1200 posts! We can only thank our users for making this possible, so we'd like to give a little bit back for your support!

We will be giving away our first prize we've ever had, a $10 eShop card for a USA system! This is a huge milestone for us, payed for entirely by the staff running this site. To enter the raffle, simply join 8 Bit Forward (if you...

Over a year after their initial Kickstarter announcement, Yacht Club Games has had their first game, Shovel Knight, released for a little over a month. While only the English version is out on 3DS, Wii U and PC, Yacht Club has been more than happy to present the results of their labors for everyone to see. It can all be found

    It would appear as if budget titles and remakes with extra content have been flooding the eShops of both the 3DS and Wii U lately, many of which...

Previously released on PC by Eclipse Games, Super Toy Cars has managed to drift onto the Wii U eShop, and aims to recreate the enjoyment of classic arcade racing games which had previously inspired the developers. By drawing inspiration from games like Super Mario Kart and Death Rally, among others, Super Toy Cars attempts to recreate a classic racing experience with modern graphics...

A welcomed new occurrence to the Nintendo eShops are budget titles, whether it be Blok Drop U or Bird Mania Christmas 3D. Joining these ranks is SKYPEACE, a brief, enjoyable stage based runner that finds players surfing the skys, and battling aliens, attempting to stop an invasion.
Or at least thats what we could gather from the story, it isn't mentioned once in the game, or...

The latest of many Indie games to roll onto the Wii U eShop is simply titled Armillo; a game which boasts a simple concept of saving your armadillo world from invading creatures while rolling around planets and defeating enemies. Combining gameplay elements from established franchises such as Sonic and Super Mario Galaxy, Armillo bucks the increasingly popular trend of simply ripping...

In the past two weeks, the growing hype for third-generation remakes Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire has boomed with...

    If you own a home console made by a company other than a Nintendo one or a gaming computer, you may have already heard about the metroidvania known as Guacamelee!, which came out in 2013 for Playstation 3, Playstation Vita, Mac, Linux, and Windows. This title was met positively a year...

  After releasing their latest Squid game on Nintendo's Wii U eShop, The Game Bakers brought their game to the world of the 3DS via the eShop. Squid's Odyssey on the 3DS plays the same as every other version, as you control Steev and his gang of squids in themed underwater levels.
  Diving into Squid's Odyssey, you encounter the story plot of the 'sea' world being taken over...

A really colorful game

Color Zen is a new type of puzzle game made by Crypronia. It was released on the Wii U eShop on May 15th, 2014. Like the case with Color Zen Kids, it was originally on the App Store, but was ported to the 3DS and Wii U eShops later on. It is a great game for those who are into puzzle games or at a young age. It has color-themed puzzles, and many vibrant and bizzare color puzzles at that. I could go on about the history of Color Zen and other info...

Theaterhythm Final Fantasy, and its sequel, Curtain Call, both bring the ever popular Final Fantasy series to the 3DS, through the medium of a music game. These games let (or will let, as Curtain Call is not released in the West) players relive the best moments of every game through cutscenes along with the most memorable songs from the franchise. For a game with such a wide variety...

Cypronia previously released Color Zen on mobile devices, and recieved much praise from puzzle fans and reviewers. This led to the decision to port this unique game, and its sequel of sorts Color Zen Kids, which felt more like an expansion pack than a main game. Color Zen, the color puzzle...

Shaping up all cute-like

Color Zen Kids is a one player puzzle game made by Cypronia, released on the Nintendo Wii U eShop on June 19th, 2014. It was originally for the App Store but was ported to the Wii U and 3DS eShops. It is super simple, and also super short, perfect for younger kids. However, not so...

With Nintendo's much improved eShop service on the Wii U and 3DS have come many new and exciting possibilities. One such example is the porting of popular mobile titles to Nintendo's machines. The subject of today's review is one such game. Is Squids Odyssey worth your time, or should it have stayed on mobile platforms?