Bandai Namco issued a new batch of screenshots from Pro Yakyuu Famista Returns today. Check out the images below.

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This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Download

Asteroid Quarry – $1.00
Dare Up Adrenaline – $9.00
DON’T CRASH – $1.49
KEYTARI: 8-bit Music Maker – $7.99
Land it Rocket – $2.99
Neon Battle – $1.49
Santa Factory – $7.49

Wii U Virtual Console

Mario Tennis – $9.99

3DS Themes

Etrian Odyssey Untold 2: Story Theme

eShop Sales

Wii U

– The Epic Indie Sale – Own or buy one of the participating Nindie games and take 60 percent off ALL other participating games. The offer lasts until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 23. Visit http://www.nintendo.com/eshop/offers for more details.
– Frenchy Bird is 50 percent off (reduced from $1.99 to $0.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 16.
– TNT Racers – Nitro Machines Edition is 37 percent off (reduced from $7.99 to $4.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 23.

3DS

– Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is 40 percent off (reduced from $49.99 to $29.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 20.
– Snow Moto Racing 3D is 50 percent off (reduced from $7.99 to $3.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 23.
– AeternoBlade is 46 percent off (reduced from $14.99 to $7.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Aug. 5.

Permanent Price Drop

Pyramids 2 on Nintendo 3DS is reduced to $3.00 (from $4.99) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on July 10.

Activities

Camp Miiverse – Camp Miiverse returns this year! Running now through July 20, Camp Miiverse is a Miiverse-themed summer camp that splits Miiverse into two teams: Team Yoshi vs. Team Toad. Your Camp Miiverse guides, Tom and Amy, will invite you to participate in fun activities for games such as Splatoon, Mario Kart 8 and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Once complete, users can post a screen shot of the finished activity to that game’s community with either a #TeamYoshi or #TeamToad hashtag. Which team will come out on top? Check out the Camp Miiverse community on Miiverse here for continuing updates.

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. “Supernatural” Tournament – See how your squad stacks up online in Nintendo’s Public Tournaments. Top players earn unique titles that are visible online and earn major bragging rights with your friends and around the world! The new “Supernatural” tournament runs July 7 through July 12. Opt in via the SpotPass feature for notifications about future tournaments. Good luck, agents!

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Blocky Bot hit the North American Wii U eShop in May. In Europe, the title is expected to arrive on July 23. Pricing is set at €2.69.

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Nintendo producer Hitoshi Yamagami, who is working on Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem, further explained how the project came to be in this week’s issue of Famitsu.

According to Yamagami, things began back in 2009. As he explained:

“Our initial contact with Atlus was back in 2009 when we developed the game Itsumo Purikura ? Kuradeko Puremium. Afterwards, Ando said ‘I want to make a game that mixes Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei,’ so I went to Atlus with the proposal.”

Atlus responded by saying “Let us think about it”, which essentially meant no. Nintendo was later told, “We’re too busy and can’t do it right now.”

Although Yamagami was disappointed that Atlus turned down his proposal, he did feel like a partnership could be made a reality one day.

“I was really bummed about it, but it wasn’t as though they had straight out said no, so I told Ando, ‘I’m sure we’ll cross paths with them again some time.’”

Yamagami ended up receiving an email over a year later from Atlus’ Naoto Hiraoka, who asked if talks were still open. It didn’t take long for Nintendo and Atlus to be in communication once again.

Atlus producer Shinjiro Takada told Famitsu that, during the original proposal, the team was busy with Devil Survivor 2. Takada always thought of Fire Emblem as a rival title that he looked at as a goal. Takada mentioned: “That Nintendo wanted to collaborate with us with such a big title was a huge honor and I really wanted to do it.”

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Capcom sent out a new round of Monster Hunter Diary Poka Poka Airou Village DX screenshots today, which can be found in the gallery below. We also have a look at three 3DS themes. The first sold are bonuses from Amazon and Capcom’s online store while the final one is being distributed by various retailers.

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Capcom have released another Great Ace Attorney video today. Check it out below:

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Yo-Kai Watch 3 is launching in Japan during summer 2016, Level-5 has announced. That means the game is about a year away from releasing.

While Yo-Kai Watch 3 isn’t coming out until the far future, there are other games in the series to tide fans over. Yo-Kai Watch Busters is out in Japan very soon, and Yo-Kai Sangokushi is also in development.

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Thursday’s Daily stage on Pokémon Shuffle is here and gives you the chance to catch a Luvdisc! Luvdisc is unavailable outside of this event, so try your best to catch it every Thursday for the next two weeks! This event can only be played once per day, so make each shot count!

As usual with these events, be sure to update your game by tapping Check In so you’re able to access it.

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Comic Con officially kicks off this week with the illustrious SDCC. The show floor has been set up, with today being the preview event and the convention officially starting tomorrow morning, going until Sunday afternoon. Nintendo will once again be making an appearance this year, and it seems in their area they’ve set up a case containing some upcoming amiibo, one of them being the newly added Mewtwo to the Super Smash Bros. line of amiibo!

This is more than likely a prototype, but I don’t see it straying too far from this design and look when it officially releases, one would imagine sometime before the end of the year, if not January 2016, as the last wave of the Super Smash Bros. line won’t launch until Holiday season in North America.

So what do you think? Will you be picking Mewtwo up when he finally releases? Obviously most amiibo have been selling out, but with the popularity Mewtwo has garnered since Pokémon began nearly twenty years ago, it’s no doubt Mewtwo will be flying off shelves for a good while. Let us know your thoughts below!

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This week’s Wii U eShop charts are as follows:

Software

1. Zelda: Ocarina of Time
2. Splatoon
3. EarthBound Beginnings
4. Cube Life: Island Survival
5. Super Mario World
6. Super Mario 64
7. Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
8. EarthBound
9. Paper Mario
10. Super Mario Bros. 3
11. Art Academy: Home Studio
12. Super Metroid
13. Donkey Kong 64
14. Super Mario Bros.
15. Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3
16. Golden Sun
17. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
18. NES Remix
19. Never Alone
20. LEGO Jurassic World

Videos

1. Super Mario Maker E3 2015 Trailer
2. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS Here Comes a New Challenger
3. Splatoon Direct 5/7/15
4. Yoshi’s Woolly World E3 2015 Trailer
5. Skylanders SuperChargers E3 Trailer
6. Art Academy: Home Studio Launch Trailer
7. Cube Life: Island Survival Trailer
8. Splatoon amiibo Trailer
9. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS New Content 6/14/15
10. Star Fox Zero E3 2015 Trailer
11. Play Nintendo Introduction Video
12. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS Roy Seals the Deal
13. Never Alone Trailer
14. LEGO Jurassic World Launch Trailer
15. Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games E3 2015 Video
16. EarthBound Beginnings Trailer
17. Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash E3 2015 Trialer
18. Nintendo Minute – AMAZE-INK May Splatoon Turf war
19. LEGO Jurassic World Trailer
20. LEGO Jurassic World Announcement Trailer

Source: Wii U eShop

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