A wild Super Smash Bros. screenshot appears! Series director Masahiro Sakurai posted the following on Miiverse:

Here’s the Prism Tower stage for the 3DS version! The battle begins on ground level right in front of the tower.

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Could Castlevania and F-Zero be joining the Wii U’s Virtual Console lineup? That’s what these two recent classifications by the Australian government seem to suggest. Neither game was originally released down under, meaning there’s no existing classification to use – unlike Advance Wars, Golden Sun and the other Game Boy Advance titles heading to the service. Given that the publisher is listed as Nintendo in both cases, it looks like Wii U owners will soon be able to play one of the best entries in the Castlevania series, along with that F-Zero game based on the F-Zero anime series based on the F-Zero games. That said, I’d take any hints of future Virtual Console releases with a grain of salt – I’m still waiting on that localisation of The Mysterious Murasame Castle, after all.

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Reader Robert Garcia and his daughter Victoria came across the shot above, which comes from inFamous: Second Son. If you get in close and take a real look at the photo, it does look like Mario and Luigi are referenced/given a neat little tribute. Are those really the famous brothers, or are we just crazy?

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Update: Bumped to the front page. Another deal: Fire Emblem: Awakening for $32 ($8 savings).

Original: Amazon has a couple of new deals running at the moment that are worth bringing to your attention.

First, The Legend of Zelda Box Set – a package containing all 10 volumes of The Legend of Zelda manga series and a collectible poster – has been slashed by $33. You can place an order here.

In the game’s department, Amazon has a small sale running for Bravely Default. You can pick the game up for only $31.66 as opposed to $39.99.

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Arc System Works is bringing a new visual novel to the Japanese 3DS eShop next week known as “Ghost Detective: Shida’s Ayakashi Case Book” – otherwise known as Mononoke Detective. A trailer is posted above, and some details have been rounded up below.

– Play as detective Shida Mori
– Shida is investigating ayakashi cases with his partner and fiancée Shiho Kitakitani
– Ayakashi is a collective name for yokai that appear above water
– Shida and Shiho are accompanied by Shida’s assistant named Shiro
– Shiro has shapeshifting abilities
– Game takes place in the Taisho era at the capital of flowers
– Mysterious incidents have been ongoing
– Shida has inherited the title of “Ghost Detective” from his grandfather
– Solve cases by talking with characters and collecting evidence
– Find evidence using the 3DS touch screen
– Need to seal the “Mononoke”
– To do so, you’ll need to find its “true name”
– You’ll be required to find clues that will lead to the kanji spelling of its name, which you’ll get from clues scattered across the game
– Out now
– 800 yen

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Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball is officially set for release on the North American 3DS eShop next week. Thanks to a tweet published by NOA a short while ago, it’s been confirmed that the free-to-game title will be launching on April 3.

The tweet is as follows:

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