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UPDATE: 

• It seems that Nintendo will be conducting business with DeNA. Nintendo buys 10% of DeNA (equates to $181 million), and DeNA buys 1.24% of Nintendo.

• Nintendo will begin to develop smartphone games with DeNA, with a multi-platform social gaming network to launch in the fall of 2015. Will be released worldwide.

• A press release by DeNA has just been released discussing the capital alliance. You can read it here

• Nintendo IP will indeed be brought over to smartphones, but these are not ports. DeNA will be handling original games based off of the IP.

• New Nintendo platform codenamed “NX”. More info next year.

• English slides of today’s business and capital alliance announcement are up now. You can find them here

Watch the conference live here:

DeNA, one of the largest mobile platforms in Japan, is set to have a joint press conference today with Nintendo at 5PM JST (about an hour and fifteen minutes from now at the time of this writing). No information has been given on this sudden conference or what this is even about. The conference will be streamed to YouTube, but no links are allowed to be made public at the moment. According to this tweet, it seems a link to the live stream won’t be made readily available until it starts. The conference is set to last about 60 minutes.

The fact that Nintendo is doing a joint conference with DeNA makes you wonder what will be discussed during this conference. Satoru Iwata has stated multiple times that they have no desire to bring their IP to mobile platforms, so it’ll be interesting to see what transpires once the conference begins. Maybe we’ll get a look at an official Miiverse app, or something related?

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This week’s 3DS eShop charts are as follows:

Software

1. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
2. Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars
3. Mario Kart 7
4. Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D
5. Mighty Switch Force! 2
6. Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX
7. Super Mario Bros. 3
8. Mighty Switch Force!
9. Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
10. The Legend of Zelda
11. Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
12. Shovel Knight
13. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
14. 3D Out Run
15. Super Mario 3D Land
16. Super Mario Bros.
17. OlliOlli
18. Animal Crossing: New Leaf
19. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies
20. Donkey Kong Land

Videos

1. Pokemon Shuffle Trailer
2. Fossil Fighters: Frontier E3 2014 Trailer
3. Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars Launch Trailer
4. Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D Launch Trailer
5. New 3DS XL Trailer
6. Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars Gameplay Trailer
7. Azure Striker Gunvolt Update Trailer
8. Mario Kart 7 Video
9. Xenoblade Chronicles 3D – Heir to the Monado Trailer
10. Code Name S.T.E.A.M. Launch Trailer
11. New 3DS XL Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D
12. Super Mario 3D Land Video
13. Mario vs. Donkey Kong Tipping Stars E3 2014 Video
14. Photos with Mario Trailer
15. Donkey Kong Swings onto the Virtual Console Trailer
16. Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D Gameplay Video #2
17. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS One Dog, One Bird, One Zapper
18. Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire E3 2014 Trailer
19. Cube Creator 3D Trailer
20. OlliOlli Trailer

Source: 3DS eShop

Mario Party 10 isn’t the only new Nintendo game coming out in North America this week. Fossil Fighters: Frontier is launching on the 3DS as well. If you’re planning on buying the game digitally, keep in mind that it takes up 1,406MB of space.

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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Rocket Company, the team behind the Medabots games, has a new 3DS title in the works for Imagineer known as “Escape Adventure: Ultimate Fort”. The entire experience is based on a jailbreak attraction featured in the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park, which has players using their wits and cooperate to make it out.

There’s not much information about the actual 3DS game. However, here’s what we know about the real-life attraction:

– In the attraction, players are put in a giant prison
– Different challenges along the way
– Areas are filled with all kinds of doors and rooms
– Over 100 missions
– Stages have hidden clues and gimmicks that must be solved in order to advance
– The main themes behind the Ultimate Fort attraction are maze, problem-solving, cooperation, and stamina
– Since some of the stages can take a while
The puzzles may be a little tough at times, which is why there’s an option for people to retire and leave the attraction
– The 3DS title might not be as lenient for players

Escape Adventure: Ultimate Fort launches in Japan this summer.

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Nintendo of America will be hosting a virtual launch party for Mario Party 10 later this week. On March 18, fans will be able to participate through the company’s Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts.

The party will feature “an awesome lineup of virtual activities and a chance to hang out with a very special guest you seriously won’t want to miss”, according to Nintendo of America’s Twitter account.

You can find full details about the event below – most of which seem to center around sweepstakes.

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