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Gamers are plugging away at Hyrule Warriors with the game now having been officially released in Japan. And one player has already managed to obtain what appears to be Link’s final weapon. As this falls into spoiler territory, you’ll need to head past the break for more.

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Nintendo’s website confirms that Double Dragon II: The Revenge is releasing on the North American Wii U Virtual Console tomorrow. It will be priced at $4.99.

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Two upcoming games from Notion Games are getting an indie crossover collaboration. Syrek from Varia Games’ ReVeN will be featured in both Up Up Ubie Remix and Team Notion.

Notion announced today’s news on Twitter, writing:

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The latest issue of GamesMarkt contains a listing of the top 20 best-selling games in Europe between January and June of this year. Here’s the chart with all SKUs, as well as normal and special editions:

GamesMarkt also reveals the top ten publishers based on software market share (value):

01 (01) Electronic Arts – 18,58% (17,25%)
02 (05) Ubisoft – 15,07% (8,54%)
03 (02) Nintendo – 12,32% (11,82%)
04 (03) Activision Blizzard – 9,76% (11,51%)
05 (04) Sony Computer Entertainment – 7,54% (8,78%)
06 (06) Take-Two Interactive – 5,77% (5,07%)
07 (10) Warner Bros. Interactive – 5,26% (2,77%)
08 (07) Square Enix – 4,32% (5,02%)
09 (09) Microsoft – 3,59% (4,11%)
10 (08) Bandai Namco Games – 3,18% (4,22%)

Note: data provided by media control GfK International.

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The Heracross and Pinsir distribution for Pokemon X/Y is now up and running. Pokemon X players can get their hands on Heracross while Pinsir is available for those who own Y.

Also, as previously mentioned, GameStop will be distributing Mega Stones needed to Mega Evolve the two Pokemon starting on August 18.

Overviews of Heracross and Pinsir are posted below:

The Lv. 50 Pinsir has an Adamant Nature and knows X-Scissor, Earthquake, Stone Edge, and Return. It will have one of two Abilities: the defensive Hyper Cutter Ability or Mold Breaker.

The Lv. 50 Heracross has an Adamant Nature and knows Bullet Seed, Pin Missile, Close Combat, and Megahorn. Its Ability, Swarm or Guts, will change to Skill Link during Mega Evolution.

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Update: Now confirmed both in-store and online, and for both versions. You can pre-order the Wii U version here and 3DS version here.

This week’s GameStop ad has gone live. You can find it in full below:

The Crew was originally a current-gen game. However, that changed today after Ubisoft announced that its open-world racer is now also coming to the Xbox 360.

Both the Wii U and PlayStation 3 are being left behind. When asked to explain why The Crew isn’t coming to these consoles as well, a Ubisoft representative told VideoGamer:

“The Crew is originally built for the new generation of consoles so when we made the decision to port it to the previous generation of consoles, we decided to focus solely on the platform closest to the new-gen’s technical infrastructure, which is the Xbox 360. We are not currently working on a PS3 or Wii U version, we are rather focused on delivering The Crew for Xbox One, PS4, PC and Xbox360 simultaneously on November 11th.”

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Activision is debuting a new element of Skylanders Trap Team at Gamescom 2014 this week. Those attending the expo can go hands-on with a new line of cute, pocket-sized Skylanders characters called Skylanders Minis.

Sixteen of these Skylanders are joining the fight and will be playable in Trap Team. While they’re diminutive in stature, they’re mighty in battle and will come with upgrades and abilities, just like any other Skylanders.

Five of the new Minis are playable at Gamescom: Spry, Mini Jini, Drobit, Trigger Snappy and Hijinx.

Source: Activision PR