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Natsume confirmed A-Train: City Simulator for North America last year. However, the publisher didn’t have much to say about the game’s European release.

Thanks to a listing on the Australian ratings board, we now know for sure that A-Train: City Simulator will be available in PAL territories. We don’t have any sort of release date, but it should definitely launch sometime this year.

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Time is quickly running out on one of the Club Nintendo promotions for Super Smash Bros. on Wii U/3DS. If you haven’t already registered your games, be sure to do that before tomorrow ends – otherwise you won’t receive your soundtrack CD. The CD will ship sometime in March.

Those who partake in the Club Nintendo promotion will receive two bonuses. Along with the soundtrack CD, players will be provided with free Mewtwo DLC this spring.

You can find more information on the official page here.

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Shin’en typically develops and releases its own titles on the eShop. However, the studio is breaking that tradition for a new game coming out on Wii U in a few days.

Family Tennis SP launches on the eShop this Thursday. It was actually developed by Japanese company Arc System Works – not Shin’en.

As for why Shin’en is publishing Family Tennis SP, the studio has formed a close relationship with Arc System Works. The latter company publishes all of Shin’en’s Wii U and 3DS titles in Japan. And so… “It was time to return that favor,” Shin’en recently explained on Twitter.

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Has Totaka’s Song been found in Mario Kart 8? Apparently so! It seems that a Yoshi NPC sings the song on multiple tracks – see the video above for an example.

If you need a refresher on Totaka’s Song, take a look at the video below:

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This week’s Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:

Wii U

1. Super Smash Bros. – Nintendo
2. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo
3. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – Nintendo
4. Nintendo Land – Nintendo
5. Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo
6. Bayonetta 2 – Nintendo
7. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
8. Just Dance 2015 – Ubisoft
9. Disney Infinity 2.0 – Disney Interactive
10. Hyrule Warriors – Nintendo

3DS

1. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire – Nintendo
2. Pokemon Omega Ruby – Nintendo
3. Super Smash Bros. – Nintendo
4. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
5. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
6. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
7. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo
8. Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition – Capcom
9. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
10. Frozen: Olaf’s Quest – GSP/Avanquest

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This week’s UK software sales are as follows:

Individual formats

All formats

Source 1, Source 2

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Next Level Games, known for its work on games like Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, was hoping to create the title “Clockwerk” back in 2011. This would have been a puzzle-platformer game for multiple unspecified home console platforms (potentially including Wii), though it never saw the day of light.

Unseen 64 shares the following overview of Clockwerk:

It was conceived as the story of two old men, Otto & Herman, who work as Hausmeisters (caretakers) in a magical floating clock tower suspended in the clouds called ‘The World Clock’, that governs the flow of time throughout the universe. On their final day before retirement, a faction of evil gremlins attack the tower, dismantling its innards and disrupting the behaviour of time. In order for the grumpy twosome to finally retire, they must defeat the invaders and repair its inner workings.

As Clockwerk was starting out, no publishers were attached to the game. Prototypes were never created. However, plenty of conceptual documents were made so that Next Level could pitch its idea to various publishers (including Nintendo and SEGA apparently).

Next Level Games was said to have partnered with a “major company” in July 2011. Things ultimately fell through when it was discovered that another team within the publisher had been working on a separate game with similar gameplay mechanics. This resulted in the publisher ending its plans to produce Clockwerk, and the title ended up seeing complete cancellation.

You can find more information about Clockwerk in Unseen 64’s report. View some concept art below.

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