Two big Nintendo products made Google’s most-searched consumer-electronics tech products this year. Switch came in fifth, followed by NES Classic Edition at seventh.

The full lineup is as follows:

iPhone SE
iOS 10
Google Pixel
iPhone 7 Plus
Nintendo Switch
iPhone 7
NES Classic Edition
Galaxy S7
Playstation VR
PS4 Pro

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Nintendo opened the Japanese website for Tank Troopers today. You can access it here. For new gameplay, watch the video below.

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A teaser trailer is now online for Seasons of Heaven, the indie Switch-exclusive announced last week. You can watch it below.

As shown in the video, the full trailer will be released next Monday.

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The recently opened Kirby twitter seems to be teasing some sort of broadcast for tomorrow. There don’t appear to be any details on what this entails, but it’s probably worth keeping your eye out for. Since the account is a Japanese account, whatever is announced could even be exclusive to Japan.

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Nintendo announced Tank Troopers for 3DS during a Nintendo Direct back in September. In Japan, it’s hitting the eShop next Wednesday. Now we have new details about the game.

In the game, you can have your favorite trooper ride tanks and use special abilities. There are 30 single-player missions which have objectives like reaching the goal within the time limit, or fighting a giant tank. Stages have variation like lush grasslands, deserts with undulations, and a port with a dense formation of warehouses.

36 types of tanks and 13 troopers are included, each with different stats and abilities. You can pair up the tanks and troopers as you like to match up with the stage and battle features.

Tank Troopers supports up to six players in local multiplayer, including Download Play. However, in Download Play, everyone uses the same tank and trooper.

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Polygon has put up the latest – and final – video in its “Devs Make Mario” series. In today’s feature, Touhou Project creator Jun’ya Ota (ZUN) makes a level in the game. View it below.

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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night creator Koji Igarashi took to Kickstarter today and explained how the team is going about improving environments on the game.

One of the issues Igarashi wanted to address was players being unsure of “where a platform was, or whether the thing they were looking at was a wall or something they could pass through.” This has been improved by increasing the brightness of the front side of platforms while making more distant parts of the environments darker.

The Bloodstained team is also now making use of procedural generation in environments. Before that term scares you off, the explanation makes sense, as it will allow for smoother development. To put it simply, procedural generation is being used “to auto-generate environmental grime and destruction effects.” Doing so means environments will have more of a visual flair and will ensure that areas won’t give off the impression of being “looped”. Variation could have been done by hand, but it “would require a disproportionately large amount of resources,” Igarashi noted. Procedural generation allows for that variation without putting a huge burden on the developers.

The following video shows the usage of procedural generation:

For the full Kickstarter update, visit the source link below.

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Several new 3DS themes are out now in Japan. Here’s the lineup:

Kunio-kun (hockey) – 100 yen
Rilakkuma: Relaxed Cat – 200 yen
Rilu Rilu Fairilu * Hajimete no Fairilu Magic – 200 yen
Gurumin 3D: Night Parade – 200 yen
Buddy Go! – 200 yen

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Nintendo has readied a pair of new Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon!! commercials. Both can be found below.

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A few new titles are coming to the Japanese eShop on December 21. Here’s a look at the upcoming digital downloads:

Wii U Virtual Console

Battle Lode Runner – 617 yen

3DS Download

Tank Troopers – 800 yen
Legna Tactica – 1,080 yen

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