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Here’s something a bit out of the blue. Nintendo has, unexpectedly, started sending out Pizza Hut gift cards to some Club Nintendo members.

What does Pizza Hut really have to do with gaming? You’ve got me. Although Reggie did work there at one point…

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Two Tribes will be attending PAX East this year. Better yet, the studio has confirmed it will bring its next project to the show. The game will indeed be a new IP, according to a tweet published by Two Tribes recently.

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ON THIS EPISODE: Parks and Recreation is a good– but not great– show (or is it?). Proteus has more to it than meets the eye. The Wii U is still selling pretty poorly, which isn’t great.

PLUS: Listener mail about gaming difficulty and its effects on the medium’s merits, how long it takes us to judge a game after playing it, and more!

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Now that Miiverse is available on an entirely new platform – the 3DS, of course – Nintendo’s Marty has reminded users about what they shouldn’t be doing on the service (like exchanging Friend Codes). You can find the full, lengthy message below.

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Crash ‘n The Boys: Street Challenge looks like it could be heading to the North American 3DS eShop next week. A listing on the digital store suggests that the game will launch as a Virtual Console download on December 19. Pricing is set at $4.99.

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Another round of songs have been added to the Wii Karaoke U database in Europe. Users can now sing their hearts out to the following tunes:

All or Nothing at All Frank Sinatra
Always Bon Jovi
Apple Blossom The White Stripes
Apples and Bananas Children’s Chorus
Are We All We Are P!nk
Back in the U.S.S.R. The Beatles
Bed of Roses Bon Jovi
Bed of Roses (Acoustic) Bon Jovi
Blind Faith Chase & Status & Liam Bailey
Breakfast in Bed UB40
Coming Out of the Dark Gloria Estefan
Drive My Car The Beatles
End Credits Chase & Status & plan B
Every Time We Say Goodbye Rod Stewart
Fairytale Sara Bareilles
Fire with Fire Scissor Sisters
First of the Gang to Die Morrissey
Giving Him Something He Can Feel En Vogue
Glitter in the Air P!nk
Here Comes the Rain Again Eurythmics
Hitz Chase & Status feat. Tinie …
Hold My Heart Sara Bareilles
Holler Spice Girls
Icky Thump The White Stripes
I’d Like To Teach the World To Sing Children’s Chorus
If I Fell The Beatles
I Should Have Known Better The Beatles
It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back) Eurythmics
Livin’ on a Prayer Bon Jovi
Mansize Rooster Supergrass
Mele Kalikimaka Bing Crosby & The Andrews S…
Nobody Knows P!nk
One Less Lonely Girl Justin Bieber
The only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You Bryan Adams
Please Forgive Me Bryan Adams
Pompeii Bastille
Prophets of War Dream Theater
Pumping on Your Stereo Supergrass
Route 66 The Rolling Stones
(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay Otis Redding
Somewhere Il Divo
Strangers in the Night Frank Sinatra
Stronger than Me Amy Winehouse
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics
There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My He… Eurythmics
Thistles & Weeds Mumford & Sons
Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down Brooks & Dunn
Whispers in the Dark Mumford & Sons
White Blank Page Mumford & Sons
You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do a… The White Stripes

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There hasn’t been much news about Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse as of late. Fortunately though, it looks like that’s already starting to change.

WayForward’s Matt Bozon posted a message on Twitter earlier this week saying than an update will be shared “soon”.

That was followed up a few hours ago with a new teaser image:

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No one expected the Wii U version of Call of Duty: Ghosts to light the sales charts on fire. Yet it’s still quite disappointing to see that the game sold horribly in the US last month compared to other platforms.

Reliable NPD leaker “creamsugar” has shared information indicating that Call of Duty: Ghosts on Wii U accounted for less than 1% of the game’s total sales. Wii U’s share came in at 0.33% for the month of November, followed by the Xbox One with 6.42%, PlayStation 4 with 7.39%, PlayStation 3 with 30.42%, and Xbox 360 with 55.45%.

Again, Ghosts wasn’t expected to be a major sales success on Wii U. But given its apparent poor sales, you have to wonder if Activision will even bother bringing out next year’s Call of Duty for Nintendo’s console.

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Nintendo seems to have some ambitious plans for StreetPass in the future. We’ve already heard about the possibility of scavenger hunts and crossword puzzles. Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen has also teased additional content for Nintendo Zones.

Speaking with IGN, Trinen teased that Nintendo is “looking for more creative content that we can use to distribute at Nintendo Zones. The feeling is that, if we’re able to offer people content at Nintendo Zones that they can go and download and then experience StreetPass while they’re there, that’s going to be the best way to get people excited about it and doing it on a regular basis.”

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