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Lightwood Games, known for their word puzzle mini-games, have just announced another title coming to a Nintendo system. In addition to Word Party, which is coming to Wii U next week, Word Puzzles by POWGI will be released on Nintendo 3DS later this year. The interesting part is that the game will have full amiibo support – i.e. every single amiibo will be supported. Scan an amiibo with your New 3DS or with the amiibo scanner for the older models and the game will generate a word puzzle based on that amiibo.

Read the full press release below:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2nd November, 2015

Stoke-on-Trent, UK – Lightwood Games is excited to announce their next title on the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS. “Word Puzzles by POWGI” is expected later this year.

Word Puzzles by POWGI contains six different pen-and-paper style word puzzles which are solved using the stylus and intuitive touch-screen controls.

Featuring hundreds of expertly hand-crafted word puzzles, and with a firm focus on the content, it’s a no-fluff puzzle variety pack that’s ready to play whenever you are.

As well as solving the included puzzle content, players can unlock special, custom content by touching an amiibo. Each figure generates a unique personalised puzzle containing its nickname.

The puzzles included are:
• Word Maze – Like a wiggly word search! Find the words and solve the maze!
• Mixups – A fiendishly difficult anagram puzzle with three words all jumbled together!
• One Word – The word search puzzle where there’s only one word to find!
• Flowers – Plant pairs of letters around the flower to grow six words with a common middle!
• Circles – Three overlapping circles hide three connected words. Find the missing letter to unscramble them all!
• Crossovers – Crossword puzzles with only one letter missing, which come together to solve a clue!

Word Games are Lightwood’s speciality. It is the developer behind Word Party, a series of competitive word puzzle mini-games, for Wii U, set for release in November. The firm has also worked on a number of other titles in collaboration with POWGI, and several mobile apps.

Word Search by POWGI was released on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U in April 2015. Word Search Party has been downloaded nearly two million times on iPhone and iPad.

POWGI – Puzzle On Word Games, Inc – is a puzzle content publisher based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

More examples of the puzzle types included in this game can be found at www.powgi.com.

Word Puzzles by POWGI will be available on the Nintendo eShop in US and Europe priced $9.99 / €9.99 / £7.99.

A free downloadable demo will also be available.

Fact Sheet

Release Date Late 2015

Product Page http://www.lightwoodgames.com/wpbp.php

Price GBP £7.99 / EUR €9.99 / USD $9.99

Age Rating ESRB E for Everyone; PEGI 3 (Provisional)

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Pre-orders have now gone up on the Nintendo UK store. To get yours in, head on over to this page. The figure is due out on November 20 for £10.99.

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As part of its latest financial results briefing materials, Nintendo posted a slide showing the cumulative sales rankings of amiibo. We’re able to see what’s popular in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Check out the full rankings above.

Nintendo also revealed that most shipments came from the Americas:

This is a graph that shows the latest ratio of shipments by region for figure-type amiibo. The blue colored area represents the Americas. In the US, the so-called “Toys to Life” category, in which games work together with figures, are well recognized and people are familiar with this way of having fun. This is why during the previous fiscal year the percentage of shipments for the Americas was 66 percent, which represented a significant portion of total amiibo shipments. The Americas market still holds more than half of the total sales but you can tell from the graph that regions other than the US, where “Toys to Life” products had a late release, are gradually expanding. For your information, the majority of sales for “Other Regions” are from Australia. In addition to Australia, we started to ship to Asia from this financial period.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 9 Comments

Nintendo has sold 21 million amiibo worldwide, according to president and CEO Tatsumi Kimishima. This number indicates that around 10.6 million units were sold since March.

We also have some data specific to France. Journalist Chloé Woitier reports that over 800,000 amiibo have been sold in the territory thus far, including 70,000 cards.

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Nintendo Inquirer managed to get its hands on stock numbers for upcoming amiibo. Given data obtained from New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Milwaukee, it appears that Lottie will be receiving more than double the stock compared to the other Animal Crossing characters. This suggests that Lottie will be a Target exclusive in the United States.

Stock numbers are also in for Mewtwo. It’s expected that there will be around 12 units for smaller stores whereas larger ones will be loaded with 24-48 amiibo.

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Yesterday, Nintendo announced that the Green Yarn Yoshi amiibo would be leaving the Yoshi’s Woolly World bundle next month. Walmart has followed up on the news by opening pre-orders for the plushie. You can reserve the amiibo right here.

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GameSpot has posted an interview with Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma and Tri Force Heroes director Hiromasa Shikata. Between the two, they commented on the inspiration behind the game’s communication features, item ideas that were scrapped, consideration for two-player support, interest in using amiibo in future Zelda games, and more.

We’ve rounded up the various comments below. You can also read up on a few extra comments from GameSpot here.

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Next month, the green Yarn Yoshi amiibo will be leaving the Yoshi’s Woolly World bundle in North America. Nintendo announced on its Twitter account today that the plushie will be sold as a standalone item starting on November 13.

Here’s the relevant tweet:

Pricing for the amiibo will be set at $16.99.

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The Toys “R” Us catalog reveals stock numbers for three amiibo due out next month. The Mii Fighters 3-pack, Villager (restock), and Mega Yarn Yoshi should be in good supply for the most part.

Stores will be receiving a minimum of 64 units for the Mii Fighters and Villager. There will also be 18 Mega Yarn Yoshis at each Toys “R” Us location, which isn’t quite as high as the other two, but certainly nothing to snuff at. These numbers should make up for their exclusivity somewhat!

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 2 Comments

Europe just recently received the Animal Crossing amiibo cards Collectors Album. There are also plans to bring out a second edition next month. Unfortunately, Nintendo hasn’t made something similar widely available in North America.

That’s where HORI comes in. On December 7, the company will be putting out its own album which has been officially licensed by Nintendo. It allows amiibo fans to store up to 112 cards, with four pockets for the front and back on each page. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer artwork is also featured.

If you’re interested, pre-order the album on Amazon here. Pricing is set at $9.99.

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