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A lot of people sell their in-game MMO items for real money. It’s sort of common among players of games like World of Warcraft, with some entire accounts netting hundreds (or even thousands!) of dollars for people. Square Enix, however, doesn’t want any of that going on in their Dragon Quest MMO, Dragon Quest X.

So far, the company has “seized” 19.2 million “gold” from being sold and has closed the accounts that were attempting to make some profit from a game they didn’t make. Whoever was buying the gold was probably planning on using it to build a house, buy some land, or get some cool new weapons.

This stuff sounds awfully silly to me! Doesn’t Square Enix have anything better to worry about!?

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PR email…

October 30 – Check out this week’s newest downloadable offerings from Nintendo:

Monster Shooter

€6.99
(£6.29 UK Only)

Game Description: Monster Shooter is the new top-down action shooter from Gamelion. This shooter gives the experience of full monster mayhem to both casual players and alien exterminators alike. Follow the epic chase in story mode, or take your chances in survival of the fittest. Master different means of annihilation with shotguns, plasma rifles, electricity guns, grenades, rocket launchers and even a NUKE!

Samurai G™

€1.99
(£1.79 UK Only)

Game Description: Become the Shining Samurai of legend. Samurai G™ is a non-stop action game that will challenge players of all levels. As Tetsuo, you must collect as much of Tengu’s Gold as possible before the evil Warlord Fuma’s assassins do. Tengu’s Gold is rumoured to possess the power of Tengu, the harbinger of war himself. Activate Golden Mode to harness the power of Tengu’s Gold and see why this power must not fall to the wrong hands. Defeat Fuma’s assassins and avoid deadly traps on your quest to becoming the Shining Samurai.

New Style Boutique Fashion Contest Demo

FREE

Game Description: In Nintendo presents: New Style Boutique, you take on the role of a shop assistant and must work your way up to eventually owning your own boutique by giving customers advice and putting a look together for them. There are thousands of items and accessories to choose from, and you can also get judged on the looks you put together, great if you want to unleash your inner fashionista. Reach the top of the style stakes and take the fashion world by storm.

The first of two demos of the game lets players participate in a fashion contest, create an outfit based on the contest theme, style their model’s hair and makeup and send her down the runway.

Gradius

€4.99
(£4.49 UK Only)

Game Description: The planet of Gradius is doomed. Only you, at the helm of the prototype Vic Viper fighter, can save Gradius and the galaxy from the evil Bacterions. The first in the classic series, Gradius introduced the now familiar system of collecting capsules to boost your ship’s abilities; missiles, increased speed, laser beam, force field and more. You must use your skills as a pilot and choose your weapons wisely, as you face off against waves of enemies and enormous bosses. Never forget: shoot the core!

Come On! Dragons

€1.99
(£1.79 UK Only)
Nintendo DSi Shop 200 Points

Game Description: The kingdom is under attack by the dragons’ army. As the most skilled protector of the kingdom, you must strike back against the invaders with your mastered archery. With enemies appearing everywhere, how can you possibly defeat them with a single bow? No problem. The engineers have invented various types of traps. Use them wisely to mount defensive lines, and defeat the evil dragons.

Back To Nature

Wii Shop Channel 500 Points

Game Description: Welcome to the farm in the forest. Help Gert the cockerel, Bla the donkey, Rosi the pig and Susi the sheep to help find their friend Tom the cat. He has probably lost his way in the forest. The four friends set off and experience a number of different adventures. They need your help and that of the bear, the master of the forest, to overcome many obstacles. They arrive at an abandoned house, have to repair a boat, use this to catch fish, prepare wood, make a fireplace and grill the fish. Can you help them find their friend Tom?

LIMITED TIME* ONLY – SPECIAL OFFER PRICE

Art of Balance TOUCH!

Special offer price
€4.99 / £4.49

Original price
(€7 / £6.30)

Game Description: Grab your stylus and build a balanced stack in this physics-based puzzler. With its perfect touch controls and 200 levels ‘Art of Balance TOUCH!’ is easy to pick up and hard to put away. Seeking a real challenge? Then try out the new endurance mode and drive your score ever higher. Art of Balance TOUCH! brings the ultimate “just one more puzzle” experience to your Nintendo 3DS.

*Limited time special offer available for 1 week only

This magazine scan, which is apparently taken from an upcoming issue of “Jump” magazine (perhaps someone with more knowledge of Japanese magazines could shed some light on which one) suggests that Square-Enix will be porting the seventh game in the Dragon Quest series to the 3DS. Originally released for the Playstation in 2000 , this remake looks like it will be ditching the sprites and 3D backgrounds in favour of a fully 3D graphical style. It also seems like it will be shown off at the upcoming Jump Festa later in the year.

We’re still waiting on confirmation from Square-Enix on whether this scan is legitimate or not. It certainly seems strange that this wasn’t announced during last week’s Japanese Nintendo Direct presentation, especially since it will apparently be released in February.

Edit: Incorrectly stated that the scan came from Famitsu. I should probably go to sleep soon.

Source: Hachimaki

Despite the fact that it just launched today, Ubisoft’s highly anticipated Assassin’s Creed 3 received a patch this morning that fixes an absolutely absurd amount of things. How they didn’t catch this stuff prior to release is beyond me, but essentially the patch just plugs a ton of holes in a ship that would have been sinking upon departure. If you want the list of things that it fixes (PS360 only so far), go to our sister site.

The real question is whether or not this is going to affect Wii U owners who decide to purchase the game in a few weeks. I can’t find any information on it just yet, but if anything crops up I’ll be sure to let you know. I guess what it comes down to is whether or not Ubisoft pressed the Wii U version of the game alongside the other versions.

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Note: I’m posting this now because I’m leaving to go do Halloween-y things now (yea, on a Sunday– I spent my Saturday doing this podcast for you!). I’ll sticky it overnight and all that good stuff.

Despite this episode being recorded at 1AM, I think it was actually pretty good! Maybe we should do more of them really late at night… We discussed ZombiU (and whether it’s going to “Red Steel” us), do all of the regular segments, and give our top five scariest games that we’ve played!

Here’s the image for “Guess the game” this week.

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In yet another homage to classic Zelda games, Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d you steal our garbage?!! will let you replay the game on a harder difficulty upon beating it the first time. If they’re taking as much inspiration from Zelda’s “second quest” mode as we can hope, chances are it will also be absolutely mind-numbingly difficult.

A demo of the game arrives on the Nintendo 3DS eShop on November 15th, and the game comes out on November 20th.

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Some bad news for you guys: Valay just texted me and let me know that he finally lost power entirely, which means he is completely unable to access the sites (NE and GE) until further notice. The small glimmer in this otherwise dark patch is that I live in a completely different part of the country, so I should be able to keep things updating as they normally would. Things might be a little slow at times (I’m not used to this schedule; apologies), and I might miss certain things (if you have a tip, please use the contact form and send it to me; it’s a great help!), but for the most part I’m hoping you guys barely notice a difference!

Wish me luck in posting, and wish Valay even more luck in getting his power back. I’d imagine he’s already bored out of his mind!

~Austin