A special Super Mario concert will be heading to Japan in September in celebration of the series’ 30th anniversary. The event will take place in Osaka on September 20, and one day later in Tokyo.
The official website is located here. It teases a performance by “a certain someone who has been with Mario the past 30 years.”
Singer/model Kyary Pamyu Pamyu was brought in for an Animal Crossing: New Leaf commercial that went live in Japan a few days ago. This week, she’s back in yet another ad. Take a look at it below.
The newest update for Splatoon, which was announced for the game last week, is now available. Your game will be brought up to version 1.3.0 after applying the patch.
Today’s update makes adjustments and changes to Splatfest, weapons, and abilities. We’ve attached the full patch notes below for those who missed out on them last week.
Nintendo has released a couple of Japanese commercials for Yoshi’s Woolly World. View them below.
Several new titles are coming to the Japanese eShop on July 8. Here’s a look at the upcoming digital downloads:
Wii U Virtual Console
Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber (DS VC, 950 yen)
Lode Runner (FC VC, 514)
Demon’s Crest (SF VC, 823)
3DS Download
Ping Pong Trickshot 2 (200 yen)
Chara Pet Tsukutte! Sodatete! Character Shougakkou Light (864 yen)
Nintendo released official videos for Super Street FighterⅡ X Revival, Seicross, and Metal Slader Glory on the Japanese Wii U Virtual Console. Watch them below.
Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3 is now available on the 3DS eShop. Take a look at some footage of the game below.
Update: YouTube version added.
Nintendo Treehouse: Live with Splatoon Tower Control has now come to an end. If you missed any of the stream, head past the break to catch up on the full recording. We’re using Twitch’s archive for now, but we’ll update this post with a YouTube version when that becomes available.
Nintendo is currently hosting a live stream for Splatoon. While Tower Control is the main highlight, the broadcast also showed off a new map called “Moray Towers”.
Nintendo says that Moray Towers will be added to the game “soon”.
Watch http://t.co/w3WYQPX9KT to get an early look at Moray Towers, a map that is coming soon to #Splatoon.
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) June 30, 2015
We’ll have an archive up of today’s Splatoon stream in a bit. You’ll be able to get a first look at Moray Towers in addition to Tower Control.
Could we ever see Howard the Duck or Secret of Monkey Island in Disney Infinity? While Disney says that nothing’s off the table, the developers are instead choosing to focus on newer content.
Ada Duan, vice president of business and franchise management at Lucasfilm, and Disney Interactive’s John Vignocchi told Polygon:
“In terms of Star Wars content, there’s definitely more Star Wars coming out. What these guys have been saying is that Disney Infinity is a platform for all the IP across the company, Star Wars being part of that. You’ll see more. As more movies and TV shows come out and there’s evaluation of what we can support, I think Infinity is going to support all the IP across the company. As Lucas comes out with more IP and more Star Wars.” – Duan
“I’ll be like, please, can we do Secret of Monkey Island? And she’ll say, ‘Can we talk about how relevant this is? There are so many other things we could do.’ We have so much new content coming out.” – Vignocchi
“It’s natural that we’re going to want things to be supported coming up. It’s not out of the question [that we’d approve something from the archives], but I feel like there’s so much new that that’s probably going to be the focus.” – Duan
“We’re listening to the fans. We do the Facebook fan stuff all the time. We do these informal polls, and they wind up in the senior executive meetings with guys throwing stuff around and yelling at each other. ‘OK, this is what the fan poll said we should be doing, these characters.’ That’s how I lost Darkwing Duck to Olaf this year. That would have been awesome, right?” – Viggnocchi
There have been two Disney Infinity games thus far, with a third following this year. Disney Infinity 2.0 introduced Marvel characters while the 2015 edition is featuring Star Wars for the first time.
