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This week’s GameStop ad has gone live. You can find it in full below:

The only Nintendo-related items I spot here are rock candy controllers for Wii U. Definitely one of the worst weeks we’ve seen thus year!

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GameStop has a pair of 3DS games on sale. Paper Mario: Sticker Star and Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask are both $10 each. This seems to be online-only, but we’ll let you know if we hear otherwise.

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Bravely Default story writer Naotaka Hayashi is not returning for Bravely Second, this week’s Famitsu confirms.

Producer Tomoya Asano and assistant producer Shinji Takahashi are leading the way on Bravely Second’s scenario. Director Kensuke Nakahara and Bravely Default lead scenario planner Keiichi Ajiro from Silicon Studio, as well as series light novel writer Souki Tsukishima, are all contributing to the scenario as well.

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Natsume may bring the launch of Alphadia Genesis forward a bit. The company said on Twitter today that localization is currently ahead of schedule, which could result in a Fall 2014 launch. It was initially announced for winter.

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Nintendo has filed for a trio of “QOL” trademarks with the USPTO. Of course, these all pertain to the company’s upcoming Quality of Life plans.

Just last week, Nintendo filed a trademark for “QOL” in Europe as well. It was also registered with the Japanese trademark database in March.

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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn director/producer and Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call producer Ichiro Hazama will have a final versus gameplay battle at Gamescom 2014. It will take place on August 16 at 3 PM CESt. The video above gives a recap of each player’s total fight record, and the proceedings of the previous matchup which took place at E3 this year.

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Square Enix has announced its lineup for Gamescom 2014.

For consoles and PC, the publisher is bringing along Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Nosgoth, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, and Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen will represent Square Enix’s handheld/mobile titles.

All of these games will be playable at Gamescom next month at over 180 hands-on stations.

Head past the break for Square Enix’s official Gamescom announcement, which further details the company’s plans.

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This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:

1. [3DS] Youkai Watch 2 – 180,880 / 1,829,533
2. [3DS] Yoshi’s New Island – 58,285 / NEW
3. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 – 18,129 / 560,487
4. [PSV] Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines – 17,690 / 111,465
5. [PSV] Tokyo New World Record: Operation Abyss – 15,242 / NEW
6. [PSV] Corpse Party: BloodDrive – 13,688 / NEW
7. [3DS] Youkai Watch – 10,620 / 1,218,698
8. [PS3] Under Night In-Birth – 9,171 / NEW
9. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Don to Katsu no Jikuu Daibouken – 9,080 / 110,558
10. [PS3] Atelier Shallie: Alchemist of the Dusk Sea – 7,432 / 51,177
11. [3DS] Gundam Tri Age SP – 7,110 / 28,634
12. [3DS] Pokemon Art Academy – 5,768 / 75,404
13. [PSV] Freedom Wars – 5,344 / 267,771
14. [3DS] Pokemon X/Y – 5,089 / 4,112,000
15. [PS3] GTA New Price Version – 5,026 / 28,685
16. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 – 4,591 / 3,316,196
17. [PS3] Watch Dogs – 3,684 / 63,269
18. [PS4] FIFA 14 – 3,587 / 71,128
19. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 – 3,346 / 2,355,647
20. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 3,068 / 3,764,042

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