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As promised, VVVVVV has received a temporary discount on the North American eShop. The game can be purchased for $4.99 through Sunday night. It normally costs $7.99, so you’d be saving $3 (roughly 37%) in total.

The second (and last) week of eShop sales have also started in Europe and Japan. More information about that can be found here.

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It goes without saying that there are spoilers in these videos!

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Famitsu has posted a report on the domestic industry sales totals for the first half of 2012. The data was collected through parent company Enterbrain.

Between December 26 and June 24, total hardware/software sales hit 193.4 billion yen. That’s a 0.7% increase from last year’s 191.98 billion. Year-over-year gains have been made for the first time in two years.

Hardware sales dropped from 79.81 billion yen in 2011 to 70.73 billion in 2012, but software sales increased from 112.17 billion yen to 122.67 billion yen.

Read on below for hardware data and a listing of the best-selling games in Japan in the first half of 2012.

Hardware

Nintendo 3DS: 2,219,548 (total 6,355,287)
PlayStation 3: 695,465 (total 8,112,613)
PlayStation Portable: 500,333 (total 18,737,441)
PlayStation Vita: 353,657 (total 756,451)
Nintendo Wii: 265,578 (total 12,433,321)
Xbox 360: 33,809 (total 1,554,547)
Nintendo DS: 20,239 (total 32,855,741)

Software

Pokemon Black & White 2 (3DS, Pokemon, 06.23.2012): 1,618,621
One Piece Pirate Musou (PS3, Namco Bandai, 03.01.2012): 806,578
Dragon Quest Monsters Terry’s Wonderland 3D (3DS, Squenix, 05.31.2012): 743,967
Mario Kart 7 (3DS, Nintendo, 12.01.2011): 665,573 (total 1,747,964)
Monster Hunter 3G (3DS, Capcom, 12.10.2011): 665,394 (1,474,716)

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The following Virtual Console games will be releasing on the Japanese Wii Shop Channel next month:

Super Famicom

Ky?yaku Megami Tensei: Megami Tensei I – II – 900 points (releases July 3)

Neo Geo

Metal Slug X – 900 points
Stakes Winner – 900 points

Virtual Console Arcade

Riot – 800 points

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Sabarasa announced Protocol over two years ago. The company didn’t provide a whole lot of details about the project, but it was intended to be an online/offline shooter for WiiWare.

A couple of years later, Sabarasa has confirmed that Protocol won’t be releasing no the Wii Shop Channel. It’s now planned for a “new to-be-confirmed platform.” Maybe it’ll head to the Wii U eShop?

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The latest EDGE review scores are as follows:

Lollipop Chainsaw – 7
Steel Battalion Heavy Armor – 6
Spec Ops: The Line – 7
Game of Thrones – 5
Inversion – 6
Heroes of Ruin – 6
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown – 9
Beat The Beat: Rythm Paradise – 8
Babel Rising – 3
Art of Balance TOUCH! – 8
Gauge – Game – 9