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Responding to recent speculation, EA published an official statement about layoffs taking place throughout the company.

The note reads:

In recent weeks, EA has aligned all elements of its organizational structure behind priorities in new technologies and mobile. This has led to some difficult decisions to reduce the workforce in some locations. We are extremely grateful for the contributions made by each of our employees – those that are leaving EA will be missed by their colleagues and friends.

These are hard but essential changes as we focus on delivering great games and showing players around the world why to spend their time with us.

EA’s statement doesn’t give any indication as to how many staffers have been laid off. However, Kotaku’s sources say that as much as 10% of the workforce will now need to look for new jobs.

Other speculation has suggested that the EA Partners label will be shut down in the near future.

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We’ve come across the North American Game & Wario boxart. Take a look:

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Warner Bros. and 5th Cell are gearing up for a new Scribblenauts that incorporates the DC license, according to an IGN report. The game is rumored to be arriving on the Wii U, 3DS, and PC.

Scribblenauts Unmasked was one of the names being thrown around internally. Max is returning once again for this latest outing, who is out to help a variety of DC superheroes.

IGN’s write-up offers two gameplay scenario examples:

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Today, Silver Star announced that it is working on a sequel to Touch Battle Tank 3D. Touch Battle Tank 3D-2 will be released on the Japanese 3DS eShop in June.

Silver Star has only confirmed new tanks and enemies for the sequel thus far. More details will be revealed leading up to its launch.

The original Touch Battle Tank 3D has been a success for Silver Star. Since launch, consumers have downloaded the game 100,000 times.

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ATV Wild Ride 3D can be purchased at a slight discount this week. Through May 2, you can purchase the racer on the eShop for $5.99. ATV Wild Ride normally goes for $7.99.

Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham shared the news on Twitter:

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The Rayman Legends Challenges App is out now on the North American and European Wii U eShops. You’ll need 841MB of space in order to initiate the download.

A note on the eShop explains that the Rayman Legends Challenges App will be available for a limited time only. Once the full game launches, the app will be removed from the digital store.

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While Nintendo won’t be having its typical media briefing at E3 2013, the company is still very much involved with the expo. Attendees will be able to play a number of titles – including some for the first time such as Mario’s new Wii U outing and Mario Kart.

It also appears that Nintendo will be hosting a small event at Nokia Theater – the same venue where the Big N has held its E3 presentations.

A statement from Nintendo of America reads:

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Remember “Era’s Adventures”? It’s the Android release that took Yoshi from the Nintendo-produced games and throws the character into a random 3D action game.

Nintendo has since got in touch with developer Botond Kopacz, who has confirmed that a new version of Era’s Adventure has been put out. The title now makes use of a character looking slightly less like Yoshi.

“Yes, and they did with rightly since the original Era was Yoshi’s character. The new Era is also similar to Yoshi but we are cooperating with Nintendo about the changes required by them but till that time the only thing that we could do is to re-color it, remove the carapace and some other parts and make some changes in “Eras” head shape.”

Is it just me, or does the character still resemble Yoshi quite a bit?

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