Pre-order updates (2/28/16)
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 3 Comments
Below are the latest titles that can be currently pre-ordered at retailers:
United States
* Save 20 percent on pre-orders with Amazon Prime or Best Buy’s GCU.
Wii U
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD with amiibo – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Pokken Tournament (pre-order for Shadow Mewtwo amiibo card) – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Star Fox Zero – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Mighty No. 9 – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Terraria – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
The Legend of Zelda – Amazon
, Best Buy
3DS
Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairlytale – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Hyrule Warriors Legends – Amazon
, Best Buy , GameStop
Bravely Second: End Layer – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Terraria – Amazon
, Best Buy , GameStop
Langrisser Re: Incarnation – Tensei – (pre-order for art book/soundtrack) – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
SEGA 3D Classics Collection – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Pokemon Rumble World (new) – Amazon
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
7th Dragon III Code: VFD (pre-order for art book) – Amazon
Dragon Quest VII – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Dragon Quest VIII – Amazon
, Best Buy
Metroid Prime: Federation Force – Amazon
Pokemon Sun (new) – Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop
Pokemon Moon (new) – Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop
amiibo
Roy – GameStop (exclusive)
Ryu – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Famicom R.O.B. – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Kapp’n – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Rover – Amazon
, Best Buy, GameStop
Animal Crossing amiibo cards series 3 – Amazon
, GameStop
Guides/Books
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Official Artworks (new) – Amazon
Zelda: Twilight Princess HD Collector’s Edition guide – Amazon
(save $15)
Zelda: Twilight Princess HD guide (standard) – Amazon
(save $7)
Hyrule Warriors Legends Collector’s Edition guide – Amazon
(save $8)
Star Fox Zero Collector’s Edition Guide – Amazon
(save $10)
The Art of Fire Emblem: Awakening – Amazon
(save $14)
Other
HORI Pokken Tournament Pro Pad Limited Edition Controller – Amazon
Canada
Wii U
Mighty No. 9
Pokken Tournament
Terraria
Star Fox Zero
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
3DS
Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale
Hyrule Warriors Legends
Langrisser Re: Incarnation -TENSEI- – Nintendo 3DS
SEGA 3D Classics Collection
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice
Metroid Prime: Federation Force
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Books
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Official Artworks
(new)
Zelda: Twilight Princess HD guide (including collector’s)
The Art of Fire Emblem: Awakening
UK
Wii U
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
Pokken Tournament
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 
Star Fox Zero
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mighty No. 9
3DS
Stella Glow
Hyrule Warriors Legends
Mario and Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Systems
amiibo
Books
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Official Artworks
(new)
Zelda: Twilight Princess HD guide (including collector’s)
The Art of Fire Emblem: Awakening
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Amazon: Save $10 on the Wii U Pro Controller
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 3 Comments
Aside from the Zelda game sale happening at Best Buy, there’s one other notable discount to point out today. Currently, the Wii U Pro Controller is $10 off at Amazon. For those that are interested, you can place an order here.
Nintendo Badge Arcade – North American updates for the week of Feb. 22, 2016
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 4 Comments
Update: Bumped to the top. Added in Sunday’s updates.
Nintendo Badge Arcade has been receiving daily updates since heading. Because it’s continually updated with content, we’re rounding up all of the additions and changes in a weekly post.
Here’s what’s on tap for the week of February 22:
– 8 Fire Emblem Fates panels
– 5 Super Mario World panels
– 9 Pikmin panels
– 5 Super Mario Bros. panels
– 2 Zelda icon panels
– 1 food panel (1 day left)
– Super Mario Bros. underwater theme until February 25
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Japan’s best-selling games of January 2016
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 28 Comments
The latest issue of Famitsu has shared a listing of the top 30 best-selling games in Japan for the month of January 2016. You can check out the full results below.
Tadpole Treble targeted for March, more Composition Mode footage
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments
We’ve been covering Tadpole Treble on the site for a pretty long time. Next month, the game may finally see release.
BitFinity wrote in a Kickstarter post this past week that the team is “very optimistic now that we can release in March”. Originally, they hoped to have Tadpole Treble out the door last month.
Here’s another look at Tadpole Treble’s Composition Mode:
More: BitFinity, indie, Tadpole Treble
Chasing Dead also hitting the North American Wii U eShop next week
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments
It was recently confirmed that Chasing Dead would be coming to Europe on March 3. Now we can say the same for North America as well.
Thanks to a listing on Nintendo’s website, it’s confirmed that Chasing Dead is slated for March 3 in the states. The game will set you back $29.99.
Here’s an overview:
“Chasing Dead is a story-based, Sci-fi/Horror First-Person Action Shooter .The game begins with a strange phenomenon in which another Earth appears in our skies. The curiosity and fear of a doppelganger planet initiates multiple missions in order to make contact with the duplicate Earth. A team of agents, astronauts, and scientists were sent 955,600 miles across space by NASA and the US Military, however all contact is lost a few hours after their arrival. You play as a marine named “Jake” who is sent on a mission to retrieve any research and data left behind by the original survey team while fighting off hostile forces. As Jake, you must traverse the zombie-ridden lands of the alternate Earth as you battle endless hordes of the undead, frightening mutants and insane soldiers.”
More: 2020 Venture, Chasing Dead, indie
Zelda: Twilight Princess HD pre-orders on Amazon Japan come with post card set
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 9 Comments
Amazon Japan has revealed a twenty poster card set as its pre-order bonus for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD. You can see the various designs above.
In North America, there’s only pre-order bonus available at GameStop. Consumers will receive the Zelda: Twilight Princess HD Sound Selection CD.
Capcom shares interesting insight into Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, Ace Attorney 6
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, DS, General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments
Last month’s issue of Nintendo Dream has a big interview with Takeshi Yamazaki and Motohide Eshiro from Capcom about all things Ace Attorney. The two developers provided some interesting insight into Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies as well as Ace Attorney 6. It’s several pages long, so we went ahead and made a summary.
The most difficult aspect of developing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies was moving platforms from DS to 3DS. At the time, Capcom hesitated as to whether to keep the series in 2D or make it 3D. Because of the 3DS’ selling point had been about three-dimensional views, they decided to pursue the latter option.
Something similar happened with Ace Attorney Investigations. That title took more time to develop because they needed to create a new gameplay mechanism from scratch. However, when Capcom then made Ace Attorney Investigations 2, they already had the base game set up so they could focus more on the scenario.
Photos of the Pokemon 20th anniversary fan celebration at Nintendo NY
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Images | 18 Comments
Earlier today, the newly renovated Nintendo NY hosted a special celebration for Pokemon’s 20th anniversary. Nintendo has since sent out some photos from the event. All of the shots can be found in the gallery below.
Source: Nintendo PR
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A look into Factor 5’s plans to make a Pilotwings title for GameCube
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in GameCube, General Nintendo, News, Videos | 8 Comments
One of the stronger rumors surrounding Factor 5 back in the day was the possibility of the studio creating a new Pilotwings title for the GameCube. In a new video (see below), Liam Robertson looks into these claims and sheds more light on the situation.
As it turns out, there were in fact plans to have a new Pilotwings entry on GameCube at one point. This initially came about in 2001 when Factor 5 was in talks to work on one of Nintendo’s franchises. The new Pilotwings game would have taken some inspiration from the SNES classic, but it sounds like the project would have turned out into something completely different.
Pilotwings on GameCube was never anything too tangible, however. Other than early prototypes, not much was completed. With pressure from LucasArts who helped fund Factor 5’s work on Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike as an exclusive for the struggling GameCube, it was suggested that Pilotwings should be changed into an official game based on The Right Stuff for the Xbox. And after Rebel Strike’s sales disappointed, Factor 5 began pitching its Pilotwings prototype work to publishers as a flight game that would theoretically make use of The Right Stuff IP. Companies showed a lack of interest, however, and the entire project was eventually shelved.
