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Super Mario Odyssey makes a major change to a core gameplay element of the series. Lives are now completely gone. When you die in Super Mario Odyssey, you lose coins instead.

This ties in with another element of Super Mario Odyssey. Players can use coins to purchase all sorts of outfits and hats, including a wetsuit, Mario’s look in Mario Maker, and even a golfer’s uniform resembling what he wore in NES Open Tournament Golf.

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Nippon Columbia published a new trailer and commercial for Sumikko Gurashi: Sumikko Park he Youkoso. Watch the videos below.

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Update: A demo on the Wii U is also now available. 

Original: Last night, a demo for Just Dance 2018 was made available for Switch in Europe via the eShop. The same demo is out now in North America as well. Look for it in the “Coming Soon” section of the eShop.

Ubisoft released a new trailer to promote the demo’s arrival. You can find that attached below.

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A few new 3DS themes are out now in Japan. Here’s the lineup:

everything! – 200 yen
Mame Katsu! – 200 yen
Momokuma – 200 yen

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The latest episode of Nintendo’s Japanese show Nyannyan Neko Mario Time has now gone live. We’ve included it below.

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A few new digital titles are coming to the Japanese eShop on October 11. Here’s a look at the upcoming digital download schedule:

Switch Retail

Lost Sphear (available October 12)

* This post may be updated.

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According to the latest issue of Total Licensing, a television series based on Professor Layton is in the works. Only a couple of details are known thus far. Specifically, it’s planned to have 26 episodes and will premiere in 2018.

That’s the only information present in the magazine. We’ll keep you updated as we learn more.

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Next month, Sonic Forces will be launching. GameStop plans to release an exclusive figure pack as a tie-in.

The pack will contain four highly detailed 3″ articulated figures, including first to market Modern Tails. Four unique Sonic Forces video game lithographs are included as well.

You can pre-order the Sonic Forces Figure Pack on GameStop here. It’s due out on November 21.

Thanks to Mii for the tip.

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On the latest episode of Fragments of Silicon, Kai Tuovinen from Frozenbyte was interviewed. Tuovinen was asked about the already-released Has-Been Heroes as well as Nine Parchments.

To begin, Tuovinen indicated that Has-Been Heroes has been selling the best on Switch. Tuovinen didn’t share any specific numbers, though that was in part due to since he didn’t have any information on-hand. Switch’s small library could have played a role in the strong performance, but the fact that people were interested in the game and were giving it a shot was encouraging.

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We don’t want to make any assumptions about release dates for Switch eShop games at this point, but Earth Atlantis is very likely coming out this week. Nintendo’s North American website originally listed it for last Thursday, but that didn’t end up happening.

Earth Atlantis now has a listing on the US Switch eShop with a date of October 5. Nintendo’s UK site also lists the same date. Hopefully things stick this time around.

Finally, we have the file size for Earth Atlantis. It’s a 562MB download. 

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