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Bry Sharland isn’t pleased that Nintendo Power will soon be shutting down. Actually, he tells us that he’s been “depressed” over its imminent closure.

In hopes of paying tribute to the magazine, Bry has been working on a painting since August while being involved with two jobs. It features some of Nintendo’s most popular characters as well as Nester – one of Nintendo Power’s older mascots.

Props to Bry for making this painting. There’s no way we could have made something like this!

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Iwata Asks discussions tend to pop up in bunches. We’ve seen two Wii U interviews over the past couple of weeks, and Nintendo has now added in talks for Pokemon Black/White 2, Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone!, and Style Savvy: Trendsetters.

Links to each can be found below.

Pokemon Black/White 2
Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone!
Style Savvy: Trendsetters

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Impulse Technology Dismisses Suit Following Relevant U.S. District Court Ruling

REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 22, 2012 – A patent-infringement lawsuit brought against Nintendo of America was voluntarily dismissed by plaintiff Impulse Technology Ltd. Impulse had alleged that Nintendo’s Wii console, Wii Remote controller, Wii Balance Board accessory and Wii Fit Plus software infringed one of Impulse’s patents (U.S. Patent No. 5,524,637). Impulse abandoned the lawsuit following an unfavorable decision from Judge James Gwin of the U.S. District Court in Cleveland that undermined Impulse’s legal arguments.

“We are very pleased with the court’s ruling, which forced Impulse to walk away from this lawsuit,” said Richard Medway, Nintendo of America’s deputy general counsel. “Nintendo vigorously defends patent lawsuits when we firmly believe that we have not infringed another party’s patent. We will continue our tradition of developing unique and innovative products while respecting the intellectual property rights of others.”

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Source: Nintendo PR

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Disney Interactive is working on a new title (tentatively) known as “Toy Box”. As spotted by Superannuation, the game will see Pixar and Disney characters interacting with each other for the first time.

The New York Times reports that Toy Box is “a console game with extensive mobile and online applications”.

Beyond this, not much is known about Toy Box. Disney hasn’t officially announced the project, and the final name could very well change. Potentially though, maybe we could see something such as Toy Story’s Woody interacting with Simba from Lion King… or something along those lines.

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In an homage to (or perhaps parody of) the upcoming ‘Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale’, mod community ‘KittyCorps’ has put out arguably their biggest mod ever (at least in a while), consisting of 26 characters mimicking those that will appear in Sony’s upcoming brawler, plus a few others. The fighters are as follows:

Kratos, Fat Princess, Cole McGrath, Heihachi Mishima, Toro/Kuro, Parappa, Big Daddy, Nathan Drake, Sweet Tooth, Sly Cooper, Jak, Sackboy, Dante, Ratchet, Spike, Raiden, Nariko, Sir Daniel Fortesque, Snake, Isaac Clarke, Commander Shepard, John Marston, Kazuya Mishima, Lara Croft, Niko Bellic, and Tomba.

Now, the models aren’t perfect and the gameplay is far from flawless, but hey… at least it functions! You can read more about the game via the source link.

Via KittyCorps

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A new downloadable reward is available on Club Nintendo.

3D Classics: Urban Champion has been swapped out for Pro-Putt Domo. The game is available for 100 coins.

You can order Pro-Putt Domo here. It’s available as a DSiWare download until November 4.

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Nintendo is running a unique Club Nintendo promotion in Europe. Register Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask before 9am CET/8am BST on October 26 and you’ll have a chance to receive a limited edition leather luggage tag.

Nintendo says that the item is comprised of “real leather and branded with Layton’s trademark top hat logo”. Only 5,000 tags are being made. Due to the nature of limited edition item and availability, it will only be handed out while stock lasts.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 0 comments

If you’d like to see what the toys look like when they aren’t dismantled, view this post!

Thanks to Derek Austill for the tip.

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Here’s that Wii U commercial shown during Homeland earlier today…

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Bravely Default: Flying Fairy received a near-perfect score in Famitsu. That may not mean much to some given the magazine’s generous past, but it

Two reviewers gave Bravely Default 10s, and the other two gave it 9s. But what did they actually say about Square Enix’s new RPG?

Read on below for the complete quotes from each reviewer.

Reviewer #1:

“Abundant jobs and abilities paired with ability to build up turns spend them in advance. It’s a unique system and it’s awesome. Thinking about tactics is way too fun. With the skill shown in the graphics and story, you’re kind of unsure about whether your should level your characters or advance the story. Lots of benefits from street passes, so it becomes a game you always want to have and walk around with. A supreme game.”

10/10

Reviewer #2:

“The battle system and the brave-and-default system’s excellence and the very tactical battle system will satisfy. On top of that, I get the impression that the difficulty is kind of high. There are lots of jobs and
abilities, and you feel like it’s really worth developing your characters. Social stuff like summoning your friends and playing with them is really neat.”

9/10

Reviewer #3:

“The enemies are strong. It has some meat to it. The battle system is excellent. The Brave and Default system is really novel. It’s fun to consider when to build up Brave Points and how to spend them. Really takes advantage of street pass technology. In particular, I liked using the street pass functions to decrease the reconstruction time of the village. That was really cool.”

9/10

Reviewer #4

“At first, it causes you to remember Final Fantasy with its job system; it’s nostalgic like that. That stuff doesn’t go out of style. The graphics look like a picture book, just beautiful. It’s a new game, but the music has an old, classic feel. The battle system and the street pass contents are so extensive, you’ll want to dive into all of the content.”

10/10

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