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Is there any sort of possibility that third-party characters could be included in Mario Kart 8? Hideki Konno won’t say. When asked, Konno replied that he “can’t answer that yet.”

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Retro president Michael Kelbaugh and the rest of the studio “love Metroid.” And while the company could look to create another entry in the classic series someday, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze became the company’s focus for Wii U.

Speaking with IGN, Kelbaugh elaborated a bit more as to why Retro went with Donkey Kong for its first Wii U project:

“Well, we love Metroid. We love Metroid Prime and we always will. It was a big part of our studio, the culture of the studio. The majority of that team is still at Retro. When we finished with DK, we still had a lot of really cool ideas. That, in combination with what the Wii U could do, we really wanted to continue with that. Again, Retro Studios loves Metroid. We might do another one someday. But we really enjoyed working with DK as well.”

Donkey Kong Country is Retro’s only project at the moment. Those who had been hoping that the team could be working on a couple of projects at once will be disappointed.

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Despite being announced during a Nintendo Direct broadcast earlier this year, Yarn Yoshi was missing in action at E3 2013. According to longtime developer Takashi Tezuka, the Wii U title didn’t appear this week since it wasn’t ready to be shown yet.

Tezuka also commented on the decision to approach Good Feel for a new Yoshi project that is reminiscent of Kirby’s Epic Yarn:

“I looked at [Epic Yarn] and thought it was really beautiful. It seemed like it would be a good fit for Yoshi as well. We found that the Wii U would be able to make it a much more expressive game. It looked like it would be a lot of fun.”

Later in the interview, Tezuka hinted that we could see some increased difficulty in Yarn Yoshi. The team may look to include different modes, or some other ways to offer a challenge for core players.

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Ubisoft announced The Division for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One earlier this week. Some fans have been wondering if the game could be heading to additional systems, however.

The game’s official Twitter account tweeted that Ubisoft is “not ruling out any platforms for the future.” While the comment was made in response to a request for a PC version, perhaps we could see The Division on Wii U as well.

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I included the Virtual Photo Booth shots of Reggie, Miyamoto, and Iwata just because they’re different.

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Amazon has lowered the price of LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes down to $29.99. You’ll be saving around $20 by picking the game up now.

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Two Brothers will be launching late this summer on PC, Mac, and Linux!

And in 2014 Two Brothers will hit the Wii U EShop with upgraded features and Wii U Gamepad support!

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Shantae will not be available on the 3DS Virtual Console this month as originally planned, according to WayForward’s Matt Bozon.

Bozon just tweeted that the game has been pushed back to July. No word on the game’s new release date at this time.

WayForward previously announced that Shantae would be hitting the 3DS eShop on June 20.

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