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Two new games appear to be heading to the North American Virtual Console this week. Nintendo’s website lists Mario Bros. (3DS) and Ninja Gaiden (Wii U) for release tomorrow. Each is priced at $4.99.

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Ping 1.5+ may or may not end up receiving a level editor on Wii U.

Developer Christopher Arnold mentioned on Twitter that the functionality could be added into the game in the form of an update. For now, he’s currently exploring what’s feasible.

In more general news, Arnold says that he’s “thinking now of exclusive Wii U features” to incorporate multiplayer.


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Pokemon X/Y will be down for maintenance  once again next Monday (Tuesday in Europe). Online play, rankings, and other features will be unavailable between 4 PM PT and 12 AM PT. Here’s hoping these maintenance periods are paving the wave for Pokemon Bank’s launch in the west!

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Ripstone has shown strong support for Wii U thus far having already released Knytt Underground on the eShop, and Pure Chess to follow in the coming months. A third game from the publisher also appears to be on the way: Stick it to the Man.

USK has listed the platformer for release on Wii U. That’s not a concrete confirmation, but the German ratings board has been generally reliable in the past. Developer Zoink Games also recently teased upcoming news for Wii U.

We’ve reached out to Ripstone about Stick it to the Man’s USK listing, and will provide an update if we receive a response.

NG.DEV.TEAM previously confirmed Gunlord for the 3DS eShop, but it sounds like we can expect even more love from one of the game’s developers, René Hellwig, on Nintendo platforms going forward.

Hellwig told Nintendo Life that there are plans to support Wii U as well as 3DS. Redux: Dark Matters is one such game that could make its way on the eShop.

Hellwig’s comments in full:

We have plans for Wii U and 3DS. We think Redux would look amazing with stereoscopic 3D graphics! Since we developed the game on PC with HD graphics it will be easy for us to port the game to Nintendo consoles. Nintendo is more straightforward with Indie devs, and we believe that in the coming years Nintendo consoles will be a great place to publish Indie games.

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata commented on a few topics ahead of the company’s investor briefing set to take place later today.

Of Nintendo’s buyback initiative, Iwata said that Hiroshi Yamauchi’s heirs will have to pay inheritance taxes and may need to sell shares. He also remarked:

“That won’t merit shareholders, that’s why we decided on the buyback. But that’s not all the reason. We’ve been rewarding our shareholders mainly through high dividends, but we cannot generate as much profit as we used to make.”

Bravely Default character designer Akihko Yoshida will be contributing to Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians. Yoshida will be working with Playdek and intends to produce character designs.

In a message to fans, Yoshida said:

“I’m going to be helping to create artwork for Unsung Story. I am interested in the game concept of Unsung Story and it looks very exciting. I made a decision to participate.”

You can find a ton of new details about Unsung Story shared on Kickstarter today here.

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