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Nintendo plans to ship the Metallic Red Japanese 3DS system in Japan this month. To be clear, this is the older 3DS system, not the 3DS XL model.

The Metallic Red 3DS system will be available on June 13. Pricing is set at 15,000 yen.

Arc System Works is renowned for its BlazBlue and Guilty Gear fighting games. But on the Japanese 3DS eShop, the company released something completely different: Korokesu.

Korokesu is an action-puzzle game with dice-rolling elements. Here’s everything we know about it:

– Push, pull, and spin the dice around
– Need to delete the dice by getting similar faces on the dice to touch each other
– Two modes: Trial and Puzzle
– Trial: get the highest possible score by deleting the surrounding dice in the span of 3 minutes
– Get a higher score by chaining them together for combos
– When you delete dice, it takes a short while for them to completely disappear
– If you can manage to get another dice to fit in before they disappear, it activates the chain effect
– This deletes more dice and increases your score
– Puzzle: stages and dice positions are already set and your goal is to delete them
– 50 different stages included in Puzzle mode
– Game has a high score board and achievements that can be acquired by meeting certain conditions in the game
– Unconventional story
– Takes place in a galaxy far away
– The people of the planet Saikorogashi (Saikoro is dice, Korogashi is roll in Japanese) spent their days happily rolling dice
– One day, they decided to hold a contest to see who the best dice roller on the planet is
– Prince decided to participate as well
– Prince’s expression makes it hard to know what he’s thinking about, but he seems to be more excited than usual regarding the upcoming tournament
– King shows intense feelings and secret supports the anxious prince
– 500 yen

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Capcom USA senior vice-president Christian Svensson commented further on the decision to release Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies in the west as a digital download only.

One fan expressed some concern about limiting the game to the eShop. By releasing the title digitally, the thought was that its visibility and sales would be limited.

Svensson isn’t too concerned. He wrote on the Capcom-Unity boards in response:

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Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter has provided his NPD hardware estimates for the month of April 2013.

Based on retail checks, Pachter tells CNET that Wii U sales are down to 55,000 units – a 19 percent decrease compared to March. Pachter also says that Wii sales stand at 75,000 units.

Other NPD estimates include 205,000 units for the Xbox 360, 185,000 units for the 3DS (up 46 percent year-over-year), 165,000 units for the PlayStation 3, and 30,000 units for the PlayStation Vita (down 57 percent year-over-year).

We’ll know if Pachter’s estimates were correct when the NPD report goes live this Thursday.

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Natsume’s Twitter account confirms that Harvest Moon will be hitting the North American 3DS eShop this week as a Virtual Console download. It will be available on Thursday.

Other Nintendo digital downloads scheduled for release this week include Super Metroid (Wii U VC), Super Mario Bros. 2 (Wii U VC), and The Starship Damrey.

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