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Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 2 Comments

A new Fire Emblem CD featuring music from the series is coming to Japan. Called “Fire Emblem Music Collection: Piano – Faith & Engagement -“, the CD will feature, as the name suggests, piano rearrangements of various tracks from the whole Fire Emblem series. All of these arrangements were performed and composed by KEIKO.

Below is the track list of the CD, including which game the track originated from:

1. Battle Map 1 – Player Attack Phase (FE: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light)
2. The Path to You (FE: Fates)
3. Distant Utopia (FE: The Binding Blade)
4. Victory is Near (FE: Path of Radiance)
5. World Map – Chapter 3 (Liberation Battle – Each Road) (FE: Gaiden)
6. Encounter (FE: Gaiden)
7. Father’s Back (FE: Path of Radiance)
8. Seliph’s Theme / Thoughts Going Around (FE: Genealogy of the Holy War)
9. Leif’s Army, In Search of Victory – Leif (FE: Thracia 766)
10. Id (Serenity) (FE: Awakening)
11. Legend of the Divine Dragon (A) (FE: Mystery of the Emblem)
12. Child of Chaos (FE: Radiant Dawn)
13. Don’t Speak her Name! (FE: Awakening)
14. Alight (FE: Fates)
15. Ascent (FE: Radiant Dawn)
16. Lost in Thoughts All Alone (FE: Fates)

The album will be released on February 22nd for the price of 3200 Yen.

Additionally, two live performances of the CD will be held on March 12th at the Science Museum Science Hall in Tokyo.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments

Update: Bumped to the top. Bear with us as we try to explain this.

Fire Emblem Fates is getting a manga after all starting with the March issue of Ichijinsha’s Monthly Comic Zero Sum out on January 28. It’s called Fire Emblem if: Nibelung no H?kan (Fire Emblem Fates: Crown of Nibelung), and focuses on the character Leo. Tama Yugy?ji will be drawing the series.

The manga Kozaki was involved with is still cancelled. We’re now less certain that Kozaki’s manga would have been for Fire Emblem Fates – it could have been for something else, despite what we heard last year.

In any case, the point is that Fire Emblem Fates will be receiving a manga next month. Kozaki’s manga remains cancelled / on hold. Hopefully that’s clear!

Thanks to KilleyMC for the tip.

Original: The Fire Emblem Fates manga was announced well over a year ago. However, it has yet to resurface since then. There seems to be good reason for that, as the manga has seemingly ran into some issues. It’s either been put on hold or outright cancelled.

Fire Emblem Fates artist Yusuke Kozaki was originally on board to draw illustrations. But on his Twitter account, he shared the following message:

“Regarding the Fire Emblem manga, due to various circumstances, right now the plans have essentially been suspended. Everyone who was looking forward to it, we are deeply sorry. Personally speaking, I would like to draw FE as a manga one way or another.”

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 18 Comments

The 1993 Super Mario Bros. film is seeing another release on Blu-ray towards the beginning of 2017. Zavvi is now taking pre-orders for a new Limited Edition Steelbook version, which is an exclusive at the UK retailer.

Along with the movie itself, the Blu-ray contains extra content. Included is a new 60-minute documentary with many folks involved with the production, including co-directors Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, producer Roland Joffe, and actors John Leguizamo and Richard Edson. Archive interviews with Bob Hoskins and producer Jake Eberts are in as well. Buyers can also expect to receive the original electronic press cit and behind the scenes / storyboard galleries.

Zavvi is taking pre-orders here. It should ship on February 13.

Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Images, News | 6 Comments

Update (12/28): The Corrin figma is now up for pre-order on Play-Asia here. The Nendoroid is here. Pre-orders end on January 25.

Original (12/26): Pre-orders are now starting to open for the female Corrin figma and Nendoroid.

Over at Good Smile, reserve the figma here and Nendoroid here. Pre-orders end on January 26. Also note that Good Smile is offering the Blazing Yato with the Corrin figma.

AmiAmi also has pre-orders open. Get the figma here and Nendroid here. 

There’s nothing available at Play-Asia yet. When that changes, we’ll let you know.

Here are some photos of the Corrin figma and Nendoroid:

Thanks to KobobKC for the tip.

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

Today, 4Gamer put up an extensive article containing end-of-year creator interviews with various Japanese developers. Representatives from Atlus, Capcom, Inti Creates, Arc System Works, SEGA, Marvelous, Level-5, and more were included. Comments pertained to franchises such as Etrian Odyssey, Shin Megami Tensei, The Great Ace Attorney 2, among others. There was even one developer from Arc System Works who mentioned wanting to announce a game in a Nintendo Direct.

We’ve picked out the Nintendo-related comments below. Gematsu has even more developers here.

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

The Nintendo Accounts website has been updated with a new page containing a QR code for registered members. By using it, you can “check in at select Nintendo events and locations.”

Now, what’s the purpose of this? “Checking in gives you access to exclusive My Nintendo member benefits that may be available,” Nintendo says. It’s worth noting that benefits will vary, and details will be shared in the future.

You can access your unique QR code here.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Videos | 0 comments

As we initially learned at the very end of November, a new wave of Mario toys will be offered at McDonald’s Japan in Happy Meals beginning on January 6. We now have a commercial for the promotion below.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Rumors | 49 Comments

Nintendo is starting to starting to branch out in a number of new ways. We’ve seen that through the company’s partnership with Universal Studios, for example. We’ve also heard about Nintendo’s new interest in video content. Movies and TV shows seem to be in the pipeline.

When it comes to video content, Nickelodeon could be one partner Nintendo is teaming up with. Fred Seibert of Frederation Studios – an animation company that has worked on Fairly Oddparents and Adventure Time – made this intriguing comment on the latest episode of Nick Animation Podcast:

“We have a project now that we’re doing that needs to go unnamed, based on one of the most world famous video games of the last 30 years, that we’ve had in our shop for twelve years without being able to get it started. But there were great characters and a great story, and eventually we got it going.”

Seibert didn’t label Nintendo specifically, but there aren’t a massive amount of names that would fit the description here. Something like Mario would definitely make sense – that franchise has been around for thirty years, and has very recognizable characters. Could we see something like a Mario series on Nickelodeon down the road?

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 19 Comments

Earlier this month, Nintendo registered a new Japanese trademark for the image of the Super Famicom controller. It was officially filed on December 5.

The trademark has Japanese blogs filled to the brim with speculation that it could have something to do with a potential SNES Classic Edition. With the success of the NES Classic Edition, that may not be out of the question. Only time will tell if this is a protective filing or something more.

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

Over the past few days, holiday greetings have been coming in from a bunch of companies. Nintendo’s various branches – and franchise-specific accounts – have been sending out various messages and images. There have also been tweets from Pokemon, Sonic, Yacht Club Games, and more. We’ve rounded up the various messages below.