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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 3 Comments

The latest issue of Famitsu has shared a listing of the top 30 best-selling games in Japan for the month of December 2016. You can check out the full results below.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 0 comments

Now that it’s Sunday, Best Buy is offering a new wave of discounts. There are a few things Nintendo fans should be aware of with savings this week. 

First, Best Buy is holding a B1G1 50% off sale on Bandai Namco games. Dragon Ball Fusions, Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden, and Project X Zone 2 are included here.

Best Buy is offering some other discounts as well, but the real highlight is probably Bravely Second for $30 (price-matched on Amazon by the way). Some of the other sales here might be worth giving a look as well.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, 3DS eShop, News | 8 Comments

Popular U.S. magazine Game Informer has kept up its tradition of ranking the top 50 games from a particular year. In its latest issue, the lineup for 2016 is published.

As ranked by release date, below is what Game Informer declared the top 50 games of last year:

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 2 Comments

Famitsu has a next batch of details about FuRyu’s new RPG The Alliance Alive in this week’s issue. Three main battle features are explained.

During battles, characters may raise their morale based on the movements chosen by players. Once morale has reached a certain point, they will activate something called “Ignition”.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Let's Talk | 69 Comments

Much of the attention surrounding Nintendo right now is focused on Switch, and understandably so. But the big N has another system on its hands that isn’t going anywhere. Naturally, we’re talking about the 3DS.

Several titles had already been announced for the portable this year. This week, Nintendo reconfirmed some of its 3DS plans (and some new ones), as well as its committment to the platform.

Don’t forget that Nintendo just announced Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia and Fire Emblem Warriors (New 3DS). Aside from that though, Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World comes out next week in the west. Tank Troopers then follows as an eShop title on February 16. Just one week after Switch launches, Mario Sports Superstars arrives in Europe with new amiibo cards to boot – it’ll follow later in March in North America and Japan. Pikmin is still heading to 3DS this year, as is Ever Oasis. Oh, and a Pikachu New 3DS XL system is slated for February along with two new Nintendo Selects in the states.

How’s everyone feeling about 3DS right now? Even after Switch launches, will you continue to play new releases (or older games you have for that matter)? I do think we’ll be seeing at least a few more announcements, whether they’re completely new or localizations of games like Miitopia. Let us know how you feel about 3DS in the comments below.

Highlights from last week’s topic: Fire Emblem Direct reactions

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 5 Comments

During the week of January 16, Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly sold nearly 40,000 copies in Japan. Though that may seem a bit slow, the title sold through 80 percent of its initial shipment, according to Dengeki. Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly is off to a smooth start in Japan thus far, and may continue to sell at a steady rate going forward.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 4 Comments

A few new reservations have opened up on Amazon Canada and the UK. Since there are several listings, we decided to share these now ahead of our normal pre-order update post tomorrow.

The latest pre-orders include Mario Sports Superstars on Amazon Canada, along with the Poochy and standalone Wolf Link amiibo. Amazon UK has Mario Sports Superstars plus the amiibo card packs.

Here’s the lineup:

Canada

Mario Sports Superstars (with 1 amiibo card)
Poochy amiibo
Wolf Link amiibo

UK

Mario Sports Superstars (with 1 amiibo card)
Mario Sports Superstars amiibo cards

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 9 Comments

An announcement was recently made that close to 6,000 players have been banned from online play in Pokemon Sun/Moon. These users “engaged in unauthorized modification of their game data”, resulting in the ban.

The original piece of news was shared from the Japan-side of things, but now we have a full, English announcement about the situation. It fully explains how the ban affects players, the error code they encounter, and how action will continue to be taken in the future.

Continue on below to read the official notice in full.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Fernando in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments

Nintendo UK has posted on their YouTube channel a new TV ad showing some footage of Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World. You can watch it below:

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News | 3 Comments

Yacht Club Games is committed to starting work on something entirely new this year. The studio will finally be moving on from the original Shovel Knight, which released way back in June 2014.

Shovel Knight could still be in Yacht Club Games’ future though. Yacht Club Games programmer David D’Angelo informed GamesIndustry that the team is trying to decide between creating something new within the Shovel Knight franchise and a new IP.

D’Angelo explained:

“We’ve talked about wanting to extend the Shovel Knight franchise. How about we make Shovel Knight 2, or Super Shovel Knight, or Shovel Knight 64? Maybe we could take Shovel Knight through the ages, that is something that is very appealing to us. But also, we are all very burned out on Shovel Knight for sure, so we thought: ‘What if we made a new IP? What would that look like?’

“The true reason we made Shovel Knight a 1980s-style game is because we wanted to cram as much fun gameplay into it as possible. And to us, if we could limit the burden on the art style, then we could iterate and really put in loads of enemies, objects, bosses, and everything you can imagine. I think that idea will remain pretty central to our studio, no matter what. You won’t see us making The Last of Us anytime soon.”

Also worth noting, we have an update on the performance of the Azure Striker Gunvolt: Striker Pack that Yacht Club Games published in North America. Although it apparently wasn’t as successful as the company had hoped, the firm’s distributors as well as GameStop say it exceeded expectations.

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