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Posted on 9 years ago by Dennis Gagliardotto(@LyonHart_) in News | 2 Comments

For those of you who are still looking for this beautiful beast to properly play Super Smash Bros. with, Amazon has them in stock right now! Get one here.

Posted on 9 years ago by Dennis Gagliardotto(@LyonHart_) in Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

We’ve seen tons of awesome Mess Fest videos from Nintendo’s recent event a few weeks back to help promote Splatoon, and now there’s another one! Check out the newest video where you can get a look at the event with Joey Bragg and Kelli Berglund:

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Posted on 9 years ago by Dennis Gagliardotto(@LyonHart_) in News | 11 Comments

In a recent interview Hisashi Nogami of Nintendo EAD did with Engadget, they touched on tons of topics from Splatoon, his early career, Yoshi’s Island and much more. One of the more notable pieces of the interview is when he discusses a bit about Animal Crossing on the Wii U, which a lot of people have been asking for, with rumors flying around of a potential showing at this year’s E3 event. Here’s an excerpt below:

So my very last question then is: When are we going to see Animal Crossing on Wii U?

Well, that’s difficult for me to answer at the moment! Yup. That’s pretty much all we can say.

What I will say is that you may have seen an announcement recently about anAnimal Crossing product coming out on the 3DS… I can tack that on to the end of my response.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Dennis Gagliardotto(@LyonHart_) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

Still missing out on a Silver Mario amiibo? You can get the figure here before it’s gone again.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Videos | 0 comments

We’ve already posted an unboxing video for the Inkling Boy amiibo. You can get another look at the figure in the video below, along with the Inkling Girl.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Images | 2 Comments

We’ve already talked about how the Villager amiibo seems to have received a few reprints with its recent Japanese reprint. There aren’t massive changes, but the eyes and mouth have been modified in particular.

Take a look at some comparison images in the gallery below, courtesy of GameSpot. Original is on the left, reprint is on the right.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments

Aurelien Regard has shared a new The Next Penelope trailer. It’s to promote the racer’s Steam launch, but we do have additional footage.

Here’s the trailer:

Regard has also suggested that news about the Wii U version of The Next Penelope is coming soon:

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments

Playtonic revealed a new character for Yooka-Laylee today. We have a first look at the Ghost Writers, a type of enemy in the game.

Playtonic said of the Ghost Writers in its latest blog post:

In their physical days these articulate phantoms were the scribes behind Yooka-Laylee’s mysterious book worlds. However, following their suspicious demise the Ghost Writers’ unsettled souls are now cursed to endlessly wander their creations in search of spectre salvation. Free their spirits for a special reward…

Yooka-Laylee’s creative lead, Gavin Price explains: “The Ghost Writers haunting the book worlds will add a fun twist to collecting. There are a variety of different types hidden in every world, each with their own unique requirement for being caught.

“Mix that with the different areas in which you’ll find them, and hopefully they’ll result in a fresh challenge with every encounter. They’re like a living (un-living?) collectible.”

Character artist at large, Mr. Steve(n) Mayles described the design process behind his band of ghouls: “As these characters aren’t based on any particular creature, it was good fun to go a bit crazy with them. And we are crazy guys at Playtonic Towers… never a dull moment, etc.

“The ghost was originally going to be one character, but I sketched so many thumbnails (50+) it sparked the idea of having 5 separate ghosts with different abilities.”

Yooka-Laylee will launch in Wii U in October 2016.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 5 Comments

To celebrate the launch of Splatoon, Nintendo and Adrenaline Alley in Corby decided to splat their local skate park. Adrenaline Alley will also have four Wii U pods with copies of the game to get people playing Splatoon during the summer.

You can check out the Splatoon takeover in Adrenaline Alley below. Lois Pendlebury, Tom Bailey and Sam Pulley (who are part of the Pixels crew) and up and coming skater Salar Kooshiki are featured in the video.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Screenshots | 0 comments

Marvelous released a new wave of screenshots from PoPoLoCrois Farm Story. View them in the gallery below.

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