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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 26 Comments

The Game Awards 2015 will begin fairly soon. We’ll be seeing the actual show at the following times:

– 6 PM PT
– 9 PM ET
– 2 AM in the UK
– 3 AM in Europe

If you’d like to watch The Game Awards live, check out the embedded stream below. Note that a pre-show will begin 30 minutes beforehand.

It’ll be interesting to see what comes out of this in terms of Nintendo-specific content. Reggie will definitely be showing up, so there should be at least one surprise!

Random notes during the event

– Super Mario Maker wins Best Family Game
– Splatoon wins Best Multiplayer

– Satoru Iwata tribute at The Game Awards
– No new reveals from Nintendo

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 3 Comments

Yacht Club Games has finally shared a concrete release date for the Shovel Knight amiibo.

In Europe, the figure is officially slated for December 11. North America will be receiving the Shovel Knight amiibo on January 8. Pricing is set at $12.99 / £10.99 / €14.99.

Yacht Club Games spoke about the release timing and stock in a website post:

“You may be wondering why the Shovel Knight amiibo is coming out so much earlier in Europe! It was an agonizing decision, as production difficulties forced us to choose between rushing to ship a tiny, insufficient number of amiibo units before Christmas, or ship a good healthy supply of stock to North America just after Christmas. We’ve received hundreds of emails bemoaning the difficulty in finding some of your favorite amiibo, racing for a pre-order window, issues with scalpers, having trouble unlocking the new features you want to play; so, we made the decision to launch the amiibo in January so there would be enough units available. Hopefully, this later date will make buying a Shovel Knight amiibo easy and fair for everyone. So just be sure to save up that Christmas money for the new year!

On that note, if you’re interested in picking up the Shovel Knight amiibo, then we’d like to implore you to wait for it to release in your territory. There will be plenty and it will not be a limited run, so please don’t feel pressured into importing or buying from scalpers. Don’t spend more than the retail price! Also, keep in mind the new Shovel Knight amiibo features will not function on your game system in your territory until the listed release date. Thank you everyone for your patience!”

On Wii U and 3DS, the Shovel Knight amiibo provides these features:

– Level up to a max level of 50 by finding treasure!
– Earn relics in an all new way while uncovering all-new relics, abilities, and powers you never thought possible!
– Customize the look of your Shovel Knight with cool and crazy cosmetic options!
– Use your Custom Knight seamlessly between Nintendo 3DS and Wii U!
– Battle your way through amiibo exclusive challenge stages that take advantage of the new Custom Knight relics and abilities!
– 5 new solo challenges and 5 new co-op challenges (exclusive to Wii U) await!

And below are some details about co-op multiplayer on Wii U:

– Join a friend’s Shovel Knight campaign and shovel together!
– Use your cooperative skills to help each other out along the way!
– Compete against each other collecting gold and defeating enemies to prove who is the true hero of Shovelry!
– Play with any combination: two Custom Knights, one Custom Knight/one Classic Knight, or 2 Classic Knights.

View a new video showing off the Shovel Knight amiibo functionality below.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 37 Comments

Nintendo has set up a new collaboration, but it might not be something you’d expect. The Big N has teamed up with Italian label Moschino for the “Super Moschino” project.

Luigi, Princess Peach, Toad, Bowser and more will be featured on new T-shirts, handbags and accessories, along with intarsia knit sweaters. Consumers can pick up items from the line starting on December 5. Product will be sold through Moschino’s website and select stores worldwide.

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The latest episode of The Cat Mario Show has gone live on Nintendo’s YouTube channel. You can watch it below.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 19 Comments

Last June, Nintendo filed a trademark in the United States database for “Supplemental Computing Devices For Game Consoles”. It’s essentially about increasing the speed or quality of the gaming experience – mainly in a cloud gaming context.

Here’s the patent’s abstract:

“Supplemental computing devices that provide processing and/or storage resources to game consoles to assist these game consoles in executing a game. In some instances, a game console locally executes a copy of a game using resources of the game console. In addition, however, the game console may couple to a supplemental computing device that includes resources that the game console may also utilize to increase the speed or quality of a user’s gaming experience. For instance, the supplemental computing device may couple via a physical connection (e.g., a wired connection) to the game console for processing data associated with the game and providing a result back to the console, and/or for storing game data on behalf of the game console.”

If you’d like to read up on more details regarding the patent, you should definitely head on over to this link. It’s interesting, but we’ll have to wait and see what (if anything) comes from this.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Mobile, News, Wii U | 25 Comments

In addition to NX, new Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima addressed several other topics pertaining to the company while speaking with TIME. These include mobile, Wii U support in the future and how he didn’t say the system would be a failure, amiibo, Shigeru Miyamoto’s “fellow” role, Genyo Takeda, Quality of Life, and the length of his presidency.

We’ve rounded up Kimishima’s comments below. You can also find TIME’s original piece here.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 8 Comments

We have another short update on The Game Awards 2015. During tomorrow’s show, it’s now confirmed that Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime will be appearing, just like last year.

This video below confirms the news:

In other news, DJ Hardwell’s remix of the Gerudo Valley theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has come online. Listen to it below.

The Game Awards 2015 will air at the following times:

– 6 PM PT
– 9 PM ET
– 2 AM in the UK (Friday)
– 3 AM in Europe (Friday)

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The Nintendo Account system saw its initial debut in Japan this week. As for the rest of the world, it looks like we’ll need to wait until next year.

Nintendo is saying that Nintendo Accounts won’t be ready for Europe, Australia, and New Zealand until March. That likely applies to North America as well. As for the Japanese rollout, Nintendo said in a statement:

“This preliminary launch represents a limited selection of the full functionality that Nintendo will eventually offer. This preliminary Nintendo Account launch is focused on bringing off-device purchase functionality to the Japanese market.”

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 2 Comments

Build-A-Bear Workshop’s new stuffed animals featuring Pikachu were originally planned for release in early 2016. Its launch has now been brought forward though, and product will be available starting later this month.

Consumers can choose between two options. Here’s a breakdown of each:

Web-only

– Pikachu plush pre-stuffed
– Sound clip of its different cries
– Poké Ball hoodie
– Charizard costume
– Special trading card
– $60

In-store pickup

– Make your own Pikachu
– Get the Pikachu alone
– $28
– Can buy the Poke Ball sweatshirt for an extra $12.50

Pre-orders for the Pikachu plush at Build-A-Bear Workshop are now live. You can reserve yours here. Check out some new photos below.

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

The Shovel Knight amiibo has started to reach certain parts of Europe. Check out an unboxing video for the figure below.

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