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Nintendo shared some screenshots and art from Art Academy: Home Studio today. You’ll find them in the gallery below.

A few screenshots have come in for Splatoon’s N-Zap ’85 rapid-fire Shooter weapon and Port Mackerel map. Take a look at them below.

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Well, that didn’t take long! Nintendo has announced that Splatoon’s Ranked Battle is being unlocked today in North America. It’s going online at 10 PM ET / 7 PM PT, which is tomorrow in Europe.


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Nintendo has now issued a press release capping today’s Nintendo Direct Micro. If you missed out on the video or any of today’s announcements, be sure to read on below.

REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nintendo’s Digital Event video presentation for E3 2015 might be only a couple weeks away, but Nintendo is jumping at the chance to get started early on some of its new announcements. A special Nintendo Direct Micro video is now live on Nintendo.com and YouTube and is not short on new reveals and further details about previously announced Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games. If you don’t want to spoil any of the fun surprises for yourself, stop reading now and watch the full 17-minute video presentation in its entirety by visiting http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct. Come back when you’re done for a helpful recap of all the great news!

“Between now and the end of the year, Wii U and Nintendo 3DS owners are in for a solid stream of great games.”

“This Nintendo Direct provides a nice preview of things to come – for Nintendo 3DS in particular – ahead of our Digital Event and other activities for E3,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “Between now and the end of the year, Wii U and Nintendo 3DS owners are in for a solid stream of great games.”

Highlights of the Nintendo Direct video include:

A new “Nintendo Direct Micro” was just issued for North America. It builds off on yesterday’s Japanese presentation with news specific to the states. Check it out below.

Splatoon is doing very, very well in Japan. Because of the game’s strong sales, the game has been tough to find on store shelves. Nintendo even issued an apology on its Twitter account last week, and vowed to ship more copies in the coming days.

We’re now hearing that Splatoon managed to sell through over 90 percent of its initial shipment in Japan. That isn’t confirmed just yet, but it wouldn’t be terribly shocking based on reports of how its selling out at various stores. This would also likely mean that Splatoon sold somewhere in the range of 150,000 copies in Japan. We should be receiving official data on Wednesday!

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This week’s Wii U/3DS specific charts are as follows:

Wii U

1. Splatoon – Nintendo

2. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo

3. Mario Party 1o – Nintendo

4. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD – Nintendo

5. Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush – Nintendo

6. FIFA 13 – Electronic Arts

7. Mario & Sonic: Sochi Winter Games 2014 – Nintendo

8. Super Smash Bros for Wii U – Nintendo

9. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker –  Nintendo

10. Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo

3DS

1. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – Capcom

2. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo

3. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D – Nintendo

4. Pokemon Omega Ruby – Nintendo

5. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire – Nintendo

6. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo

7. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo

8. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo

9. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS – Nintendo

10. Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition – Capcom

Source: Chart-Track

This week’s UK software sales are as follows:

Individual Formats

Individual Formats 30 05

All Formats

All Formats 30 05

Source: Chart-Track

It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart! With the latest chart, Fire Emblem If has moved up to the first spot.

Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between May 14 and May 20.

The latest issue of Famitsu has shared a listing of the top 30 best-selling games in Japan for the month of April 2015. You can check out the full results below.

1. [PS4] Bloodborne – 234,515 (189,159 physical, 45,353 digital)
2. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Lost Song – 172,936 (162,805 physical, 10,131 digital)
3. [PS3] Dai-3-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z Tengoku-hen – 130,341 (126,346 physical, 3,995 digital)
4. [PS3] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 – 129,588 (126,121 physical, 3,467 digital)
5. [PSV] Dai-3-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z Tengoku-hen – 127,928 (117,031 physical, 10,897 digital)
6. [PS3] Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2015 – 97,059 (93,196 physical, 3,863 digital)
7. [3DS] Theatrhythm Dragon Quest – 89,699 (86,171 physical, 3,528 digital)
8. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 77,409 (65,511 physical, 11,898 digital)
9. [PSV] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 – 73,070 (69,218 physical, 3,852 digital)
10. [PSV] Senran Kagura: Estival Versus – 69,665 (62,373 physical, 7,292 digital)
11. [PS3] Sword Art Online: Lost Song – 65,280 (62,213 physical, 3,067 digital)
12. [3DS] Xenoblade Chronicles 3D – 63,301 (60,823 physical, 2,478 digital)
13. [PSV] Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2015 – 61,533 (57,823 physical, 3,710 digital)
14. [3DS] Girls Mode 3 – 61,006 (58,965 physical, 2,041 digital)
15. [PS4] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 – 59,733 (55,936 physical, 3,797 digital)
16. [WIU] Mario Party 10 – 50,395 (48,820 physical, 1,575 digital)
17. [3DS] Kuroko’s Basketball: Ties to the Future – 43,119 (42,326 psychical, 793 digital)
18. [PS4] Earth Defense Force 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair – 42,731 (32,587 physical, 10,144 digital)
19. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 2: Shinuchi – 40,803 (39,693 physical, 1,110 digital)
20. [PS3] Resident Evil: Revelations 2 – 39,065 (34,679 physical, 4,386 digital)
21. [PS4] Battlefield Hardline – 37,670 (30,580 physical, 7,090 digital)
22. [PS4] Senran Kagura: Estival Versus – 36,710 (32,018 physical, 4,692 digital)
23. [PS3] Yakuza Zero – 34,462 (33,342 physical, 1,120 digital)
24. [PS4] Disgaea 5 – 33,713 (29,742 physical, 3,971 digital)
25. [PS4] Final Fantasy Type-0 HD – 29,365 (27,746 physical, 1,619 digital)
26. [PS4] Dying Light – 28,608 (25,046 physical, 3,562 digital)
27. [PSV] Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – 28,301 (24,506 physical, 3,795 digital)
28. [PS4] Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin – 28,011 (21,558 physical, 6,453 digital)
29. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – 23,927 (22,341 physical, 1,586 digital)
30. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 23,401 (22,467 physical, 934 digital)

Note that these sales are based on data between March 23 and April 19.


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