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SEGA announced its lineup for the 2015 Tokyo Game Show earlier today. There’s not much in terms of Nintendo titles, but we do know that 7th Dragon III Code: VFD will be playable. A stage show is also planned.

Warner Bros. will also have a presence at SEGA’s booth. LEGO Jurassic World will be playable, but only on 3DS (and PS4).

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Image & Form has kicked off a new SteamWorld-related video series. In the first episode below, the studio discusses the franchise’s timeline.

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During Gamescom last month, Nintendo announced the Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire Starter Box for release in Europe. This contains a copy of the respective games, a Pokeball cartridge case, and a Hoenn Pokedex poster.

We now have the packaging for the Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire Starter Box. Take a look at the images above.

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The Japanese Hyrule Warriors Legends website has been updated with new screenshots from the game. You can view the images below.

Additionally, we have news regarding a stream from Tokyo Game Show 2015. A broadcast will be held on Niconico at the following times:

– 8 PM PT (Wednesday)
– 11 PM ET (Wednesday)
– 4 AM in the UK (Thursday)
– 5 AM in Europe (Thursday)

The stream will be shown on Niconico here.

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This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Retail

Super Mario Maker – $59.99 (available Friday)

Wii U Download

Explody Bomb – $1.99
Funky Physics – $1.99
Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut – $7.99
Star Sky – $4.00
The Swindle – $12.49

Wii U Virtual Console

Tecmo Bowl – $4.99

3DS Retail

Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX – $39.99

3DS Themes

Super Mario Bros. : Famicom Cartridge

eShop Sales

Wii U

– Trine Enchanted Edition and Trine 2: Director’s Cut from Frozenbyte are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 10.
– Abyss and 99Moves from EnjoyUp are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 8.

3DS

– Toys vs Monsters is 75 percent off (reduced from $3.99 to $0.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 7.
– Gardenscapes, 3D Mahjongg and Pazuru from Joindots are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Sept. 24.

Permanent Price Drop

Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains is reduced to $29.99 (from $39.99) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on Sept. 7.

Source: Nintendo PR

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Today, Bandai Namco passed along some additional screenshots of the recently-confirmed characters and enemies in Project X Zone 2. We have the full set below.

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Nintendo has issued a press release for Super Mario Maker’s launch tomorrow. We’ve posted it in full below.

Enter a Virtual Playroom to Create Levels, Play Levels Created by Others and Experience Mario Like Never Before

REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 10, 2015 – Flying Piranha Plants? Bill Blasters that shoot helpful coins instead of dangerous Bullet Bills? A level full of 20-Goomba-high stacks, dozens of trampolines and Hammer Bros. flying in Koopa Clown Cars? Mamma mia!

While all this sounds like some kind of amazing Nintendo fever dream, it’s all possible in the Super Mario Maker game, launching exclusively for the Wii U console on the 11th of September. This new game lets players’ imaginations run wild! Anyone with an Internet connection can play a near-limitless number of Mario levels created by people all over the world. Using the Wii U GamePad controller, players can quickly and easily create their own original levels using items, enemies, graphical styles and even power-ups from four classic Mario styles: Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U. These levels can then be uploaded online to share with players everywhere. Things that were never possible before in a Super Mario Bros. game are now possible in Super Mario Maker – and players are in control of it all.

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The official boxart for SEGA 3D Reprint Archives 2 is now available. Check it out above.

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Super Mario Maker wasn’t specifically created for the series’ 30th anniversary. That’s according to Yosuke Oshino, who says that the way things lined up was “just a coincidence.”

Oshino recently said:

“This being Mario’s 30th Anniversary is just a coincidence, it’s not something we consciously planned. The idea started with the course editor for the side scrolling Mario games. This tool was previously running on PC, but the team in charge of it thought that it might be helpful for developing future Mario games if the tool ran on the Wii U GamePad and so they started doing some experiments. While doing this they realized how easy it was to make courses and how fun it was for people like them who had no experience with level design. So they decided to bring the idea of making this tool into a game to the producer, Tezuka-san.”

Even if it wasn’t intentionally planned, Super Mario Maker definitely makes the anniversary a little extra special!

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Update: Official announcement is after the break.

Today, The Pokemon Company announced a new game for smartphones: “Pokemon Go”. Niantic Labs is working on the project in addition to Nintendo.

Here’s what we know thus far:

– For smartphones
– Out next year
– Niantic Labs (startup from Google, now independent) is making the game
– Nintendo is also on board for the project, along with The Pokemon Company
– Started out 2 years ago
– Satoru Iwata was pretty involved
– Meet up in the real world to play together, go on adventures
– Vision shared by Pokemon president Tsunekazu Ishihara and Iwata
– Capture Pokemon

– They will inhabit parks, countryside, places around the world
– One of the original creators of Pokemon, Junichi Masuda (Game Freak), is working on the game
– Seek out Pokemon, capture them, use them to battle other players
– Will have a lot of depth so it can be enjoyed by players of various ages
– Will use real location information
– Masuda is thinking about how it will connect with future Pokemon games
– Alongside Nintendo, they’ve come up with a device to perform certain actions without having to put down your screen: Pokemon Go Plus (Bluetooth enabled)
– This uses a LED and vibration to notify players of things happening in-game
– Game can be enjoyed without the accessory
– Focused on how players would look when making Pokemon Go Plus
– Nintendo still trying to expand the gaming population

You’ll find a trailer for Pokemon Go below.

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