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We’ve already seen what Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze looks like on consoles. Now you can view a few 3DS-specific screenshots!

If you head on over to your local Best Buy, you may spot a demo for Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. It comes with three levels – two standard courses, and a third one featuring the dragon boss previously shown in trailers. Note that we can’t say for sure how many Best Buy locations currently have the Captain Toad demo.

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Thus far, Nintendo has only shown figurines in relation to amiibo. But the company apparently has other plans for the brand with additional products.

During the Q&A for Nintendo’s financial results briefing last week, there was talk about the different amiibo projects the company is working on for 2015 and the advantage of allowing them to be used in multiple games as well as the speediness of their read/write speeds.

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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:

01./01. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate # (Capcom) {2014.10.11} (¥6.264) – 172.348 / 1.945.850 (-47%)
02./00. [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2014 (Konami) {2014.10.23} (¥7.538) – 81.981 / NEW
03./00. [PS3] The Evil Within (Bethesda Softworks) {2014.10.23} (¥6.264) – 59.388 / NEW <62,18%>
04./00. [PS4] The Evil Within (Bethesda Softworks) {2014.10.23} (¥7.884) – 59.204 / NEW <54,09%>
05./00. [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2014 (Konami) {2014.10.23} (¥7.538) – 50.836 / NEW
06./00. [3DS] Tales of the World: Reve Unitia (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.10.23} (¥5.627) – 47.037 / NEW
07./02. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo) {2014.09.13} (¥5.616) – 36.625 / 1.647.529 (-31%)
08./03. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke (Level 5) {2014.07.10} (¥4.937) – 30.497 / 2.786.183 (-29%)
09./00. [PSV] Super Hero Generation # (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.10.23} (¥7.171) – 16.802 / NEW
10./00. [PS3] Super Hero Generation # (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.10.23} (¥8.208) – 12.566 / NEW
11./04. [PSV] Chaos Ring III: Prequel Trilogy (Square Enix) {2014.10.16} (¥5.184) – 6.967 / 19.402 (-44%)
12./05. [PS3] Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX # (Square Enix) {2014.10.02} (¥7.179) – 6.238 / 123.546 (-44%)
13./00. [XB1] The Evil Within (Bethesda Softworks) {2014.10.23} (¥7.884) – 3.233 / NEW
14./08. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo) {2014.05.29} (¥6.156) – 2.821 / 693.208 (-22%)
15./10. [3DS] Dragon Quest X Online (Square Enix) {2014.09.04} (¥4.104) – 2.676 / 111.276 (-19%)
16./06. [PS3] FIFA 15 # (Electronic Arts) {2014.10.09} (¥7.884) – 2.451 / 23.062 (-45%)
17./00. [360] The Evil Within (Bethesda Softworks) {2014.10.23} (¥6.264) – 2.419 / NEW
18./16. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.800) – 2.367 / 3.800.198 (-11%)
19./14. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch (Level 5) {2013.07.11} (¥4.800) – 2.234 / 1.289.968 (-24%)
20./11. [PSV] DanganRonpa: Another Episode (Spike Chunsoft) {2014.09.25} (¥7.020) – 2.132 / 98.528 (-35%)

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Nintendo’s four major digital shops will be undergoing maintenance on Monday. That includes the Wii U and 3DS eShops, the Wii Shop Channel, and DSi Shop.

Maintenance will begin at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET. Expect it to last until 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET.

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