Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 46 Comments

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is finally arriving on the North American Wii U Virtual Console tomorrow, Nintendo’s website reveals. The game will be sold for $7.99.

Here’s an overview:

“A mysterious enemy named Smithy has appeared, forcing Mario and Bowser to fight as allies. Journey across a wide variety of locations and tackle a mixture of obstacles that will require both timing and strategy to overcome. Gain experience, grow more powerful, and meet new characters to use their abilities in taking down Smithy and his gang!”

It’s been a fairly long wait for Super Mario RPG in the states. Japan has had the game since last August, while it released in PAL regions last December.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Images, New Nintendo 3DS, Wii U | 5 Comments

Amazon has posted the boxart for Runbow Deluxe Edition on Wii U and New 3DS. We have both above.

Both versions are now properly up for pre-order on Amazon, along with a 20% Prime discount. You can reserve it on Wii U here and New 3DS here.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Videos | 1 Comment

At E3 earlier this month, Nintendo World report spoke with Ace Attorney developers Motohide Eshiro and Takeshi Yamazaki about Spirit of Justice. Janet Hsu also participated in the discussion as localization director. The full video interview can be found below.

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

A brand new trailer has come online for Nefarious. We’ve included it below.

4colorrebellion also spoke with Josh Hano, creator of the project. Hano shared an update on the Wii U version, telling the site:

That’s a tricky question to answer at the moment. Namely due to Nintendo’s lotcheck process, something I’ve seen other game devs go through. Even with a complete game, it can take some time to get Mario’s nod of approval. But I can say we do have our Wii U dev kit fired up and ready to go. We’ll likely dedicate a few updates entirely to that process. Fortunately our team has gone through the process before with Tadpole Treble so we know what to expect.

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

A few weeks ago, Amazon put up a few interesting listings from Nighthawk Interactive. The retailer listed retail versions of Runbow as well as Tumblestone. Runbow’s physical release was confirmed during E3, and we now have confirmation on Tumblestone as well.

Tumblestone will be out on store shelves for Wii U on August 30 for $24.99. If you can’t wait until then, you can pick up the game from the eShop starting on July 12.

Here’s a trailer for the retail version:

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

The Super Mario Maker Bookmark will be down for maintenance early next week. The site will be unavailable for about two hours on Monday (early Tuesday for those in Europe).

Here’s the maintenance schedule:

– 5 PM PT (July 4) – 7 PM PT (July 4)
– 8 PM ET (July 4) – 10 PM ET (July 4)
– 1 AM in the UK (July 5) – 3 AM in the UK (July 5)
– 2 AM in Europe (July 5) – 4 AM in Europe (July 5)

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 22 Comments

There’s one more piece of business to report on from Nintendo’s 76th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. Tatsumi Kimishima, Genyo Takeda, Shigeru Miyamoto, Shinya Takahashi and Shuntaro
Furukawa were elected/re-elected. Each one was appointed and assumes office as Representative Directors.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Switch, Wii U | 4 Comments

Each year, titles shown at E3 are nominated for the Game Critics Awards. Judges consist of representatives from major global media outlets that cover the gaming business, including GameSpot, Game Informer, TIME, and much more.

As for this year’s nominees, Zelda: Breath of the Wild is included in a few categories. It’s being considered for “Best of Show”, “Best Console Game”, and “Best Action/Adventure Game”. LEGO Dimensions, LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Skylanders Imaginators also have a chance to win “Best Family Game”.

You can find the full lineup of categories and nominees here.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Images | 0 comments

This week’s Famitsu scans are now available. Highlighted games include Aikatsu Stars! My Special Appeal, Culdcept Revolt, Pokemon, Puzzle & Dragons X, and Zero Time Dilemma. Scans of each can be found in the gallery below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News, Random, Wii U | 44 Comments

Update: Here’s some footage:

As unfortunate as it is, Chinese companies creating blatant ripoffs of Nintendo products is nothing out of the ordinary. But the newest mobile game may take the cake as the worst offender yet.

In the attached gallery, we have a look at Sepia Go!, one of the newest titles from China. It should only take a second to realize that what we have here is something that is attempting to mimic Splatoon in every way – from the art to the characters to the gameplay. Nintendo should be none to happy with these sorts of things floating around out there.

Thanks to Stephen Lv for originally pointing this out to us.

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