Reviews are now starting to come in for Xenoblade Chronicles 3D. Throughout the day, we’ll be adding verdicts to our roundup below.

GamesRadar – 4.5 / 5
GameSpot – 8 / 10
Nintendo Life – 9 / 10
Gamereactor UK – 9 / 10
NintendoWorldReport – 9 / 10
GamesBeat – 90 / 100
Game Informer – 9 / 10

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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

PS4 – 46,395
Vita – 20,923
New 3DS LL – 17,652
Wii U – 7,595
New 3DS – 6,566
PS3 – 6,352
3DS – 2,371
3DS LL – 2,115
Vita TV – 639
Xbox One – 344

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

PS4 – 33,826
Vita – 20,103
New 3DS LL – 19,668
PS3 – 7,221
New 3DS – 7,164
Wii U – 7,054
3DS – 2,666
3DS LL – 2,590
Vita TV – 688
Xbox One – 307

And here are the software charts:

1. [PS4] Final Fantasy Type-0 HD – 92,094 / NEW
2. [PS3] Resident Evil: Revelations 2 – 73,373 / NEW
3. [PS4] Battlefield Hardline – 68,823 / NEW
4. [PS4] Resident Evil: Revelations 2 – 42,358 / NEW
5. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 36,151 / NEW
6. [PS3] Yakuza Zero – 29,568 / 175,390
7. [PS3] Battlefield Hardline – 28,976 / NEW
8. [PSV] Phantasy Star Online 2 Episode 3 – 26,289 / NEW
9. [WIU] Mario Party 10 – 21,433 / 71,645
10. [3DS] PriPara & Pretty Rhythm: PriPara de Tsukaeru Oshare Item 1450! – 21,261 / NEW
11. [PSV] Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – 20,166 / 96,926
12. [PS3] Dragon Quest Heroes – 16,446 / 442,854
13. [PS4] Yakuza Zero – 15,255 / 105,761
14. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 2: Shinuchi – 11,353 / 2,551,238
15. [3DS] Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D – 10,851 / 392,553
16. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 6,450 / 2,568,569
17. [PS4] Dragon Quest Heroes – 7,915 / 327,389
18. [3DS] Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars – 6,893 / NEW
19. [3DS] Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Kurosensei – 6,358 / 31,852
20. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – 6,293 / 2,186,501

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Rainy Night Creations has launched a Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming Wii U title, FreezeME. Inspired by Super Mario 64 the title has already acquired 10% of their minimum objective of $15,000 and it has only been live for 12 hours!

The Kickstarter campaign will be going for one month and there are various options as to how you can bid your support,   including one that will come with a Special Edition book as well as the game along with your donation.

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Image & Form has updated its site with some great new artwork and details about how they work through the process of selecting the artwork for their games.

Check out the screenshots below and see what you think.

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Today’s Splatoon image brings us the latest in outdoor gear by brand “Sigurani”.

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Excave, a recently released 3DS eShop title by Teyon will take up 721 blocks to download. Excave is a  classic dungeon crawling RPG.

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The last two days we’ve seen Pachirisu and Sigilyph join the list of Pokémon made available through Pokémon Shuffle’s ‘Daily Event’, which is updated every couple of weeks and gives players the chance to catch Pokémon that are otherwise unobtainable by normal means. Today, we add Tropius to the list of Daily Event Pokémon!

Tropius will only be up for the next 24 hours, though it’ll be made available every Wednesday for the next three weeks, so get it while you can!

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