Showers or no showers, the onset of April brings another round of new downloadable games for Nintendo systems. The Super NES™ favorite Super Bonk is now available on the Virtual Console™ service, giving Wii™ owners a fun new way to enjoy the hard-headed fun of the classic series. And as real-world baseball comes back to life in ballparks across the nation, the Nintendo DSiWare™ service offers the hand-held excitement of Absolute Baseball, challenging players to guide their own customized teams to big-league victory. Dark dungeons, fairytale adventures and exotic fish add even greater variety to this week’s lineup.

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A few more Spider-Man: Edge of Time details have surfaced from WonderCon. You can check out the first batch of information we posted yesterday here.

– Trailer narrated by Spider-Man 2099
– Gameplay comparable to Shattered Dimensions
– In the trailer, Spider-Man 2099 says “We must defy time itself together”
– He also says “a hero has no future if he has no past”
– Another line is that the only person that can help him is already dead
– Picture-in-picture mechanic used so that the characters can communicate
– Also shows how the timelines are affecting each other
– Voice actors recorded their lines at the same time, at the same place
– Likely no multiplayer
– The Statue of Liberty changes once the scientist kills Peter Parker
– Team is making sure there won’t be any sort of continuity paradoxes

Nintendo Everything reader Alex has sent a couple of 3DS-related easter eggs our way. First, something strange happens when you place your system on top of a DS…

As you can see, the 3DS appears to temporarily shut off (going into sleep mode, possibly). I have no idea why that would happen and it is quite random… but interesting, I suppose!

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This information comes from the folks over at Nnooo…

“We’ve been speaking to Nintendo since E3 last year and our plan at the moment is to finish escapeVektor for WiiWare and then finish Spirit Hunters for DSiWare. Then what we’re hoping to do is bring escapeVektor to the 3DS. The design of the game has taken the 3DS into account, particularly in the graphics, so it should look even better on the 3DS, which will be cool. And we also want to look into bringing Spirit Hunters over to 3DS as well. We think the battles in particular would look amazing with the spirit traveling in and out of the screen. A bit like Face Raiders I suppose. We’ve got lots of plans to support the 3DS. It’s basically going to be our main platform that we are going to be focusing on in the future.”

Nnooo has previously expressed interest in bringing Spirit Hunters to the 3DS, but now it sounds as though it’s something that will definitely happen. I’m wondering when we’ll finally see the DSiWare version, though…

Thanks to Benjamin Y for the tip!

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This information comes from WayForward’s Mazz Bozon…

“We’ve talked about it at length. But if we did a Shantae on Nintendo 3DS, jumping layers might just be the tip of the iceberg. There’s so much cool stuff we could do with stereo vision! I think I’ll go play Wario Land on my Virtual Boy right now…”

I hope we get to see more of Shantae one day, and it’d be great if it didn’t take another eight or so years to happen. Perhaps WayForward could consider making a game for 3DSWare. It’d be pretty similar to what they did with Shantae on DSiWare.

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01. / 00. [PSP] Final Fantasy IV: Complete Collection (Square Enix) {2011.03.24} – 104.173 / NEW
02. / 01. [PS3] Dynasty Warriors 7 (Koei Tecmo) {2011.03.10} – 36.548 / 357.113 (-46%)
03. / 00. [3DS] Gundam: The 3D Battle (Bandai Namco) {2011.03.24} – 23.500 / NEW
04. / 02. [PSP] Dissidia: 012 (Duodecim) Final Fantasy (Square Enix) {2011.03.03} – 21.741 / 403.912 (-30%)
05. / 05. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (Capcom) {2010.12.01} – 16.444 / 4.401.653 (+11%)
06. / 03. [3DS] Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle (Level 5) {2011.02.26} – 16.294 / 242.649 (-12%)
07. / 04. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity (Sega) {2011.02.24} – 14.403 / 300.418 (-11%)
08. / 06. [3DS] Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New Friends (Nintendo) {2011.02.26} – 13.219 / 160.742 (-10%)
09. / 07. [PSP] SD Gundam G Generation: World (Bandai Namco) {2011.02.24} – 10.160 / 283.802 (-29%)
10. / 11. [NDS] Pokemon Black / White (Pokemon Co.) {2010.09.18} – 10.025 / 5.127.678 (+16%)
11. / 00. [PSP] Gakuen Hetalia Portable (Idea Factory) {2011.03.24} – 9.729 / NEW
12. / 08. [PS3] Way of the Samurai 4 (Spike) {2011.03.03} – 9.153 / 110.483 (-34%)
13. / 13. [WII] Donkey Kong Country Returns (Nintendo) {2010.12.09} – 8.526 / 859.865 (+14%)
14. / 14. [WII] Wii Party (Nintendo) {2010.07.08} – 8.450 / 1.829.936 (+19%)
15. / 15. [PSP] Fairy Tail: Portable Guild 2 (Konami) {2011.03.10} – 6.291 / 31.444 (-10%)
16. / 00. [PSP] Cladun 2 (Nippon Ichi Software) {2011.03.24} – 5.956 / NEW
17. / 16. [NDS] Digimon Story: Super Xros Wars – Blue / Red (Bandai Namco) {2011.03.03} – 5.812 / 57.676 (+3%)
18. / 27. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) {2008.04.10} – 5.762 / 3.186.971
19. / 12. [3DS] Samurai Warriors: Chronicles (Koei Tecmo) {2011.02.26} – 5.641 / 106.059 (-32%)
20. / 26. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) {2009.12.03} – 5.574 / 4.253.995

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Crysis 2 – 8
Shift 2 Unleashed – 8
Dawn of War II – 8
PlayStation Move Heroes – 3
Patapon 3 – 6
Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars – 7
Super Monkey Ball 3D – 5
Ridge Racer 3D – 8
Asphalt 3D – 4
Samurai Warriors Chronicles – 6
Swarm – 6

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Activision delivered on their promise to bring the first Spider-Man: Edge of Time details to WonderCon. A bunch of information (see below) was shared at the Spider-Man panel, as well as the first trailer. The video is not yet available, but we’ll be sure to post it as soon as it’s released.

– Josh Keaton is the voice of the Amazing Spider-Man in Edge of Time
– Peter David working on the story
– Team started working on Edge of Time before Shattered Dimensions shipped
– Dev. team took fan feedback from Shattered Dimensions into account
– Stars Spider-Man 2099 and Amazing Spider-Man
– Releasing this fall
– Connected timeline
– Scientist from 2099 travels back in time, looking to destroy Spider-Man
– Contains cause/effect gameplay
– The actions you perform affect things
– Platforms have yet to be announced
– Peter David has been working with Beenox on the game
– Not a sequel to Shattered Dimensions
– Team has really worked on the combat
– Elements from Shattered Dimensions will be brought over, seeing enhancements
– Chris Barnes is the voice of Spider-Man 2099
– Story is very character driven
– Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099 don’t get along very well in the beginning
– The stories unfold at the same time
– Trailer/screenshots soon