European Club Nintendo members will want to register their copies of Paper Mario: Sticker Star when it launches on December 7. The Big N is offering a special sticker book to 10,000 users of the service.

According to Nintendo, the book provides:

“Packed with stickers of your favourite Mario characters and power-ups, you can combine them with the colourful background to come up with your own Paper Mario adventures.”

You’ll be able to register your Paper Mario: Sticker Star copy at 8 AM UK time on December 7.

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Solatorobo-related project “moving along”

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CyberConnect2 is working on some sort of new Solatorobo game. We’re not sure what it is yet, and studio CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama isn’t willing to reveal any details at present.

At the Solatorobo: Red the Hunter 2nd Anniversary fan event, however, he teased that “a certain project is moving along.” During the event, which took place in Japan on Saturday, he additionally hinted: “I’m sure there will be something good next year.”

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Brain Age Express: Sudoku available on Club Nintendo as downloadable reward

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A new downloadable reward is available on Club Nintendo.

Touch Solitaire has been swapped out for Brain Age Express: Sudkou. The game is available for 150 coins.

You can order Brain Age Express: Sudoku here. It’s available as a DSiWare download until December 16.

More photos of the Zelda: Skyward Sword Link Figma

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More talk of a Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward sequel

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Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward scenario writer Koutaro Uchikoshi has been talking about a sequel for awhile now. Even after all of these months, Uchikoshi is still chatting up a storm about a new entry in the series.

Uchikoshi tweeted the following over the past few days:

@suburbanwhitekd Yes. Junpei will appear as a participant in the next game. 🙂
— ????? (@uchikoshi) November 27, 2012

@syberiawinx I also know everybody likes Snake. Dio? I think he will appear in the next too. Although he isn’t the man who you know. 🙂
— ????? (@uchikoshi) November 22, 2012

@canadianbacn thx! The mystery about Phi will be revealed in the 3rd. plz look forward to it! 🙂
— ????? (@uchikoshi) November 27, 2012

@wojf The mystery about Radical-6 will be revealed in the 3rd. plz look forward to it! 🙂
— ????? (@uchikoshi) November 27, 2012

The only downside? Uchikoshi hinted that it could be awhile before we see a new Zero Escape.

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Square Enix picks up “All The Bravest” domains and trademark

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On November 29, Square Enix registered the domain names AllTheBravest.com and AllTheBravest.net. It also filed a European Community Trademark.

Considering “Bravest” is in the name, one would hope that this is related to Bravely Default. But at this point, it almost seems silly to expect anything not known as Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts to be localized.

Or maybe this does have something to do with Bravely Default – except it’ll probably end up being that browser game…

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Takashi Tezuka’s Miiverse message

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Pretty neat that we can see things like this in Miiverse…

Photos of the Club Nintendo Platinum reward playing cards

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Photos from the UK Wii U launch

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Nintendo fans brave the winter weather and queue outside HMV Oxford Street in central London for the launch of Wii U, the latest home console from Nintendo.
PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday November 29, 2012.
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Izzy Rahman 25 from London is the first to buy the Nintendo Wii U from the HMV store on LondonÕs Oxford Street, after queuing for 6 days for the launch. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Friday November 30, 2012.
Photo credit should read: David Parry/PA

Izzy Rahman 25 from London is the first to buy the Nintendo Wii U from the HMV store on LondonÕs Oxford Street with Lizzie Vitali HMV staff, after queuing for 6 days for the launch. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Friday November 30, 2012.
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Nintendo fans brave the winter weather to be first in the queue outside HMV Oxford Street in central London for 6 days for the launch of Wii U, the latest home console from Nintendo. L-R Michael Djuma, Sing Duong, Izzy Rahman and Teddy Djuma.
PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday November 29, 2012.
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A look at one of Paper Mario’s earliest designs

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Making the first Paper Mario wasn’t easy for Intelligent Systems. First and foremost, the team couldn’t decide on the proper approach that should be taken for the game’s visuals.

Here’s one of the earliest designs created for the project:

As you can see, the title wasn’t known as “Paper Mario” at the time – understandably so. Instead, it was tentatively called “Mario RPG 64”. While it’s made of 3D polygons, according to Naohiko Aoyama, it features “an atmosphere like that of a picture book transplanted into a video game—with paper-thin 2D background and characters.”

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