Update: We have a winner! Congratulations to gabopr75. We’ll be sending your code shortly!
Our latest giveaway is Nihilumbra, a new Wii U eShop title that just came out this past week. To enter, simply leave a comment below telling us about your favorite moody game.
Please note that this giveaway is only open to those with North American Wii U systems. Also, we only have one code, so be sure to come up with the best response you have! We’ll announce a winner on Thursday.
Update: (5/22/15) Bumped to the top. Here’s a look at the packaging:
HORI’s Splatoon GamePad protector was revealed a few weeks back. We had only heard about it as a European product at the time, but we can now safely say that the accessory will be sold in North America as well.
Amazon is now taking pre-orders for the Nintendo-licensed Splatoon GamePad protector. Based on the listing, it will be sold starting on July 13. You can reserve it here.
As it turns out, Splatoon features a few small (but neat) Mario and Zelda references. Get a look at them in the video below.
Yesterday we posted a few scan translations of Famitsu’s latest Fire Emblem If coverage. Once again, kantopia has done something similar. You’ll find character profiles as gameplay information from Dengeki’s new issue.
Nintendo of France added a launch trailer for Splatoon to its YouTube account earlier today. Check it out below.
Nintendo prepared one more trailer for the North American launch of Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition. You can check out an accolades video below.
Ronimo Games released the eighteenth “Daily Duel” video for Swords & Soldiers II. In today’s video, the battle is 1 Genie, 2 Nagas, 4 Sand Witches, Polymorph, Freyja’s Blessing and Ooga Booga spells versus 3 Desert Stalkers, 3 Berserkers, 3 Spearthrowers, 1 Electric Elder and 1 Fakir. Check it out below.
Reddit user “mast3r_sword” has come up with an incredibly impressive custom amiibo. The Ice Climbers have been created from scratch – box and all.
mast3r_sword obtained a base model in 3D, did some retopology, and modeled/sculpted it until he managed to get the Ice Climbers in a pose inspired from Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Naturally, this original amiibo won’t work in any game, though the base can be opened and a chip from another figure can be installed.
I continue to be amazed by the original amiibo creations people are coming up with. I know I could never make something like this!
Family Gamer TV has shared a look at some upcoming Disney Infinity 3.0 figures. Specifically, Olaf, Mickey, Minnie, Sam Flynn, Quorra, and Mulan are featured. You can get a look at them in the video below.
Gaming sales in Japan were not very good last week – so much so that they’re the worst sales since 2001.
Based on the latest Media Create data, just 235,000 video games were sold between May 11 and May 17. Along with it being a sixty percent drop compared to the previous week, it’s also a 61.93 percent drop compared to the same week last year.
One part of the problem is that gaming sales tend to slow down following Golden Week. Media Create also points out that there was a total lack of new titles. Instead, a bunch of remastered and reworked games were released.
Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition is selling a bit slowly as well. Sales are up to 232,683 copies, but it has only sold through 59.19 percent of its initial shipment.
