We’ve finally got the go-ahead by Nintendo to release our big Colors! 3D update and it will be available in the eShop on April 5 absolutely free. We can’t tell you how excited we are about this – there are so many features that we’ve been waiting for you to get your hands on. Just look at this list:

• Follow your favorite artists in the gallery to make sure you don’t miss any of their paintings

• Customize your Nintendo 3DS button setup to streamline your painting flow

• Use the new search-bar to easily find paintings of your favorite topics

• Filter paintings in the gallery based on if they used a reference photo not – only want to see original works? No problem

• See what tools you and others used to create a painting – and find out who spent over 30 hours on a single work!

• Get news directly in Colors! 3D about everything from gallery improvements to painting contests

• Make your own gallery page more individual by customizing it with a message and a profile picture

• Tag your paintings with the new #tags system for other users to easily find them

• And tons (and tons) of other additions and bug-fixes

You can find a more detailed change-list here.

To celebrate this, we will be launching our first big painting contest in a long time – Paint the world in colors. First price is a brand new Wii U™ console that will be awarded to the painting that we feel best represents the topic. We also have a bunch of runner-up prices: XStylus Crayons, generously provided by greenbulb.com.

1st price – Nintendo Wii U™ Deluxe Set

Runner-up (2 winners) – XStylus Crayon pack

Random participants (2 winners) – XStylus Crayon pack

And you can start right away. Just upload one or more painting with the “paint the world in colors” theme to the Colors! Gallery, and use the tag #painttheworld in the description. The deadline is April 25, and you can use Colors! on any platform to participate. You can read the fine-print about contests here. Good luck!

Colors! 3D has been a bigger success than we could have ever imagined. From getting the Metacritic 3DS Game of the Year award to topping the eShop sales-charts for over a month. This update is a thank you to all of you who made that happen!

Jens

Nintendo is not a sponsor of this promotion