This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Download
Dr. Luigi – €14.99 / £13.49
F1 Race Stars: Powered Up Edition – €24.99 / £19.99
Wii U Virtual Console
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja – €7.99 / £5.49
3DS Retail
Mario Party: Island Tour – €39.99 / £34.99 (available Jan. 17)
3DS Virtual Console
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest – €3.99 / £3.59
Special Offers
Trine 2: Director’s Cut – €6.79 / £5.49 until Jan. 30 (was €16.99 / £13.99)
Dress to Play: Magic Bubbles – €0.99 / £0.89 until Feb. 6 (was €3.99 / £3.59)
Dress to Play: Cute Witches – €0.99 / £0.89 until Feb. 6 (was €3.99 / £3.59)
Source: Nintendo PR
Along with today’s screenshot, Sakurai passed along the following message on Miiverse:
King Dedede uses one of the strongest side smash attacks in all of Smash Bros. Use this attack wisely in battles.
ON THIS EPISODE: Austin delves deeply into his new-found Bioshock fascination, Jack talks about LIMBO and The Wonderful 101, and Laura talks about her renewed sense of enthusiasm for Animal Crossing.
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Rocket Company is working on “Kumamon Bomber: Puzzle de Kumamon Gymnastics” for the 3DS. Here’s what we know as of now:
– From Rocket Company
– Based on Japan’s prefectural mascot, Kumamon from the Kumamoto Prefecture
– Bejeweled clone
– Kumamon and the player are traveling throughout Japan
– Experience Japan’s sights, sounds and festivals
– Help enliven and bring energy back to all 47 prefectures of Japan
– Includes interesting tidbits about the foods from various places as well
– March 13 launch
Check out the gallery above for first screenshots from Kumamon Bomber: Puzzle de Kumamon Gymnastics.
Spike Chunsoft producer Kazuhiro Watanabe reflected on his work for Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind while speaking with 4Gamer last month. Watanabe also teased an announcement that he believes will be made sometime in 2014.
His comments in full:
In 2013, I worked mostly on Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind. We’ve been working on it for a long while, and we were trying to keep a close eye on the look of the anime. Since the anime began airing, the background and context really opened up and it became a huge social phenomenon, which makes me happy. One of the dilemmas is that anxiety also heightens during such development (note: likely wanting to meet expectations). With that said, it was the first time for me personally to work on a licensed title, so of course I hope we make the fans of the manga or anime happy. To be honest, though, the level of anxiety just continued to rise until the game was finally released. On the other hand, we took many aspects from a genre that has already been done, so we followed in the “wire action” style of games like “Tenchu” and “Shinobido”. I think this year we will be sharing an announcement, so please wait a while for that.
In light of Eurogamer’s anonymous Wii U developer piece that went up over the weekend, Ping 1.5+ creator Christopher Arnold has offered his own insight into the console’s dev kit.
Arnold believes that the anonymous remarks are “aimed at pre-retail release SDK problems.” The post-release SKD kit, on the other hand, “do not contain any of the listed problems”.
You’ll find Arnold’s full comments below.
Culture Brain is readying “Ultra Baseball Card Battle” for 3DS. It’s due out in Japan next month for 5,229 yen. We’re still waiting for specific information, so stay tuned for additional updates.
This month’s Game Informer contains a listing of the magazine’s top 50 games of 2013. You can find the full lineup below sorted by release date.
