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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, General Nintendo, News | 7 Comments

A few days ago, My Nintendo Picross – The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was extended in Europe in Japan. The same has now been done in North America as well.

My Nintendo Picross – The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess can be redeemed “until further notice.” In other words, there’s no end date anymore – previously it was October 1. You can pick it up for 1,000 Platinum Points.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Zack in General Nintendo, Wii U eShop | 5 Comments

Nintendo has updated their European My Nintendo reward site with 20% discounts for the newest additions to the Nintendo Select line, which includes Mario Party 10, Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and Pikmin 3.

The discount code costs 30 Gold Points, and give you a 20% discount on the title of your choosing which would bring these down from €24.99 or £19.99 to about $20 or £16 each. Also worth noting is that you’ll be getting the 30 Gold Points spent to get the discount back from the purchase of the Nintendo Select title.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 45 Comments

While Paris Games Week is not as big of a deal as gamescom or E3, it’s still a nice convention that you should definitely check out if you can. However, if you’re attending this year, don’t expect to see Nintendo there as well. The company confirmed to jeuxvideo.com that they would not be attending Paris Games Week 2016, which takes place from October 27th to October 31st, because it “did not fit their annual plan”.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Images | 4 Comments

Over the past few days, the e-Capcom Twitter account has been rolling out photos of the first wave of Monster Hunter amiibo. Along with the figures themselves, we’re also able to see which boxes they come in. Have a look at the various images below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii, Wii U | 6 Comments

These days, it’s easy to associate Sonic with Nintendo. The character has appeared in Olympics games with Mario, and SEGA even partnered with the big N on some exclusive games. During the early ’90s, however, things were much different as Mario and Sonic were pretty big rivals.

Game Informer put up a new piece today about how Sonic eventually landed on Nintendo platforms following SEGA’s exit from the gaming hardware business. It contains some interesting quotes from the likes of creator Yuji Naka, Sonic developer Takashi Iizuka, and even Shigeru Miyamoto.

Read up on some noteworthy comments below. You can find Game Informer’s article here for more.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

Update: Here’s the regular, latest episode of Nyannyan Neko Mario Time:

The latest episode of Nintendo’s Japanese show Nyannyan Neko Mario Time has now gone live, specifically focusing on Paper Mario: Color Splash. We’ve included it below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 27 Comments

In a recent issue of Famitsu, the magazine posted the results of a recent survey conducted. 893 people participated, and were asked to vote on their favorite game developer.

Who came out on top? That honor goes to Nintendo, though other developers such as The Pokemon Company, Capcom, Square Enix, and SEGA made the list.

Here are the full results:

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 4 Comments

Update: AmiAmi is now taking pre-orders as well, so we’ve added them in (thanks Ashley).

New figmas based on the Twilight Princess versions of Link and Zelda are on the way, and pre-orders are now open. Play-Asia and Good Smile both are accepting reservations as of today.

Links from both are as follows:

Play-Asia

figma Link: Twilight Princess Ver.
figma Link: Twilight Princess Ver. DX Edition
figma Zelda: Twilight Princess Ver.

Good Smile

figma Link: Twilight Princess Ver.
figma Link: Twilight Princess Ver. DX Edition
figma Zelda: Twilight Princess Ver.

AmiAmi

figma Link: Twilight Princess Ver.
figma Link: Twilight Princess Ver. DX Edition
figma Zelda: Twilight Princess Ver.

Note that Play-Asia and Good Smile both have deadlines. On Play-Asia, pre-orders will need to be in by October 22. On Good Smile, reservations will be open until October 27.

The Link and Zelda figmas release in May of next year. View some photos below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 4 Comments

Update: Choice Provisions has confirmed that Charles Martinet will be returning to lend his voice to Runner3.

Original: Choice Provisions has announced Runner3, the next game in the Bit.Trip Runner series.

A notice posted on the project’s new site reads:

Runner3 is the upcoming (and perhaps unsurprisingly) third entry in the BIT.TRIP RUNNER series. We’re committed to making it the best game we’ve ever made, and we want you to hold us to it. You can follow the game’s development over on our devlog, where we encourage you to chat with us in the comments section of our weekly updates.

We plan to be very open with you about the creation of Runner3, and we even plan to solicit feedback occasionally and offer user polls to give everyone a chance to chime in and help us think of things like level names, possible unlockable outfits, and more.

Let’s work together to make Runner3 the best game it can be!

We also have the following teaser:

That’s all for now. Runner3 is due out next year, so there’s plenty of time to share information about the game. I’d say it’s likely that we’ll be seeing it on a Nintendo platform, though nothing is confirmed at the moment.

Bit.Trip Runner started out on WiiWare, and eventually headed to other platforms including 3DS as part of the Bit.Trip Saga. Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien was then released on Wii U and other platforms in 2013.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News | 26 Comments

Nintendo held a Yo-kai Watch 2 event with Level-5 and Hasbro this past weekend in Toronto. GameSkinny attended the event, and was able to speak with Nintendo of Canada communications manager Andrew Collins. Collins commented on how Yo-kai Watch has become popular in North America, the 3DS versions of Yoshi’s Woolly World and Super Mario Maker, and Nintendo Directs.

You can read up on GameSkinny’s interview here for some other topics. We’ve posted a few excerpts below.

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