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Austin edit: This is a thing you must do, because the game is truly wonderful.

ZombiU will be on sale for just $45 this weekend. Starting on December 30 and through January 5, Target will be maintaining the discount.

If you’re interested in the game, now may be the time to make a purchase. This is by far the lowest price we’ve seen for ZombiU thus far.

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This week’s Japanese 3DS and Wii U eShop updates are as follows:

3DS

3DS Downloadable Titles
Nyokenshi Akane – 700 yen
3D Space Harrier – 600 yen
Zombie Slayer – 700 yen
Charis? DX – 600 yen
Blazblue Kuron Fantazuma – 800 yen
Fantasy Life (retail title) – 5,800 yen
ESSE Rakuraku Kakeibo (retail title) – 2,800 yen
K?kan Sagashi Mono Kei N?ryoku Kaihatsu 3D no Training (retail title) – 2,800
New Love Plus (retail version) – 4,800 yen
Biohazard: The Mercenaries 3D (retail version) – 2,600 yen
Moe Moe Dai Sens? Gen Daiban 3D (retail title) – 5,400 yen

Virtual Console
Famicom Wars (Famicom) – 500 yen
Meiky? Kumikyoku: Milon no Daib?ken (Famicom, Milon’s Secret Castle) – 500 yen

Wii U

Wii U Downloadable Software
Tank! Tank! Tank! – FREE (3 play limit per day, freemium version)
Monster Hunter 3 (tri) G HD Ver. – 4,300 yen

Video Content

Dasshutsu Adventure Majo no Sumu Yakata (Escape Adventure – The Witch’s Mansion) 3D video
Bird Mania video
Nyokenshi Akane video
3D Space Harrier video
New Super Mario Bros. U commercials
6-minute Fantasy Life video

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Senran Kagura Burst arrived at Japanese retail back in August. Next month, the game will be available through the 3DS eShop.

Marvelous will release Burst digitally on January 10. Pricing is set at 5,980 yen.

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It took quite awhile for a publisher to announce The Last Story for localization in North America. The game originally hit Japan in January 2011, but it wasn’t until February of this year that XSEED confirmed it would be bringing the game over.

Interestingly, The Last Story may not have made it to the states if not for the efforts from XSEED’s Ken Berry. It was Berry who led the charge in convincing the company’s marketing team that selling a full-priced Wii game in 2012 would bring about good results.

“It was a constant fight even within our own organization. To our external sales reps, we’d be saying, ‘No, like you guys don’t understand. There’s tons of fans out there that are asking for this. There’s a huge fan movement.’ I mean, so yeah. In the end, I think we were right.”

We now know that The Last Story is XSEED’s best-performing title ever. Berry, though, always expected it to be a hit.

Berry is appreciative of the community and fans who “really stepped up their game and put their actions and their wallets where their mouths were earlier.”

“We’re eternally grateful to the fan community out there. They really stepped up their game and put their actions and their wallets where their mouths were earlier. They backed up their talk.”

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Those who visit McDonald’s in Japan can take advantage of the Mac de DS service to browse the net and play games inspired by the fast food restaurant. A new Dragon Quest game will be available starting next month.

“Dragon Quest VII: McDonald’s’ Mysterious Stone Tablet” allows users to take on the role of a warrior, magician, manager, or… McDonald’s crew member. Players battle monsters to earn stone tablet fragments, three of which complete one stone tablet. It seems as though the stone tablets make up an “ancient” McDonald’s menu.

Visit a Japanese McDonald’s between January 11 and March 28 to play Dragon Quest VII: McDonald’s’ Mysterious Stone Tablet.

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A number of years ago, there had been talk of a Metroid movie. Once Zide-Perry Productions’ licence option expired, in 2004, director John Woo and the folks at Tiger Hill took over.

Brad Foxhoven, producer on the project and former president of Tiger Hill, told IGN:

“We believed there was a great opportunity for John Woo to bring his style of action into a Metroid film. Nintendo was quite supportive of the idea, as they were all fans of John’s previous films.”

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The following Rock Band Music Store songs will be made available on January 2:

“Party Hard” – Andrew W.K. – keyboard support
“We Are Young” – Fun. ft. Janelle Monáe – keyboard support
“Tonight Tonight” – Hot Chelle Rae – keyboard support
“Raise Your Glass” – P!nk – keyboard support

Each song can be purchased for 200 Wii Points.

Source: Harmonix PR

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Revenge of the ‘Gator will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Game Boy download on January 9 for 400 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.

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