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That was quick! Renegade Kid has gone ahead and confirmed a demo for Mutant Mudds.

The demo will contain a considerable amount of content. Four main levels (1-1, 2-1, 3-1, and 4-1) and first secret level will be included. Players will be able to collect five Water Sprites as well.

The Mutant Mudds demo has already been submitted to Nintendo, and it should hit the eShop before the end of the month.

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Club Nintendo members can order three free “AR Idol Cards” for Kid Icarus: Uprising starting today. The deal doesn’t have an expiration date, but keep in mind that it is a limited time offer.

“Great Reaper”, “Drill Arm”, and “Palutena (rare)” cards are included in the pack.

You can find more information about the offer here.


Remember the rumor about Sonic Dimensions that popped up last year? It suggested that SEGA was making the game for Wii U, and it would be a spiritual successor to Sonic Colors.

Well, for now, we’ll have to throw that rumor out the window. When asked about Sonic Dimensions, SEGA’s Takashi Iizuka said, “Sonic Dimensions? [Laughs] I think it’s a complete hoax. [Laughs]”.

The issue here is that SEGA isn’t in a position to announce/confirm any new Wii U games. Still, this does impact the chances of Sonic Dimensions being real…


Could Mutant Mudds be getting a demo on the eShop? Nothing is confirmed at this time, though Renegade Kid’s Jools Watsham appears to be gauging interest for the possibility.

On Twitter, Watsham wrote:

“Who would like a free playable demo of Mutant Mudds on eShop?”

I don’t believe there is one demo on the eShop for a downloadable game yet. Perhaps a trial could persuade a few 3DS owners to purchase Mutant Mudds…

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Here’s a bit of Super Mario Galaxy 2 development trivia for you: the game could have featured Nintendo characters.

According to director Koichi Hayashida, there were proposals to include characters from the Big N’s other franchises – like Donkey Kong or Pikmin – but Shigeru Miyamoto was very unsupportive of the idea. Miyamoto felt that there needed “to be a functional reason to include characters of a certain type in a game.”

Hayashida said:

“One of the early proposals that we discussed for Super Mario Galaxy 2 was the possibility of including characters from other [Nintendo] franchises. For example, you might have Donkey Kong or Pikmin show up. We presented this to Mr. Miyamoto, but he came down pretty hard, saying that there has to be a functional reason to include characters of a certain type in a game. He went to specify precisely why the Pikmin wouldn’t work. In the Pikmin games, you’ll notice that all the Pikmin are very thin — tall and narrow for their frame. Mario enemies tend to be on the short and squat side and there’s a functional reason for that. They’re easier to stomp on. They’re lower so you can get above them and broader so you can land on them. In that sense, Pikmin are just not well suited for the Mario universe.”

Hayashida also answered a question regarding the possibility of Donkey Kong becoming the main villain of a Mario game again.

His response:

“If we encountered a situation with a proper gameplay context, we would consider it. Let’s say if we were building a level and functionally it called for someone to throw barrels at you, then Donkey Kong would be appropriate. But now that I think about it, maybe we have a situation where, at the end of Super Mario 3D Land, Bowser throws fireballs at you from the end of the stage. And we didn’t use Donkey Kong there… so…”

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This is technically the launch trailer for Ninja Gaiden III on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but the game won’t be available on Wii U until later this year.


A game box was spotted at an Australian EB Games store over the weekend, stirring speculation about a possible Donkey Kong 3D game for Nintendo’s newest handheld. However, GameStop has confirmed today that Nintendo did not provide the display cases and have put an end to the rumors.

A GameStop representative said:

“The displays were not supplied by Nintendo and have been taken down. It’s definitely not in the system in the U.S. I’m sure it’s not elsewhere, either, but I can’t confirm that.”

So there you have it. There is no Donkey Kong title in the works for the 3DS (as far as we know at least!). I’m sure we’ll see a new game in the franchise one day given how successful Donkey Kong Country Returns was, but there isn’t a new game on the horizon.

Thanks to Lars H for the tip!

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