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

If you have a North American Wii U console, Paper Mario: Color Splash can now be pre-loaded from the eShop. Nintendo is letting users buy the game and download most of its data ahead of time. When Paper Mario: Color Splash arrives on October 7, only a small update will be needed to begin playing.

I’m wary of eShop listings since then turn out to be a bit inaccurate, but it’s estimated that Paper Mario: Color Splash takes up around 9GB. We also have some screenshots from the listing below.

More: Intelligent Systems, Paper Mario: Color Splash

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

Final Fight 2 and Final Fight 3 can now be downloaded from the North American New 3DS Virtual Console. For their official trailers, get a look at the video below.

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

Miitomo has been updated with more content. Users will find a new stage, along with some brand new items.

“Art is life! Miitomo Art Museum #1” is the new stage. It includes the following:

– Pearl earings + turban (set)
– Pearl earing dress (set)
– Impressionist jacket
– Impressionist pants

And as far as the new items go, you can nab the following:

– Secret shades
– Denim jacket + basic shirt
– Crisp dress + denim jacket
– Longline cardigan + striped dress
– Basic wide-leg pants
– Rock star boots
– Sheer lace socks
– Snood

More: Miitomo

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

Update: We now have confirmation that the October 6th release date is not exclusive to Europe, thanks to the most recent Kickstarter update.

Fresh from the oven and delivered straight to the Wii U. Ninja Pizza Girl is coming to our family’s favorite console on October 6th!!!!

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Original: At least in Europe, Ninja Pizza Girl is due out very soon on Wii U. An eShop listing pins the title down for October 6. Ninja Pizza Girl will cost €8.99.

Here’s a closer look at the eShop listing:

#NinjaPizzaGirl #WiiU #Filesize @DisparityGames @GoNintendoTweet @NinEverything https://t.co/6XAu8vBeuz #indiegame #eShop #indiedev #gamedev pic.twitter.com/YSTMiEKs4T

— Nintendo Hall (@NintendoHall) September 22, 2016

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More: Disparity Games, indie, Ninja Pizza Girl

Posted on 9 years ago by Zack in 3DS eShop | 0 comments

MonsterVine have recently interviewed Bill Schwartz and David Bruno, whom are the President and CEO of Mastiff respectively, about their upcoming title Gurumin 3D: A Monstrous Adventure. The interview mostly covers the many details and nuances of translating a game from Japanese to English and how Mastiff in specific takes on localization jobs.

When asked about what factors Mastiff keeps in mind when localizing a game, Schwartz had this to say:

It was a really big project, with issues that you constantly have to kind of deal with. There’s a character who’s always locked in a cage, and says nothing, while there’s another character that translates for him. We had to come up with our own mistranslations for him to reflect the poor translations the character does, whether it was phrases or weird sounds.

There’s a monster dancing near his boombox near the beginning, and as the hero takes off, he says “I’ll support you with my dancing”, while in Japanese it was more or less just “do your best”, in a kind of vanilla way that isn’t too enthusiastic or passionate. So we couldn’t just use “do your best”, since that was too excited and supportive. So since he could have meant it or not, and he was dancing, we used “I’ll support you with my dancing”, which is true to the original meaning, but different in literal terms.

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More: Falcom, Gurumin 3D: A Monstrous Adventure, interview, Mastiff

Posted on 9 years ago by Jakob Vujovic(@jakovujo) in Reviews, Wii U eShop | 4 Comments

System: Wii U (eShop)
Release date: September 22, 2016
Developer: DrinkBox Studios
Publisher DrinkBox Studios

Severed is a really interesting experiment in nabbing some popular mobile game mechanics and fleshing them out into a unique dungeon-crawling RPG with combat that plays out more rhythmically than statistically. Really, Severed takes a bunch of concepts and fuses them together in a very fun way. It’s hard to compare it to any one game in particular, but easy to see the little bits and pieces of inspiration it grabbed from here and there.

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More: DrinkBox Studios, highlight, indie, Severed, top

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch, Wii U | 105 Comments

Continuing on from his comments yesterday, Yves Guillemot has again spoken about NX. IGN put up more comments from the Ubisoft CEO, most notably of which has him saying that “Nintendo has learned from the Wii U” with its new system.

Guillemot said the following when asked if he views the NX as a step back towards the Wii’s more inclusive approach:

“It’s difficult to answer that [before NX is revealed]. What we see is that Nintendo has learned from the Wii U. All publishers learn from what they do, and then come with something new and more attractive, which I think is the case here.”

Guillemot went on to praise NX’s interface and how the system “will be easy to use for all gamers”:

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More: interview, top, Ubisoft, Yves Guillemot

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

Nintendo has published an official “Tips & Tricks” video for Severed which contains commentary straight from DrinkBox. See it below.

More: indie, Jotun: Valhalla Edition, Thunder Lotus Games

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

It’s rare that we make a post about new 3DS themes in North America as they’re typically covered in our Nintendo Download post, but we are making one exception today. That’s because four Sonic themes are out now, and one is even free.

The theme pictured above, which is based on Sonic’s 25th anniversary, won’t cost you even a single penny. In addition to that, SEGA prepared the Sonic series: Boom Style, Sonic series: Classic Style, and Sonic series: Sonic Style themes. Each one costs $2, though you can also pick up a bundle of all three for $5.

Here’s a look at the non-anniversary themes:

More: 3DS themes, Sonic the Hedgehog

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

One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum just came out in Japan this week, and that means folks are starting to share a bunch of footage from the 2D fighter. You’ll find plenty of videos in the playlist below.

More: Arc System Works, Bandai Namco, One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum