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Nintendo has announced a follow-up to the DS game Picross 3D. The new game, aptly titled Picross 3D 2, is heading to Japan on October 1. Pricing is set at 3,000 yen.

Picross 3D 2 is packed with over 300 puzzles. Nintendo is also incorporating amiibo support.

A brief clip from the game can be seen below.

There’s also a pretty good amount of footage from the latest Nyannyan Neko Mario Time:

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Trailers have gone live on Nintendo’s Japanese YouTube page to promote the release of Trauma Team and Muramasa: The Demon Blade on the Wii U eShop. View them below.

Nintendo released official videos for Kirby 64, Magical Vacation, Super Gussun Oyoyo, and Magical Tree on the Japanese Wii U Virtual Console. Watch them below.

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8-Worlds News has posted a video showing 10 minutes of footage from Factotum. Take a look at it below.

A few hours ago, Nintendo announced Nindies@Night. The special event, which is taking place the Thursday night before PAX Prime begins, will showcase several independent games for Wii U and 3DS.

Nintendo’s Damon Baker has now made the event all the more interesting, as it sounds like a few game announcements are in store. Baker posted the following on Twitter just a short while ago:

Keep your eyes peeled for news coming out of Nindies@Night on August 27. More details about the event can be found in our original post here.

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Waluigi will be playable in Super Mario Maker, albeit in costume form. He’s one of the outfits players can unlock for use in the original Super Mario Bros. levels. It’s a pretty neat inclusion!

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Thanks to YouTube user “MidwestProfessor”, we have footage showing the Pokemon costumes in Super Mario Maker. View the video below for a look at Charizard, Jigglypuff, Lucario, Pikachu, and Greninja.

The amiibo board over on Reddit has received word that GameStop will not be taking pre-orders for a number of figures launching on September 11 in the United States. Supposedly, there are no plans to take reservations for Ganondorf, Zero Suit Samus, Olimar, and 8-Bit Classic Mario. This information comes from a memo distributed “to certain tiers of GameStop management.”

While there won’t be any pre-orders, we’re hearing that a limited amount of each figures will be offered through GameStop’s website. Also, allocation sent to each store will depend on previous amiibo sales.

Here’s what the stock numbers look like for one store (will vary by each location):

Ganondorf ~10
Zero Suit Samus 116904 ~13
Olimar ~12
8-Bit Classic Mario ~10

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Atlus has put out a new trailer to highlight the characters Meurs and Bianca. Overviews of each are below, along with the new video.

Bianca
A young girl with long, ice-blonde hair, Bianca awakens on Avalon with no memory of how she got there. Or anything else for that matter. She is a mild and gentle girl who despite her unfortunate circumstances and loss of memory remains optimistic. Bianca senses that the answers to her memory loss lie deep within the island, and she is determined to recover her identity.

Bianca’s base stats imply that she is well suited for a support class. She has affinities for wind and fire elements, and prefers to use short swords, axes, spears, and bows in combat.

Meurs
One of the few remaining elementalists alive. The elements have been gathering to Avalon for unknown reasons, and Meurs is determined to find out why they’ve been so attracted to the island. He communicates with the elements and travels the earth with the spirits as his guide.

Meurs also makes for a strong support ally in battle and prefers short swords with a shield. He has a strong affinity for the wind element.

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Freedom Planet has been unfortunately delayed once again. GalaxyTrail had most recently hoped to have the game ready to go on Thursday, but freezing issues are still present. A new date will not be announced until all issues have been addressed.

Developer Stephen DiDuro wrote in the official GalaxyTrail forums:

We received some sad news today: Our patch for the Wii U version of Freedom Planet didn’t fix all of the freezing issues. In light of this, we are cancelling our launch for the time being. We’re only going to announce a release date after the game is fixed and free of all issues not present in the PC version.

I understand that some fans out there were already upset at the last delay and that further delays would be the last straw, and to them I can only say that I’m sorry. I do not intend to deliver anything less than a 100% faithful and clean port, regardless of how long it takes.

If any of our new Wii U fans are interested in playing the PC/Mac/Linux version to tide them over, we’ll keep you updated on any sales or bundles we may be involved with in the future. We also have several extra announcements coming later this month including for our planned character DLC, so stay tuned.

We’re sorry again and thank you for your patience!

Freedom Planet has had several planned release dates on Wii U: August 3, August 13, and August 20. Here’s hoping that the next date will stick.

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