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Masahiro Sakurai published yet another column in this week’s Famitsu. Sakurai talked all about working on the new Smash Bros., games including his workload, schedule, living arrangements, and more. You can find a roundup of Sakurai’s quotes, courtesy of Polygon’s translations.

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Two Japanese trademarks hint at future localizations for Dragon Quest titles. Don’t let the fact that they’ve been registered in Japan fool you – the names themselves are in English: “Luminaries of the Legendary Line” and “The Seeds of Salvation”.

Neither title actually includes the “Dragon Quest” name. But both use similar alliteration as past games, like Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen, Hand of the Heavenly Bride, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation, and Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies. Previous overseas launches have also been outed first by trademarks.

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Amazon has revealed some of the video game-related products that will be going on sale during the Black Friday period.

The retailer has confirmed that Batman: Arkham Origins will be available for $34, while Call of Duty: Ghosts will be lowered to $40. Consumers will also be able to partake in a buy 2 get 1 free offer for Skylanders Swap Force characters.

Below are a sampling of items Amazon has confirmed for Black Friday:

Save up to 90% on select titles in the Amazon Appstore
Xbox 360 250 GB Holiday Value Bundle including Halo 4 and Tomb Raider, $189.99
PS3 250GB Bundle including The Last of Us and Batman Arkham Origins, $199
$34 for popular games like Grand Theft Auto V and Batman Arkham Origins
Call of Duty Ghosts, $39.96
$25 for popular games like FIFA 14, Madden 25, Battlefield 4, NCAA
Skylanders Swap Force Characters – Buy 2 Get 1 Free

Amazon will begin kicking off deals starting on November 24. New deals will be offered across all departments every ten minutes, lasting through the Black Friday 2013 weekend.

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Southwest Airlines and Nintendo are partnering to bring a little extra joy to travelers during this busy holiday season. Beginning Nov. 25, Nintendo’s Wii U Gaming Lounges will be positioned in six busy Southwest Airlines airports, including Dallas Love Field, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago (Midway), St. Louis and Tampa, through the December holiday season. Travelers will have the opportunity try out the hottest Nintendo games in HD, including the must-have Mario game for the holidays, Super Mario 3D World.

Mario himself will be at Dallas Love Field waiting to greet a Southwest Airlines flight full of lucky Customers with a very special surprise for the holidays.

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Nintendo kind of has two birthdays. The first is when the company was founded – 1889. However, Nintendo Co., Ltd. was established as a publicly traded company on November 20, 1947. That would make the Big N sixty-six years old today.

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In the latest issue of EDGE magazine there lays a feature about the inclusion of permanent death in a game– that is, when a character dies, they’re gone for good and you can’t do anything about it. Two notable examples of games that utilize permanent death (perma-death) have come within the last year or deux: ZombiU from Ubisoft on the Wii U and Fire Emblem: Awakening on 3DS from Nintendo. A designer from both games sat down with EDGE to discuss their experience with perma-death:

I think that all of the Fire Emblem games are fun, but a lot of beginner players stay clear of them because they think they are difficult. I think this is a real shame. A big reason for wanting to include this mode was so that those kinds of people could play Fire Emblem too…Since your characters come back when they die, one advantage is that you can play more aggressively or take more risks.

– Fire Emblem: Awakening director Kohei Maeda

[Writing ZombiU] was the toughest challenge I’ve faced in over ten years of writing for games. It took… the whole production team to find solutions for all the ‘But what happens if you die here?’ issues, which were sometimes mind-bendingly complicated.

I created the Prepper character and the survivors’ notes to establish a link and reinforce between the survivors who all fall under this mysterious character’s influence. Without a main player character, you need to embrace your main NPCs. Our character assemblage system produced avatars that were less gorgeous than a single player character would’ve been.

– ZombiU design director Gabrielle Shrager

Via NintendoLife

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Everyone loves announcements of announcements, right? Here’s another one for you, straight from Image & Form:

Might this have something to do with the next SteamWorld game? Or something else entirely?

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The third episode of Pokemon Origins is now available in English. It can now be seen through Pokemon TV.

Pokemon Origins is different than the typical Pokemon anime in that it connects directly to the Red/Blue video games.

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