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Nintendo is hosting a few new tournaments today just ahead of E3 2019. To celebrate, a couple of wallpapers have been added to My Nintendo in North America.

Designs for the Splatoon 2 World Championship 2019 and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate World Championship 2019 3v3 are now available. Each one costs 50 Platinum Points.

If interested, you can order these rewards on My Nintendo here.

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Suda51 recently stopped by MomoCon and hosted an hour-long panel. Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes was discussed in-depth, and it was announced that the game is making its way to new platforms – although that isn’t really relevant here.

What is relevant is that Suda51 also touched on an interesting topic during the panel. We won’t discuss this in-depth here in case we’re encroaching on territory that some feel would be spoiler-related, but something happens in Travis Strikes Again that will be of interest to Killer7 fans. And according to Suda51, what was shown in that game is canon.

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Pokemon Detective Pikachu took home another $755,000 on Monday. Although it saw a 66% drop from Sunday and 80% from last Monday, the film is now at $131.645 million. With that, Pokemon Detective Pikachu is now the biggest-grossing video game movie ever in North America.

Tomb Raider previously held that record for 18 years. The movie earned had an unadjusted total of $131.2 million.

Pokemon Detective Pikachu is sitting at a global total of $393.4 million. Given how close it is, the film will be the third video game movie to pass $400 million worldwide, alongside Rampage and Warcraft.

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Nintendo has opened registration for the Warp Pipe Pass tying in with E3 2019. If you’re planning on attending the show, you can reduce the amount of time you wait in line for Pokemon Sword/Shield and Luigi’s Mansion 3 throughout most event hours. By registering, you can gain priority access in line during your designated time to line up and play.

You can now sign up for the Warp Pipe Pass here. Note that a Nintendo Account is required. Attendance can be reserved until 11:59 PM PT the day before they can be used, or until all the passes are claimed, whichever comes first.

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Now that Koji Igarashi has moved on from Konami and created a brand new IP in Bloodstained, one would think that his ties to Castlevania would be over. But perhaps not.

In an interview with Gematsu, Igarashi expressed interest in returning to Castlevania and working on “two episodes that we’ve implied but never finished.” If he were to receive an offer from Konami, Igarashi says he’d be up for working on the franchise again.

Here’s the full exchange:

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My Nintendo has updated in North America with a number of new rewards. Members will find the latest discounts, 3DS themes, and more.

Here’s the full lineup:

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The Japanese government’s Official Gazette has provided information on The Pokemon Company’s latest financial results.

For the year ending February 28, net profit rose to $124 million. That provided a 50% increase year-over-year and is the second highest net profit ever for the company. In 2018, net profit came in at roughly $81 million.

This year’s results account for both Pokemon GO and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu / Eevee. Next year should include Pokemon Sword/Shield and licensing contributions from Pokemon Detective Pikachu.

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A few hours ago, Square Enix announced the location services-based game Dragon Quest Walk for mobile. While we won’t really be covering it here as it’s not overly Nintendo-related, something interesting was said during the game’s announcement event.

According to series executive producer Yuu Miyake, he along with creator Yuji Horii “are currently making preparations on series developments that will connect to XII” – Dragon Quest XII, in other words. Miyake said:

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We just went through a busy week of maintenance, but at least so far, things are looking significantly quieter this week. Thus far, only one session is planned for Nintendo Network IDs.

The full schedule is as follows:

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Nintendo eventually released a third entry in the Mother series, but not as it was initially intended. While Mother 3 came out for the Game Boy Advance in Japan, the original plan was to make a new game for the N64 called EarthBound 64. Development did not go smoothly, especially with the team having to create the title in 3D, and the project was scrapped.

All of these years later, we have a new – albeit brief – look at EarthBound 64 in action. YouTube channel kukun kun uploaded a video from SpaceWorld 1996 that provides a few seconds of footage. Although it may not be much, it gives fans another idea of what could have been.

Here’s a brief look at the clip (should be embedded at the right spot, but starts at 10:32):

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