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Mario Baseball, Donkey Konga 3, Cube Kirby shots

Nintendo releases shots of three new Cube titles, along with some new pics from The Legend of Zelda.

Nintendo isn't saying much about any of them, but as well as releasing three new screenshots of the next GameCube-bound instalment of The Legend of Zelda, the platform holder has also released shots for three previously unannounced Cube titles: Mario Baseball, Donkey Konga 3, and an as-yet untitled Kirby game.

There are no real details on any of them, but you can have fun extrapolating from the shots by clicking on the links above. We reckon the Zelda shots have been culled from the E3 trailer, so we don't know how representative those are at this point, but the others tell some stories: Mario Baseball, for example, shows the likes of Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Bowser, Wario and more taking up positions.

You can also see Funky Kong doing... something... in the DK3 shots, while the Kirby collection suggest a nicely 3D game that touches all the usual bases. By which we mean gobbling up locals, zooming around on rainbows and floating beneath umbrellas.

As soon as we hear anything else about any of them, we'll be sure to mention it.