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Square Enix has trademarked “Fantasy Village” in Japan – not to be confused with Level-5’s Fantasy Life 3DS title. The name was filed in relation to video games.

So what might this be? Some kind of Final Fantasy sim title? Something else?

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After getting a figma last year, Link from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword will now be receiving a larger Real Action Heroes thanks to Medicom.

The 30 cm model features Link’s full garb and real cloth clothing. Heck, there’s even an alternative angry face.

RAH Link will be released in Japan this November for 20,790 yen. Pre-orders open on March 24.

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Nintendo tends to work in secret ways. Sometimes, things are so secret that developers close to the company aren’t even aware of certain plans.

That was the case with Next Level Games when it came to the Year of Luigi. Amazingly enough, the studio found out about Nintendo’s plans for Mario’s brother on the same day as the Nintendo Direct presentation. That’s despite the fact that Next Level is playing a big role in the Year of Luigi – the company is just about to release Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon on the 3DS.

The game’s producer, Ken Yeeloy, told the Financial Post:

“We found out about the Year of Luigi at the same time you did. We woke up that morning and found out through the [Nintendo direct] video!”

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Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon was an interesting project for Next Level Games to tackle. It was the company’s first major game that was being developed in collaboration with Nintendo as an action title.

For supervisor Yoshihito Ikebata, while he didn’t have much experience with the genre, his desire to make a new Luigi’s Mansion motivated him to work on Dark Moon.

“How did that happen? I guess I just wanted to work on a game like that.

I guess the strongest element of me getting involved with this was just because I, personally, really wanted to see a sequel to “Luigi’s Mansion.” Now, of course, that was battling within me, against the anxiety that I felt about working on a kind of game that I hadn’t really had a lot of experience with before, but I would say that in the end, the desire to make a sequel to “Luigi’s Mansion” was the stronger feeling, and it won out.”

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It’s been awhile since we last heard about CastleStorm – close to a year. Today, Zen Studios finally unveiled the game’s multiplayer mode.

CastleStorm’s multiplayer aspects are kept separate from the single-player campaign. That means you can progress – level up and gather experience – independently. All modes will playable locally or online.

Here’s a rundown of each, straight from Zen Studios:

1 vs. 1 split-screen mode: simply try and beat your opponent by bashing in their castle. Choose your side (the noble Knights or the ragtag Vikings) and then choose your arsenal of weapons wisely. Face off, castle to castle and the first to completely demolish his or her opponent’s castle wins!

Survival Co-op: Two players team up to fight off waves of enemies together! Assign one player to control the ballista and the other to control ground forces. Good timing and great aim are essential in Survival Co-op as friendly fire could be harmful to your own troops on the ground.

Last Stand Co-op mode: Would you rather ditch the castle and do some hand-to-hand combat out in the battlefield? Check out the Last Stand Co-op mode where both players control a hero and battle wave after wave of enemies together! The object is to stay alive as long as you can, but remember, enemies can come from either side so be ready.

Take a look at the video above for CastleStorm’s multiplayer in action.

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Nintendo posted a few photos to its Facebook account showing Shigeru Miyamoto’s visit to New York City a few weeks ago. View the images in the gallery below.

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The magazine ‘Dengeki Playstation’ has been around for quite some time now, but apparently its publisher is looking to expand its horizons. Starting this April, ASCII Media will begin putting out “Dengeki Nintendo”, a similar publication focused on the efforts of the Big N instead of the Sony.

The first issue hits store shelves on April 20th and will feature Monster Hunter 4.

Via Siliconera

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People like putting copyrighted material onto the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad– that’s not terribly surprising on any given day. What’s surprising about the story we have today is that our perpetrators hid the copyrighted material inside of an app that helps you generate names for your baby called “Awesome Baby Names”.

The app has since been removed, but while it was up users could pay $1.99 for it, and if they knew the secret tapping combination the emulator would boot up and give you access to many of the GBA’s best games in ROM form. Reports are that it wasn’t a very good emulator, however, citing control issues and graphical glitches all around that made it not terribly fun to play.

Via PocketGamer