Electroplankton Rec-Rec (3DS, 100 coins) and Mario Tennis (Wii, 150 coins) are available starting today. Electroplankton will leave the rewards site on July 15 while Mario Tennis is disappearing on July 22.

It seems as though downloadable rewards will be swapped out regularly. Rather than having to wait until the start of a new month, titles will be exchanged on more of weekly basis.

You can order the latest rewards here.

Photos of Nintendo’s booth from World Hobby Fair 2012

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Nintendo is one of many companies to have attended this year’s World Hobby Fair 2012 in Japan. You can find a few photos of the Big N’s booth in the gallery above.

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Partial Nintendo Download lineup for July 5

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3DS Download

Family Tennis 3D – $6.99

3DS Demo

Heroes of Ruin

WiiWare

Let’s Create! Pottery – 500 points

We’ll know if any additional games are on the way next week.

Rock Band Music Store update next week (7/3/12)

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Cambridge, Mass. – June 29th, 2012– Harmonix today announced that tracks from The All-American Rejects, Mudvayne, and Rise Against are headed to the Rock Band™ Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.
Rock Band provides the deepest and best selection of artists, songs and albums through the Rock Band music platform, which features more than 1,400 artists and more than 3,500* tracks via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/songs). Rock Band’s gigantic music library dwarfs that of any other rhythm video game on the market. More than 100 million songs have been sold through the Rock Band Music Store since its launch on Nov. 20, 2007.
Tracks downloaded from the Rock Band Music Store are compatible with the award-winning full-band Rock Band 3 experience, as well as the upcoming controller-based Rock Band Blitz, coming summer of 2012 for Xbox LIVE® Arcade and PlayStation®Network!
Rock Band DLC Additions for Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system and Wii™

A look at Project Zero 2: Wii Edition’s various endings

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It goes without saying that there are spoilers in these videos!

Japanese game industry sees year-over-year gains in first half of 2012

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Famitsu has posted a report on the domestic industry sales totals for the first half of 2012. The data was collected through parent company Enterbrain.

Between December 26 and June 24, total hardware/software sales hit 193.4 billion yen. That’s a 0.7% increase from last year’s 191.98 billion. Year-over-year gains have been made for the first time in two years.

Hardware sales dropped from 79.81 billion yen in 2011 to 70.73 billion in 2012, but software sales increased from 112.17 billion yen to 122.67 billion yen.

Read on below for hardware data and a listing of the best-selling games in Japan in the first half of 2012.

Hardware

Nintendo 3DS: 2,219,548 (total 6,355,287)
PlayStation 3: 695,465 (total 8,112,613)
PlayStation Portable: 500,333 (total 18,737,441)
PlayStation Vita: 353,657 (total 756,451)
Nintendo Wii: 265,578 (total 12,433,321)
Xbox 360: 33,809 (total 1,554,547)
Nintendo DS: 20,239 (total 32,855,741)

Software

Pokemon Black & White 2 (3DS, Pokemon, 06.23.2012): 1,618,621
One Piece Pirate Musou (PS3, Namco Bandai, 03.01.2012): 806,578
Dragon Quest Monsters Terry’s Wonderland 3D (3DS, Squenix, 05.31.2012): 743,967
Mario Kart 7 (3DS, Nintendo, 12.01.2011): 665,573 (total 1,747,964)
Monster Hunter 3G (3DS, Capcom, 12.10.2011): 665,394 (1,474,716)

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Japanese Wii VC releases next month

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The following Virtual Console games will be releasing on the Japanese Wii Shop Channel next month:

Super Famicom

Ky?yaku Megami Tensei: Megami Tensei I – II – 900 points (releases July 3)

Neo Geo

Metal Slug X – 900 points
Stakes Winner – 900 points

Virtual Console Arcade

Riot – 800 points

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Protocol heading to “new to-be-confirmed platform”

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Sabarasa announced Protocol over two years ago. The company didn’t provide a whole lot of details about the project, but it was intended to be an online/offline shooter for WiiWare.

A couple of years later, Sabarasa has confirmed that Protocol won’t be releasing no the Wii Shop Channel. It’s now planned for a “new to-be-confirmed platform.” Maybe it’ll head to the Wii U eShop?

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EDGE review scores – August 2012

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The latest EDGE review scores are as follows:

Lollipop Chainsaw – 7
Steel Battalion Heavy Armor – 6
Spec Ops: The Line – 7
Game of Thrones – 5
Inversion – 6
Heroes of Ruin – 6
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown – 9
Beat The Beat: Rythm Paradise – 8
Babel Rising – 3
Art of Balance TOUCH! – 8
Gauge – Game – 9

Lovely art from Pandora’s Tower

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Nintendo has updated the official Japanese Pandora’s Tower site with some pretty art from the game. The illustrations highlight Aeron and Elena, the two main characters.

You can find all of the artwork in the gallery above.