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REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Nintendo wants to inspire kids across North America to discover their inner superheroes with some help from the iconic Kirby™ video game character. Starting today, kids who visit http://kirby.nintendo.com/superability will be invited to create drawings and descriptions of their dream Super Abilities, taking inspiration from Kirby’s Super Abilities in the new Kirby’s Return to Dream Land™ game for the Wii™ system. Their imaginative creations can be submitted to Nintendo and may be featured as part of a project to aid Starlight Children’s Foundation™.

Launching exclusively for the Wii console on Oct. 24, Kirby’s Return to Dream Land features five new Super Abilities that are activated when the heroic Kirby inhales special enemy characters. For example, the Flare Beam Super Ability allows Kirby to deploy a ball of energy that can wipe out an entire screen’s worth of foes. Visitors to the site at http://kirby.nintendo.com/superability can download a Kirby coloring sheet and come up with their own Super Ability that they would use to help others. For added inspiration, kids can visit The Stacks at http://scholastic.com/stacks and take a “What’s Your Super Ability?” quiz. Participants can answer questions to determine which of the Super Abilities featured in Kirby’s Return to Dream Land would suit them best.

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Update: You can find some images here.

Level-5 showed the debut trailer for Youkai Watch at their “Vision” conference a short while ago. Unfortunately, we don’t know much about the title. Platform(s) and a release date have yet to be announced.

Furthermore, Level-5 has yet to share actual gameplay details. The only piece of information we have is that this new IP will involve not only a game, but also an anime and manga.

Will Youkai Watch come to a Nintendo platform? We’ll have to wait and see…

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You can find all of the winning animations here.

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A poster at Activision’s New York Comic Con booth has revealed that Beenox is working on their third Spider-Man game. The project will be based off of The Amazing Spider-Man movie that is due out next summer. While not confirmed just yet, the game will likely end up on Wii and 3DS.

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The Galactic Gumshoes Arrive Spring 2012

NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), in partnership with Columbia Pictures, today announced an all-new Men In Black™ video game, launching as a standalone title to coincide with the global theatrical release of Men In Black III in Spring 2012. True to the spirit of the franchise, the original title will feature action-packed, yet light-hearted gameplay mixed with edge-of-your-seat shooting excitement from the universe’s most elite peacekeeping force.

“The Men In Black franchise is an unbeatable starting point to deliver a genre-bending gaming experience with a level of production value on par with Hollywood,” said David Oxford, Executive Vice President of Activision Publishing, Inc. Mark Caplan, Vice President of Licensing at Sony Pictures Entertainment, stated, “With Activision bringing the Men In Black universe to life on next gen consoles for the first time, the Men In Black video game will be both familiar to fans, an exciting beginning for the uninitiated, and revolutionary for the franchise.”

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Every so often, GameTrailers TV focuses on Nintendo for a full episode. This year’s show will air on October 27 and will feature Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. GTTV promises “exclusive new footage and details on the forthcoming Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the Nintendo Wii.”

Additionally, Fils-Aime will chat about Nintendo’s holiday lineup for Wii and 3DS.

Reggie usually has some interesting things to say, so that, along with the new Skyward Sword footage, means that Nintendo fans should tune in to GTTV in a couple of weeks.

Source: Spike TV PR

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Toys”R”Us will kick off their annual “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” sale on Sunday. It will run for one week, ending on October 22.

Like last year, all games and accessories can be used for the deal. Pre-orders are not eligible, however.

Consumers who can’t make it to their local retailer might be able to take advantage of the offer online. Toys”R”Us has typically made the sale available through their website and in-store.

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Did you know that the first The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony concert was held in Japan yesterday? Well, it’s true! A couple of shows were held on Monday. Shigeru Miyamoto, Eiji Aonuma, and Koji Kondo were all present at the event.

Unfortunately, those who attended the concert were not allowed to snap any photos. We do, however, have some images of the hall’s outside as well as pictures of the snazzy program that was handed out.

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Hideo Kojima has been involved with the Metal Gear Solid franchise for over two decades. He’s managed to sneak in development on some other IPs such as Zone of the Enders, but he always finds himself coming back to Metal Gear.

In some ways he doesn’t mind this, though Kojima has also expressed interest in working on something new.

While Kojima was speaking at USC earlier this week, Kojima stated that he “would love to have the Metal Gear Solid series continue” after he dies and that he will continue to work on Metal Gear Solid if fans want to see new titles in the series.

“First of all, I just want to say that as long as there are fans who want Metal Gear Solid, as a producer, I will always want to still make them and I want the series to continue. So even after I die, I still would love to have the Metal Gear Solid series continue.

“But as a creator, of course, I want to do something new, and I don’t want to be limited to Metal Gear forever, right? So of course I have tried in the past. I’ve tried to hand Metal Gear off to other people within the studio and I’ve tried to raise people up so they have the ability to take over. And I think since Metal Gear Solid 3 I’ve tried this and actually did hand it off and have other people come up with the story and come up with the game design. But for some reason it just never really works out. And, you know, I end up having to step in again to take charge and kind of fix things here and there and just get sucked back in unfortunately.”