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Next week, Japan will be getting the The Legend of Dark Witch Episode 2. You can check out the latest trailer below.

We know that Circle Entertainment will be bringing The Legend of Dark Witch Episode 2 west at some point, but we’re not sure when just yet. We’ll keep you updated on that front.

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The latest episode of Nintendo’s Japanese show Nyannyan Neko Mario Time has now gone live. We’ve included it below.

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Nintendo released official videos for Mario Party Advance, Hyper Sports 2, and Stinger on the Japanese Wii U Virtual Console. Watch them below.

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Atlus USA just kicked off a live stream for Stella Glow. You can watch it on Twitch after the break, and we’ll update the post with an archived version once it’s finished.

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This Friday, Europe will be getting Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, including a limited edition version at retail. You can take a look at an unboxing of the package below.

Thanks to Andre P for the tip.

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Nintendo UK is showing off some of the indie-made courses in Super Mario Maker in a new video series. Get a look at the second video below, which focuses on 13AM Games.

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Nintendo UK posted the intro for New Style Boutique 2: Fashion Forward on its Twitter page earlier today. You can watch it below.

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Telltale Games readied a new trailer for Minecraft: Story Mode’s second episode, known as “Assembly Required”. View it below.

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Liam Robertson dug deep into the development and troubles surrounding Project H.A.M.M.E.R. earlier this year.Today, Robertson published a new report that sheds even more light on the cancelled Wii game.

Here are a few highlights:

– Shigeru Miyamoto wasn’t happy that NST spent over $1 million on lavish CGI sequences which were ordered the game design was concrete and before the game’s reveal in 2006
– Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis also featured cut-scenes from Silver Ant for a high sum of money
– This all caused the person in charge of budgetary concerns on both H.A.M.M.E.R. and Mario vs Donkey Kong 2 getting a slapped wrist from Miyamoto
– Miyamoto branded the investment in CGI “superfluous”
– This ended NST’s relationship with Silver Ant
– Katsuhiko Kanno was the person in charge at the game’s inception
– Kanno was apparently “difficult to work with”, “rude” and “uncooperative”
– Around this time, is is thought that a large number of NST staff left the company under their own volition
– Staff count at NST dropped from 50 to about half of that
– To steady the ship staff were moved onto the project from elsewhere in Nintendo’s North American network
– Metroid Prime level designer Jason Behr was brought on to bring things back on course
– Behr found himself singled out as a scapegoat for the game’s shortcomings
– Behr stayed on until around 2008, and would leave NST to join Monolith Productions
– Senior staff at NST finally spotted the friction between Kanno and his team
– He was removed from the project in 2007 and replaced by Masamichi Abe (Pikmin 1 and 2 director)
– Metroid Prime producer Kensuke Tanabe joined in a supervisory role towards the end of the project
– He didn’t have much of an impact, and only visited NST’s offices a handful of times
– Project H.A.M.M.E.R. would be re-tooled as Wii Crush, a casual title aimed at the Wii Sports audience
– Would have supported MotionPlus
– Project cancelled entirely in 2009

You can see the latest report on Project H.A.M.M.E.R. in its entirety below.

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Another round of footage has come in for the Quiz Show mode in Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival. Check it out below.

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