The Nintendo UK store is now taking pre-orders for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD. Reserve the game here. Various options are available, including the standalone game, bundle with the amiibo/T-shirt, and more.

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Another round of Pokken Tournament screenshots have come in showing characters such as Chandelure. Check them out below.

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Following today’s release date announcement, the European boxart for Pokken Tournament has been made available. We’ve attached it above.

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Tatsumi Kimishima, the new president of Nintendo, outlined his plans for 2016 in the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper. Dr. Serkan Toto was kind enough to share an overview.

Here are the key points:

– Wants to surprise fans with new ideas rather than building on old ones
– Nintendo will in 2016 release “details” on the NX
– Kimishima claims the expansion to smartphones and theme parks, but also to movies and TV anime (via character licensing) is progressing
– Believes it’s vital for Nintendo to experiment with new business models
– First smartphone app reconfirmed for launch in March
– Smartphone apps with Nintendo’s famous characters promised for 2016
– He wants to bring the company’s financials to a new level
– The plan is to bring profits to 100 billion yen ($855 million) in “several years”
– This would be 4 times of last year’s profit

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Update 2: Added in the official announcement after the break.

Update: How’s this for a quick update? It’s confirmed for March 18 as well. It’ll be a worldwide release!

Pokken Tournament is launching in North America very soon. On Twitter, the official Pokemon account passed along a final date: March 18. The game was previously only said to be coming in spring.

Japan is actually getting Pokken Tournament on the same day. As for Europe, it’s coming sometime in spring.

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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:

01./01. [3DS] Monster Hunter X # (Capcom) {2015.11.28} (¥6.264) – 65.227 / 2.587.086 (-50%)
02./02. [3DS] Monster Strike (Mixi) {2015.12.17} (¥4.860) – 38.795 / 738.231 (-58%)
03./03. [WIU] Splatoon # (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} (¥6.156) – 28.945 / 1.182.934 (-52%)
04./04. [WIU] Super Mario Maker # (Nintendo) {2015.09.10} (¥6.156) – 25.854 / 752.739 (-51%)
05./06. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.19} (¥2.592) – 23.161 / 607.878 (-52%)
06./05. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch Busters: Red Cat Team / White Dog Squad (Level 5) {2015.07.11} (¥4.968) – 22.681 / 2.147.108 (-54%)
07./11. [PSV] Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs-Force (Bandai Namco Games) {2015.12.23} (¥7.344) – 13.643 / 121.406 (-33%)
08./08. [3DS] Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer # (Nintendo) {2015.07.30} (¥4.320) – 11.147 / 1.312.374 (-55%)
09./09. [PS4] Fallout 4 # (Bethesda Softworks) {2015.12.17} (¥8.618) – 10.457 / 188.877 (-53%)
10./10. [3DS] Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (Nintendo) {2015.12.03} (¥5.076) – 9.497 / 207.812 (-57%)
11./07. [3DS] Rhythm Heaven: The Best+ (Nintendo) {2015.06.11} (¥5.076) – 8.742 / 629.524 (-67%)
12./14. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops III # (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.11.06} (¥8.532) – 7.819 / 274.277 (-30%)
13./13. [PS4] Star Wars: Battlefront # (Electronic Arts) {2015.11.19} (¥8.424) – 6.036 / 198.511 (-54%)
14./24. [PS4] Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft) {2015.12.10} (¥9.072) – 5.912 / 51.676
15./23. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V [1/1][New Price Edition] (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2015.10.08} (¥5.389) – 5.654 / 54.300
16./12. [3DS] Disney Magic World 2 # (Bandai Namco Games) {2015.11.05} (¥6.145) – 5.361 / 257.705 (-67%)
17./18. [PS4] Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.12.03} (¥2.592) – 5.350 / 38.251 (-39%)
18./19. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.800) – 5.186 / 4.115.727 (-39%)
19./17. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 # (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥4.800) – 5.002 / 2.426.042 (-49%)
20./15. [3DS] Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai Yaarahen de!! Zettai ni Tsukamatte Haikenai Gasu Kurobikari Land (Alchemist) {2015.12.17} (¥5.184) – 4.860 / 27.280 (-51%)

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Level-5 has issued the first screenshots and art from Yo-kai Sangokushi. We’ve rounded up today’s images in the gallery below.

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Amazon Germany is now taking pre-orders for the recently announced Pokemon 2DS bundles, which contain pre-installed copies of Pokemon Yellow, Red, and Blue. Get yours in here. Each one is going for €100.

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A third official gameplay video for Hyrule Warriors Legends has just been published by Koei Tecmo. Yosuke Hayashi, along wigth voice actress Ruriko Aoki, take another look at the title. We’ve gone ahead and posted it below.

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Yo-kai Sangokushi is launching in Japan sooner than some may have expected. A new promo has gone live on the magazine’s YouTube page, revealing an April 2 release date. You can see that below, although it admittedly doesn’t hold anything too interesting.

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