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Following yesterday’s tease, Toys “R” Us has now officially confirmed an exclusive restock of the Villager amiibo. The figure will be available once again on November 8.

Note that you’ll only be able to pick it up in-store. Quantities will also be “limited”.

Here’s the relevant tweet from Toys “R” Us:

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The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses concert series will be returning once again in 2016. Today, more dates were announced for both North America and Europe.

Here’s the full lineup:

Nashville, TN, Schermerhorn Symphony Center; January 21, 22
Boston, MA, Symphony Hall; February 23
Costa Mesa, CA, Segerstrom Center for the Arts; March 8
Toronto, ON, Sony Centre; March 19
Jacksonville, FL, Moran Theatre; March 24
Kansas City, MO, Music Hall Kansas City; March 26
Memphis, TN, The Orpheum; March 31
New Orleans, LA, Saenger Theater; April 1
Columbus, OH, Ohio Theater; April 3
Charlottesville, VA, JPJ Arena; April 8
London, UK, SSE/Wembley Arena; April 23
Guadalajara, MX, Auditorio Telmex; May 11
Monterrey, MX, Arena Monterrey; May 13
Mexico City, MX, Arena de Ciudad; May 15
San Antonio, TX, Majestic Theater; May 21
Los Angeles, CA, Dolby Theater; June 13
Austin, TX, Long Center; June 23
Montreal, QB, Place des Arts; June 25
San Francisco, CA, Davies Symphony Hall; August 21
Atlanta, GA, Cobb Perf. Arts; September 10
Edmonton, AB, Southern Jubilee; September 21
Vancouver, BC, Queen Elizabeth Theatre; September 23
Paris, FR, Palais Des Congres; October 8
Lisbon, PT, Coliseu de Lisboa; October 14
Essen, DE, Grugahalle; October 15
Chicago, IL, Chicago Auditorium; November 12

The third installment of The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, going by the “Master Quest” name, will add brand-new music and visuals from Tri Force Heroes. Fans can get a sneak-preview of this content tonight on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, where an orchestra will perform the Tri Force Heroes interlude arrangement from the symphony.

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At the Tokyo Game Show last month, Capcom announced that an anime is planned for Monster Hunter Stories. This will debut in Japan sometime next year.

A new piece of information about the anime has since surfaced. Specifically, it’s now confirmed that David Production is behind the show. This team is perhaps best known for working on the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders anime.

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The Mega Yarn Yoshi amiibo is currently available for pre-order on Amazon Germany. Even if you’re in the U.S., you should be able to have it shipped to your address. I’ll try to keep an eye on things and update this post if pre-orders sell out.

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Later this week, XSEED Games will be hosting an event, and a number of announcements will be made. It will apparently be taking place on Wednesday. We’re not sure how much Nintendo news there will be, though hopefully we’ll hear about a Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale release date at the very least.

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GameStop once again has the Animal Crossing amiibo cards in stock. Get your pack here. GameStop appears to have a limit of 10.

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Toys “R” Us seems to have nabbed another amiibo exclusive in the United States. On Twitter, the retailer teased that Mega Yarn Yoshi – as well as a restock of Villager – will only be available at its stores.

Here’s the relevant message:

An image surfaced yesterday of Mega Yarn Yoshi on the Toys “R” Us holiday big book. Given today’s information, it now makes sense that they’d want to feature the amiibo prominently in its promotional materials.

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Last month’s issue of GamesMaster contains an interview with well-known Nintendo developer Takashi Tezuka. There were a few interesting topics that we wanted to highlight.

First, here’s what Tezuka said when asked about why Mario resonates so well with people and the key to his longtime success:

“Personally, I think that even before people come to like Mario as a character, it’s the gameplay of Super Mario that really resonates with them. We created Super Mario Bros paying close attention to intuitive feelings – things that anyone in the world can relate to – which users feel through the gameplay; running is fun, jumping high is something you want to do, falling is scary and spikes hurt you if you touch them, etc.

I think it all started with how the gameplay resonated with players. From there it’s been how we’ve continued to make Mario games for so long, and all the work we have put into making sure that Mario is never used in an inappropriate way, that has allowed him to slowly become such a well-loved character.”

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It was just last week that Rare shared brand new footage from the unreleased N64 game Twelve Tales: Conker 64. This is how Conker’s Bad Fur Day was originally imagined.

Following the recent footage, Rare has now posted a music track from the game. Give it a listen below.

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If you’re in North America, the only way to purchase the Chibi-Robo amiibo is by picking up the new Zip Lash game bundle. Later this year though, it appears that the figure will be offered separately. This information comes from the official Chibi-Robo!: Zip Lash website, which states that it will be available this holiday.

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