Nintendo announces Holiday lineup for Nintendo 3DS, gives sneak peak at 2013 plans

Nintendo today released some new information during the latest Nintendo Direct session that highlights what they have in store for the Nintendo 3DS this Holiday season and beyond.  Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask  and Paper Mario: Sticker Star are coming soon, along with Scribblenauts Unlimited, Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion and others.

If you’d like to hear the news direct from Nintendo, then feel free to check out the new Nintendo Direct video.

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Read on for all the details too.

Nintendo of America showcased its holiday lineup for Nintendo 3DS and provided a sneak peek of content coming in 2013 in a Nintendo Direct that was posted this morning. Nintendo-published games include Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask (Oct. 28) and Paper Mario: Sticker Star (Nov. 11). These join the just-released Crosswords Plus, Style Savvy: Trendsetters and Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! to form the widest and deepest lineup in the platform?s history. Additionally, two new downloadable course packs are now available for the industry?s current top-selling portable game*, New Super Mario Bros. 2. The course packs are available for purchase from the in-game shop.

Nintendo?s third-party partners continue to bring their best franchises to the Nintendo 3DS experience. Notable titles coming this holiday season include Scribblenauts Unlimited from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (Nov. 13), Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion from Disney Interactive (Nov. 18) and Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why?d You Steal Our Garbage?!! from D3Publisher (Nov. 20).

Nearly all of the Nintendo-published games coming this holiday season will be available as both a packaged product at retail and as a digital download from the Nintendo eShop. These games will join four major Nintendo 3DS games that were previously only available as physical products that were added to the Nintendo eShop on Oct. 18: Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Star Fox 64 3D.

In addition to games also available in stores, there is a massive lineup of games that are only available in the Nintendo eShop. That list will grow stronger starting today and through the holiday season with the addition of building-block puzzle game Crashmo (Nov. 22), the sequel to the acclaimed Pushmo game, and the 360-degree water-morphing action-puzzle game Fluidity: Spin Cycle (Dec. 27). Additional games include NightSky (available now) and Ikachan (later in 2012) from Nicalis, and a trilogy of games from Level 5, including LIBERATION MAIDEN (available now), as well as Aero Porter and Crimson Shroud coming later this year.

?The quality of portable game play on Nintendo 3DS is unparalleled; no other hand-held device can match it,? said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America?s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. ?And that holds true whether games are purchased in packaged form, or via digital download.?