Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional heading to 3DS, coming to Japan in February
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Square Enix revealed Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional at the Tokyo Game Show earlier today. It’s set for release on February 9 with a 5,250 yen price point.
It goes without saying that Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional is the original game, though with some new content. Numerous characters from past Joker games will be present as well as popular monsters from previous titles. Square Enix is also packing in new scenarios. Those who have save data from the original Joker 3 can import monsters they’ve collected.
Get a look at the first Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional trailer below.
Capcom putting out a Monster Hunter Stories demo on Tuesday
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At the Tokyo Game Show today, Capcom confirmed plans to publish a Monster Hunter Stories demo on the eShop. Fans will be able to try out the game before launch starting on September 20.
In the demo, players can experience a part of the story with “Quest Mode” and battle other Riders in “Challenge Mode.” A special “Nabiru Costume” can also be obtained in Monster Hunter Stories’ full release.
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Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice footage
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During a TGS 2016 stream this week, SEGA showed off the latest live gameplay from Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice. View some footage from the Japanese version below.
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EA pulled the plug on MySims Friends, a project planned for 3DS
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During the Wii and DS era, MySims was a pretty big thing. EA ended up publishing six different entries in the series in the span of about three years.
MySims didn’t make it to the 3DS generation, but EA did originally have plans for a new title on the system. Behavior Interactive was working on “MySims Friends” back in 2010.
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Level-5 CEO on The Snack World, Lady Layton, Megaton Musashi, Inazuma Eleven Ares
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In a recent issue of Famitsu, the magazine had a massive interview with Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino. The discussion covered the company’s Level-5 Vision 2016 event, plus specific games: The Snack World, Lady Layton, Megaton Musashi, and Inazuma Eleven Ares.
It starts out with Famitsu talking about how there’s a theme each time a Level-5 Vision is held. This time around, it’s “New Heroes”. Hino notes that it’s probably just the company’s usual practice of deciding themes and holding announcement events.
[TGS 2016] One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum impressions
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Nintendo Everything was at this year’s Tokyo Game Show! We had a low-key presence at the event, but we did manage to try out several upcoming Japanese 3DS titles. Look for our impressions in the coming days.
One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum is a 3DS fighting game developed by Arc System Works for Bandai Namco. It will be released soon in Japan on September 21, but there was a demo available at Tokyo Game Show 2016 and we were able to try it out. However, we were limited to CPU battles.
Although One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum will have many playable and assist characters, not all of them were available in the TGS demo. For example, the only available Straw Hats were Luffy, Sanji, and Franky. One side can either pick two main characters and two assist characters, or substitute the assist character slots for a third main character.
August 2016 NPD: 2DS hardware sales up 500% year-over-year, 3DS up 83%
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On Thursday, NPD released a chart for the top ten best-selling games in the United States during August. Nintendo has since commented on its own performance.
According to Nintendo, the “excitement for the Pokemon brand” led to a big increase in sales of its handheld line. The 2DS experienced a 500 percent bump in 2DS sales year-over-year while 3DS hardware also rose by 83 percent.
With software, physical and digital first-party 3DS sales increased by 57 percent. Pokemon Omega Ruby and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire were both on the software charts.
Nintendo also shared some positive news about Wii U. Software sales on the console were up 30 percent in the U.S. last month.
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Heroes boxart, screenshots
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Amazon has given us a look at the Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Heroes boxart and some screenshots as well. See the packaging above and the images below.
Monster Hunter Stories, Ace Attorney, Megami Meguri TGS 2016 stage show recordings
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At the Tokyo Game Show earlier today, Capcom hosted three Nintendo-centric stage shows. Monster Hunter Stories, Ace Attorney, and Megami Meguri were each featured at the expo. Recordings for each can be found below.
Dragon Quest VIII 3DS will have voice acting, no orchestrated music
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It’s been a three year wait since the original Japanese release, but Dragon Quest VII finally landed in North America and Europe on 3DS yesterday. However, Nintendo is also hard at work localizing another Dragon Quest game. Next year, we’ll be seeing Dragon Quest VIII on 3DS.
At the PAX panel for Dragon Quest VII a couple of weeks ago, Nintendo showed some footage from the English version of Dragon Quest VIII. Fans were treated to the intro, which confirmed voice acting just like the PlayStation 2 version as both the king and Yangus spoke. Also, it seems that there will not be orchestrated music like Dragon Quest VII’s localized 3DS release.
