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My Nintendo has updated with new wallpapers in both North America and Europe.

Stateside, just one wallpaper has been added. You can nab a Style Savvy: Styling Star design for 50 Platinum Points.

In Europe, two Fire Emblem Warriors wallpapers are up for grabs. “Heroes” and “Retro” designs are on the site for 50 Platinum Points each.

You can order these wallpapers on My Nintendo here.

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The Nintendo Power brand has been brought back in a big way. Nintendo just released the first episode of its new “Nintendo Power” podcast. You can listen to it right here.

Host Chris Slate is joined by Nintendo Minute co-host Kit Ellis and Damon Baker from Publisher and Developer Relations at Nintendo of America to look back at Switch’s first year. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild developers Eiji Aonuma and director Hidemaro Fujibayashi then discuss their game.

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If you’re on an iOS device with access to iMessage, you can purchase a new set of stickers from Nintendo based on Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It features Link, Princess Zelda, and other familiar faces from Hyrule, including memorable lines and poses.

The Zelda: Breath of the Wild iMessage stickers are up on iTunes here. It’ll set you back $1.99.

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GamesIndustry has provided new information about gaming sales in the UK this year. The site breaks down the top five publishers by UK sales as well as sales by platform.

In terms of publishers, Nintendo ranks third when it comes to boxed sales. That’s behind EA (16.8%) and Activision Blizzard (15.6%), but ahead of Ubisoft (9.7%) and Sony (8.3%).

GamesIndustry also has the following breakdown of sales by platform in 2017:

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Dark Horse has announced that their ARMS graphic will be offered free of charge as part of their Free Comic Book Day Silver on May 5, 2018. Details from their press release are below:
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Update: It appears stock has since sold out.

Original: The SNES Classic Edition is currently available on GameStop. If you are still looking for one, you can order yours here.

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Last week, WayForward’s Matt Bozon held a poll on Twitter asking fans to help choose the next Shantae figure. The results are in, and the winner is Rottytops. She just beat out Risky Boots as well as Sky and Bolo.

WayForward will be working with CharaGumin on the upcoming figure. The two sides released a Shantae figure earlier this year.

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The Super NES Classic Edition is available once more on Amazon UK. You can place an order at the retailer here.

For those curious about US shipping, you should be able to place an order stateside. We were able to make it to the final step of the checkout process, so there shouldn’t be any issues.

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Nintendo created two new Metroid amiibo tying in with Metroid: Samus Returns – the Metroid itself and a Samus figure. Both were sold in a double pack.

At this point, you can’t really find the Metroid amiibo at retailers. But that could be changing soon. An updated Children’s Product Certificate from Nintendo shows that the 2-pack saw a new run of manufacturing in November. We’ll keep an eye out on any restocks in the future.

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Nintendo delivered Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s second DLC pack last week. Now that the game’s development is truly finished (at least that we know of), fans can’t help but wonder what the future holds for the franchise.

As you would expect, Nintendo isn’t ready to delve into any specific plans just yet. However, Breath of the Wild director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and series producer Eiji Aonuma did talk about their mindset going forward.

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