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During a session at the Game Developers Conference earlier today, Miiverse producer Kiyoshi Mizuki revealed that Nintendo will make the social network available on smartphones and web browsers in April or May – likely the latter. The previously-promised 3DS support will arrive sometime in the future.

Initially, it will only be possible to get involved with basic Miiverse functions on smartphones and web browsers such as comment posting and image drawing. Viewing as well as participating in communities will be implemented, too.

It’s unclear when exactly Miiverse will launch on the 3DS. When it does release, some existing games and apps will be incompatible with the service.

So what’s next? At the moment, Nintendo is seeking requests and input from different developers in terms of updates to the Miiverse API.

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The Wii U has gained yet another indie project: Citizens of Earth. Eden Industries will be releasing its game on the eShop next year.

Here’s everything we know about the game thus far:

– Play as the Vice President of the World
– No special powers
– Recruit townspeople to fight for you
– World design inspired by Earthbound/Mother 2
– Can explore the city
– When you bring characters like the town baker (who heals players with tasty treats) into battle they get better at their town jobs too
– Baker will sell you rare healing items when he gets stronger
– Each character has a world ability and battle abilities
– The Barista that works at Moonbucks can scald enemies with boiling hot coffee in battle and sells pick me up power ups at the coffee shop
– Can recruit over 50 characters
– Unique enemies such as a Honey Bear and Toupee Eagle
– Honey Bear: honey filled bear shaped like a bottle of honey
– Will run into a Rastafarian Samurai
– Citizens of Earth puts enemies on the map and you can command your followers to strike mobs first to start combat
– Players have three followers in battle and fight with a turn-based system
– Online versus mode included
– Can bright a team of characters and fight with a friend

Believe it or not, Citizens of Earth has a set release date despite being more than a year away. Eden Industries hopes to have the game ready for May 14, 2014.

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The newly revealed Nintendo Web Framework allows for some very interesting features. By using the technology, developers can easily create and port HTML as well as Javascript applications for Wii U. One piece of functionality included in the editing tools lets developers send a build directly to Nintendo by simply hitting a button. Even better, it’s possible to convert iOS to Javascript and CSS with an Intel tool, which can, in turn, land on Wii U.

Just to be clear: Nintendo Web Framework isn’t just about apps. Actually, Nintendo has a simple platformer demo at its GDC booth this year – see the photo above.

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A new streaming provider has arrived in Nintendo TVii. Starting today, Wii U users in North America can take advantage of added Netflix support. You can use Nintend TVii to more easily find interesting movies and then watch content through the dedicated app.

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Satoru Iwata has posted his first-ever message to Miiverse. The Nintendo president took to the Miiverse Announcements section to provide details about the Wii U’s upcoming update.

An official video released last night – which can be viewed directly in the message – shows a significant improvement in load time when exiting a game. Iwata reconfirmed that Nintendo plans to reduce the time it takes to load software as well.

According to Iwata “it will take a little more time until we can release the update.” Nintendo still plans to provide the update sometime next month.

Finally, it was mentioned will be sharing announcements regarding Nintendo Direct through Miiverse.

You can find Iwata’s full post below.

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Cult County, Renegade Kid’s new first-person shooter for the 3DS eShop, is about a year away from release. Studio co-founder Jools Watsham told Nintendo Life that a release is planned for early 2014.

Cult County may be a long ways off, but there is still plenty to look forward to from Renegade Kid. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is coming to Wii U in May or June, and the company may have a few other games up its sleeves for 2013. Treasurenauts could be one such title that will launch this year.

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Nintendo is making a pretty big deal out of the Nintendo Web Framework. In fact, the company has an entire session dedicated to the technology at the Game Developers Conference this week.

So just what is it? According to an official description from the company, “Nintendo Web Framework is a development environment based on WebKit technologies, supporting application development on the Wii U system using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS.” Basically, by using the tech, “development times will be reduced and Wii U applications can be easily developed”.

“The Nintendo Web Framework is a development environment based on WebKit technologies, supporting application development on the Wii U system using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. It also supports the Wii U GamePad controller, Wii Remote controllers, and JavaScript extensions such as video playback. With the Nintendo Web Framework, development times will be reduced and Wii U applications can be easily developed using common Web technologies. Combining the handy Wii U GamePad, the TV screen, and the Internet, the potential exists for the services and games you are developing to progress by leaps and bounds.”

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Gunman Clive on the 3DS eShop has now outsold the iOS and Android versions combined, the game’s developer has confirmed. While sales have slowed slightly, creator Bertil Hörberg said “they’re still at very a nice level.”

He wrote:

“…the eShop sales have passed iOS and Android combined now. The sales are starting to show a slow but visible decline now though, but they’re still at very a nice level.”

Hörberg announced in January that the eShop release surpassed the iOS version in sales. A month later, the same milestone was confirmed in relation to the Android version.

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ZombiU’s new patch is, as originally thought, largely an update that takes care of bugs. There are also a few other points to the patch such as framerate optimizations.

The full ZombiU update notes are posted below.

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Nintendo is partially to thank for Shovel Knights’ Wii SKU. Developer Yacht Club Games told one fan at PAX East a few days ago that the Big N supplied the studio with a development kit out of good faith. Yacht Club had lots of praise for Nintendo’s new policy.

Shovel Knights is also planned for 3DS and PC. A release date hasn’t been announced.

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