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Howard Lincoln, former chairman for Nintendo of America, is thanked in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze’s credits. The news is hardly earth-shattering, but it’s an interesting nugget. Lincoln was last thanked in a Nintendo game for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption – not Donkey Kong Country Returns. By including Lincoln in the Tropical Freeze credits, Retro could be trying to thank him for helping establish the company.

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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze sold 36,000 units (give or take) in its first week on the Japanese market. This we know. Media Create, however, has shared a few extra bits about the game’s sales.

Perhaps most significant, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze only sold through 35.28 percent of its initial shipment. Media Create mentions that the series is seeing a downward trend in sales. As previously mentioned, Donkey Kong Country Returns on Wii sold 163,000 units in its first week while the 3DS port sold another 104,000 units.

Aside from the Wii U’s lower installed base, why are gamers seemingly less interested? Media Create speculates that people aren’t being enticed by the new layers within Tropical Freeze. The sales tracker also cautions people to consider the heavy snow last weekend, especially in places like Tohoku and Kanto areas.

And of course, we can’t forget about what kind of title Donkey Kong is. Media Create points out that more sales will come over a longer period of time due to its evergreen nature.

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A professional game hacking company, via cheat codes, has unlocked Mega Evolutions and shiny Pokemon for Pokemon X/Y. Since we’re dealing with sensitive material, more information, images, and a video can be found after the break.

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Game Informer has obtained a few more details about Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty from Just Add Water studio head Stewart Gilray. More screenshots from the game have appeared as well.

You can find the new content below, plus quotes from Gilray over at Game Informer.

– Rebuilt from the ground up
– Only about 2 textures from the original game
– Art is 99% done
– Built in Unity
– Remake was originally made with a different engine
– When the game was delayed from fall 2013 to spring 2014, the team had been using Unity for 9 months
– PlayStation versions will begin testing in the next week or two; PC/Mac/Linux version to follow a month later, Wii U after

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BLOK DROP U has been officially approved by Nintendo. Now that that’s out of the way, release information will be shared “soon” for North America.

RCMADIAX relayed the news on Twitter, writing the following just a short while ago:

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Darksiders II will return to the European Wii U eShop next week, a listing on Nintendo’s UK website reveals. The game’s download is scheduled for relaunch on February 27. Nordic Games, who now owns the IP rights to Darksiders, will be publishing as expected.

You may remember that Darksiders II was pulled from the European eShop a little less than a year ago following THQ’s closure. Strangely though, the game is still up on the North American eShop to this day – with THQ still listed as publisher.

We’ve reached out to Nordic Games just to get the official word from them about Darksiders II’s renewed arrival in Europe. If we hear anything additional from the company, we’ll update this post.

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Update: Added all new images in the gallery above. Plus, we have the following overview from Nintendo’s 3DS UK Facebook page:

Hold your breath! Here’s an exclusive look at Cheep Cheep Lagoon, a previously unrevealed course in Mario Golf: World Tour. This underwater course has lots of obstacles to help and hinder play with slightly different underwater physics to challenge more experienced players.

Original: Nintendo has provided a first look at Cheep Cheep Lagoon in Mario Golf: World Tour. You can find the piece of art below.

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Atlus has shared new content relating to Conception II. You can find new screenshots above, and an overview of eight more classes below.

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