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A trio of amiibo are available for purchase on Amazon UK. Lucina, Marth, and Ike are all in stock at this moment.

Each of the amiibo can be purchased here. They should be available to import to the U.S. for those curious!

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Tokyo Keizai Online recently posted an article in which Japanese companies were ranked by the amount they spent on advertising during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015.

Nintendo was the only game company in the top 50 having spent 54.8 billion yen on advertising. For what it’s worth, that amounts to roughly 10 percent of the company’s total revenue. Nintendo was one of two companies in the list to spend more than 10 percent of total revenue in this area. Additionally, the Big N ranked number 20 overall.

In case you’re curious, the top three companies on the list are Sony (444.4 billion yen), Toyota (435.1 billion yen), and Nissan (336.7 billion yen).

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Shea Sparling is a 10-year-old boy with polyarteritis nodosa, a life-threatening condition. Thanks to the charitable organization Dream Factory, Shea’s wish was recently realized.

Shea took a trip to Nintendo of America’s headquarters, and also met company president Reggie Fils-Aime. The two even played a round of Mario Kart together.

Shea’s mother spoke very positively about the experience, saying:

“We had so much fun. They had signs welcoming us and we went on a tour of the building. We met with Reggie and the kids even played a game of Mario Kart with him. He was so gracious and relaxed and spent time chatting with Shea, answering his questions.”

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The latest episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta kick off “Super Mario Maker SUP-tember” with a few unboxings. Take a look at the new Nintendo Minute below.

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Some have been under the impression that Final Fantasy VI was a disappointment from a sales perspective in Japan whereas it sold moderately well in America. However, this isn’t actually true.

Hironobu Sakaguchi, who produced Final Fantasy VI, has now cleared things up. It turns out that is was the United States is where the RPG didn’t sell. He added that Final Fantasy VII “actually did very well in Japan.”

Interestingly, bigger characters were used in future Final Fantasy titles – starting with Final Fantasy VII – due to the response to VI. Sakaguchi is also “mystified” by VI’s newfound popularity in the west.

“In terms of numbers, [Final Fantasy VI] didn’t sell in the States. It actually did very well in Japan. I’m mystified, because I see [Americans] are playing the [mobile] version. I think size of the characters really matters to an American audience, so from Final Fantasy VII onward, we used bigger characters. [I think] that’s why Final Fantasy VII took off. But I am kind of mystified [by VI’s current popularity in the West], because [Americans] didn’t buy Final Fantasy VI back then.”

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Over the past few years, NST has been known for working on Nintendo titles Mario vs. Donkey Kong. But it’s possible that the studio could be getting its feet wet in the mobile space as well.

On Nintendo’s job listings website, a post has been put up for a mobile game developer software engineer over at NST. This person will “play a key role in helping Nintendo build fun and engaging mobile applications and games as a member of NST’s game team.” Additionally, they must also possess “working knowledge of iOS and/or Android SDK’s.”

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Nintendo started sending out the Club Nintendo Calendar 2016 for North American members a few days ago, and the reward is now starting to hit mailboxes. You’ll find a few photos of the calendar in the gallery below.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Rumors | 17 Comments

The Tracking Board is reporting that a new Mega Man film is in the works. Supposedly, the movie is coming from 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment.

You should definitely take this update with a fairly big grain of salt. The Tracking Board doesn’t really name sources, though the site’s report has been gaining traction.

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Club Nintendo Europe just added in a “Goodbye Coin” yesterday as its final reward. Only a day has passed, but the item has already disappeared from the site. I suppose it was a very hot commodity!

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Gregg Mayles, a former staffer on Rare, has been posting several images of concept art of Donkey Kong over the past few days on Twitter.

Here’s a look at everything that was shared:

Rare worked on several Donkey Kong games during the ’90s. These include Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Land, and Donkey Kong 64.

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