Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment

Nintendo Life has a new interview up with Nintendo of America’s Senior Manager in Marketing and Licensing, Damon Baker. Baker talked all about the Humble Nindie Bundle, including when the company started looking into it, how games were chosen for the digital package, interest in future collaborations, and more.

Head past the break for the Q&A breakdown. You can also check out Nintendo Life’s original article here.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, DSiWare, News, Wii U eShop | 11 Comments

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

Wii U Retail

Splatoon (available Friday) – $59.99

Wii U Download

Don’t Starve: Giant Edition – $14.99
Baila Latino – $29.90

Wii U Virtual Console

Mega Man Battle Network 4 Blue Moon – $7.99
Mega Man Battle Network 4 Red Sun – $7.99
Mega Man Zero 3 – $7.99
Rival Turf – $7.99

Wii U Demo

SDK Paint

3DS Download

Glory of Generals The Pacific – $6.99

3DS Themes

Mighty Switch Force! Theme – $1.99
Pokémon Shuffle – $1.99
Pokémon: Mega Charizard X – $1.99
Pokémon: Eevee Collection – $1.99
Splatoon: Fresh Squid – $1.99 (available Friday)

DSiWare

G.G Series Wonderland – $1.99

eShop Sales

Wii U/3DS

– Transformers Prime (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS), The Amazing Spider-man 2 (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) and more games from Activision are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 4.
– 1001 Spikes (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) is 50 percent off (reduced from $15 to $7.49) until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 18.
– Color Zen (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS), Color Zen Kids (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) and more games from Cypronia are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 30.
– Luv Me Buddies Wonderland (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) is up to 48 percent off (reduced to $12.90) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 31.

Wii U

– Zumba Fitness World Party is 75 percent off (reduced from $39.99 to $9.99) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on June 1 until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 8.
– Fit Music is 56 percent off (reduced from $29.90 to $12.90) until 8: 59 a.m. PT on July 31.

3DS

– Crash City Mayhem is 75 percent off (reduced from $19.99 to $4.99) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on June 1 until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 8.
– Cave Story, VVVVVV and more games from Nicalis are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 18.
Monster Combine TD is 35 percent off (reduced from $3.99 to $2.59) until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 25.

Activities

– Miiverse Ink-redible Splatoon Sweepstakes – Head over to Miiverse for an opportunity to win the Splatoon game! A new community called “Miiverse Ink-redible Splatoon Sweepstakes” is open under the Play Nintendo community from May 26 until June 30. Visit the community here, which is already full of ink-redible drawings. To participate, just post your Splatoon fan art in the community. You can enter every week for your chance to win Splatoon.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void where prohibited. Open to U.S. residents who are at least 13 years old. Sweepstakes begins 5/26/15 at 2pm PT and ends 6/30/15 at 11pm PST. Submit fan art via Miiverse to enter. Three weekly prizes: 1 Splatoon game (ARV $59.99 each). For alternate means of entry, full sweepstakes details and official rules: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/rules/miiverse-splatoon/. Sponsor: Nintendo of America Inc.

– Best Buy StreetPass Event – To celebrate the Nintendo World Championships 2015 qualifying events, a special StreetPass event will take place exclusively in all Best Buy locations in the United States and Canada from May 29 to May 31. Bring your Nintendo 3DS system with you to your closest Best Buy store to enhance StreetPass-enabled games you already own, such as Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. It’s also a great opportunity to collect Mii characters from new locations to help fill up puzzle panels in Puzzle Swap and help out in StreetPass Mii Plaza games. For more information about StreetPass, visit http://www.nintendo.com/3ds/features/streetpass.
Pokémon Shuffle Update – A major Pokémon Shuffle update is now available. This update marks the debut of new features and stages. This update includes the new Super Catch Power feature so now Pokémon become easier to catch than before. Improvements to gameplay include How Hearts Accumulate, Checking Out Pokémon and Combo Numbers Shown Longer. These are just a few of the adjustments being made to the game. For more details, please visit http://www.pokemonshuffle.com/en-us/.

– Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. “amiibo Agent” 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 “amiibo Agent” tournament runs from May 28 to May 31. Opt in via the SpotPass feature for notifications about future tournaments, and click here for more information about multiplayer tournaments. Good luck, agents!

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 0 comments

Collavier has revealed that Comic Workshop 2 is heading overseas next month. We’ll be seeing the 3DS app on June 18 in both North America and Europe via the eShop.

Comic Workshop 2 will be priced at $9.99 / €7.99 / £7.19. Those who purchased the first entry will be able to take advantage of a 40 percent discount.

Collavier is including a number of new and upgraded tools in Comic Workshop 2. There are also new functions such as a layer blending mode, transparency lock, ability to display images on a grid, and more.

Watch a trailer for Comic Workshop 2 below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 3 Comments

The Humble Nindie Bundle is a fantastic new sale that offers a bunch of great Wii U and 3DS indie games at a very low price. However, the downloadable package is only valid for those with North American systems, which is atypical for the site.

Here’s an official statement about the situation straight from Humble Bundle:

We recently launched the Humble Nindie Bundle, a digital bundle for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems. For many of you, the bundle is region-locked, and we apologize if the games are unavailable in your country.

One of the reasons we launched the first Humble Bundle was to bring indie games to more people. We agree that region-locking is not ideal. But without it, we may not have had this opportunity to promote these great indie games on dedicated video game platforms.

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This week’s video additions to the Wii U/3DS eShops are as follows:

Wii U

Baila Latino Trailer
Glory of Generals the Pacific Trailer
Swords & Soldiers II Launch Trailer
amiibo Tap: Nintendo’s Greatest Bits Trailer
Don’t Starve: Giant Edition Trailer 2
Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition Let’s Puzzle

3DS

Glory of Generals the Pacific Trailer
Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven Trailer
Battleminer Update Trailer
Swords & Soldiers II Launch Trailer
amiibo Tap: Nintendo’s Greatest Bits Trailer
Don’t Starve: Giant Edition Trailer 2
Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition Let’s Puzzle

Source: Wii U/3DS eShops

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 8 Comments

Update:

These are all of the games on sale:

3DS

VVVVVV – $3.99 (was $7.99)
NightSky – $4.99 (was $9.99)
Ikachan – $2.49 (was $4.99)
Grinsia – $4.99 (was $10.00)
Cave Story – $4.99 (was $9.99)
1001 Spikes – $7.49 (was $15.00)

Wii U

1001 Spikes – $7.49 (was $15.00)

Prices are valid until June 18.

Nicalis’ full slate of games are currently on sale for both Wii U and 3DS. The company has discounted all of its titles on the eShop by 50 percent.

Nicalis relayed the news on Twitter today with the following message:

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Pokemon Shuffle version 1.2.0 was released last night. However, we were unsure at the time what the update actually does.

Serebii has now shared the following information:

It added an extra note for the Hearts to allow for 5 hearts to appear and regenerate in addition to the amount you have over the usual amount of 5 meaning that you have 5 regenerating hearts in addition to any extra.

The Level and Experience of Pokémon also appear when you optimise them on the stage selection

There’s now a random extra capture feature called Super Catch Mode with a massively increased chance

Each Mega Evolution now has a number by their Mega Effect which can be boosted

You can see a Pokémon’s details immediately after capture

Increased cheat detection

Home Menu blocked during Time-Based stages

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 5 Comments

Pokemon Shuffle players can now download a new update for the game. Version 1.2.0 is out now, and requires 686 blocks. While there’s no word yet on what the patch actually does, we’ll update this post if we hear anything.

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Nintendo released official videos for Family Tennis Advance and Blaster Master on the Japanese Wii U Virtual Console. Watch them below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 0 comments

Vblank Entertainment is very pleased with the performance of Retro City Rampage on 3DS. As confirmed by the game’s official Twitter account, this version of the game is now “the best-selling-at-full-price port.” That’s despite the fact that other platforms had a 15-month head start.

The full Twitter message states:

Vblank went on to express its satisfaction with the 3DS and support from Nintendo as a whole:

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