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The latest European episode of The Cat Mario Show has gone live on Nintendo’s YouTube channel. You can watch it below.

We also have the second episode of “Pokemon Playtime”:

Another one of Circle Entertainment’s eShop titles is now dated for Europe. We’re used to seeing many of the publisher’s games on 3DS, but Mr. Pumpkin Adventure will be on Wii U instead. Those in Europe can purchase and download it starting on October 27.

As tweeted by Circle earlier today:

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Nintendo published another new Disney Magical World 2 trailer today highlighting the game’s customization features. Watch it below.

RDS Industries is releasing the NES Classic Edition Deluxe Edition Carrying Case. It’s available for pre-order now but it’ll be released on November 22 of this year; more or less two weeks after the official launch of the NES Classic Edition. According to the Amazon page, the features include:

• Soft foam insert holds NES Classic System, 2 Controllers, and AC adaptor
• Mesh pocket for HDMI and USB cables and accessories
• Hard shell case for maximum protection
• Comfortable carrying handle

Here are a few different shots of the case:

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IGN posted a video of the first 15 minutes of Skylanders Imaginators. Check out the gameplay below!

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Download

Bit Dungeon+ – $6.00
Mahjong – $9.99

Wii U Virtual Console

Animal Crossing: Wild World – $9.99
Kirby Canvas Curse – $9.99

3DS Retail

Disney Magical World 2 – $39.99 (available Friday)

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Update (10/13): This maintenance has now been cancelled for North America and Europe. Instead, Japan will only be involved with downtime involving the cards.

Original (10/11): Nintendo is planning eShop maintenance next Monday for one specific aspect. For roughly five hours, users will be unable to redeem eShop cards. This applies to both Wii U and 3DS.

The maintenance schedule is as follows:

– 7 AM PT (October 17) – 12 PM PT (October 17)
– 10 AM ET (October 17) – 3 PM ET (October 17)
– 3 PM in the UK (October 17) – 8 PM in the UK (October 17)
– 4 PM in Europe (October 17) – 9 PM in Europe (October 17)

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A few days ago, we heard that a new character would be revealed for the arcade version of Pokken Tournament. That mystery addition was just confirmed to be Scizor during a live stream broadcast in Japan.

Here’s a trailer:

And plenty of gameplay:

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Gurumin 3D: A Monstrous Adventure is out today, and Mastiff is celebrating with a new extended launch trailer. Watch it below.

The Dragon Quest VII remake for 3DS has finally made it to Western shores, and while Nintendo published it, the localization was done by Shloc Ltd., a small localization team based in the UK. Nintendo UK interviewed Shloc’s Oli Chance about the localization process of Dragon Quest VII. Make sure to read the full interview on Nintendo UK’s website; here are some interesting tidbits from it:

Nintendo: How much work is involved in bringing a game like DRAGON QUEST VII to the west?

OC: As you might expect, the amount of work involved was pretty huge, but in order to keep quality as high as possible, we had to keep the teams as small as possible. There were four, and at times five, of us working on the Japanese to English localisation, and then once French, Italian, German and Spanish got involved a while later, it became a massive task both in terms of workload and logistics.

All in all, from start to finish, including familiarisation (playing the game to get to know it – no small task in this case), glossary creation (naming all the characters, places, monsters, items etc. etc.), translation/editing and QA, we were working pretty much flat out for just over a year.

One of the hardest things was to put enough time in the schedule for the editor of each language to see all the text, which in our experience is the only way to ensure consistency and quality throughout. You can throw a lot of translators at a job, but if there’s no one making sure they’re all working to spec and that quality is as high as it can be across the board, then things can easily go awry.

Nothing quite compares to DQVII. It’s one thing to contemplate taking on a job this size, and quite another to be four months in, knowing there are months left to go, and that if your pace falters, you could send the entire project off-schedule in five languages.

Without doubt the biggest challenge was keeping up such a heavy workload over such a long time, and making sure that quality didn’t suffer as a result. This is where having a team who know each other so well is essential – if we hadn’t been there to back each other up and give each other’s morale a kick when needed, I don’t think we could have done it.

Nintendo: What would you say is the essence of the DRAGON QUEST brand from a writing perspective and how did you aim to preserve this in your localisation?

OC: From the point of view of writing, I think it’s characters that carry the series, and as such, the main aim is always to make the characters memorable, likable and unique. Given that the series has featured so many games with so many great characters, this becomes more and more of a challenge over time, but it’s a challenge we relish, and one which can often prove highly rewarding.

As long as we can keep the characters knowable and individual and lovable, the world hopefully stays bright and alive. In DQVII specifically, this meant going right down to the level of individual NPCs and making sure that any game-spanning characterisation or story they had was fun, engaging and above all consistent. This was a massive endeavour, but it was what was done in the original Japanese, so it’s absolutely something we have to make sure happens in the English in order to create a faithful localisation.

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