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Eurogamer has put up a new piece detailing the origins of Professor Layton. The site spoke with Level-5 CEO and president Akihiro Hino, who also briefly touched on the series’ future.

Head past the break for the rundown of what Hino shared. You can also find comments from Professor Layton’s voice actor here.

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Pikachu, as well as a bunch of other Pokemon, are acting as Japan’s mascots for the 2014 World Cup. Adidas is the official kit designer for the Japanese national team, and announced its relationship with Nintendo earlier today. All of the Pokemon are dressed with the “Samurai Blue” kit gear.

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Aryok Piñera, who goes by the name “aryoksini” on YouTube, has started a project that remakes Super Mario 64 in the Blender Game Engine. The new version comes with a fresh look at some slight changes in gameplay mechanics. Potential feature additions include Oculus Rift support, portals and online multiplayer.

You can keep track of future developments on Piñera’s Twitch and YouTube channels.

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ONM has put up its full interview with Zelda series producer and Zelda: A Link Between Worlds composer Ryo Nagamatsu. Between the two, there’s talk about the need to innovate with the franchise, how A Link Between Worlds has created a new direction for potential Zelda games which make use of the top-down view, and more.

Head past the break for comments from Aonuma and Nagamatsu. You can find even more quotes on ONM here.

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A couple of notable changes are coming to the North American Club Nintendo site next month.

First, Wii and DS games will no longer offer 10-coin post-play surveys. Keep in mind that all such titles will continue to receive product registration surveys.

Also changing next month is the deadline to complete newly earned post-play surveys. This will be set at 30 days after they are issued for all games.

Both of these changes will be taking place on April 7.

Thanks to Forte-sama for the tip.

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Club Nintendo members in Europe can order a new reward starting today. Nintendo has added in “Premium Mario Playing Cards”. These are “super-shiny playing cards, decorated with images of your favourite Mario characters and power-ups.

You can place an order for the cards here. The set costs 3,000 points.

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Initially, Phoenix Wright creator Shu Takumi intended to end things after the third game’s release.

He explained to ONM:

“I felt that Phoenix’s story had been told, and that the series should not continue. Knowing when to end a story is very important and I wanted to avoid dragging it out and having it become a shadow of its former self.”

We did eventually end up getting Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. Phoenix Wright wasn’t playable, but he did appear in the game – a result that came about as a request from Takumi’s colleagues.

“Years later, when it was decided within Capcom that Ace Attorney 4 would go ahead, my position was that we should change the main character and tell a new story. I didn’t plan to have Phoenix in the game, but my colleagues said they wanted him to appear in some form, which is why he ended up being the accused in the first case in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.”

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Nintendo set a date for its next fiscal year earnings release today. That’ll happen on May 7 – about two months from now. Nintendo should hold its next investor briefing at that time as well.

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Super Smash Bros. Melee is joining the lineup for Evo 2014. The game was also included in last year’s event, and smashed viewing records for its success.

Evo 2014 will take place between July 11 and July 13.

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