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Ian Livingstone, life president of Eidos, feels that Nintendo should expand its horizons. Speaking at the Bristol Games Hub, Livingstone said that the company’s IPs should be spread out across all platforms. He believes that if this isn’t considered, “a whole generation of young people will miss out on their games.”

Livingstone’s comments in full read:

“Nintendo should have their IP on every platform. Otherwise a whole generation of young people will miss out on their games.”

While Livingstone may want this to happen, it won’t. As long as Nintendo remains in the hardware business, there’s no way you’ll be seeing the likes of Mario and Zelda on competitor systems.

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Next Tuesday, Square Enix will be holding something called “The Future of Final Fantasy” at E3 2013. The event will include a “special Q&A session” with Final Fantasy brand director Shinji Hashimoto.

The Future of Final Fantasy runs between 9 AM and 10 AM PT. This just so happens to be the same time as Nintendo’s press event.

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Not going to E3 2013 this year? No worries! Twitch has you covered.

A ton of games will be demonstrated through live-stream broadcasts during each day of the show. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are filled with tons of demos, including Watch_Dogs, Batman: Arkham Origins, DuckTales Remastered, Rayman Legends, and Scribblenauts Unmasked.

The full schedule can be found below.

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Square Enix has filed a trademark in Europe for something called “Deadman’s Cross”. A corresponding domain name was registered back in April.

To be clear, Deadman’s Cross is coming from Square Enix’s main division – subsidiary Eidos does not appear to be involved.

What Deadman’s Cross actually is remains a mystery for now…

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Nintendo 3DS owners will now be able to access free Wi-Fi through O2 hotspots throughout the UK

3rd June 2013 – Nintendo has today announced a partnership with O2 to provide further Wi-Fi internet access to users of its Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL consoles across thousands of locations in the UK.

Nintendo 3DS owners will now be able to automatically connect to the internet for free whenever they enter locations or venues covered by the O2 Wifi service. These include highstreet locations such as McDonalds, Debenhams, Pizza Hut, Costa Coffee, House of Fraser, Toby Carvery as well as public venues such as The O2, Twickenham, Bluewater and the Central London boroughs of Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea.

There’s no need to worry about any complicated setup on your Nintendo 3DS as just being in range of an O2 Wifi hotspot is enough to go online, providing you have the latest system update. When you are near to a compatible area – all of which can be found using Nintendo’s handy Hotspot finder – the Nintendo Zone icon will blink to notify you that free Wi-Fi internet access is available. Nintendo 3DS owners will then be able to access a multitude of online features, allowing a seamless online user experience whether at home or on the move.

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Launch Event for Animal Crossing: New Leaf Lets Fans Participate in Fun Activities to Win Prizes, Buy the Game One Day Early

–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Nintendo:

WHAT:

Nintendo World is getting a temporary makeover to celebrate the highly anticipated release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the portable Nintendo 3DS system. The store will be transformed into the personalized, charming town featured in the upcoming hand-held game. Consumers can collect a series of Animal Crossing-themed buttons for completing a variety of fun activities inspired by the game such as bug catching, fossil digging and fishing. For those who want to get their groove on, the second floor of the store will feature a DJ spinning music. To ensure that everyone has fond memories of the day, there will also be plenty of photo opportunities throughout the store featuring cutouts of some of the game’s most recognizable characters.

As a special treat for fans, the Animal Crossing: New Leaf game as well as the special-edition Nintendo 3DS XL Animal Crossing: New Leaf hardware bundle will be available in limited quantities to purchase at the event, one day ahead of the game’s national launch date of June 9. The first 100 guests to purchase either the game or the bundle will receive an Animal Crossing: New Leaf-themed Nintendo 3DS skin.

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Nintendo seems to have taken an interest in farting. Or something like that.

While speaking with Kotaku about Nintendo’s peculiar sense of humor in April, director of product marketing Bill Trinen mentioned Game & Wario and noted how the team making the game possesses “their own very, very distinct, off-kilter humor.”

“And then you have a game like Game & Wario. The Wario team, they have their own very, very distinct, off-kilter humor. Which I love, because any time I can talk about farting in an official capacity, it’s fantastic. You’ll see a lot of that when that game comes out for Wii U.”

When asked later what it would take for the Wii U to reach the 3DS’ success, Trinen mentioned farts once again:

“I think we’re on the way [there], certainly, we’ve got games like Game & Wario. And I mean, who doesn’t want a game that’s gonna openly talk about farts?”

And here’s another interesting tidbit. When Nintendo kicked off the Game & Wario “Crowdfarter” to promote the game, Kotaku pointed out that the site was lacking in the farting department. Perhaps in response, the site now contains a “Take This” button that plays a farting sound when hovered over or clicked on.

Yeah… this is an odd post.

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Harmonix isn’t done with Rock Band. CEO Alex Rigopulos told VentureBeat that the company will revisit the IP “at the right point in time”. When it returns, Harmonix will “reimagine it as appropriate for its time.”

Rigopulos said:

“…I’ll also say that we don’t view Rock Band as something that’s being left behind. It’s something we’ll return to at the right point in time and reimagine it as appropriate for its time.”

Rock Band 3 was the last “major” Rock Band game. That came out in 2010. It was followed up by the digital Rock Band Blitz spinoff.

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IGN’s Rich George has confirmed with SEGA that the company’s third Nintendo-exclusive Sonic title will not arrive in 2013. That puts the unannounced project at a tentative 2014 date for now.

George wrote on Twitter:

The initial rumor did seem rather suspect. While it came from a valid source (Nintendo’s Germany division), the fact that we have yet to see anything from SEGA’s third title pointed to a far away release. On the bright side, there is Sonic Lost World to look forward to this year, and possible the new Mario & Sonic title.

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