During a brief 30 minute Nintendo Direct show today, EU CEO – Satoru Shibata – announced many dates for many downloadable Nintendo titles. Think of the lead to Christmas as Nintendo’s version of Microsoft’s ‘Summer of Arcade’.

In said set of announcements was a release date for liquid puzzle game ‘Hydroventure: Spin Cycle‘ – a sequel of sorts to the similar Wiiware title. While no date has been set in stone for EU, US players will have the game come December 27. However, the Nintendo Direct show did confirm the title would see the light of day this year for the rest.

For those unknown to the motion controlled fluid puzzler, here’s some video gameplay from PAX 2012 courtousy of GameRadar.