Pokemon Shuffle has seen a fairly small update today compared to previous Mondays, but there’s still some new stuff worth checking out.
First of all, the Mega Gardevoir competition ended last night. You can claim your prizes now by checking in.
The Pokemon Safari stages featuring Electrike, Manectric, Stantler, Darumakka and Darmanitan are making a return to the 3DS version and are appearing for the first time on the mobile version. These stages will be available till November 24th.
Finally, Tornadus makes its Pokemon Shuffle debut. You can only play this stage once per day, so make it count! It will be available until November 16th.
This week’s Wii U/3DS-specific software sales are as follows:
Wii U
1. Super Mario Maker – Nintendo
2. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo
3. Splatoon – Nintendo
4. LEGO Dimensions – Warner Bros. Interactive
5. LEGO Jurassic World – Warner Bros. Interactive
6. Yoshi’s Woolly World – Nintendo
7. Skylanders Superchargers – Activision Blizzard
8. Mario Party 10 – Nintendo
9. Super Smash Bros. – Nintendo
10. Just Dance 2016 – Ubisoft
3DS
1. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
2. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer – Nintendo
3. The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes – Nintendo
4. LEGO Jurassic World – Warner Bros. Interactive
5. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
6. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
7. Chibi-Robo! Zip-Lash – Nintendo
8. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
9. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire – Nintendo
10. Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask – Nintendo
Source: Chart-Track
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Retail
Rodea the Sky Soldier – €49.99 / £39.99 / CHF 64.90
Wii U Download
Word Party – €12.79 / £11.99 / CHF 17.00 until 26/11/2015, regular price €15.99 / £14.99 / CHF 22.00
Wii U Demo
Word Party
3DS Retail
Rodea the Sky Soldier – €39.99 / £34.99 / CHF 51.90
Horse Life 4 – €39.99 / £34.99 / CHF 51.90
Helly Kitty & Friends: Rockin’ World Tour – €29.99 / £24.99 / CHF 38.90
3DS Download
Family Bowling 3D – €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF 7.00
3DS DLC
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2: Addonetarium – €0.99 / £0.89 / CHF 1.40
3DS Themes
Barbie – €1.49 / £1.39 / CHF 2.10
Monster High – €1.49 / £1.39 / CHF 2.10
Hot Wheels – €1.49 / £1.39 / CHF 2.10
SEGA Game Gear Theme – €1.79 / £1.59 / CHF 2.50
SEGA Mark III Theme – €1.79 / £1.59 / CHF 2.50
SEGA Master System Theme – €1.79 / £1.59 / CHF 2.50
SEGA Mega Drive Theme – €1.79 / £1.59 / CHF 2.50
eShop Sales
Wii U
Affordable Space Adventures – €15.00 / £13.50 / CHF 20.00 until 26/11/2015, regular price €18.99 / £16.99 / CHF 26.00
Rock ‘N Racing Off Road DX – €4.95/ £4.45 / CHF 6.94 until 10/12/2015, regular price €7.99 / £7.19 / CHF 11.20
Roving Rogue – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF 8.40 until 26/11/2015, regular price €7.99 / £7.19 / CHF 11.2
Permanent Price Drops
Wii U
Canvaleon – €9.95 / £ 8.99 / CHF 14.00 (Previously €13.95 / £12.59 / CHF 19.60)
Source: Nintendo PR
Capcom just revealed via their YouTube channel brand new Monster Hunter X trailers and collaborations, preparing for the release of the game in Japan on November 28th.
The first of many trailers uploaded by Capcom shows the opening cinematic for Monster Hunter X, and it’s gorgeous:
Next up is the main trailer showing off Monster Hunter X’s gameplay:
Yet another Legend of Zelda collaboration will be making its way over to Monster Hunter X with the Felyne’s getting a Wind Waker makeover. It’s a little creepy, but also hilarious seeing Link channel his inner feline:
In addition to the Legend of Zelda collaboration, Macross Delta will also be making its way to Monster Hunter X and give the Felynes an awesome mech-like makeover:
Let’s Talk #29: What are you playing? – November 2015
It’s the beginning of a new month (close enough anyway, right?). November is upon us, and there are only a few months left in 2015. Tell us what you’ve been playing or what you intend to play soon!
As for me, I just wrapped up Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. Great, great game. I’ve talked about how atrocious my backlog before, and the fact that I only beat this game a couple of days ago further shows that! Within the past few weeks I’ve also been playing a bit of Lumines: Electronic Symphony, and some of Dillon Rolling Western which I wasn’t enjoying too much.
Highlights from last week’s topic: Has your opinion on Nintendo’s November Wii U releases changed?
TruExtent
I think the line up has potential but they are focusing my the wrong things. I don’t care for AC Amiibo Festival and I have a feeling the new Mario Tennis will only generate so much interest.
Everyone is forgetting Xenoblade X.
If Nintendo wants to generate more interest this holiday, they need to market the hell out of Xenoblade to the level that Microsoft is pushing Halo and Ubisoft pushing Assassin’s Creed. From the very few times I look at a TV if I see a video game advert, it’s one of those two games; I never see Nintendo’s stuff. If Xenoblade can’t cut it, maybe Devil’s Third can (with the right marketing). I feel an action game will have far more potential than a party game and an arcade sports game.
Meanwhile, the 3DS should be just fine.
Steve793
Nope not really. Wasn’t interested in them before, still am not.
For me, the Mario sports series are just meh. I personally wish they didn’t exist and Nintendo had made sports games using new IPs with new characters and such, instead of just putting the Mario IP on it. Think of it this way, that would mean more characters from different series for Smash… But, they could have had a Mario Team, a Zelda Team, etc for in-game opponents or have Mario, Link and Fox as surprise characters. That’ll never happen, so whatever. But seriously, for sports games, I’d rather go outside and play the actually sport than do it in a video game, especially tennis. Then again, I’ve only played Super Sluggers, and while that was alright, I wasn’t hooked, but I could still be persuaded on Mario Sports games, but I’d still rather see new sports games with new characters.
And since I’ve never played an Animal Crossing game, and don’t particularly care for Party games like Mario Party and such, I’ll be skipping this, and playing my backlog until Xeno X.
JuleyJules
Not at all. Wasn’t interested in whatever is coming in November before especially a tennis game with no motion controls. Do we really need another Wii Party U/Mario Party 10 style game on Wii U with other characters? The whole rolling the dice by using amiibo was a pain in MP10 and quickly turned everyone I know off of it. Still not interested now. They need to step it up to keep people interested until the NX comes out imo.
ecoutercavalier
I can’t really justify either purchase yet. Amiibo Festival seems like a lazy excuse to make AC amiibo. I’m not sure what I would want out of an Animal Crossing themed board game, but what they came up with just isn’t doing it for me. Even with the new modes that have been announced I doubt I could convince a group of friends to play it more than once.
Mario Tennis looks sort of bland, but I’ll forgive it if we find out that there are loads of good mini-games or a compelling tournament mode. I like the amiibo support. If I’m not mistaken this is the first game that allows you to use amiibos in online play. It’s not necessarily enough to play perfectly if you haven’t bothered training your amiibo, but if you have then it might be able to cover some of your mistakes. It’s very cool in concept, but I’ll wait to see how balanced it is before passing any judgement.
Hello everyone. There are quite a few site-related updates that I need to get to, so let’s get things started right away.
First, since this is the first full weekend of a new month, I wanted to share an update regarding our Patreon. Super Mario Maker was our giveaway for $5+ supporters, and I’m happy to announce that paidenthusiast is our lucky winner!
We’ll be giving away a light blue Yarn Yoshi amiibo for November’s Patreon giveaway. As long as you’re pledging $5 or more by the time donations are collected (very end of the month/very early part of December), you’ll be automatically eligible. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to our Patreon – every little bit helps keep the site going.
It’s also time to announce the winners of our Octodad: Dadliest Catch giveaway! After making the random selections, here are the results:
North America
Linktoreality
dannyxzero
Lolo
Europe
nintendo2kop
Derek Brown (Patreon)
link2metroid
I do want to quickly mention that we’re very close on the next big update for the new version of the site. This will mark the return of our games database, and we’ll be adding in some new features as well. We’ve also been making a number of adjustments to the site since our launch about two weeks ago so hopefully some of you have noticed the initial improvements!
Lastly, some of you may have seen this via Twitter already, but we have a spot open for a news editor. We’re looking to move fairly quickly on this, because, well… I’m exhausted, and I can’t keep the lack of sleep going on much longer. If I find someone who I believe is qualified right away, we’ll be bringing that person on to handle the site ASAP.
We’re looking for someone to cover Wednesdays and part of Mondays. Here are the relevant times:
Monday
– 1 AM PT – 2:30 AM PT
– 4 AM ET – 5:30 AM ET
– 9 AM CET (UK) – 10:30 AM CET (UK)
– 10 AM GMT (EU) – 11:30 AM GMT (EU)
Wednesday
– 1 AM PT – 4:30 AM PT
– 4 AM ET – 7:30 AM ET
– 9 AM GMT – 12:30 PM GMT
– 10 AM GMT – 1:30 PM GMT
If you have free time on both of these days and are interested in the role, please get in touch here. Note that this is a non-paid position.
That’s all for now!
Mixi has issued its latest weekly updated for Monster Strike 3DS. Get a look at the latest screenshots and art from the game below.
It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart! Monster Hunter X remains at the top, and Dragon Quest XI has now climbed up to the second spot.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between October 22 and October 28.
