Famicom Wars will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Famicom download on December 26 for 500 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.

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New Super Mario Bros. 2’s fourth DLC pack will be its last. Tomorrow, the Mystery Adventures Pack and Impossible Pack will be available for $2.50 each.

A rundown of each can be found below.

Mystery Adventure Pack

– 3/5 star difficulty rating
– Search for hidden paths
– Collect as many coins as possible

Impossible Pack

– Difficulty rating goes beyond 5 stars – “DANGER!”
– No coins or power-ups
– Number of coins you get solely amounts to how much time you have left at the end of each level
– First level: swim through a sea of Cheep-Cheeps and jump on small platforms while dodging birds and Spineys

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The latest deals from GameStop are as follows:

Namco Bandai’s Jump Festa 2013 lineup is as follows:

Information Display

• One Piece: Romance Dawn (PSP)
• One Piece: Grand Collection (Mobile)
• Gintama no Sugoroku (PSP)
• Mobile Gintama (Android/Mobile)
• Summon Night 3 (PSP)
• Summon Night 4 (PSP)
• Summon Night 5 (PSP)
• Summon Night Collection (GREE)

Videos

• One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 (PS3/PSVita)
• One Piece: Romance Dawn (PSP)
• One Piece: Grand Collection (Mobile)
• Toriko: Gourmet Monsters (3DS)
• Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission (3DS)
• Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (PS3/360)
• Naruto SD: Powerful Shippuden (3DS)
• Gintama no Sugoroku (PSP)
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle (PS3)
• Summon Night 3 (PSP)
• Summon Night 4 (PSP)
• Summon Night 5 (PSP)
• Summon Night Collection (GREE)
• Tales of Xillia 2 (PS3)
• Tales of Hearts R (PSVita)
• Tales of Kizna (Mobage)
• Tales of Card Evolve (GREE)
• Tales of the World Tactics Union (Android)
• Tales of the World Dice Adventure (PC/Mobile/iOS/Android)
• Digimon Adventure (PSP)
• Saint Seiya Omega Ultimate Cosmo (PSP)
• Tokitowa: Time & Eternity (PS3)
• Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle Royale (Arcade Machine)

Playable Demo

• One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 (PS3/PSVita)
• Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (PS3/360)
• Naruto SD: Powerful Shippuden (3DS)
• Toriko: Gourmet Monsters (3DS)
• Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission (3DS)
• Gintama no Sugoroku (PSP)
• Tales of Hearts R (PSVita)
• Digimon Adventure (PSP)
• Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle Royale (Arcade Machine)

Playable in Tournament

• Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (PS3/360)
• Naruto SD: Powerful Shippuden (3DS)
• Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission (3DS)

The videos below come from yet another in-depth analysis from Digital Foundry. An overview of Tekken Tag Tournament 2’s performance on Wii U can be found here.

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Nintendo TVii launches tomorrow in North America, but it will be missing a few features.

Today’s press release confirmed that Netflix and TiVo support isn’t set to arrive until early 2013. The app won’t be able to access content from a DVR either.

Nintendo of America’s director of network business, Zach Fountain, told the New York Times that it would like to see this realized, but it first needs to reach deals with companies such as Comcast and/or DirecTV.

“We’d love to have DVR integration but we can’t do that without assistance. We’re in discussions to cover that time-shifting portion.”

Fountain also commented on how Nintendo wishes to deliver “a persistent, consistent experience.”

“We don’t believe you should have to change your app when you change the program. TV shows have apps, networks have apps, sports leagues have apps… We want to create a persistent, consistent experience.”

Reggie adds that Nintendo wants the GamePad to become “the super aggregator and super remote.”

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Milon’s Secret Castle will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Famicom download on December 26 for 500 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.

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New Wii U Service Gives Every Member of the Family His or Her Own Personalized, Easy-to-Use Second-Screen Viewing Experience

REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The company that changed how we play is about to change how we watch. On Dec. 20, Nintendo will introduce Nintendo TVii, a free, integrated service for the recently launched Wii U console that combines what you watch and how you watch into one seamless, second-screen experience on the revolutionary new Wii U GamePad controller.

The rapid increase in both the quality and availability of video entertainment content – hundreds of satellite and cable channels, a seemingly endless amount of video-on-demand options – has made finding something to watch a complex and occasionally frustrating process. The solution to this problem is coming from perhaps an unexpected place: a video game console.

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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

3DS LL – 206,973
Wii U – 126,916
3DS – 112,052
PS3 – 42,976
PSP – 33,002
Vita – 14,446
Wii – 10,346
Xbox 360 – 1,760
PS2 – 1,102
DSi – 320
DSi LL – 221

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

Wii U – 308,142
3DS LL – 136,373
3DS – 75,126
PS3 – 36,994
PSP – 19,637
Vita – 11,039
Wii – 6,714
Xbox 360 – 1,216
PS2 – 904
DSi – 245
DSi LL – 179