You Can Download the Sequels to Zelda and Pushmo to a 3DS Today

Here in America, it’s Thanksgiving. It’s a day to be be thankful, a day for eating turkey and cranberry sauce and a day for ignoring the normal Nintendo download update.

Cutting to the chase, the sequel to Pushmo my favorite 3DS game is out today. The new one is called Crashmo. In the old game you pulled and moved blocks in order to climb to your destination.. In the new one, you do the same… but now the blocks can fall! This sounds like the most boring thing ever, but both last year’s game and this year’s—which I’m about 40 puzzles into and not close to halfway—are very good puzzle games. Watch the Japanese trailer up top, ok? Or go to Nintendo’s Crashmo site, which is full of videos and justified hype.

Not sold on Crashmo? Well, back in the day there was a game called Zelda. It had block-pushing puzzles, too. It also had a sword, a shield, a bow and arrow and octorocks. It was very good. Then they made a sequel and it was strange. And by strange I mean it was a side-scrolling role-playing game that seemed to have little to do with the first Zelda. Nintendo loves re-selling their old games, so, as of today, you can buy Zelda II: The Adventure of Link on your 3DS. Previously, you could only have it on your 3DS if you were a 3DS Ambassador (translation: you paid full price back when the 3DS was not worth its price tag and before Nintendo cut the price by a third; today, the 3DS is wayyyyy better).

Also in today’s Nintendo eShop update:

Spirit Hunters Inc: Light for the 3DS and DSi shops. Official info page.

Spirit Hunters Inc: Shadow for the 3DS and DSi shops.. Official info page.

3D MahJongg for the 3DS shop. Official info page.

Ninja Master’s for the Wii shop, which can also be accessed with a Wii U in Wii mode. (Sorry, no info page)

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WII U?

That’s what you’re thinking, right?

Well, tough. Wii U owners get no new games today. They’ll just have to be happy with this handful of games that were put on the Wii U’s eShop . Just a few indies and whatnot:

Assassin’s Creed III

Chasing Aurora

Darksiders II

Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two

EA Sports FIFA Soccer 2013

ESPN Sports Connection

Game Party Champions

Just Dance 4

Little Inferno

Madden NFL 2013

Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition

Nano Assault NEO