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Game Informer is continuing its coverage of Game Freak and Pokemon today with some new insight into the studio. For the latest entry, the magazine goes over the company’s early history.

Game Freak first started out as a magazine / mini comic. When the Famicom was introduced, co-founder Junichi Masuda says the development of Mendel Palace started. Masuda said that the team “didn’t really have any official development equipment, so we just sort of had to hack the NES and figure out how it worked so we could develop on it ourselves without the official sort of development tools.”

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Alolan Exeggutor has become a fan favorite Pokemon of sorts, and Bandai Namco is recognizing that with a new statue. The product pictured above is 1/10 scale at 3.57 feet tall.

No word yet on a specific release date, but it’s due out early 2018 in Japan. The product is pricey, coming in at 29,800 yen ($270).

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Amazon is again taking orders for the Corrin 2 (Player 2) amiibo. You can place an order here. Note that this is an Amazon exclusive in the United States.

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This month’s issue of Game Informer will have a huge feature on Pokemon developer Game Freak. The magazine visited the studio in Japan “to get the full history of the series and talk about what’s in store for the future on Switch.” Game Informer “explored deeper into Game Freak’s studio than any western outlet has ever been allowed and were able to not only see where Pokemon is made, but where its creators hold their meetings, eat lunch, and even create the series’ iconic soundtrack.” The new issue is packed with twelve pages “covering the studio’s history and read development stories for every core Pokémon RPG it has created.”

Aside from content in the magazine, Game Informer will have “written features and video interviews with Game Freak co-founder, producer, director, and composer, Junichi Masuda, and Sun and Moon’s director, Shigeru Ohmori.”

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It may not be Friday, but a new episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. Kit and Krysta are joined by Sam from Nintendo Treehouse to show off Metroid: Samus Returns… and the Metroid amiibo. Check out the video below.

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The Nintendo World Championships are back. Today, Nintendo announced the Nintendo World Championships 2017, which are set for October 7.

The Nintendo World Championships last took place at E3 2015. This time around, fans will once again be able to compete with each other in a variety of games both recent and retro.

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Pokemon The Movie: I Choose You! will be shown in theaters later this year during a two-day special event. Tickets aren’t up just yet, but Fathom Events has a preliminary listing available for locations that will be hosting the film.

The full list is below. We highly doubt this is final, as places like New York aren’t represented just yet. There are close to 100 locations so far though.

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As a way of celebrating Dragon Quest X’s fifth anniversary, Square Enix has created a series of short animations based on “‘miraculous’ stories” submitted by players.

The first video, called “The Feeling of a Name”, is attached below. Gematsu also provides us with the following synopsis:

“The Feeling of a Name” opens as a young girl watches her parents enjoy the in-game fireworks celebration for Dragon Quest X‘s fourth anniversary on August 2, 2016. She quietly points out to her father that it looks like everyone has gathered to celebrate Yukina’s birthday. Yukina is the name of her mother’s character, but in a flashback we learn that she was named after their elder daughter, Yukina, who passed away. A year goes by, and we see the father at a cafe, chatting in Dragon Quest X on his laptop, where it is suggested he proposes to his online friends the idea his daughter mentioned a year prior, unbeknownst to his wife. Finally, on August 2, 2017, the family is gathered once again to watch the in-game fireworks celebration for the game’s fifth anniversary. It is then that everyone viewing the fireworks start to wish Yukina a happy 15th birthday, bringing tears to the surprised mother’s eyes. Had she been alive, Yukina would have turned 15 years old that day.

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At Japan Expo in France, The Art of Legend of Zelda Series Masterclass was held with series producer Eiji Aonuma, art director Satoru Takizawa, and illustrator Yusuke Nakano. Thanks to Nintendo UK, the full event is now online with English subtitles. Check it out below.

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We may not have to wait much longer for Thimbleweed Park on Switch. In a tweet sent out to one fan, creator Ron Gilbert said that the team is targeting a release this month or next month.

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Thimbleweed Park is a point-and-click adventure game that follows up on classics like The Secret of Monkey Island. Gilbert worked on the project along with Gary Winnick, who was also involved with the old titles at Lucasfilm Games.

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