This week on the 3DS eShop: Mario and Donkey Kong, The Starship Damrey, and Crash City Mayhem

Games. Glorious games. Unique games. Notable games. The Nintendo 3DS eShop has quite the variety this week, make no mistake.

You've got a new game featuring everyone's favourite plumber and gorilla combo, something new from the studio behind the Professor Layton series, as well as some smaller, cheaper options.

In fact, it's a rather good week for the Nintendo 3DS all round. There's a reason for every single one of you 3DS owners to head down to your local eShop and throw some cash at the man behind the counter made of pixels.

Let's take a closer look at these games in their natural habitat.

Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move leads the top releases this week. It's the fifth entry in the Mario vs Donkey Kong series.

You funnel robotic Marios around a series of puzzle boards, and try to guide them to the end. Think Pipe Mania, but with Mario. This costs £8.99 - expect a review soon.

The Starship Damrey is also potentially exciting. It's the first title in Level-5's Guild 02 trio, and it's an adventure horror game about working out what the heck is going on in a twisted world.

The quality of the Guild 01 titles ranged from great to not so great, so it's probably best to wait for a review on this. £7.19 if you can't wait.

Elsewhere, Bloody Vampire is a Metroidvania title that looks fairly stylish, and costs £4.49. And Reel Fishing 3D Paradise Mini is, as you'd expect, a fishing game. £3.59 for this one.

Crash City Mayhem is one to watch. It's all about driving around a city, causing as much carnage as you can behind the wheel of large tanks and zippy mopeds. Potentially great - £17.99 for that.

And there's even a new Virtual Console game this week. Wrecking Crew sees Mario and Luigi taking on roles as demolition experts in this NES classic, with a £3.59 price tag.

Americans get Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move too this week, although they'll be paying $9.99 for it. Apparently they don't use pound sterling over there. Who knew!

And SpeedX 3D Hyper Edition takes the original Bronze Award-winning SpeedX 3D from last year, and throws a new coat of paint over it, as well as new music, improved controls, and faster gameplay.

That will cost you $2.99 if you're interesting. If it's similar to the original version, that can't be a bad purchase at all.

And that's your lot for this week - back again in seven days.