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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

R4 cartridges, which have been used to play pirated Nintendo handheld games, have been officially blocked in Japan. The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced today that those who import these devices can be punished by law.

Nintendo was understandably vocal in pushing for the ban of R4 cards.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

A lot of Wii U games already contain updates. Nintendo Land has a rather large patch – it takes up 221MB.

New Super Mario Bros. U and ZombiU have updates as well, but they’re much smaller. They come in at 29MB and 18MB respectively.

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Nintendo is still churning out downloadable content for Fire Emblem: Awakening. The next piece, “The Strongest One’s Name”, came out today in Japan for 300 yen.

The main point of this DLC is that by completing it, you’ll receive a bonus character: Katarina. Yusuke Kozaki is the artist behind the character in Awakening.

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Scribblenauts Unlimited is coming on in Europe next year. That’s quite the “delay”, given how the game just launched in North America this week.

So what’s taking so long? 5th Cell boss Jeremiah Slaczka won’t say exactly, but the wait isn’t a result of language localization issues.

“It’s due to stuff I can’t talk about until 2013. Scribblenauts and Super Scribblenauts were released NA and EU the same day. Trust me. I want your money. It’s due to things outside of development.”

We should be receiving more specific news in the near future. Scribblenauts Unlimited publisher Warner Bros. Interactive confirmed to Rock, Paper, Shotgun that “details about the European distribution of Scribblenauts Unlimited are coming soon”.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Podcast Stories, Screenshots, Wii U | 0 comments

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf is already a million-seller in Japan. The game has racked up nearly 900,000 copies at retail (893,344 units if you care to be specific!), and we know that it initially saw 200,000 downloads on the eShop. Put these two figures together, and that’s well over a million copies sold.

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Nintendo of America director of product marketing Bill Trinen, who is quickly becoming a very familiar face with the company, has addressed a few topics about Wii U – and even the Wii as well.

In the interview roundup below, you’ll find out what Trinen said about Nintendo TVii’s absence at the Wii U’s launch, what lies ahead for the console, and more. Trinen also confirmed that, as expected, Nintendo is no longer developing any Wii games internally.

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On this week’s episode: 3DS action adventure games, platformers, RPGs, puzzle titles, and simulation games.

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