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In this week’s Pokemon Shuffle we have a new stage, Granbull (Winking), running until January 9th. There will also be an Arcanine and competitive Kyurem stage running til January 2nd.
Buzzwole, Meloetta Pirouette Forme, Hitmonlee, Silvally and Keldeo Resolute Form will also be beginning their repeat runs.

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Nintendo has published a couple of new Japanese commercials for Mario Party: The Top 100. We have both of the adverts below.

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Update 4: All of the eShops are back up.


Update 3: Hearing reports that the Switch eShop may have gone down again, or is still down for some. Will continue to monitor.


Update 2: Switch is back up. So currently, Wii U and 3DS are the only systems impacted as of 1:40 PM ET.


Update: Bumped to the top. Wii U and 3DS eShops are now down as well.


Original: Since early this morning, the Switch eShop has been offline. Nintendo hasn’t said what the cause is, but one possibility is an influx of traffic. It’s Christmas after all, and there could be a whole lot of people receiving the system as a gift today.

Nintendo has only said the following about the situation:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

This week’s issue of Famitsu has a year-end feature with tons of developers and industry members. Representatives from Square Enix, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Koei Tecmo, PlatinumGames, and other companies were asked to rank their top five games played from January to December. Others participated as well such as several voice actors.

The ranking for all platforms is as follows:

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Nintendo is celebrating Christmas with the release of Style Savvy: Styling Star in North America. Take a look at the launch trailer below.

It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Project Octopath Traveler enters the top ten for the first time.

Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between December 7 and December 13.

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Below are the latest Nintendo products that can be currently pre-ordered at retailers:

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Yo-kai Watch Busters 2 launched in Japan on December 16. First week sales were reported this week. Through December 17, the game sold just over 200,000 copies.

According to Dengeki, the “Sword” version was slightly more popular at 100,118 units sold. The “Magnum” version sold 95,794 copies.

Nintendo has another round of game-specific maintenance taking place tomorrow. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo, Pokemon Sun/Moon, and Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon will all be impacted.

The maintenance schedule is as follows:

– 5 PM PT (December 25) – 7 PM PT (December 25)
– 8 PM ET (December 25) – 10 PM ET (December 25)
– 1 AM in the UK (December 26) – 3 AM in the UK (December 26)
– 2 AM in Europe (December 26) – 4 AM in Europe (December 26)

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Atlus hosted a live talk show event for Etrian Odyssey’s 10th anniversary last week. A few vague details were shared about the project, including that it will not be Etrian Odyssey 3 Untold and surprising content will be included.

Some additional tidbits have now surfaced. We have the following information from the talk show:


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