Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 3 Comments

Marvelous published Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns’ fourth update in Japan today. The game is now at version 1.4.

The latest Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns update is highlighted by the addition of Cheburashka. As a new friend, Cheburashka can walk around towns, or even spend some time at the player’s house.

A couple of new events are also added:

– After the Starry Night Festival, the player with a marriage candidate place presents for children
– After the New Year Festival, the player and marriage candidates gather to visit each villages

New winter-related costumes are also added with today’s new update.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, General Nintendo, News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Several new discounts have been added to the North American website. Mario Tennis and Wrecking Crew rewards are included in the Platinum category while the Gold offers are for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and NES Open Tournament.

The full lineup is as follows:

Platinum

20% discount on Mario Tennis (Wii U) – 200 Platinum Points
20% discount on Wrecking Crew (Wii U) – 100 Platinum Points

Gold

30% discount on Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Wii U) – 20 Gold Points
30% discount on NES Open Tournament (Wii U / 3DS) – 20 Gold Points

All of these discounts are located on My Nintendo here.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Switch | 6 Comments

Two big Nintendo products made Google’s most-searched consumer-electronics tech products this year. Switch came in fifth, followed by NES Classic Edition at seventh.

The full lineup is as follows:

iPhone SE
iOS 10
Google Pixel
iPhone 7 Plus
Nintendo Switch
iPhone 7
NES Classic Edition
Galaxy S7
Playstation VR
PS4 Pro

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Videos | 2 Comments

Nintendo opened the Japanese website for Tank Troopers today. You can access it here. For new gameplay, watch the video below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Switch, Videos | 8 Comments

A teaser trailer is now online for Seasons of Heaven, the indie Switch-exclusive announced last week. You can watch it below.

As shown in the video, the full trailer will be released next Monday.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 2 Comments

Nintendo announced Tank Troopers for 3DS during a Nintendo Direct back in September. In Japan, it’s hitting the eShop next Wednesday. Now we have new details about the game.

In the game, you can have your favorite trooper ride tanks and use special abilities. There are 30 single-player missions which have objectives like reaching the goal within the time limit, or fighting a giant tank. Stages have variation like lush grasslands, deserts with undulations, and a port with a dense formation of warehouses.

36 types of tanks and 13 troopers are included, each with different stats and abilities. You can pair up the tanks and troopers as you like to match up with the stage and battle features.

Tank Troopers supports up to six players in local multiplayer, including Download Play. However, in Download Play, everyone uses the same tank and trooper.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 7 Comments

Polygon has put up the latest – and final – video in its “Devs Make Mario” series. In today’s feature, Touhou Project creator Jun’ya Ota (ZUN) makes a level in the game. View it below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 6 Comments

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night creator Koji Igarashi took to Kickstarter today and explained how the team is going about improving environments on the game.

One of the issues Igarashi wanted to address was players being unsure of “where a platform was, or whether the thing they were looking at was a wall or something they could pass through.” This has been improved by increasing the brightness of the front side of platforms while making more distant parts of the environments darker.

The Bloodstained team is also now making use of procedural generation in environments. Before that term scares you off, the explanation makes sense, as it will allow for smoother development. To put it simply, procedural generation is being used “to auto-generate environmental grime and destruction effects.” Doing so means environments will have more of a visual flair and will ensure that areas won’t give off the impression of being “looped”. Variation could have been done by hand, but it “would require a disproportionately large amount of resources,” Igarashi noted. Procedural generation allows for that variation without putting a huge burden on the developers.

The following video shows the usage of procedural generation:

For the full Kickstarter update, visit the source link below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 2 Comments

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

Kunio-kun (hockey) – 100 yen
Rilakkuma: Relaxed Cat – 200 yen
Rilu Rilu Fairilu * Hajimete no Fairilu Magic – 200 yen
Gurumin 3D: Night Parade – 200 yen
Buddy Go! – 200 yen

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 3 Comments

Nintendo has readied a pair of new Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon!! commercials. Both can be found below.

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