The Beggar’s Ride is among the lineup of games added to the European Wii U eShop today. To download the game, over 900MB of free space is required. We’ll let you know when The Beggar’s Ride launches in North America.
Nintendo has Wii U and 3DS maintenance lined up for next week that will impact online play, rankings, and other elements relating to the Internet. Both systems will be affected on Tuesday, followed by only the 3DS on Wednesday.
Here’s the full maintenance schedule:
Wii U / 3DS
– 5:50 PM PT (April 5) – 7:30 PM PT (April 5)
– 8:50 PM ET (April 5) – 10:30 PM ET (April 5)
– 1:50 AM in the UK (April 6) – 3:30 AM in the UK (April 6)
– 2:50 AM in Europe (April 6) – 4:30 AM in Europe (April 6)
3DS
– 5:50 PM PT (April 6) – 7:30 PM PT (April 6)
– 8:50 PM ET (April 6) – 10:30 PM ET (April 6)
– 1:50 AM in the UK (April 7) – 3:30 AM in the UK (April 7)
– 2:50 AM in Europe (April 7) – 4:30 AM in Europe (April 7)
Nintendo of Europe has now added functionality to its website that makes it possible to purchase eShop titles. You can visit the main hub here.
Buying a title is simple. Just sign in with your Nintendo Account and visit a game page. You’ll see how much it costs, along with how many My Nintendo points you can earn.
Thanks to Karuko for the tip.
This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Download
6-Hand Video Poker – $6.00
Chronicles of Teddy: Harmony of Exidus – $14.99
Lovely Planet (available April 5) – $9.99, save 15% if you downloaded the Nindies@Home demo until May 5
Now I know my ABCs – $2.49
PixlCross – $5.99
Wii U Demo
Pokkén Tournament
Wii Download for Wii U
Mario Super Sluggers – $19.99
3DS Download
Justice Chronicles – $9.99
3DS DLC
Fire Emblem Fates – New DLC Map – Vanguard Dawn – A trial ground that uses the Elincia’s Gambit stage from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, this new map is now available to download in the Fire Emblem Fates game for only $1.99.
Fire Emblem Fates – Map Pack 1 – As a reminder, anyone who owns either Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright or Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest can purchase Map Pack 1 at the Dragon’s Gate in the game for $17.99 to get access to 11 DLC maps plus bonus content as they are released weekly through April 21. Map Pack 1 content is priced at more than $24 when purchased individually.
eShop Sales
Wii U / 3DS
– 99Moves (Wii U), Soccer Up 3D (Nintendo 3DS) and more from EnjoyUp Games are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on April 21.
– Baila Latino (Wii U), Luv Me Buddies Wonderland (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) and more games from Oxygene are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on May 15.
Wii U
– Stone Shire is 50 percent off (reduced from $1.99 to $1) starting at 9 a.m. PT on April 1 until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 1.
– Canvaleon is 50 percent off (reduced from $9.95 to $4.95) until 8:59 a.m. PT on April 7.?
3DS
– The Legend of Dark Witch 2, Glory of Generals and more games from CIRCLE Entertainment are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on April 14.
Activities
Miiverse Star Fox Zero Intergalactic Art Event – Calling all Star Fox fans! We have less than one month until the Star Fox Zero game launches exclusively for Wii U on April 21. To celebrate, Miiverse is offering an opportunity to win $10 in Nintendo eShop credit. To participate in the sweepstakes, draw some fantastic Star Fox fan art and post it to the Miiverse Star Fox Zero Intergalactic Art Event community by April 22. Fox McCloud, Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, Slippy Toad – which classic character will inspire your artistic creation? You can enter once each week for your chance to win $10 in Nintendo eShop credit – 40 winners will be chosen in total.
Source: Nintendo PR
Miitomo is now available to download in both North America and Europe. You should be able to grab the app for both iOS and Android.
On iOS, you can access Miitomo through this link. The Android version is located here. Of course, Miitomo is free to download.
Miitomo is version 1.1.0 around the world. That means it should include the features that were added to the Japanese version yesterday.
Next week, Teyon will be bringing Mebius’ downloadable 3DS game Doll Fashion Atelier to the eShop in North America. It’ll be available on April 7 for $4.99.
Here’s an overview of the dress-up simulation game:
Follow your infinite imagination and sense of fashion to create one-of-a-kind stylish dolls!
Choose a doll from 5 different themes: Pretty, Gothic, Victorian, Princess or Antique, and dress it up in stunning clothing pieces! There are over 600 items available, including clothes, shoes, accessories, hairstyles, make-ups and more! Add a frame and a background, draw a doodle and take a photo with a camera on your Nintendo 3DS.
Players will also be able to show their doll collections by creating albums and saving them to your SD card or sharing them on Miiverse.
Source: Teyon PR
Yesterday, Nintendo held a special event for kids at the San Francisco Public Library to teach kids about the basics of video game design. Special workshops were hosted by Nintendo game experts in which they were introduced to level design using Super Mario Maker.
According to the company, “Kids were split into groups and given hands-on time with the game and shown the ins and outs of video game level design”. They were also “encouraged to work together to design their own courses in the game, producing some remarkably creative results.”
Super Mario Maker players can play through one of the created levels by entering the following code in the game’s Course World: E02B-0000-020F-B9DA. It can also be found by visiting the Super Mario Maker Bookmark site.
Source: Nintendo PR
My Nintendo has a variety of ways to earn Platinum Points – playing Miitomo especially can earn you some points pretty quickly. Still, there’s a way to get 10 Platinum Points on the website itself – scroll down to the bottom of the site and click on the block in the bottom right corner. Then just keep clicking on your Mii to earn 10 Platinum Points! It’s pretty much just a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things, but it’s a cute little easter egg nonetheless.
Credit goes to NeoGAF user Gaspard for finding this out.
Update: And here’s the full list for North America:
My Nintendo Picross: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – 1000 Platinum Points
Miitomo – Mario Suit – 250 Platinum Points
Miitomo – 1 game ticket – 85 Platinum Points
Miitomo – 5 game tickets – 420 Platinum Points
Miitomo – 10 game tickets – 250 Platinum Points (1 time only)
15% discount on Zelda: Wind Waker HD – 750 Platinum Points
15% discount on Yoshi’s Woolly World – 750 Platinum Points
15% discount on Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – 600 Platinum Points
15% discount on Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 450 Platinum Points
15% discount on Super Mario 3D Land – 450 Platinum Points
30% discount on Splatoon – 140 Gold Points
30% discount on Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – 100 Gold Points
30% discount on Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D – 100 Gold Points
30% discount on Ultimate NES Remix – 70 Gold Points
30% discount on Punch-Out!! – 50 Gold Points
Super Mario 64 (Wii U) – 90 Gold Points
New Super Mario Bros. U DLC: New Super Luigi U – 170 Gold Points
Pikmin 3 Mission Mode DLC: Battle Enemies! Stages 7-10 – 20 Gold Points
WarioWare: Touched! (3DS) – 1000 Platinum Points
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (3DS) – 35 Gold Points
Donkey Kong Country Returns – 230 Gold Points
Metroid Fusion (Wii U) – 60 Gold Points
Super Punch-Out!! (Wii U) – 70 Gold Points
My Nintendo Theme 1: Mario – 200 Platinum Points
My Nintendo Theme 2: Donkey Kong – 200 Platinum Points
My Nintendo just went live in Europe – here’s a list of the rewards (and their price) which are currently available:
- My Nintendo Picross: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – 1000 Platinum Points
- Miitomo – Mario Suit – 250 Platinum Points
- Miitomo – 1 game ticket – 85 Platinum Points
- Miitomo – 5 game tickets – 420 Platinum Points
- Miitomo – 10 game tickets – 250 Platinum Points (1 time only)
- 20% discount on Yoshi’s Woolly World – 600 Platinum Points
- 20% discount on Pullblox World – 150 Platinum Points
- 20% discount on Mario Kart 7 – 700 Platinum Points
- 20% discount on The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – 300 Platinum Points
- 40% discount on Splatoon – 100 Gold Points
- 40% discount on The Wonderful 101 – 120 Gold Points
- 50% discount on Metroid: Other M – 60 Gold Points
- 40% discount on Super Mario 3D Land – 110 Gold Points
- 40% discount on Tomodachi Life – 100 Gold Points
- 50% discount on Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move – 30 Gold Points
- Super Mario 64 (Wii U) – 90 Gold Points
- New Super Mario Bros. U Add-On Content: New Super Luigi U – 90 Gold Points
- Pikmin 3 Add-On Content: Battle Enemies! Stages 7-10 – 20 Gold Points
- WarioWare: Touched! (3DS) – 1000 Platinum Points
- Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (3DS) – 35 Gold Points
- Metroid Fusion (Wii U) – 60 Gold Points
- Super Punch-Out!! (Wii U) – 70 Gold Points
- My Nintendo Theme 1: Mario – 200 Platinum Points
- My Nintendo Theme 2: Donkey Kong – 200 Platinum Points
Update: My Nintendo is now live in North America and Australia too!
My Nintendo, Nintendo’s new rewards program, is now live across Europe! Access it here to start earning points and redeem them for rewards.
We will keep you updated once it goes live in other regions.
