Last month’s interview of Nintendo Dream contains an extensive Super Mario Maker developer interview. Producer Takashi Tezuka, director Yosuke Oshino, and senior director Yoshikazu Yamashita participated in the discussion.

Several interesting topics came up during the interview, and we’re excited to share a few excerpts with you all. The three team members spoke about how the idea for costumes came together, the different cursors (including some abandoned, an yet strange ideas), and a message for fans regarding the series’ future.

Head past the break for our complete translation.

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We have even more footage from Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 2 – Assembly Required – it’s a bit longer than the video we posted yesterday. You can watch it below.

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Update: Added in another video below.

Nearly ten more minutes of footage from Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash has appeared online. Check out the latest video below.

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Splatoon’s latest Splatfest was held in North America and Japan this weekend. Both competitions are now over, and the results are in.

In North America, the battle was pirates against ninjas. The former team ended up victorious thanks to a larger percentage of wins. Ultimately, despite a much higher popularity edge for ninjas, pirates prevailed with a total of 382 points.

Love and money was the topic for Japan. Popularity and wins were close for both sides, but love prevailed with 353 points.

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This past Thursday, Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town launched on the North American Wii U Virtual Console. We’ve posted a video with a bunch of gameplay below.

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On Twitter, collector and games archivist Steve Lin has been sharing some interesting paperwork from the NES days. We have a look at the original news release above, and several other items below.

One document is for research Nintendo conducted in January/February of 1986. In it, it’s shown that R.O.B. was one of the leading reasons why kids were so interested in the console.

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GamesBeat recently spoke with Aaron Greenberg, who leads the marketing team for Xbox’s first and third-party games. At one point during the conversation, the site mentioned how Nintendo is bringing out a new system in the middle of a console cycle, and asked if that move will disrupt things in a way.

Greenberg responded by saying that Nintendo has “always been innovative”. He also said that they “always danced to their own tune”.

Greenberg’s full words:

“I’m not sure what Nintendo’s doing. I hear the same rumors and stuff that you do. I guess we’ll react to that when we know more. Nintendo’s always been innovative. They’ve always differentiated in their own way. They’ve always danced to their own tune, if you will. It wouldn’t surprise me if they do their own thing when the time is right. What they’ve done is unique and different. How they’ll compete with us remains to be seen.”

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Enlightened Games released a new trailer for The Song of Seven: Chapter 1, which is due out on Wii U in early 2016. View it below.

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Famitsu readers were recently tasked with ranking their favorite Japan’s top 3 biggest RPGs by franchise. It might not be surprising, but Dragon Quest came out on top with 366 votes. Final Fantasy was next with 361 votes, followed by Pokemon with 135 votes.

Here’s the full top 10:

1) Dragon Quest series – 366 votes
2) Final Fantasy series – 361 votes
3) Pokemon series – 135 votes
4) Tales of series – 84 votes
5) Shin Megami Tensei series – 44 votes
6) Persona series – 41 votes
7) SaGa series – 29 votes
8) Kingdom Hearts series – 23 votes
9) Suikoden series – 22 votes
10) Mother series – 19 votes

What’s your favorite Japanese RPG series?

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The latest Spatfest in Splatoon is taking place this weekend in North America and Japan. In Europe, they’ll be seeing the next event take place next week.

Nintendo just announced that the latest European Splatfest will feature zombies and ghosts, with players taking either side. The actual competition will begin on November 7 at 6 PM in the UK / 7 PM in Europe.

Here’s the news from Twitter:

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