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Last year, Rawkins Games revealed its first game for the Wii U eShop: Dolphin Up. It took longer than expected, but the game should finally be out next month. Rawkins Games tells us that Dolphin Up is slated for February 5.

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A rating for Polarium Advance appeared in the Australian classification database today. Might it mean that a Virtual Console re-release is on the horizon? Maybe we’ll be seeing Polarium Advance on Wii U soon!

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Siliconera has translated the official Guin and Nagi profiles from the Japanese Xenoblade Chronicles X website. Check them out below.

Guin

A member of the private military organization, BLADE. Back on Earth, he worked as a subordinate of Elma and Irina as part of the government spec-ops vehicular instructor corps known as the Doll Squad.

He occasionally messes up here and there, but he’s an honest character who admires Irina and also has a bit of a crush on her.

Nagi

Nagi is the former captain of the White Whale, an interstellar immigrant ship. He currently serves as the military director of the autonomous government of NLA (New Los Angeles).

In order to protect the livelihood of those living on Planet Mira, he works himself to death on a daily basis with government affairs.

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The latest update for Hyrule Warriors brings the game up to version 1.5.0. If you’re interested in file sizes, you might be interested to hear that the download requires 380MB. Hyrule Warriors’ new update is highlighted by the addition of the Majora’s Mask Pack.

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IGN has gone live with a new preview for Code Name S.T.E.A.M. The website’s report reveals details about multiplayer, StreetPass support, and more. We’ve rounded up information from IGN’s article below.

Multiplayer

– Play locally or online
– Timer is an important part of multiplayer
– You and an opponent take turns planning out strategies 60-seconds at a time
– When this is taking place, your 4-person squad can individually secure spots on the map, attack opponents, heal teammates, obtain items
– Items: increase health, movement, other attributes
– Can’t move during an enemy’s turn, but you can interrupt them with overwatch
– Overwatch requires a specific amount of steam to use and sometimes a certain type of gun
– Each squad member’s special moves are disabled in multiplayer
– Characters have their own weight that determines the types of boilers they can equip
– Boilers produce steam, which enables player movement and the ability to fire weapons
– Both multiplayer modes have a 60-second clock
– Death Match: eliminate a squad in 30 turns
– Medal Match: pick up medals across the battlefield, outscore your opponent
– Killing an enemy will relieve him or her of some medals
– In both multiplayer modes, players can earn more medals to unlock more sub-weapons in the campaign
– Third multiplayer mode is a tournament, where an organizer can create an event, distribute a code to invite participants over the internet, and make custom titles for the winners
– Nintendo will distribute their own tournaments via SpotPass

Characters

– Queequeg in the game, fictional island native from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
– Queequeg can fire a mechanical penguin from a launcher and send it waddling into a squad before it explodes
– Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz uses pumpkin bombs to set up traps
– Fox uses a sniper rifle for long range attacks
– Fox can also use a special move in single-player called Sharp Eye
– This doubles the range and damage of her overwatch attacks
– Randolph: recurring character from H.P. Lovecraft
– Randolph uses the Unspeakable Lure weapon
– Unspeakable Lure leaves a distraction on screen that attracts enemies during the campaign
– In multiplayer, it disguises a bomb as a healing item

Weapons

– Can’t switch out primary weapons
– Can customize sub-weapons to complement each character

StreetPass

– Compare stats against other squads in each mission and move up a leaderboard
– If you hold the top rank on a mission’s leaderboard, you’ll receive a score bonus

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A new round of deals are now live on the eShop as part of Nintendo’s “Throwback Sale”. The lineup of discounted titles include:

Wii U

Metroid Prime Trilogy – $9.99 (normally $19.99)
Mario Kart 8 – $44.99 (normally $59.99)
Super Mario Kart – $5.99 (normally $7.99)

3DS

Metroid – $3.49 (normally $4.99)
Mario Golf: World Tour – $22.49 (normally $29.99)
Mario Golf – $2.49 (normally $4.99)

These deals are valid until February 5 at 11:59 AM ET / 8:59 AM PT.

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