First announced at Nintendo's E3 presentation last month, Kirby's Epic Yarn was originally slated for a holiday launch in North America, with Nintendo of Europe confirming their intention to launch the title before the end of the year soon after.

Now, however, a financial statement released by Nintendo Company Ltd. has confirmed that the title has been pushed back and won't launch in Europe until the first quarter of 2011. Its fall release in the States remains unaffected and the title still has no firm launch window in Japan.

We posted 23 screenshots from the game shortly after its appearance at E3: you can check them out here.