Players who just purchased the newly-released Pandora’s Tower should be aware of a game-freezing bug. Destructoid came across the issue, but also posted an unofficial solution.

You can find the full rundown of bug in Pandora’s Tower along with the solution below.

THE BUG:

After Tower 13 opens, you’ll be unable to return to Towers 11 or 12. When you choose either level from the stage select menu, the game will lock up at the loading screen and you will have to hold the power button on the console to force shutdown. The game will also freeze if you try to enter 11 or 12 from the side doors at the base of Tower 13 rather than from the stage select menu.

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The re-release of a game may not seem like a big deal, but when it comes to EarthBound, it certainly is. Fans have been waiting years upon years for Nintendo to make the classic SNES game available once more overseas.

Nintendo finally gave in and announced that it will be bringing EarthBound to the Wii U Virtual Console before year’s end following a flood of requests on Miiverse. On that very social platform, Shigesato Itoi posted a message thanking fans:

“Dear Earthbound / MOTHER2 fans outside of Japan : Thank you for all the requests. They made me very happy. Now with the re-launch, I am looking forward to meet new friends.
Potential!!”

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

Tetris Axis finally hit the 3DS eShop this week after having been out at retail for around a year and a half.

Nintendo made an intelligent move in pricing the game. Rather than setting it at $40 or $30 – you know, the standard price of 3DS titles – Axis can be purchased for just $9.99. A smart decision given that the game has been out so long, right?

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Interested in the 3DS XL Circle Pad Pro? Then you’ll need to purchase the product directly from Nintendo’s only store.

There are no plans to offer the accessory at retail, Nintendo has said. The regular Circle Pad Pro was made available at GameStop locations.

Nintendo said in a statement:

“There are no plans to sell this accessory at other retail locations at this time.”

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Looks like we didn’t have to wait long at all for Denpa Men 2’s release date! IGN is reporting that the title will be available on the 3DS eShop on May 2. That’s a tentative date, but it’ll likely stick.

No word on pricing just yet. But to compare, the original Denpa Men launched at $9.99.

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A trio of Retro staffers left the company in 2008 and formed Armature Studio.

You might be wondering: what sparked the move? Game director Mark Pacini explained the decision in an interview with Game Informer:

I was there for eight years. When you work for Nintendo, Nintendo’s an awesome company. They’re great to work for. It’s hard, challenging work, but it’s rewarding at the same time. But given that regard, there’s a limited amount of things you can do in Nintendo. You can’t work on other platforms. You kind of work on games that they would like you to work on, so after doing three of the same games in a row, we were kind of like, we’d really like the flexibility to do other things.

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The wait for a re-release of EarthBound has been agonizing. For years fans begged for the game overseas, but Nintendo never delivered… until this week. During the latest Nintendo Direct, the Big N announced that EarthBound would be made available on the Wii U’s Virtual Console.

Why has it taken so long for Nintendo to follow through on fan requests? Was it related to licencing issues with the game’s music, which has long been speculated?

Not so, says Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen, who told Kotaku: “Not that I’m aware of.” Trinen added that “they’re taking the original game and putting it on Wii U,” meaning the full soundtrack will be in place.

Trinen discussed the move to bring out EarthBound in North America and Europe once again with Kotaku:

“It just seems like there’s a lot of Earthbound supporters inside of Nintendo and inside of Nintendo of America, and there’s been a real big desire to try to bring this back for people that have been longing for it for a very long time. And so, we’re just really happy that we’ve been able to do it. And we’re gonna do it on Wii U, where it’ll… because it’s gonna be a Virtual Console game, it’ll have its own Earthbound Miiverse community. Which is gonna be, I think, spectacular.”

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