First up, Amazon Canada is offering the upper body armor for the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado’s Samurai. EB Games Canada also has “upper body armor” that is “styled like a black-and-red zip-up hoodie.”

You can get a look at both costumes below.

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Tetris Axis is just $10 on the 3DS eShop

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Tetris Axis finally hit the 3DS eShop this week after having been out at retail for around a year and a half.

Nintendo made an intelligent move in pricing the game. Rather than setting it at $40 or $30 – you know, the standard price of 3DS titles – Axis can be purchased for just $9.99. A smart decision given that the game has been out so long, right?

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3DS XL Circle Pad Pro won’t be available at retail

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Interested in the 3DS XL Circle Pad Pro? Then you’ll need to purchase the product directly from Nintendo’s only store.

There are no plans to offer the accessory at retail, Nintendo has said. The regular Circle Pad Pro was made available at GameStop locations.

Nintendo said in a statement:

“There are no plans to sell this accessory at other retail locations at this time.”

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Armature on leaving Nintendo, low games output, not disappointing fans with Batman, more

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A trio of Retro staffers left the company in 2008 and formed Armature Studio.

You might be wondering: what sparked the move? Game director Mark Pacini explained the decision in an interview with Game Informer:

I was there for eight years. When you work for Nintendo, Nintendo’s an awesome company. They’re great to work for. It’s hard, challenging work, but it’s rewarding at the same time. But given that regard, there’s a limited amount of things you can do in Nintendo. You can’t work on other platforms. You kind of work on games that they would like you to work on, so after doing three of the same games in a row, we were kind of like, we’d really like the flexibility to do other things.

Japanese Donkey Kong Country 3D Returns boxart

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MapleStory: The Girl’s Fate videos

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Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D footage with direct-feed audio

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3DS app (Japan) will let Animal Crossing and Tomodachi Collection players post screenshots to Twitter/Tumblr

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According to Nintendo of Japan’s website, 3DS owners will soon be in for a pleasant new application that lets them post their Animal Crossing: New Leaf or Tomodachi Collection screenshots to Twitter or Tumblr via the 3DS internet browser. This would, in theory, allow for simultaneous posting of the image to other websites as well, and it should support the ability to add comments. The process (if reading-via-pictures is any indication) should go something like this:

– Take a screenshot in the game
– Open the internet browser from the Home Menu.
– Hit the “share” button and select either Tumblr or Twitter
– Choose the screenshot from your photos
– Post to the service you selected

Nintendo of Japan’s website via NeoGaf