Perhaps the most interesting addition to the site is a “Worldwide Coin Total”. If you have SpotPass enabled, your coin count will be added to the overall total on the New Super Mario Bros. 2 site. Nintendo asks, “How high do you think it will go? Let’s find out together!”

Thanks to Andrew S for the tip.

Kirby’s Dream Collection: Special Edition images

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Kirby’s Dream Collection: Special Edition is now out in Japan. Photos of the lovely package have been posted above.

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Fantasy Life website opens

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Level-5 has opened an official website for its 3DS RPG Fantasy Life. You can access the site here.

The page contains a bunch of already-shown screenshots, an old trailer, and gameplay bits.

One random note: it’s mentioned that one of the title’s elements, “My Room”, will allow you to build up your room and expand it into something larger.

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Nintendo pushing digital sale of 3DS retail titles with incentives

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Nintendo’s Japanese division has officially announced the sale of downloadable 3DS retail titles. Starting on July 28, consumers can buy New Super Mario Bros. 2 (4,800 yen) and Onitore (3,800 yen) as digital releases.

Three options are available for such purchases:

1. 3DS owners can pick up a download card from retailers and then apply it on the eShop
2. Purchase a download code from online shops and then redeem it on the eShop
3. Make a purchase on the eShop directly

Those who download New Super Mario Bros. 2 or Onitore will receive a few bonuses.

If the purchase is made before September 2, consumers will receive “Donkey Kong Original Edition” through Club Nintendo. The Pie Factory stage is included in the title. Club Nintendo members will also be rewarded with twice the amount of points for their game registrations and an extra twenty points if both New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Onitore are downloaded.

Helios Interactive was working on a Spyro MMORPG for Wii

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Helios Interactive was once working on a Spyro MMORPG for the Wii along with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The game, titled “Spyro Kingdom”, would have continued the events from The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon. Players could create their own dragon, take on quests, decorate their cave, and level up. Helios was planning on including Spyro, Cynder and Sparx as NPCs.

For whatever reason(s), Activision decided not to pursue the project after Helios presented a working demo and production art.

A couple more Spyro Kingdom videos have been posted below;.

Yasue on introducing new Kingdom Hearts players to the series’ history,

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This is a big year for Kingdom Hearts. The series is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and one could argue that Kingdom Hearts 3D is the first “true” follow-up to KHII.

Given the amount of convoluted plots and storylines that have been made over the past decade, it could be intimidating for new players to step inside the Kingdom Hearts universe. Square Enix’s Tai Yasue commented on this and more in a new interview.

Head past the break to read up on what Yasue had to say.

Amazon shows Adventure Time Collector’s Edition boxart

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The Collector’s Edition boxart for Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d you steal our garbage?! has popped up on Amazon. Images for the 3DS and DS versions can be found below.

Planet Crashers trailer

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Remember, Planet Crashers launches on the North American eShop next Thursday.

5 of Ubisoft’s Wii U initial games are ports, huge investment not expected

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During an earnings call today, Ubisoft says that five out of its seven games initially planned for Wii U are ports.

ZombiU and Rayman Legends are completely original. Assassin’s Creed III, Sports Connection, Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth, Your Shape, Just Dance 4, and Rabbids Land are also coming to the system.

Ubisoft additionally stated that it isn’t expecting a huge investment in Wii U.

When asked about Ubisoft’s R&D budget and cost of making games for the console, Ubisoft said:

“Out of 7 games we are planning to launch, 5 games are ports, so those are games for which there is a quite small reinvestment to do. The two games that are original are ZombiU of course and Rayman, so those ones of course are more expensive but we are not talking about games today, like we were spending on Ghost Recon or Assassin’s Creed. So they are much smaller of cost. Because as we’ve always said when there is such an innovation the need is not to have big production value but to concentrate on the innovation. This is what we are trying on Rayman and ZombiU. And for the other five games, you are talking about small budget, I’d say of less than a million euro to make some of the ports, I’d estimate. So together I don’t think we have a huge investment on the Wii U.”

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