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Two more rewards have been added to My Nintendo to celebrate the launch of Super Mario Odyssey. Both are up for grabs in North America.

First, you can nab a Super Mario Odyssey pixel wallpaper here. It’ll set you back 50 Platinum Points.

A Prima starter guide for Super Mario Odyssey is also available here. The guide costs 10 Gold Points. You’ll gain access to 28 pages from the guide, including basic controls, control schemes, a detailed map and walk-through for Cap Kingdom, and more. A 15% discount on the full guide is also included.

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This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta celebrate the launch of Super Mario Odyssey with a rousing game of bingo. Check out the full episode below.

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In the English version of Super Mario Odyssey, Kate Higgins plays the role of Pauline and is behind the “Jump Up, Super Star!” song. Higgins has been involved with many anime including Naruto, plus a bunch of different games like Fire Emblem Awakening, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and Sonic.

With Higgins’ important role made known, Game Informer caught up with her for some interview questions. Higgins spoke with the publication about recording for Nintendo’s new song and voicing Pauline in Super Mario Odyssey.

Read what Higgins shared on these topics below. Game Informer has the full interview here.

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Along with the game itself, Super Mario Odyssey has received three new amiibo. Mario, Peach, and Bowser are all in wedding attire.

Amazon is finally accepting orders for the different figures. You can get yours in here.

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Several new PC / smartphone rewards have been added to My Nintendo in Europe. They are as follows:

Platinum Points:

Wallpaper – Super Mario Odyssey (Cappy) – 50 Platinum Points

Wallpaper – Super Mario Odyssey (Map) – 50 Platinum Points

Gold Points:

Starter Guide – Super Mario Odyssey – 10 Gold Points

Starter Guide – Metroid: Samus Returns – 10 Gold Points

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Super Mario Odyssey is having a big launch event at New York’s Rockefeller Center tonight. Before the official release, a special dance number was performed. It featured Jordan Fisher, who was in Hamilton on Broadway. You can see a video from Nintendo of the dance routine below.

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Nintendo recently played the Guessing Game with a couple of developers working on Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon. Producer Shigeru Ohmori and director Kazumasa Iwao were the participants. See the full video below.

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Kotaku caught up with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime, who touched on a whole bunch of topics in an interview. These include the release date for the next Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC (coming soon), if we’ll see classic games on Switch, the closing of Miiverse, and the lack of My Nintendo rewards for Switch.

Read what Reggie had to say below. You can find the full article on Kotaku here.

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Best Buy has started taking pre-orders for the new Shovel Knight amiibo 3-pack. You can reserve it here. You’ll get the new Plague Knight, Specter Knight, and King Knight amiibo with a purchase.

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What is the key to Mario? In Nintendo’s view, empathy is at the top of the list.

Speaking with CNN, Super Mario Odyssey Yoshiaki Koizumi said:

“One thing that has always been constant is this idea of empathy. It’s the idea that anyone can pick up and play the game, and they have an intuitive understanding and feel for how the game works.”

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