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Monster Hunter Stories is playable at TGS 2016 this week, and Capcom is also showing off the new amiibo relating to the game. View a few photos below.

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Update: Pokemon GO Plus is now up on Amazon.

Pokemon GO Plus launched today, but some folks are having difficulty getting their hands on the accessory. At the moment, GameStop has it in stock, though probably not for long. You can place an order here.

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The first two episodes of Pokemon Generations are now online. We’ve included both below.

Pokemon Generations was announced earlier this week. All episodes revisit generations of Pokemon games, and will be 3-5 minutes long each.

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For those in Australia, you can now take advantage of two new discounts on My Nintendo. Both were added in today.

Discounts for both HarmoKnight and Pocket Card Jockey are 20 percent off, with both requiring 200 Platinum Points. The two expire on December 16.

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Update (9/16): Bumped to the top. The same theme can now be acquired in Europe.

Original (9/15): A new reward can now be obtained through My Nintendo in North America. For 100 Platinum Points, you can nab a Yo-kai Watch 2 theme featuring Jibanyan. Get the reward here.

Thanks to Steven B for the tip.

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Last night, the Japan Game Awards were held in conjunction with the Tokyo Game Show. A few Nintendo titles picked up wins at the event.

For the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry Award(s), Super Smash Bros. Wii U was given the Global Award as the best-selling and most popular Japanese game worldwide. Monster Hunter Generations earned the Sales Award as the best-selling title in Japan. For the Game of the Year Division awards, Splatoon, Yo-kai Watch Busters, Super Mario Maker, and Monster Hunter Generations were all selected. Lastly, Splatoon received the Grand Prize.

On Sunday, the Future Division awards will be handed out. These will be for upcoming games launching in the next fiscal year.

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We have a couple of non-gaming updates pertaining to Pokemon Sun/Moon. Today’s news concerns the new anime and manga.

The Pokemon Sun/Moon is debuting in November. We’ve included a preview trailer below.

As for the manga, we now know that the name is Pokemon Horizon. Serialization kicks off in the latest issue of CoroCoro. It’s penned by Tenya Yabuno, who previously worked on Digimon V-Tamer and the Inazuma Eleven manga.

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Dragon Quest has been around for 30 years, and Square Enix wants to share some facts with its fans with a new infographic. Head past the break for the number of games shipped, tidbits about Dragon Quest VII, and more.

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The latest episode of Nintendo’s Japanese show Nyannyan Neko Mario Time has now gone live. We’ve included it below.

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Suda51 recently expressed interest in seeing Killer7 return in the form of a remaster / remake. That’s not the only franchise he’d like to bring back, however. Destructoid has heard from James Mountain – who is working with Suda51 on The Silver Case – that Suda5 would like to remaster No More Heroes. If this is something that he’d pursue, it’d be for the Wii title – not the PlayStation 4/Xbox 360 versions.

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