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Nintendo confirmed yesterday that Minecraft: Wii U Edition will have a physical version in Europe later this month just like North America and Japan. The boxart is now available – see above.

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Warner Bros. has come out with a new LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens character vignette for BB-8, the lovable astromech droid and loyal companion of Resistance pilot Poe Dameron.

Here’s today’s video:

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Nintendo is teaming up with Aardman Animation to bring a costume based on Shaun the Sheep to Super Mario Maker. The course will go live on June 3rd, and you can watch a preview below.

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Xenoblade Chronicles X hasn’t experienced much maintenance as of late, but the game will be impacted by some downtime in about four hours from now. During this period, all network services will be affected.

Here’s when the maintenance is scheduled for:

– 11:50 PM PT – 1:30 AM PT
– 2:50 AM ET – 4:30 AM ET
– 7:50 AM in the UK – 9:30 AM in the UK
– 8:50 AM in Europe – 10:30 AM in Europe

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Polygon has put up the latest video in its “Devs Make Mario” series. In today’s feature, Nidhogg and Flywrench creator Mark Essen makes a level in the game. View it below.

Essen’s Super Mario Maker level is located on the official bookmark site here.

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Evo 2016 is on track to host the biggest Smash Bros. tournament ever with its upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Wii U event. That news was publicized on the official Twitter account earlier today through the following note:

Over 1,900 people have already signed up for the Smash Bros. Wii U tournament at Evo 2016. Participants still have around a month to register.

Evo 2016 will run between July 15 and July 17.

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15 more minutes of Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Wii U footage is in. View the latest gameplay below.

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Activision officially announced Skylanders Imaginators earlier today. We now have the boxart (above) and the first trailer (below).

Pre-orders for Skylanders Imaginators are now open as well. You can reserve it at Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop. With the former two, you can save 20 percent via Amazon Prime or GCU respectively.

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There’s been some talk as of late about the decline of the toys-to-life business. For the most part, amiibo is still doing quite well, and LEGO Dimensions entered the scene last year. But Disney Interactive recently closed entirely – marking the end of Disney Infinity – and Skylanders hasn’t been performing quite as well as it used to.

Despite this, Activision still appears to be very much on board with toys-to-life. The company announced Skylanders Imaginators today, reaffirming its commitment to the market.

Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg also told TIME that the publisher believes in the potential of toys-to-life. In his remarks, he mentioned that “Skylanders is now the 11th most successful game franchise of all time after just five years.”

When asked about the situation of Disney and concerns about the toys-to-life category, Hirshberg said:

I certainly can’t comment on Disney’s business, so that’s a good question to ask them, and they’ve obviously got good reasons for making the decision they did. What I will say is, we’ve said publicly that some of our more recent games haven’t met our expectations, and yet we’re still here making games, so we obviously still believe in the potential. We created the category, and Skylanders is now the 11th most successful game franchise of all time after just five years.

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Just like in North America and Japan, Europe will also be getting Minecraft: Wii U Edition at retail. Nintendo shared a date of June 30 on its Twitter page.

The message reads:

Minecraft: Wii U Edition is coming to retail in North America on June 17. The Japanese version is set for June 23.

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