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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 15 Comments

Aside from some news about Pokken Tournament, this month’s issue of CoroCoro also had an update on Pokemon the Movie XY & Z 2016. The magazine talks about how Volcanion hates humans – why this is so and what happened to make it hate them. CoroCoro also teased a World Exclusive Scoop Poster and a major announcement that will affect the entire world for the movie.

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Square Enix made it known during the Dragon Quest 30th Anniversary Project Presentation today that the company is partnering with Universal Studios Japan on a collaboration for the series. But like many announcements and news coming out of the event, details were practically nonexistent.

Square Enix announced a few other non-gaming things involving Dragon Quest as well. These include the Dragon Quest Live Spectacle Tour, museum, more concerts with composer Koichi Sugiyama, and 30th anniversary books.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, Videos | 6 Comments

Update: Right out of the gate, no Dragon Quest XI news. Well, that’s that!

Square Enix will be kicking off its Dragon Quest 30th Anniversary Project Presentation live stream at 12 AM ET / 9 PM PT (30 minutes from now). We’re expecting to at least see/hear more about Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3, and Dragon Quest XI may make an appearance as well.

View the stream as it happens below. We’ll keep an eye out for any Nintendo-related news.

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Several new titles are coming to the Japanese eShop on January 20. Here’s a look at the upcoming digital downloads:

Wii U Virtual Console

Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament (GBA, 702 yen)
1080° Snowboarding (N64, 1,000 yen)

3DS Download

Gakuyu Unmei Kyodotai ~Friends in the Same RPG~ – 1,000 yen
Castle Conqueror Defender – 500 yen

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 5 Comments

Former Rare developer Chris Seavor shared interesting insight into the studio’s past on Twitter. In a message published yesterday, Seavor showed an image of the unreleased title Urchin, which would have had toys-to-life functionality similar to that of amiibo.

That’s as follows:

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 28 Comments

A special Pokemon movie set will be available in North America starting next month. On February 9, you’ll be able to pick up “Pokemon: The Movies 1-3 Steelbook Blu-ray Collection”. This naturally features the first three Pokemon films in a single, limited edition package.

You can pre-order the movie collection over on Amazon. Doing so will save you $5, bringing it down to $35.

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Atlus CEO Naoto Hiraoka was interviewed in this week’s issue of Famitsu. On the topic of the company’s 2016 and future plans, Hiraoka said:

“In 2015, we were able to develop existing IP like Persona 4: Dancing All Night and Etrian Mystery Dungeon. In 2016, starting with Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir, we plan to release a large number of titles. In the summer, we’ll launch the long-awaited Persona 5. Of course, in addition to that we have several unannounced titles. I have no doubt this will be a year Atlus’ popular series all gather together.”

Etrian Odyssey V is long overdue, and should hit Japan this year. As for other surprises? We can only hope that Atlus will continue to spread the love on Nintendo platforms!

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The Pokemon news continues! A new video promoting the franchise’s 20th anniversary can be seen below.

One important point from the video mentions monthly Mythical Pokemon distributions. This will start in February, and features the likes of Mew, Darkrai, Arceus, and much more. You’ll be able to obtain these Pokemon in X/Y as well as Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire.

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We’ve mentioned before that big gaming franchises are celebrating big anniversaries this year. Pokemon, for instance, is 20 years old in 2016. An official logo was sent out today commemorating the occasion.

Also revealed is that Pokemon will be seeing its first ever Super Bowl commercial on February 7. This will “encourage fans to Train On,” The Pokemon Company says.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 7 Comments

Nintendo Account is, as the name implies, Nintendo’s new, unified account system. Announced for early this year in the West, the program had somewhat of a surprise launch in Japan in December. Personalized discounts were one of Nintendo Account’s announced features – however, so far users with Japanese accounts were only able to take advantage of global discounts, not much different to sales on the eShop.

However, that is changing with a new feature coming this month. Users who link their Nintendo Network ID to their Nintendo Account before the 24th of their respective birthday month and opt in to receive promotional e-mails from Nintendo will receive special discounts on the 24th of their birthday month. This means that we should learn what this month’s discounts are on January 24th.

Right now we don’t know if birthday month discounts will also be available to European and North American users once Nintendo Account launches there. Nintendo is likely to share more details on the system’s Western launch in the coming weeks.

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