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GameStop has the 3DS version of Monster 3 Ultimate on sale. Normally priced at $40, you can purchase the handheld release for only $20. The offer is valid in-store and online.

Last week, Inti Creates announced that Azure Striker Gunvolt will be hitting Japan in mid-August. News regarding the game’s North American release date apparently isn’t too far behind.

The official Azure Striker Gunvolt teaesd on Twitter just a short while ago:

Final Fantasy Explorers director Atsushi Hashimoto and project manager Takahiro Abe talked more about the 3DS game while speaking with Famitsu, mainly pertaining to the job system.

Here’s the latest on the game:

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This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:

Youkai Watch 2 (3DS) – 9/9/9/9

That’s it! Only one score again this week.

Some more teasing from Mr Sakurai today, this time pertaining to Little Mac:

The pink sweatshirt looks really cool on Little Mac, so you can use that outfit in this game… How can a pink sweatshirt look so cool?

He doesn’t stop there:

Looks like some of you noticed that this version of Little Mac wasn’t shown at E3. There are many things, like Link’s Skyward Sword tunic design I posted earlier, that haven’t been revealed yet.

EA and Nintendo have had an interesting and tumultuous relationship over the last few years. To help clarify (or fuel?) the situation with EA on the handheld site of their publishing, COO Peter Moore recently had the following to say:

“We were supportive of both of those platforms,” Moore said. “But then you’ve got finite resources and you’ve got teams that say, ‘We really think that two or three years from now, these are the platforms that people are going to be consuming games on.’ And you look at the quality of what you can do on phones and tablets… Sometimes strategy is not about what you do but what you don’t do, and you have to make some hard calls when you’ve got only so many people. To my point, we’ve got to be planning for FY 17 and 18. Do you think the Vita and 3DS are going to be around in some shape or fashion by then on a scale level?”

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We knew that Satoru Iwata had been re-elected as Nintendo’s president during the company’s Annual Shareholders Meeting last week. Now we know what the CEO’s approval rating was.

This year, Satoru Iwata managed to see an 80.64 percent approval rating. That’s up from last year’s percentage of 77.26 percent.

Here’s a comprehensive breakdown of approval ratings:

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