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Those who pre-order Code of Princess will be given a special “Code of Princess Sound & Visual Book”. It includes art from designer Kinu Nishimura and music from the game.

Source: Atlus PR


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As promised, VVVVVV has received a temporary discount on the North American eShop. The game can be purchased for $4.99 through Sunday night. It normally costs $7.99, so you’d be saving $3 (roughly 37%) in total.

The second (and last) week of eShop sales have also started in Europe and Japan. More information about that can be found here.


Famitsu has posted a report on the domestic industry sales totals for the first half of 2012. The data was collected through parent company Enterbrain.

Between December 26 and June 24, total hardware/software sales hit 193.4 billion yen. That’s a 0.7% increase from last year’s 191.98 billion. Year-over-year gains have been made for the first time in two years.

Hardware sales dropped from 79.81 billion yen in 2011 to 70.73 billion in 2012, but software sales increased from 112.17 billion yen to 122.67 billion yen.

Read on below for hardware data and a listing of the best-selling games in Japan in the first half of 2012.

Hardware

Nintendo 3DS: 2,219,548 (total 6,355,287)
PlayStation 3: 695,465 (total 8,112,613)
PlayStation Portable: 500,333 (total 18,737,441)
PlayStation Vita: 353,657 (total 756,451)
Nintendo Wii: 265,578 (total 12,433,321)
Xbox 360: 33,809 (total 1,554,547)
Nintendo DS: 20,239 (total 32,855,741)

Software

Pokemon Black & White 2 (3DS, Pokemon, 06.23.2012): 1,618,621
One Piece Pirate Musou (PS3, Namco Bandai, 03.01.2012): 806,578
Dragon Quest Monsters Terry’s Wonderland 3D (3DS, Squenix, 05.31.2012): 743,967
Mario Kart 7 (3DS, Nintendo, 12.01.2011): 665,573 (total 1,747,964)
Monster Hunter 3G (3DS, Capcom, 12.10.2011): 665,394 (1,474,716)

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The latest EDGE review scores are as follows:

Lollipop Chainsaw – 7
Steel Battalion Heavy Armor – 6
Spec Ops: The Line – 7
Game of Thrones – 5
Inversion – 6
Heroes of Ruin – 6
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown – 9
Beat The Beat: Rythm Paradise – 8
Babel Rising – 3
Art of Balance TOUCH! – 8
Gauge – Game – 9



Next week, Japanese 3DS users can purchase new downloadable content for Fire Emblem: Awakening featuring Lyn. The character first appeared in Fire Emblem for the GBA.

By purchasing the DLC, you’ll be given access to the Iote Shield. It disables bonus damage for flying units.

The new DLC launches in Japan on July 5 for 400 yen.

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