As promised, Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword has received a temporary discount on the North American eShop. The game can be purchased for $4.99 through Sunday night. It normally costs $6.99, so you’d be saving $2 (28%) in total.
One new Virtual Console game launches on the Japanese Wii Shop Channel next week. Metal Slug X will be available as a Neo Geo download on July 10. It’ll cost 900 points.
Above are the rewards for those who reached Gold/Platinum on Club Nintendo this year.
Gold status members can choose from the Club Nintendo Original Calender, Super Mario Kart, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again, or The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. These rewards are available to Platinum members as well, along with Platinum Mario Playing Cards and Limited Edition Platinum Poster Set.
The Gold/Platinum rewards page was temporarily removed for some odd reason, but it should be back soon.
Thanks to Captain N for the tip.
Namco Bandai revealed four new characters for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 at the Japan Expo today. Alex, Forest Law, P-Jack and Tiger Jackson will be included on the game’s roster.
A trailer showing off the new characters can be seen above.
There’s still no news on the Monster Hunter Tri G localization front. Capcom continues to say that there are no plans to bring the game to the US, but it would be possible.
Here’s the latest, as tweeted by analyst Daniel Gibson at Macquarie Capital Securities (Japan) Limited:
“MH 3G in USA – any time I ask Capcom, its the same answer…no plans but possible, would think now with MH 4 coming ‘spring 2013’ it helps”
I’m not even sure when Capcom could announce Monster Hunter Tri G for the US. If I’m remembering correctly, the original Wii game was confirmed for North America just a couple of days after launching in Japan. It ended up shipping a few months later. As we know, the same situation didn’t occur with Tri G.
Thanks to CdS for the tip.
Konami will release Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition on the major digital services next week. The news comes from the latest episode of the PlayStation Blogcast, which confirms a July 10 launch on PSN. It’ll apparently be available on XBLA and WiiWare on the same day as well.
