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Posted on 9 years ago by Dennis Gagliardotto(@LyonHart_) in 3DS eShop, News | 1 Comment

A new week, a new event! Unova’s adorable fire starter Pokémon is now available for trainers to catch in Pokémon Shuffle. This event differs slightly from previous events as you will only be able to attempt this battle once a day. As usual, don’t forget to hit the Check In button and update your game to gain access to this event!

Tepig will be made available until July 20th, so get it while you can!

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Posted on 9 years ago by Dennis Gagliardotto(@LyonHart_) in 3DS eShop, News | 0 comments

Last week Pokémon Shuffle players had the chance to go up against a brand new challenge that require trainers to go up against a Mega Manectite at their chance for a Manectite that couldn’t be obtained by normal means. The rules of this challenge were similar to previous events, where the player would try their best to get as many points as possible in the given time limit. Now Manectites are being distributed to players around the world that were able to rank in this competition.

If you were one of the top 20k in Europe, 40k in North America, and 50k in Japan, you should be receiving the Manectite now. In addition to this, for those that were able to rank, players should also be receiving a Mega Start to go along with it. The top 3k in Europe, 6k in North America, and 15k in Japan will obtain a Mega Speedup as well as the aforementioned prizes. As usual, for those that participated but weren’t able to rank, you will still receive a Jewel for your efforts.

Were you able to rank in your respective region? Let us know if you were able to obtain the Manectite and any of the other rewards!

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 0 comments

Epic Word Search Collection is coming to the European 3DS eShop later this month. According to a listing found on the store, it’s slated for a July 16 release. Pricing is set at €7.99.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, Screenshots, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Several new games out came out this week on the Wii U and 3DS eShops. If you’re interested in checking out what’s new in screenshot form, take a peak at the gallery below.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 2 Comments

Aksys Games announced a trio of titles for the North American 3DS eShop during its panel at the Anime Expo today. Slice It, Radio Hammer, and Family Fishing are all being localized. Each one is slated for a winter release.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in 3DS eShop, News | 1 Comment

Denpa Ningen no RPG Free, the still Japan-only F2P game for 3DS, is quite the success story. It launched about a year ago, on July 23rd 2014, and has been download 2.2 million times since then. The game will receive its next major update next week, which includes both bug fixes and some new features, such as the ability to tame monsters.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 0 comments

It’s been a long wait, but SEGA has finally launched four new 3D Classics on the Australian 3DS eShop. 3D Outrun, 3D Fantasy Zone, 3D Fantasy Zone 2 and 3D Thunder Blade are all available as of now. Pricing is set at $6.50 each.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 17 Comments

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata opened up on the company’s handling of the Virtual Console during the latest shareholders meeting.

Iwata explained that creating Virtual Console titles “require detailed manual work, such as testing if the software runs smoothly on each platform, or making sure the content is appropriate under the various standards currently in place.” Although some fans say that Nintendo tends to release classic games slowly, it’s difficult to speed up the process since doing so would take up resources for brand new titles.

Nintendo is “currently researching how we can efficiently develop Virtual Console titles with limited human resources.” Iwata also pointed to one big issue, which is “how to resolve the situation in which we can only release a few Virtual Console titles at a time when we release new platforms.”

Read on below to check out everything Iwata stated about the Virtual Console.

Regarding your question on the scale of Virtual Console title sales, the download sales as a whole for this (75th) fiscal year are 31.3 billion yen, and I have shared publicly that this is a 30 percent increase from the last fiscal year, but we have not disclosed the individual sales of Virtual Console titles only.

Virtual Console itself is a service that began when we developed Wii so that consumers can play past titles on new platforms, and we continue to distribute various titles now. However, back when we started this service, there were some points that we could not sufficiently foresee about how big this business would grow to be and how the business would expand. For example, Virtual Console titles are generally developed based on the original game software, but this does not mean that we can develop numerous Virtual Console titles simply if we have the original game software. Development of Virtual Console titles require detailed manual work, such as testing if the software runs smoothly on each platform, or making sure the content is appropriate under the various standards currently in place. Thus, we occasionally receive opinions that our pace of releasing new Virtual Console titles is slow, but if we use much of our human resources on such detailed manual work, we would not be able to develop new titles, so we are currently researching how we can efficiently develop Virtual Console titles with limited human resources. One of the big issues for our system development is how to resolve the situation in which we can only release a few Virtual Console titles at a time when we release new platforms.

In addition, regarding the possibility of making all titles available on Virtual Console, I can say that it is possible for Nintendo titles with a few exceptions, since we generally have the intellectual property rights for such titles. However, as to third-party software publishers’ titles, if they are producing the software based on a license from another copyright holder, for example, we may not be able to easily use the same title for the system that exists now because we do not have a license from the copyright holder at the time. This often becomes a problem with reruns of TV shows or Internet broadcasting. Therefore, since we can only release Virtual Console titles of third-party software publishers if they come to an agreement with the copyrights holders upon negotiating terms and conditions that were not included in their original contract, please understand that there are some titles that we cannot easily release despite many requests. We will make our best efforts to satisfy our consumers with our Virtual Console title lineup.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, Videos, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Nintendo released a new video today showcasing a few European digital game highlights from June 2015. You can watch it below.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments

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

Wii U Download

Roving Rogue – $7.99
Quadcopter Pilot Challenge – $8.99

Wii U Virtual Console

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – $9.99

3DS Download

Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3 – $39.99
Mercenaries Saga 2 – $4.99

3DS Themes

Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies Mood Matrix
Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies Court Record
Ace Attorney Trilogy Pixel Art
Ace Attorney Trilogy Main Characters
Pokémon: Mega Charizard Y & Mega Rayquaza
Pokémon: Eevee Collection: Espeon & Umbreon

eShop Sales

Wii U

– Bombing Bastards and Spot the Differences: Party! from Sanuk Games are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 9.
– Ittle Dew is 50 percent off (reduced from $9.99 to $4.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 30.
– Plenty of Fishies is 40 percent off (reduced from $4.99 to $2.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 31.

3DS

– Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies from Capcom is 44 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $16.79) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 16.
– Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy from Capcom is 25 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $22.49) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 16.
– Talking Phrasebook – 7 Languages is 40 percent off (reduced from $4.99 to $2.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 9.
– European Conqueror 3D, The Legend of Dark Witch and Tappingo from Circle Entertainment are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 23.
– Toy Stunt Bike is 50 percent off (reduced from $4.99 to $2.49) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 30.
– Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, 4 Elements and more games from Tulip Games are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Jan. 1.

Activities

Splatoon: New Game Mode and Splatfest – Tower Control, a new game mode that finds Inklings riding a tower into the enemy’s base, has been added to Ranked Battle. In addition, the theme for the first Splatoon Splatfest is “Cats or Dogs” and starts July 4. Learn more here: http://splatoon.nintendo.com.

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. “Independence” Tournament – See how your Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. squad stacks up online in Nintendo’s Public Tournaments. Top players earn unique titles that are visible online and earn major bragging rights with their friends and around the world. The new “Independence” tournament runs from July 2 to July 6. Opt in via the SpotPass feature for notifications on future tournaments, and click here for more information about multiplayer tournaments. Good luck, agents!

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