Kirby Triple Deluxe Instagram reviews promo
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Nintendo, Creative Integrated Systems settle on $7M memory chip lawsuit
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In March, Nintendo of America and Creative Integrated Systems Inc. settled on a $7 million lawsuit.
Creative claimed that Nintendo infringed upon their read-only memory chip patent, filed in 1990. The company insisted that Nintendo owed at least a 2 percent royalty per chip for damages of $7 million over a 15-year period.
The two sides eventually settled for undisclosed terms, which cut short the 11-day trial.
Adventures of Pip Kickstarter launches, planned for Wii U
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TicToc Games launched a Kickstarter today for “Adventures of Pip”.
The project is a side-scroller featuring Pip, a pixel that can absorb the pixels of fallen enemies and evolve into a powerful hero. Players can expect a unique leveling system and abilities.
TicToc Games hopes to have Adventures of Pip funded by raising $90,000. If that goal is met, the title will likely be brought to the Wii U eShop.
You can check out Adventures of Pip on Kickstarter here.
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Level-5 CEO surprised by Youkai Watch’s success
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Youkai Watch has been an unexpected success for Level-5. It started off slowly on the Japanese sales charts, but quickly picked up when the game’s anime debuted in January.
Level-5 president and CEO Akihiro Hino spoke with Famitsu about Youkai’s Watch surprising success in a recent interview. You can find his comments below, as translated by Siliconera.
“For something that was originally a cross-media project, I thought it would be something equal to Inazuma Eleven, but since beginning of the year, its popularity has gone much higher than I had expected.”
“The anime started in January, which was followed by the toys, and that’s when we got all the cross-media content together. From there, the Yo-kai Watch craze practically exploded, which was even surprising for us.”
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More Stick it to the Man footage
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Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn reaches funding goal
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Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn has been successfully funded on Indiegogo. With about eight hours remaining, the campaign crossed its $450,000 target.
Big Deez Productions will be bringing Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn to Wii U at some point in the future. The game was originally planned for 3DS as well, though plans for that version may have since been scrapped.
Thanks to Brandon for the tip.
Bill Trinen talks Tomodachi Life’s gay marriage situation
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Nintendo of America product marketing manager Bill Trinen has issued some lengthy remarks regarding the situation surrounding gay marriage in Tomodachi Life.
You may remember reports that had surfaced from Japan about players being able to partake in same-sex relationships. This resulted from two scenarios: a data leak and players dressing up their Mii characters as males even though their gender was female.
The former scenario was caused by a free tool on the 3DS eShop which allows players to transfer Mii characters from the original DS game. Nintendo eventually patched the bug, though it’s obviously still possible “to create a male version of a Mii character and assign their gender as female.”
Trinen says that there have been some misconceptions in the west, but in Japan, there was no confusion. He also mentioned that Nintendo must “try to find what’s the best way to create this experience and really have a fun and entertaining experience.”
You can find all of Trinen’s comments below.
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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call selling well in Japan thus far
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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call is off to a fine start in Japan, especially having outsold its predecessor.
Square Enix’s rhythm game sold 80,523 copies in its first week, according to Media Create. That amounts to a 55.72 percent sell-through rate. While it may seem like a low number, Curtain Call’s initial shipment was carefully determined.
The original Theatrhythm Final Fantasy sold 67,000 copies in its first week and experienced a 90.04 percent sell-through rate. This resulted in many stores running out of copies and stock was constrained for some time, leading to potential missed sales.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call won’t suffer the same fate. Media Create says the title will sell steadily going forward given the positive stock situation.
Nintendo picks up various “Advance” trademarks in Japan
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Nintendo registered a series of “Advance” trademarks in Japan last month. “Advance”, “Advance Series”, “Advance Touch”, and “Advance Push” were all filed for on April 4.
Trademarks can be a tricky case, as they’re not always used. It’ll be interesting to see if any of these names resurface in the future.
Pokken Fighters and Pokken Tournament trademarked in Europe as well
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Several months ago, The Pokemon Company International trademarked “Pokken Fighters” and “Pokken Tournament” in the US. These names have now been registered in Europe as well.
Pokken Fighters and Pokken Tournament were both filed for on May 1.
Below are some of the elements that both trademarks are associated with:
