This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U retail
LEGO City: Undercover (available March 18) – $49.99
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (available March 19) – $59.99
Need for Speed: Most Wanted U (available March 19) – $59.99
The Croods: Prehistoric Party! (available March 19) – $39.99
Wii U VC
Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream (available March 20) – 30 cents
Wii U demo
Chasing Aurora
3DS demo
HarmoKnight
3DS eShop sale
Ketzal’s Corridors – $4.99
3DS retail
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (available March 19) – $39.99
Rayman Origins
The Croods: Prehistoric Party! (available March 19) – $29.99
3DS VC
Mega Man 3 – $4.99
DSiWare
Forgotten Legions
Goony
3DS eShop coming soon
Flipnote Studio 3D – summer 2013 – free
Source: Nintendo PR
REDMOND, Wash., March 14, 2013 – Pokémon fans will get a jolt of excitement when Nintendo releases the Pikachu Edition Nintendo 3DS XL hand-held system on March 24. This bold yellow Nintendo 3DS XL hardware features a familiar outline of the iconic Pokémon. The system also comes packaged with a 4GB SD memory card and will be available while supplies last at a suggested retail price of $199.99.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity launches the same day as the Pikachu Edition Nintendo 3DS XL system, and draws players in with a deep and compelling story full of unexpected twists. While playing as one of five popular Pokémon, players travel through a near-infinite amount of randomly generated Mystery Dungeons, battle and recruit other Pokémon and collect hidden treasure. The game is available exclusively on the Nintendo 3DS and includes the ability to discover Magnagates – entrances to new dungeons – by scanning everyday circular objects with the Nintendo 3DS Camera. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity is available at a suggested retail price of $34.99. For more information about the game, visit http://www.pokemon.com/MysteryDungeon.
Those who purchase the Japanese version of Resident Evil: Revelations HD at launch will receive the Samurai Edge Jill Model, Government Parker Model, and G18 Jessica Model. All three are special guns.
Capcom will also provide custom parts that will boost players’ weapons: S.T.A.R.S. (critical hit rate and damage increase), FBC (damage booster while fighting formidable foe or enemy that is really close), and BSAA (increases amount of BP you earn).
A new Call of Duty: Black Ops II patch is now in the hands of Nintendo. It’s currently unclear what kind of changes/additions are included with the update, though Treyarch is aiming for a release “early next week.” The studio will give out the specifics about the patch once it’s live.
“A_Trey_U” wrote on the official Black Ops II forums:
“Our next patch has been submitted to Nintendo. We are hoping for early next week. Patch notes will be updated once we have approvals in from Nintendo and the patch is ready to go live. I will not be giving information on what is included in the patch until that time.”
Thanks to Mo for the tip.
Back in the day (pre-Super Mario Bros. 2), Mario and Luigi were completely identical. They looked the same and played the same.
Now, however, the two brothers have separate identities. Luigi is known these days for being a bit of a wimp, and from a gameplay perspective, can jump higher and can be slightly slippier to control.
Nintendo’s Yoshihito Ikebata and a pair of staffers recently discussed the differences between Mario and Luigi. Read their comments below.
Level-5 released the first game in the Guild02 series of titles on the Japanese 3DS eShop today. Those who purchase the game and have access to the Guild01 releases can gain access to a small bonus of sorts.
When playing Monsters Come Out on Friday, if it detects any usage of Guild01 on the 3DS, players will be rewarded with a digital, mini art book. Pretty neat, aye?
Road Rash is an old game. So old, in fact, that its first iteration released back in 1991, and it had 12 subsequent releases including one on the 3DO, one on the SEGA Master System, and one on the Gameboy Advance. Since the GBA version, however, we haven’t seen a single entry in the series despite its success, which prompted one Reddit user to ask game-creator Dan Geisler whether we’d see the franchise return in the future:
– Programmer and co-designer of Road Rash, Dan Geisler
The systems this would come out for and what gameplay mechanics it might use (technology has improved somewhat since the GBA release) remain a secret, but if you see a kickstarter for Road Rash pop up in the near future, don’t be surprised.
The Little Battlers Wars, after initially leaking out of CoroCoro, has since seen a heaping of details. Find all of the information from the magazine below.
– Exclusive to 3DS
– New game in the series with a new protagonist
– Protagonist’s name is Arata Sena, she’s from the country of “Genoque”
– Set in a “prestigious school”
– Sena uses an LBX named ‘Dot Phazer’
– Her roomate at the school is a boy named Hikaru Hoshihara
– Hoshihara uses an LBX named ‘Bal Sparros’
– He and Sera are part of a “First Squad”, which is commanded by a character named Haruki Izumo
– Izumo uses an LBX called ‘Orvain’
– Other characters: Fifth Squad commander Kite Fuujin, Fourth Squad commander Catherine Ruth, Third Squad commander Rikuya Togo, and Second Squad commander Gendou Isoya
– “Russius Alliance” is another country, made up of a union of several others
– A character named Muraku Houjou is from there and uses an LBX called ‘Gaunta Yzerfar’
– Houjou is a rival to Sena and her friends
– Houjou’s squadmates include Mikhail Luke, Vanessa Gara and the Muraku Squad mechanic Kageto Kiba
