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Nintendo UK is showing off some of the indie-made courses in Super Mario Maker in a new video series. Get a look at the second video below, which focuses on 13AM Games.

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Nintendo UK posted the intro for New Style Boutique 2: Fashion Forward on its Twitter page earlier today. You can watch it below.

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Telltale Games readied a new trailer for Minecraft: Story Mode’s second episode, known as “Assembly Required”. View it below.

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Liam Robertson dug deep into the development and troubles surrounding Project H.A.M.M.E.R. earlier this year.Today, Robertson published a new report that sheds even more light on the cancelled Wii game.

Here are a few highlights:

– Shigeru Miyamoto wasn’t happy that NST spent over $1 million on lavish CGI sequences which were ordered the game design was concrete and before the game’s reveal in 2006
– Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis also featured cut-scenes from Silver Ant for a high sum of money
– This all caused the person in charge of budgetary concerns on both H.A.M.M.E.R. and Mario vs Donkey Kong 2 getting a slapped wrist from Miyamoto
– Miyamoto branded the investment in CGI “superfluous”
– This ended NST’s relationship with Silver Ant
– Katsuhiko Kanno was the person in charge at the game’s inception
– Kanno was apparently “difficult to work with”, “rude” and “uncooperative”
– Around this time, is is thought that a large number of NST staff left the company under their own volition
– Staff count at NST dropped from 50 to about half of that
– To steady the ship staff were moved onto the project from elsewhere in Nintendo’s North American network
– Metroid Prime level designer Jason Behr was brought on to bring things back on course
– Behr found himself singled out as a scapegoat for the game’s shortcomings
– Behr stayed on until around 2008, and would leave NST to join Monolith Productions
– Senior staff at NST finally spotted the friction between Kanno and his team
– He was removed from the project in 2007 and replaced by Masamichi Abe (Pikmin 1 and 2 director)
– Metroid Prime producer Kensuke Tanabe joined in a supervisory role towards the end of the project
– He didn’t have much of an impact, and only visited NST’s offices a handful of times
– Project H.A.M.M.E.R. would be re-tooled as Wii Crush, a casual title aimed at the Wii Sports audience
– Would have supported MotionPlus
– Project cancelled entirely in 2009

You can see the latest report on Project H.A.M.M.E.R. in its entirety below.

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Another round of footage has come in for the Quiz Show mode in Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival. Check it out below.

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Catles won’t be hitting Wii U until Q1 of next year, but it did launch on Steam earlier this month. Take a look at some footage of the game below.

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Nintendo has come out with yet another 3DS commercial that will be airing during the holiday season. To watch it, check out the video below.

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GiantBomb has posted another 47 minutes of footage from Human Resource Machine, which is heading to the Wii U eShop this week. View the latest video below.

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Nintendo has a video up on its YouTube page for Yo-kai Watch’s North American commercial. Watch it below.

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Nintendo UK is showing off some of the indie-made courses in Super Mario Maker in a new video series. Get a look at the first video below, which focuses on Image & Form.

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