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One gameplay element in Fire Emblem Fates involves your castle being invaded. In the video below, you can see what this battle entails.

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Activision’s 2015 full-year financial results are in. Revenue is reported at $4.6 billion, an increase from $4.4 billion in calendar 2014 with 47.5 percent of that amount stemming from subscriptions, licensing, and other revenue. Operating income is also up from $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion and net income grew from $835 million to $892 million. However, Activision fell a tad short of its revenue target.

Guitar Hero Live and Skylanders SuperChargers both fell short of Activision’s expectations. With Skylanders, there is now increased competition in the market with LEGO Dimensions. More declines are expected for Skylanders in 2016, but another game is in the pipeline. As for Guitar Hero Live, its weakness is attributed to a move to mobile devices.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

We’re sharing one final video from Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, which you can find below. It shows even more gameplay from the just-released Wii U title.

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Wii U owners in North America can now view Pokken Tournament’s eShop page. Some interesting details are included in the listing.

First, in terms of controllers, Nintendo says that the following options are supported:

– Wii U Pro Controller
– Wii Remote + Classic Controller Pro
– Wii Remote
– Wii Remote + Nunchuck
– Wii U GamePad

Regarding online play, players can expect the following:

– Online multiplayer
– Leaderboards

Of course, local multiplayer is included as well.

I’m usually hesitant to post about file sizes from the eShop given previous inaccuracies, but the listing says Pokken Tournament requires 4234.4MB for the download. If nothing else, it’ll take up a few gigabytes.

Head past the break for the game overview. You’ll also find some screenshots below.

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Nintendo of Europe has just put out a new “Game Features” trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD. Check it out below.

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Square Enix has discounted a bunch of titles on its online store. Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest IV and V, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, and more are now 50 percent off.

You can find all DS and 3DS games included in the promotion here. A blue Final Fantasy lanyard comes with all physical orders $20 or more. Additionally, all orders over $20 will receive 50 extra Members reward points.

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Several developers partnered together to host a “Nindies Love You” sale on the eShop today. 50 percent discounts are live for a number of Wii U and 3DS games in North America, Europe, and Australia.

The campaign started with an idea from Greg Wiggleton, the founder of ZeNfA Productions. In an interview with Nintendo Life, Wiggleton explained how it came about:

I truly had the idea for this group event sale around a year ago when the 1st and 2nd “epic indie sale” events were happening. I was curious if it was possible to host my own type of sale with other indies I’m in contact with and if Nintendo would advertise it on the eShop at all. It was around August 2015 that I finally started to get active in recruiting other Nintendo indies and contacting Nintendo directly about setting up one of these sales.

The very 1st step I took was taking charge of this idea and contacting Nintendo (already with a few select indies interested) back around August 2015. I was curious on how these group sales came into being. Nintendo would go on to tell me that these group indie sales were 100% created from indies and that Nintendo just helped set it up with the indies being in charge of it. From there I tried to gather a bunch of different indie Wii U games that would go well with this sale and show Nintendo that we were interested in doing our own sale. From here, I would go on to be Nintendo’s main contact for our group and talk to Nintendo on what is required, type of banners needed, and deadlines for different parts were. Every few weeks I would send updates to all involved as well as keep Nintendo involved with our developments to help keep them informed that we were serious about doing this sale.

The original goal was to have this 2 week sale period occur sometime around Christmas of 2015. A few of us involved early on thought this might be a good idea. After all, the Christmas period can be very nice for sales. However, a problem with this plan was that this period is usually very crowded. Nintendo themselves even warned us that a sale like this in December was a bad idea and recommended January or February for doing this sale. By October we finally decided to officially make it a February sale. Since this would take place around Valentine’s, we decided on that as a theme and came up with the “Nindies Love You” title for it.

As for another promotion like Nindies Love You, Wiggleton is very much interested in making that happen.

I would love to create new promotions like this in the future. I am hopeful that this event goes well for all involved so that we can all continue to make interesting and fun games for Nintendo systems for all to enjoy. Who knows, maybe one day you might see a similar promotion by me for the Nintendo NX for a new set of games!

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Bandai Namco has sent out a new batch of screenshots and art from Haikyuu!!: Cross Team Match. We’ve rounded up today’s images below.

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Rising Star Games has announced the localization of Mebius’ Sadame, an action RPG for 3DS. The game will be released as an eShop title in North America and Europe on February 25.

A trailer for Sadame is posted below. You’ll find an overview with plenty of gameplay details after the break.

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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team was added to the European Wii U Virtual Console today. 15 minutes of footage from the Red version can be seen below.

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