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To thank European and Australian players for being so patient with the lack of Shovel Knight in the respective regions, Yacht Club Games have announced a Shovel Knight 3DS theme which will initially be coming to Europe before making its way to other territories. Details are fairly limited at the moment but they have shared a teaser image!

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It wasn’t in today’s Nintendo Download report, but Nintendo has confirmed that Costume Quest 2 will be releasing on the European Wii U eShop this Thursday. The game should be available for €14.99.

It’s unclear if Costume Quest 2 is due out in North America this week as well. Launching in time for Halloween would certainly make sense!

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GameSource recently had the opportunity to interview David D’Angelo from Yacht Club Games. The discussion isn’t in English, but we were presented with a couple of noteworthy translations.

Here’s what D’Angelo shared regarding Nintendo’s support for Shovel Knight:

Nintendo was very helpful. They provided a great deal of marketing from featuring the game on the eShop and their website, to bringing the game with them to conventions around the country. They were also helpful behind the scenes, dealing with technical questions and listening to our wildest dreams. Creating Shovel Knight for the Wii U and 3DS was a smooth process, but of course, still a ton of work. Building a game for any platform comes with its own challenges and making a game feel unique and at home on the console is an important but hard problem to tackle!

On the topic of Shovel Knight’s sales, D’Angelo stated:

The game is selling really well on Nintendo platforms, and hopefully we’ll continue to keep making games for their systems. We love Nintendo, and they have been really great to work with for Shovel Knight.

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Glow Games Studio has revealed a new title for Wii U known as “Dungeons & Robots”. You’ll find a few images below as well as the first round of details.

– Randomly generated environments
– Full control and modularity over the robot
– Different customization options
– Different dangers in dungeons
– Mages, Orcs, and Demons roam the floors
– Other creatures and traps as well
– Robots are called “Ajax”
– Need to search for artifacts in dungeons
– These increase your abilities such as health, energy, speed, damage, and defense
– Ajax have Element and Melee resistance attributes including Health and Energy Regeneration properties
– Use the GamePad to manipulate Armor, Equipment, Gems, Weapons
– Each has its own attribute system valuing Defense, Type, Boosted Stats, and Gem Slots
– Different Armor classes for your robot
– Equip 1 armor piece to a single area
– Each armor piece also has its own slot for equipping Gems
– Equipment items are broken down into groups labeled Disposables, Fountains and Turrets
– Disposable Items include usable objects like Energy Traps, Mines, or a Teleporter
– Fountains: static objects a player sets down in areas to provide support options within a certain range
– Fountains award Health and Energy
– Can also place turrets to attack enemies within range
– Items and Equipment are managed by an character’s attribute of Equipment Slots, and are specific to the character in use
– These determine how many items one player can take into Dungeons within their inventory
– Characters can’t exceed 4 slots
– Equipment Slots can be earned by leveling up to special milestones
– Single-player, co-op, and player versus player modes
– Co-op supports up to 4 players
– Each player can gain experience and loot in co-op
– PVP will support 4v4 battles
– Could even support 10v10 or a separate 10v10 game mode with larger maps
– Game may also feature a survival arena mode
– Targeted for Q1 2015
– More games set in the same universe planned

Check out the source link below for an interview with Glow Games Studio, which contains even more details.

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Curve Studios will be bringing The Swapper to the Wii U eShop in about a week. If you plan on downloading the game, make sure you have 390MB of free space available!

The Swapper will be available in North America and Europe next Thursday.

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This weeks’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U

– Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones  €13.99/£12.99

– Jett Tailfin €19.99/£17.99

– Falling Skies: The Game € 39.99/£34.99

– Tetrobot and Co. €9.99/£7.49

– Cosmophony  €3.99/£3.59

-Color Zen Demo Free

 Wii U VC

– Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble €7.99/£5.49

– Devil World €4.99/£3.49

Special Offers

– Zen Pinball 2: Doctor Strange Table €1.49/£1.19 (Ends November 3, regular price €2.99/£2.39)
– Zen Pinball 2: The Walking Dead Table €1.49/£1.19 (Ends November 3, regular price €2.99/£2.39)

3DS

– Color Zen Demo Free

– Arc Style: Baseball 3D €1.99/£1.79

– Shin Megami Tensei IV – €19.99/£17.99

-Zombie Panic in Wonderland DX €5.00/£4.50

3DS VC

– Donkey Kong Land III €3.99/£3.59

– Gargoyle’s Quest II: The Demon Darkness €4.99/£4.39

3DS Themes

– Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Isabelle in the Town Hall €1.99/£1.79
– Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Mabel Able €1.99/£1.79
– Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Sable Able €1.99/£1.79
– Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Timmy & Tommy Nook €1.99/£1.79
– Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Colourful Pattern €1.99/£1.79
– Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Bulletin Board €1.99/£1.79
– Halloween: Spooky Black Cat €1.99/£1.79

Special Offers

– Sweet Memories Blackjack  €2.99/£2.69 (Ends November 20, regular price €3.99/£3.59)
– Brunch Panic €2.99/£2.69 (Ends November 20, regular price €3.99/£3.59)
– Swords & Soldiers 3D €4.99/£4.49 (Ends November 20, regular price €7.00/£5.90)
– Turtle Tale  €1.99/£1.65 (Regular price €2.99/£2.49)
– 33% off the regular price of Turtle Tale in Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS if you already own Turtle Tale on Nintendo eShop on Wii U
-Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL World Duel Carnival €19.99/£17.99 (Permanent, was €39.95/£34.99)

Wii Shop Channel

– Donkey Kong Country 800 Points
– Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest 800 Points
– Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble! 800 Points

 


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