Square Enix will be featuring five console/handheld titles at this year’s Jump Festa.

The company’s lineup is as follows:

Dragon Quest X (Wii U) – video
Dragon Quest VII (3DS) – playable, video
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX (PS3) – playable, video
Chosoku Henkei Gyrozetter (3DS) – video
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (PS3/360) – video

You can keep track of Square Enix’s Jump Festa activities on the official page here

Arc System Works has a new River City Ransom title in the works. Famitsu has a first look at the downloadable entry this week.

Players will control of the series’ main rival Riki in Riki Densetsu. He used to be a star player for his school’s soccer team, but was issued a suspension after a revenge beat-down. You see, Riki wasn’t pleased that half of his own team was attacked by a rival school before one of their big matches. As a result, he decided to get some revenge.

Riki is now a complete delinquent. In the game, he’ll take on a Mushamonzen which is led by Okada.

Screenshots posted in Famitsu imply that Riki Densetsu will be a typical River City Ransom. It features side-scrolling gameplay and IP’s classic art style for characters.

Riki Densetsu will be released on December 12 for the Japanese 3DS eShop for 800 yen.

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If your Wii U breaks, you’ll have to pay a pretty penny to get the thing fixed.

The system itself costs $175 to repair. Slightly less – but still expensive – is the GamePad at $85. For what it’s worth, the console repair charge is for the Deluxe model.

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Zen Pinball 2 will be officially heading to the North American and European Wii U eShops later this month. Interestingly, it will be free to download. The game includes free trials of each table, and there are lots of purchasable tables as well.

Wii U owners can expect Zen Pinball 2 to contain features including the plunger on the touch screen, rotating camera views, accessing information via the dot matrix, and Free View control by tilting the Wii U GamePad.

There is a full lineup of features posted below.

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It looks like tonight’s Nintendo Direct mini was created for one primary reason. Satoru Iwata hosted a live presentation to announce and show off a new Nico Nico app for Japanese Wii U systems.

The app will work on any television once connected to the service. Wii U owners can search for videos on the GamePad and then watch the content on the TV – and yes, HD is supported. Rankings are supported, as are a favorites list and playlists.

Japan will be receiving the Nico Nico app on December 8, when the Wii U launches in Japan. It will be available as a free download.

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Dragon Quest X players on Wii U won’t have to get involved with any storage setups. The game will make use of cloud saves, which means that users won’t have to fumble around with hard drives or alternative USB storage. This news will likely come as a relief to 8GB Wii U owners, as they’ll never have to be concerned about not having their progress around at all times.

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I personally don’t have a European Wii U on hand, so I can’t verify this completely. But Nintendo has said that Netflix should be live on all European consoles today.

If this is untrue, please let us know!

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This is not a joke. There is another Nintendo Direct today. Really.

A Japanese presentation will be shown at noon Japan time. That should be 10 PM EST / 7 PM PST.

Just a heads up: don’t expect too much. Since this is a Nintendo Direct mini, the stream will be brief, and there won’t be a whole lot of news.

All we know at the moment is that the video will be very short. It’s unclear if this will focus on a specific game or something else entirely. We’ll know soon!