Capcom has published a new web-centric commercial for Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airou Village DX. We’ve attached it below.

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A preview of FAST Racing Neo from Nintendo World Report provides additional details about Shin’en’s upcoming racer. Read on below for a summary of the latest information.

– Sunhara Plains is among the game’s courses
– This level has flame torches everywhere and being hit by one of these is brutal
– Daitoshi Station is another track, set in space
– There is an open area where you have to fly between various asteroids and there is a very little room for error
– At another point in that same course, asteroids are also trying to crush you and that stuns players
– Storm Coast and Kamagori City are other new tracks
– Storm Coast makes hefty use of the switching mechanics and took place in the pouring rain
– Kamagori City is very short
– Every lap here is over in roughly 35 seconds
– Kamagori City has an old Nanostray boss in the background
– Other references can be found in the final version
– The stages shown so far aren’t how the final cups will be
– The design is nearly done, but there will be a lot of internal testing before submitting the game for release
– The full game will also feature a variety of modes including the Championships, Multi Player, Online Play and a harsher Hero Mode
– No smaller challenge levels like the previous game, but there will be other options will keep players engaged

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MCV reports that 345,000 people attended Gamescom 2015 last week. Compared to the expo’s show in 2014, there was an increase of 10,000 people. 96 different countries were represented at Gamescom, and 33,200 of the attendees were trade visitors (up five percent year-on-year).

Also at Gamescom 2015 were 806 companies from 45 countries. This was an increase of 14 percent.

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German website Nintendo-Online has conducted some research about the development of the SNES. Through their investigation, they were able to find a discover interesting facts. You can find a summary of what Nintendo-Online passed along below.

– The SNES was developed by Nintendo’s Research & Development 2 department under Masayuki Uemura, which had already been responsible for the NES.
– The buttons on the controller were originally named A, B, C and D, while the shoulder buttons were supposed to be called E and F.
– In 1988, the SNES was supposed to have 8 KB RAM. This was increased to 32 KB in mid-1989. The final console comes with 128 KB RAM.
– The main advantages the SNES had over its rivals TurboGrafx-16 and Sega Genesis were the high amount of colors displayable and Mode 7. The console’s bottleneck was its 5A22 processor, which, as already the NES’s processor, was based on the 6502 chip.
– The reason for using a modified NES processor was most likely the goal to make the SNES backward compatible. But as this feature would have increased the console’s price, Nintendo had to drop those plans.
– Instead, backward compatibility should have been made possible by the Famicom Adapter, which was basically a stripped down Famicom that you were supposed to plug into the new console to play the old 8 bit games. Although the Famicom Adapter had been publicly shown, it was never released, rendering the SNES absolutely incompatible to NES games.
– The SNES was first announced on September 9, 1987 by local newspaper Kyoto Shimbun. Announced were the consoles name, the 16 bit architecture and the planned backward compatibility. The console was supposed to retail for less than 20.000 Yen, but was finally released for 25.000 Yen.
– On November 21, 1988 Nintendo first presented the Super Famicom to the Japanese press. Instead of fully featured games, Nintendo showed mere tech demos, but also announced that Super Mario Bros. 4 and The Legend of Zelda 3 were in the making for the new console. Both games were sheduled as launch games at that time.
– The Super Famicom was supposed to launch in Juli 1989, but although the console was next to finished at this time, it was delayed to November 21, 1990.

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Check out some off-screen footage of the English version of Final Fantasy Explorers with direct feed audio:

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NintenDaan has uploaded an extensive look at FAST Racing Neo, showing off a good deal of gameplay. Check it out below:

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In addition to showing off a mysterious new Pokemon, the latest issue of CoroCoro also has some new info regarding Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon. In this game, you can break through dungeon walls with Mega Evolution, allowing you to create new paths.

Another new feature are items called Lapis. They are items that give you temporary boosts while you’re in a dungeon, but disappear when you leave the dungeon.

Higher quality scans will likely pop up sometime this week. We will keep you posted.

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This week’s Wii U/3DS specific charts are as follows:

Wii U

1. Splatoon – Nintendo

2. Yoshi’s Woolly World – Nintendo

3. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo

4. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – Nintendo

5. Lego Jurassic World – Warner Bros. Interactive

6. Mario Party 10 – Nintendo

7. Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo

8. Legend of Kay: Anniversary – Nordic Games

9. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker- Nintendo

10. Skylanders Trap Team – Activision Blizzard

3DS

1. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo

2. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire – Nintendo

3. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo

4. Pokemon Omega Ruby – Nintendo

5. Animal Crossing: New Leaf- Nintendo

6. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS – Nintendo

7. New Super Mario bros. 2 – Nintendo

8. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – Capcom

9. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D – Nintendo

10. Lego Jurassic World – Warner Bros. Interactive

Source: Chart-Track

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This week’s UK software sales are as follows:

Individual Formats

All Formats

Source: Chart-Track

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This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Virtual Console

Mega Man & Bass (GBA) – €6.99 / £6.29

3DS Demos

I Love My Dogs

eShop Sales

Wii U

Darksiders II – €12.49 / £9.99 until 27th August, regular price €49.99 / £39.99

Bombing Bastards – €4.99 / £4.49 until 20th August, regular price €6.99 / £5.99

Spot the Differences: Party! – €2.99 / £2.69 until 20th August, regular price €5.00 / £4.49

Citizens of Earth – Atlus, €3.99 / £3.35 until 20th August, regular price €11.99 / £9.99

3DS

Shin Megami Tensei IV – €9.99 / £8.99 until 20th August, regular price €19.99 / £17.99

Citizens of Earth – €3.99 / £3.35 until 20th August, regular price €11.99 / £9.99

Nano Assault EX – €7.49 / £6.35 until 3rd September, regular price €9.99 / £8.49)

Secrets of the Titanic 1912-2012 – €1.99 / £1.99 until until 3rd September, regular price €10.99 / £9.99

Hotel Transylvania – €4.99 / £4.99 until 3rd September, regular price €19.99 / £17.99

Doodle Jump Adventures – €4.99 / £4.99 until 3rd September, regular price €24.99 / £19.99

Excave II: Wizard of the Underworld – €5.00 / £4.50 until 20th August, regular price €10.00 / £8.99

Talking Phrasebook – 7 Languages – €2.99 / £2.69 until 20th August, regular price €4.99 / £4.49

Source: Nintendo PR

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