The Crystal Red and Crystal Blue 2DS systems are officially coming to North America. Nintendo announced today that the handhelds will launch alongside Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire later this month. Pricing is set at $99.99 for the new 2DS variations.

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amiibo figures will only be able to hold information for one game at a time, Nintendo has confirmed.

That news has been revealed via a notice posted on the Japanese amiibo website. The message states:

“Amiibo can only store data for one read/write compatible game at a time. If you wish to use the data from other read/write compatible software, please erase the data in the ‘Amiibo settings’ section of the Wii U settings menu.”

Keep in mind that amiibo figures with already-stored data can still be used for ready-only games.

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This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:

Assassin’s Creed Unity (PS4/XBO) – 9/9/10/9
Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires (PS4/PS3/XBO) – 9/8/8/8
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (PS3/360) – 9/8/7/8
Stick it to the Man (Wii U) – 8/7/8/9
Senjou no Enbukyoku (PSV) – 8/8/8/7
Mahokore Mahou*Aidoru Collection (3DS) – 8/8/7/7
Art of Balance (Wii U) – 8/7/7/8
Sumikko Gurashi: Koko ga Ochitsukundesu (3DS) – 8/7/7/7
SF Dotabata Party!! (Wii U/3DS) – 7/7/7/8
AiRace Xeno (3DS) – 8/7/6/7
Armillo (Wii U) – 7/7/6/7
Omeruta Chinmoku no Okite The Legacy (PSP) – 7/7/7/6
Syunsoku Mezase! Zenkoku Saikyou Runner (3DS) – 5/6/5/6

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Rodea: The Sky Soldier has finally resurfaced. The game, which was first announced for Wii and 3DS in January 2011, is coming out in Japan this spring.

It should come as no surprise that the Wii version of Rodea has been scrapped, and the game is now coming to Wii U (and 3DS still) instead. Interestingly, Famitsu reveals that first print copies of the Wii U version contain the bonus of the Wii version – what this means exactly is currently unclear.

Rodea: The Sky Soldier features huge bosses that are many hundreds times the size of Rodea himself. Famitsu also has a look at three previously mentioned characters.

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Square Enix announced that the Final Fantasy Explorers demo will launch in Japan on November 14.

The demo will cover the prologue, and has all the major features from the final game (including 4 player online multiplayer).
It will also have two battles against summons (Iffrit and Shiva), along with some jobs and equipment.

As we announced previously, you can transfer some information to the final game, including Gil (up to 5 000), Crystal Points (up to 2 000 points), items, abilities, and one weapon/piece of equipment from every category.

Check out some of the latest videos below:

Character Creation

Basic Quests

Dragon Battle

Iffrit Battle

Shiva Battle

Cloud and Lighting

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Monolith Soft recently opened the Xenoblade Chronicles X teaser site and have been quite surprised at the traffic the site has recieved.

As we previously reported, according to the new site the game is nearing the final stages of completion.
Recently, the newly opened site experienced an overload due to so many fans checking it out that Monolith Soft has had to scramble and come up with a solution to figure out new server rental plans.

According to Monolith Soft, the main problem came from the number of fans downloading the Theme song from the front page as well as those who where listening to it on a loop.

To fix the problem, they’ve decided to turn off the loop and lower the bit rate for the track.

Finally, at the end of their blog post, they teased, “Huh? Online elements? Of course (the game) will have some!”.

As the site continues to be updated we will keep you posted, stay tuned for future announcements.

Xenoblade Chronicles X is expected to release in 2015.

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Super Smash Bros. for 3DS will be receiving yet another update, though it appears this one will be a bit more significant than what we’ve previously seen. Nintendo will be including some ‘balance fixes’ and while they haven’t detailed specifically what that means, those that have version 1.0.3 or earlier will not be able to challenge those on 1.0.4 once they’ve updated.

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