Another round of Final Fantasy Explorers has surfaced from Square Enix. You can find the information in our summary below.

– Set on a new island named “Amostela”
– This area was created after a sudden crustal movement in the planet
– Amostela has an enormous amount of Crystals
– This resulted in countless “Explorers” appearing on the island to collect them all as part of their occupation
– Summons wish to preserve Crystals in order to protect the world of nature, by standing up against these Explorers
– In the midst of all the events, a young Explorer steps into Amostela
– Crystals are the source of the planet’s energy, which flows inside the mysterious ores
– All life on the planet shared the benefit of evolution thanks to these Crystals
– Mankind has begun harvesting them for the further development of their own civilization
– Libertus: home town and base of operations
– At Libertus, Explorers take on requests that take them across all the different parts of the island
– The hometown also has an airship that’s used to travel to different areas and stores
– Crystal is located in the middle of town
– It has some purpose, though it’s currently known
– The Regi Plains is one of the earlier areas of the game
– There’s a giant Crystal that can be seen in the background called the Grand Crystal, which is considered to be the origin of the planet
– The energy from this crystal helped mankind’s expansion and development
– Hibato Volcanoes: a scorching area that flows with magma
– This also happens to be Ifrit’s area of domain, alongside the Bomb monsters seen in many other Final Fantasy titles

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Console specific skins are “unlikely” for Guacamelee: Super Turbo Championship Edition. In other words, you probably won’t be seeing a Mario-inspired outfit in the game anytime soon.

While DrinkBox Studios’ Chris McQuinn isn’t entirely opposed to the idea, it probably won’t happen since console owners would need to be very cooperative.

McQuinn told Destructoid:

“Possible…but unlikely. That requires a LOT of cooperation from the console owners. If somebody was really stoked about it and approached us, then ya, but we have no immediate plans.”

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Poker Dice Solitaire Future is coming to the North American Wii U eShop on July 3, RCMADIAX has confirmed.

It will be the first of the indie developer’s three “Tabletop Gallery” games for the system. Shut The Door and Toss N Go are also planned for the eShop.

Poker Dice Solitaire Future is priced at $1.99.

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Tomodachi Life appears to be off to a good start from a sales perspective. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime recently told Kotaku, “The Tomodachi Life numbers were significantly stronger than we had forecasted and planned.” Reggie explained that this is because the 3DS is “a vibrant platform.”

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Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken to Kotaku about Amiibo’s origins.

Miyamoto wanted to have reading and saving data functionality available without an accessory since the GBA days. That, he says, was the main reason why NFC was built in for Wii U.

As far as Amiibo figures are concerned, Miyamoto stated that Nintendo felt characters would be “the most appealing form factor for a physical object that has this functionality”.

“If you think back it’s very similar to what we did with the eReader, the card readers that existed for the Game Boy Advance. I had been wanting to have not as an optional accessory but as a built in piece of functionality the ability to have this interaction of reading and saving data with a physical object for quite some time. And that was why we made the decision to include it with Wii U to begin with. And since the launch of Wii U we’ve been thinking of what’s the most appealing form factor for a physical object that has this functionality that people would see it and just want to own it and ultimately we decided that it was the characters themselves.”

On another interesting note, Nintendo had long wanted “to have a series of these toys that worked not just with this one game but with multiple games.”

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Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition is out now on Wii U (and 3DS). If you’re planning on downloading the game, make sure you have 191MB of free space available!

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