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

Monster Hunter Stories sold 141,000 copies in its first week, according to Media Create. Now the sales tracker has shared more on how it’s done thus far.

As a Monster Hunter spin-off game aimed at low-age audiences (think children), it far exceeded Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airou Village DX, which was released in September 2015 and sold 59,000 copies with 57.48 percent sell-through rate. Based on Media Create’s findings with regard to pre-orders, promotions like the demo and the anime broadcast helped boost the number by about 20 to 30 percent. However, Monster Hunter Stories’ first week sell-through rate was 51.83 percent, which was less than Airou Village DX.

Store clerks have also said that adults are mainly showing more interest. This might be seen as a lacking start from a retailer perspective.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Zack in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments

Some footage of Disney Magical World 2 has just been uploaded to YouTube. The footage runs for almost two hours, so dig in with the video below.

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

Thanks to leaks from the latest issue of CoroCoro, we heard that Level-5 is developing a third version of Yo-kai Watch 3. Japan will be receiving the new “Sukiyaki” in December.

Scans of the game have now appeared from CoroCoro, and we have a few extra details as well. Sukiyaki will feature new Yo-kai, a new “Blasters T” mode, and quests based on the 2016 movie.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, Videos | 1 Comment

The latest European episode of The Cat Mario Show has gone live on Nintendo’s YouTube channel. You can watch it below.

We also have the second episode of “Pokemon Playtime”:

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

Nintendo published another new Disney Magical World 2 trailer today highlighting the game’s customization features. Watch it below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in 3DS, News | 3 Comments

The Dragon Quest VII remake for 3DS has finally made it to Western shores, and while Nintendo published it, the localization was done by Shloc Ltd., a small localization team based in the UK. Nintendo UK interviewed Shloc’s Oli Chance about the localization process of Dragon Quest VII. Make sure to read the full interview on Nintendo UK’s website; here are some interesting tidbits from it:

Nintendo: How much work is involved in bringing a game like DRAGON QUEST VII to the west?

OC: As you might expect, the amount of work involved was pretty huge, but in order to keep quality as high as possible, we had to keep the teams as small as possible. There were four, and at times five, of us working on the Japanese to English localisation, and then once French, Italian, German and Spanish got involved a while later, it became a massive task both in terms of workload and logistics.

All in all, from start to finish, including familiarisation (playing the game to get to know it – no small task in this case), glossary creation (naming all the characters, places, monsters, items etc. etc.), translation/editing and QA, we were working pretty much flat out for just over a year.

One of the hardest things was to put enough time in the schedule for the editor of each language to see all the text, which in our experience is the only way to ensure consistency and quality throughout. You can throw a lot of translators at a job, but if there’s no one making sure they’re all working to spec and that quality is as high as it can be across the board, then things can easily go awry.

Nothing quite compares to DQVII. It’s one thing to contemplate taking on a job this size, and quite another to be four months in, knowing there are months left to go, and that if your pace falters, you could send the entire project off-schedule in five languages.

Without doubt the biggest challenge was keeping up such a heavy workload over such a long time, and making sure that quality didn’t suffer as a result. This is where having a team who know each other so well is essential – if we hadn’t been there to back each other up and give each other’s morale a kick when needed, I don’t think we could have done it.

Nintendo: What would you say is the essence of the DRAGON QUEST brand from a writing perspective and how did you aim to preserve this in your localisation?

OC: From the point of view of writing, I think it’s characters that carry the series, and as such, the main aim is always to make the characters memorable, likable and unique. Given that the series has featured so many games with so many great characters, this becomes more and more of a challenge over time, but it’s a challenge we relish, and one which can often prove highly rewarding.

As long as we can keep the characters knowable and individual and lovable, the world hopefully stays bright and alive. In DQVII specifically, this meant going right down to the level of individual NPCs and making sure that any game-spanning characterisation or story they had was fun, engaging and above all consistent. This was a massive endeavour, but it was what was done in the original Japanese, so it’s absolutely something we have to make sure happens in the English in order to create a faithful localisation.

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

XSEED has finally confirmed that Corpse Party will arrive in North America on October 25. It will cost $50 at retail as part of the limited “Back to School Edition” physical release, and a $30 digital option will also be available.

Corpse Party is also slated for Europe, where it will only be sold digitally starting on October 26.

In other news, Exile’s End is also coming out on October 25, but not on Wii U. XSEED says details regarding the eShop version and European release “will be provided at a later time.” When we do see it, the title will cost $9.99.

Head past the break for overviews of both Corpse Party and Exile’s End. We also have new assets for both below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 51 Comments

Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon will have some stereoscopic 3D support, but its usage appears to be very minimal. IGN’s Jose Otero, who went hands-on with the games recently along with other media as part of a press tour, says he was told that the feature only works with Poke Finder.

Pokemon X/Y and Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire all included 3D. It was disabled in a majority of the overworld, though the functionality was offered in most battles. The engine struggled at times, so cutting back on stereoscopic 3D should improve Sun/Moon’s performance.

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

A new Disney Magical World 2 trailer shows the kinds of activities that the game offers, ranging from battles to dancing. Check it out below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Screenshots | 2 Comments

A number of Pokemon Sun/Moon press previews went up just a few minutes ago. While there isn’t a whole lot of information, a bunch of new screenshots are live showing the Pokemon Center and more. We’ve rounded them up below.

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