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Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death will now be making its way to Wii U thanks to its Kickstarter success. With roughly a day remaining, the campaign managed to surpass the $35,000 stretch goal needed to ensure a version for Nintendo’s console. Along with Wii U, there are also plans to bring it to the NES and SNES.

Here’s a brief overview of Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death:

Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death is a new retro-style adventure/puzzle platformer for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and now Nintendo Entertainment System. Armed only with his trusty boomerang, Sydney must navigate dark caverns while avoiding bats, ghosts, hot lava and other obstacles. If you can survive all 10 caverns, you will be able to win your freedom.Your support for this Kickstarter campaign will help bring a new game to one of the most beloved systems of all time…the SNES. You also have an opportunity to receive some cool rewards available exclusively through this Kickstarter campaign.

10 total levels.
Unique soundtrack.
Different region versions available.

You can find Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death on Kickstarter here. The pitch video is posted below.

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Cypronia has settled on Cube Life: Island Survival’s final release date. In North America, the game will be hitting the Wii U eShop on June 4. Pricing is set at $6.99.

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The upcoming 1.2 patch for ZaciSa’s Last Stand will add a new Insanity Mode. In it, levels introduces a random special event that can either help you or hinder your progress. You may encounter a level with reduced enemy speed, or possibly something like double or triple the enemy spawns.

Here’s a couple of videos for the Insanity Mode:

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Nintendo initiated an interesting offer over on the UK Wii U eShop. If you buy one of six select games, you’ll receive a 10 percent discount code that can be used for amiibo on the company’s online store. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Mario Kart 8, Mario Party 10, Splatoon, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and Hyrule Warriors are the eligible titles.

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Adventures of Pip’s release date has changed once again, though this time it’s for the better. As opposed to June 10, you’ll be able to purchase the game starting on June 4 – next Thursday.

TicToc Games confirmed on Twitter just a short while ago:

Note that Adventures of Pip’s release date only applies to North America. The European launch will take place at some time in the future.

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This wasn’t mentioned in the Nintendo Download report issued on Monday, but five titles published by Curve Digital are on sale in Europe.

Those are as follows:

Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones – €6.99 / £6.49, normally €13.99 / £12.99
Thomas Was Alone – €3.99 / £3.49, normally €7.99 / £6.99
The Swapper – €7.49 / £5.99, normally €14.99 / £11.99
Lone Survivor: The Director’s Cut – €5.99 / £4.99, normally €11.99 / £9.99
OlliOlli – €4.99 / £3.99, normally €9.99 / £7.99 (free 3DS copy on the same Nintendo Network ID)

These prices are valid until June 4.

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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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The BBC iPlayer has gone up on the UK Wii U eShop. You can get a quick look at the app in the video below.

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Don’t Starve: Giant Edition is out now on the North American Wii U eShop. Check out the game’s launch trailer below.

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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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