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The Mega Yarn Yoshi amiibo began to hit stores in Canada yesterday. In the video below, you can see the plushie being unboxed.

Masayuki Uemura, a lead designer of the Nintendo Entertainment System, held a presentation at New York University’s Game Center last night. Uemura shared a couple of interesting insights that I wanted to relay here.

First, the front-loading slot was implemented since VHS systems were popular in the mid-190s. The team wanted to make the NES to take on a somewhat similar appearance. Uemura also commented on why the Zapper was bundled in: because Americans loved guns, apparently!

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Today’s episode of Nintendo Minute is all about Yoshi’s Woolly World – hardly a surprise since the game has now launched in North America. In the video below, Kit and Krysta show off two levels.

Amazon will begin taking orders for the Yarn Yoshi amiibo later today. You’ll want to keep track of this link for the pink version and this page for the blue version.

They’ll be up at the following times:

Pink Yarn Yoshi

  • 1:00pm PT
  • 2:00pm MT
  • 3:00pm CT
  • 4:00pm ET

Blue Yarn Yoshi

  • 2:00pm PT
  • 3:00pm MT
  • 4:00pm CT
  • 5:00pm ET

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Update: Mewtwo here. Toom Nook here.


Pre-orders for the Animal Crossing amiibo 3-pack are live on Walmart. Get yours here. The bundle comes with Cyrus, K.K., and Reese.

Consumers can now order the blue and pink Yarn Yoshi amiibo. You can get them here. Each one is priced at $16.99.

Monolith Soft, developer of the Xenoblade games, has made an update to its staff recruitment page. It now seeks “urgent” and “mass” recruitment for 3DCG designers.

This is the lineup of positions available at the Monolith Soft Tokyo office recruitment section:

– Programmer
– Planner
– 3DCG Designer (Urgent!)
– 2D Designer
– Effect Designer
– Motion Designer
– Project Manager

And the Kyoto office:

– 3DCG Designer (Mass Recruitment!)
– Effect Designer
– Motion Designer

Note that the Tokyo office has been responsible for the Xenoblade games. The Kyoto office is more new and has assisted with the development of Nintendo titles.

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A new Nintendo developer site is now up and running. Check it out here.

Of course, as this site is primarily intended for developers and publishers, there’s not a massive amount to see for the general public. It is interesting to look at though in any case!


Earlier this week, we told you about plans to make plushies available based on Splatoon. Today, retailer Play-Asia has followed up with pre-orders. You can reserve each one here.

The various plushies are priced at $21.99 each. They’ll be shipped on December 25.

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Nintendo put up the second episode of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer TV on its YouTube page today. You can watch it below.


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