This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Download
The Bridge – $9.99
Crab Cakes Rescue – $7.99
Factotum – $9.99
Mortar Melon – $5.99
Woah Dave! – $4.99
Wii U Virtual Console
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising – $7.99
Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Grey Wolf – $7.99
3DS Retail
LBX: Little Battlers eXperience – $39.99 (available Friday)
3DS Download
3D Gunstar Heroes – $5.99
3DS Demos
Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX
I Love My Cats
eShop Sales
Wii U/3DS
– Take up to 66 percent off Capcom games like Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and many more from 9 a.m. PT on Aug. 24 to 8:59 a.m. PT on Aug. 31. Visit http://www.nintendo.com/eshop/offers for more details.
Wii U
– Life of Pixel is 30 percent off (reduced from $9.99 to $6.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Sept. 3.
– Ping 1.5+ is 20 percent off (reduced from $4.99 to $3.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Sept. 3.
– Tilelicious: Delicious Tiles is 50 percent off (reduced from $5.99 to $2.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Sept. 10.
– Super Destronaut is 50 percent off (reduced from $1.99 to $0.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Sept. 3.
3DS
– Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked is 33 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $19.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Aug. 24.
– Aqua Moto Racing 3D, Snow Moto Racing 3D and Real Heroes: Firefighter 3D from Zordix are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Sept. 3.
– Senran Kagura Burst is 33 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $19.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Sept. 15.
Price Reduction
Hazumi is reduced to $2.99 (from $3.99) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on Aug. 20.
Activities
Splatoon Testfire – The Splatoon Testfire is making a grand return! On Aug. 21-23 from 3-5 p.m. PT every day, you can demo several maps and weapons in Turf War multiplayer mode for free. Download the demo now in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U so you are ready when the ink starts to fly!
Art Academy: Home Studio Art Contest – Time is running out to enter the Art Academy: Home Studio art contest for your chance to win a $20 Nintendo eShop Card code! Upload a time-lapse video of your work to YouTube using the “Recordings” feature in the game and tweet us @NintendoAmerica with a link to your video and the hashtags #ContestEntry and #NintendoArtContest until Aug. 20 at 5 p.m. PT. Check here to view a video about the contest. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void where prohibited. Must be a legal resident of US (incl. DC) or Canada (excl. Quebec) 18+. Deadline: 8/20/15. 25 winners receive a Nintendo eShop Card code (ARV $20 ea). Additional terms and conditions apply. Click here for official rules. Sponsor: Nintendo of America Inc.
Source: Nintendo PR
Nintendo announced today that the price of the 2DS will be reduced on August 30. On that day, the system will only cost $99.99, down from the current suggested retail price of $129.99.
All 2DS units in North America will continue to come with the digital version of Mario Kart 7.
For today’s full announcement, read on below.
Capcom released yet another batch of screenshots from Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airou Village today. In the first few images, you can see the bonuses offered in Monster Hunter X to those who have Monster Hunter Diary save data on their SD card. All others are screenshots from Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airou Village DX.
A trademark for Pokken Tournament was registered in Europe 2 days ago. It’s not clear from the trademark itself whether this for the arcade version or a possible Wii U port, but the former seems more likely. The trademark holder is the Pokemon Company, not Nintendo, who usually register the trademarks for the Pokemon games.
Also, the trademark mentions the following:
Near field communication (NFC) technology-enabled devices, namely, key chain tags, key chains, key fobs, key tags, key rings and key holders, and figurines, to facilitate the transmission and recording and exchange of video game content.
You might be inclined to think that this refers to amiibo, but in Japan, Pokken arcade machines also have NFC functionality with something called BANA Passport, a card where users can store saved game data and transfer them from one arcade machine to another.
Either way, we’ll have to wait until an official announcement from Nintendo until we know for sure. We will keep you posted.
Bandai Namco has published another trailer for Super Robot Wars BX. Check it out below:
Super Robot Wars BX is out now in Japan.
Nintendo of Japan has uploaded another Super Mario Maker video. This one shows off the different auto-scrolling speeds you can set your levels to, as well as the adjustable time limit. Check it out below:
Dennis just recently managed to get his hands on Super Mario Maker. A review will be coming a bit later, but we wanted to take the opportunity to show the game to you guys later this week.
We’re currently planning on live streaming Super Mario Maker for about an hour on Thursday via our YouTube channel. It may change to Twitch, but we’ll keep you updated before the event begins.
Our stream should kick off at 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT. An archived version will also be made available soon after.
In terms of the stream, definitely let us know if there’s anything particular that you’d like to see and whatnot. There are some limitations in terms of elements that we’re allowed to show (mainly amiibo), but we’ll take everything into consideration!
This week’s Wii U eShop charts are as follows:
Software
1. Splatoon
2. Zelda: Ocarina of Time
3. Super Mario 64
4. Cube Life: Island Survival
5. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
6. Super Mario World
7. Golden Sun: The Lost Age
8. Super Mario Maker
9. Paper Mario
10. Super Mario Bros. 3
11. Super Mario Bros.
12. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
13. Donkey Kong 64
14. Journal of a Special Average Balloon
15. Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
16. EarthBound
17. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
18. Zelda: A Link to the Past
19. Donkey Kong Country
20. Mario Kart 8
Videos
1. Let’s Watch! Super Mario Maker Overview!
2. Super Mario Maker E3 2015 Trailer
3. Splatoon Big Splats Trailer
4. Splatoon Squid Strats Trailer
5. Play Nintendo Introduction Video
6. Splatoon Tower Control Trailer
7. Nintendo@E3 2015 – Super Mario Maker Reactions
8. Disney Infinity 3.0 Announcement Trailer
9. Freedom Planet E3 Trailer
10. Super Smash Bros. Mii Fighters Suit Up for Wave Three
11. Cube Life: Island Survival Trailer
12. Yoshi’s Woolly World E3 2015 Trailer
13. New Super Mario Bros. U Video
14. Golden Sun: The Lost Age Trailer
15. Cube Life: Island Survival Trailer 2
16. Great Games to Buy with eShop Cards
17. Introducing amiibo
18. Mario Kart 8 New amiibo Racing Suits Trailer
19. New amiibo TV Commercial
20. Pokemon Rumble U Gameplay Trailer
Source: Wii U eShop
Capcom has released the sixth Randst Magazine for The Great Ace Attorney in Japan. This features a Souseki theme and short, Barok concept art and voice, episode 4 commentary, and Vortex’s beta music.
A few photos of the new DLC for The Great Ace Attorney are in the gallery below.
Square Enix has come out with four commercials for Dragon Quest VIII, all of which are in the video below. The first two are gameplay while the others are live action.
