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After a two-year hiatus, the Nintendo World Championships are back. Nintendo will be hosting the 2017 event today, with the proceedings beginning not too long from now. The tournament should kick off at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET / 10 PM in the UK / 11 PM in Europe.

You can watch the Nintendo World Championships as the event happens below. We’re not saying there will be any announcements (there may very well be nothing), but if anything happens to show up, we’ll have the news on the site.

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Earlier this year, Hallmark began selling Super Mario ornaments. Mario was the first out of the gate. Another two are now available as well.

Online you can grab a Yoshi ornament for about $15. Luigi also started showing up at Hallmark this weekend, though you’ll only find him in stores.

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At New York Comic-Con yesterday, Akira Himekawa hosted a special panel. It was dedicated almost entirely to their work on The Legend of Zelda manga. If you’re interested in watching the full panel, you can do so below.

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Famitsu published a big interview with Nintendo this week about the NES Classic Edition / Famicom Mini. There was really a lot of noteworthy information shared, and we have some of the highlights.

These representatives from Nintendo were interviewed:

Kazuhiro Maruyama / Hardware development department
Takao Shimizu / Planning and development department
Kazuyoshi Nishi / Business department

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This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta continue the march to Super Mario Odyssey with some custom amiibo. Watch the full episode below.

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Ahead of the Nintendo World Championships this weekend, ESPN spoke with a three important folks at Nintendo: Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo Treehouse’s JC Rodrigo, and Bill Trinen.

Aside from the Nintendo World Championships, there was talk about competitive play in general and how Nintendo is approaching the scene going forward. Read what Reggie, Rodrigo, and Trinen had to say below.

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Amazon UK is taking pre-orders for the Zelda: Breath of the Wild Champions amiibo. You can reserve the 4-pack right here. Note that this item should ship to the US. 

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Two new amiibo came out today. As part of the Super Mario line, Koopa Troopa and Goomba are available. Both are unboxed and compared in the video below.

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Amazon France has the SNES Mini in stock as of this moment. If you’d like to place an order, you can do so here. Note that Amazon France will indeed ship to the US.

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Update: And it’s already gone. That lasted about one minute!

Original: The Super NES Classic Edition is currently in stock at GameStop. Get it here.

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