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Nintendo held its annual shareholder meeting last week; during and after this meeting, a variety of information is published about the current state of the company. Among those is the shareholder approval rating for the five directors that were elected to the company’s Board of Directors. Their approval ratings are as follows:

– Tatsumi Kimishima: 97.70 %
– Shigeru Miyamoto: 97.59 %
– Shinya Takahashi: 97.65 %
– Shuntaro Furukawa: 97.65 %
– Ko Shiota: 97.65 %

For comparison’s sake, president Tatsumi Kimishima’s approval rating last year was 87.14 %, meaning his approval among shareholders has risen by more than 1o % in the last year. Clearly the shareholders are happy with the way Kimishima has been running the company – and the Switch’s successful launch clearly didn’t hurt either.

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GameStop is currently selling an exclusive collector’s edition for the new Monopoly Gamer – a crossover of Monopoly and Mario. We’ve added in an unboxing video of the release below.

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After the final round of content for Shovel Knight is wrapped up highlighted by the King Knight campaign, you can count on Yacht Club Games taking a break from the series for a little while. If and when the studio does return to the IP though, one possibility could see Shovel Knight entering the 3D space with a N64-type game.

This is something we’ve heard Yacht Club talk a bit about before, but the studio’s Nick Wozniak really seems interested in the idea. Wozniak stated the following when asked by AppTrigger where he’d like to see the franchise be taken next:

“Anything? I think one of the things we want to work on in the far future is definitely like a Shovel Knight 64, a 3D platformer. We would all love that. We all love Mario 64 to pieces and would just love to be able to jump into that.”

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This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta sit down with Splatoon 2 producer Hisashi Nogami to talk about Splatoon 2. View the episode below.

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The North American My Nintendo website has updated with the latest rewards for July 2017. Most are discounts, including Art Academy, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Super Paper Mario, Pocket Card Jockey, and Picross 3D: Round 2. Swapdoodle DLC discounts have also been added in along with the latest calendar.

The full lineup of rewards is as follows:

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 21 Comments

European retailers began taking pre-orders for the Super NES Classic Edition almost as soon as it was announced earlier this week. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been any news for North America, and that won’t be changing anytime soon. Polygon spoke to a Nintendo representative who told the site that the company has nothing to announce regarding North American pre-orders as of now.

When the NES Classic Edition launched last year, pre-orders weren’t held in North America. It’ll be interesting to see if the same thing happens this time around.

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It may not have been playable, but media outlets were recently about to go hands-on with the Super NES Classic Edition. Videos below contain new photos, comparisons to the original SNES, and more.

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Jordan Amaro previously worked at the likes of Capcom and Kojima Productions. Between both companies, he worked on Resident Evil 7, Metal Gear Solid V, and the cancelled P.T. as a level designer.

News is spreading that Amaro has joined Nintendo, which seems to have taken place earlier this year. He’s with Nintendo EPD’s Kyoto section. As for what he’s contributing to, Amaro is involved with design on what could be an unannounced Switch game or Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s DLC.

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Nintendo has previously sold amiibo as standalone figures, in 2-packs, and even 3-packs. The expansion continues with a new 4-pack for Japan.

Nintendo’s Japanese store has started reservations for the Zelda: Breath of the Wild amiibo. Consumers have the option to pre-order the new 4-pack pictured above, containing Urbosa, Revali, Mipha, and Daruk. Pricing is set at 6,480 yen.

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At E3 earlier this month, Nintendo hosted a game with some of its developers to find out just how much they know each other. Shigeru Miyamoto, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Hisashi Nogami, and Yosuke Kabuki all participated. See the full video below.