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Yesterday, we posted a few comments from Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai regarding concerns fans may have when it comes to playing online with the 3DS game. Kotaku now has the full blurb from Sakurai’s latest Famitsu column.

Below are his entire comments:

“Connectivity can depend heavily on location so I really don’t know what to say. At the very least, we’ve confirmed that smooth play is possible under various conditions of external networks. During multi-player, you’re connected with another player and sending light amounts of data back and forth, so if the game feels laggy, it’s due to the connection speed. If you play when it’s laggy, then the person you’re playing with will experience the same lag, so it’s best to play when the connection is clear. During development, there were cases where we had too many people and the connection became sluggish, so we turned off our cell phones and the connection would clear up. It’s best to avoid playing while streaming something or by a tethered connection. Free wi-fi spots are probably not very good either.”

One more quote from Sakurai as well. On the topic of his favorite character, he had this to say: “I don’t have one. However, for this game, I tend to like the heavier fighters.”

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Rune Factory 4 might be heading to Europe after all. A rating for the game has appeared on the USK – Germany’s ratings board. XSEED and Marvelous are both listed as publishers for Rune Factory 4.

Back in January, Marvelous announced that the 3DS title would not be released in Europe. XSEED later explained that this was due to technical difficulties.

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Mega Rayquaza was revealed for Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire during today’s live stream on Niconico. The Pokemon can use the ability Delta Stream and possesses the move Dragon Ascent.

Delta Stream activates a new “Strong Winds” weather condition. This lasts while Rayquaza is in battle and neutralizes weaknesses on Flying-types

Check out the official trailer below:

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The Wii U version of Art of Balance is due out on the North American Wii U eShop next week, Shin’en has confirmed. A release is planned for October 9.

As tweeted by Shin’en:

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NINTENDO UK CO-PROMOTION WITH PETITS FILOUS FRUBES

Nintendo UK team up with Petits Filous Frubes for Super Mario Promotion

1st October, 2014 – Nintendo UK today announces a co-promotion with Yoplait which will see some of Nintendo’s most iconic characters take centre stage on the packaging of the popular Petits Filous Frubes snack.

With Mario, Luigi, Toadette, Baby Peach, Waluigi and Wario featuring individually on the Vanilla Flavour and Bowser Jr., Peach, Baby Luigi, Baby Mario, Super Star, Koopa Troopa, Daisy, Yoshi, Bowser, Goomba and Boo on the Strawberry flavour – everyone will have a chance to have their favourite character join them for lunch!

With each pack of Petits Filous Frubes, you have the chance to win one of 100s of prizes from Nintendo 2DS systems to Nintendo goody bags! To see if you’ve won, just enter the secret code on the inside of your Petits Filous Frubes Super Mario pack at http://supermariofrubes.com/.

Launching at the start of October and available in stores across the UK, the promotion will run until 30th April 2015.

Source: Nintendo PR

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This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Download

• 99Seconds
• Red Riding Hood

Wii U Virtual Console

• Castlevania: Dracula X

3DS Retail

• Super Smash Bros. for 3DS (available Friday) – note: can download patch 1.0.2 today
• Tenkai Knights Brave Battle (available Oct. 7)

3DS Demo

• Color Zen

eShop Sales

• Poker Dice Solitaire Future is 30 percent off (reduced from $0.99 to $0.69) until Oct. 30.
• Jett Rocket II: The Wrath of Taikai is more than 30 percent off (reduced from $8.99 to $5.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 23.
• Tappingo is more than 30 percent off (reduced from $2.99 to $1.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Oct. 16.

Price Reduction

• Just Dance Kids 2014 is being reduced to $19.99 (from $29.99) starting Oct. 6 on Wii U.

Coming Soon

• Castlevania: Circle of the Moon – Oct. 9 (Virtual Console on Wii U)
• Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance – Oct. 16 (Virtual Console on Wii U)
• Harvest Moon 2 – Oct. 16 (Virtual Console on Nintendo 3DS)

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It was a close call, but Warlocks has managed to reach its funding goal on Kickstarter. Total donations surpassed the $25,000 mark with only hours remaining in the campaign.

Warlocks is an action RPG/brawler that takes place in a fantasy world invaded by shadow monsters. Players take on the role of a powerful Warlock and fight through hordes of enemies by using magic skills and weapons.

You can check out the Kickstarter page here for more information.

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