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The latest issue of Jump has announced a new game based on the Food Wars manga. Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma: The Dish of Friendship and Bonds is coming to 3DS, the magazine reveals.

FuRyu is heading up the game, which is said to be a “taste personal experience cooking battle adventure”. S?ma Yukihira and other students at T?tsuki Culinary Academy will participate in cooking battles.

Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma: The Dish of Friendship and Bonds is due out in Japan this winter.

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Update: Voice cast below.

Angelo (Yoshimasa Hosoya)
Jessica (Ayana Taketatsu)
Yangus (Fumihiko Tachiki)
Trode (Hiroshi Iwasaki)
Princess Medea (Risa Taneda)
Gerda (Hitomi Nabatame)
Morrie (Joji Nakata)
Dhoulmagus (Takehito Koyasu)

The first scan of Dragon Quest VIII has emerged from this week’s issue of Jump. You can check it out above.

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Capcom issued a new wave of screenshots from The Great Ace Attorney today. We get to see a look at some of the content covered in this week’s Famitsu – notably new characters Nikomina Bolshevich and Mitrov Stroganov. View all of the images below.

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Serenes Forest has translated even more details about Fire Emblem If from this week’s issue of Famitsu. We have additional information about Phoenix Mode, plus a few other elements as well. All of the details are rounded up below.

– Again, Phoenix Mode is where fallen allies are resurrected on the next turn
– It sits alongside Casual and Classic Mode and
– Phoenix Mode is independent of your difficulty choice
– The game describes it as a mode where your allies cannot die
– According to the devs, Phoenix Mode was invented to sway players interested in the game, but concerned it was too hard for them
– In the Nohr campaign, you can’t train outside of the story
– During these situations, players can lower the mode and difficulty mid-game, rather than starting again from scratch
– Going back up to Classic Mode is not possible
– Playing on Phoenix Mode offers no gameplay disadvantages
– Beating Classic Mode is meant for the feeling of accomplishment
– Although durability is gone, the developers have tried to make players think hard about which of the various weapons they should use in a given situation
– Ex: some weapons may reduce the enemy’s critical rate, while others may be extremely powerful, but difficult to attack twice with
– Hoshido and Nohr seem to have their own set of weaponry
– Aqua was originally the princess of Nohr, taken prisoner by Hoshido
– The circumstances of her capture are unknown
– Aqua is Songstress and has the ability to Sing to allow allies to move again (like Dancers in previous games)
– Ryouma is of the Trueblade class
– Other classes include Nohr’s Sorcerers, who excel in Magic, and Brave Heroes, renown heroes who wield swords and axes (likely renamed Heroes)
– The Hoshidans have Oni, fierce mace-wielding warriors with high strength and defense and Priestesses, maidens who heal with batons
– Fire Emblem if supports all of the 3DS’s communication functions: SpotPass, StreetPass, Local and Internet
– There are other factions in the game besides Hoshi and Nohr
– When initiating an optional battle in the Hoshido route, players can select from a list of locations, such as a suspension bridge, mountainside village, royal capital plaza, grasslands and a fortress

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Nintendo already came out with a new Japanese 3DS theme based on Nikki (of Swapote fame) last month. Another one has since landed on Club Nintendo, and is based on Nikki’s Travel Quiz. You can find footage of the theme below.

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PoPoLoCrois Farm Story’s release date is fast approaching, so Marvelous has been sending out updates in quick succession. The latest news surrounding the game covers a town Prince Pietro will visit and a few key characters.

Here’s the latest:

– Pietro will come across the town of “Cordan”
– Cordan is located in the northwestern part of Garaliland, the Autumn Lands of the Cordan Region
– Since Cordan is nearing its harvest season, it’s been getting a lot of visitors lately
– Hero/mayor named Berg is in the town
– “Man Who Lives By the Cannon” is here as well
– Both characters seem to know about the recent happenings of Garailand
– There’s also been talks about a bronze statue that fell from the sky into the corner of town
– Berg is the brother of a bodyguard from a certain castle; devoted in the growth and expansion of Cordan
– Mireille: young girl who lives in Cordan; Berg’s daughter and gets along with Anna
– Anna: young girl who lives in Cordan; seems to sense something from the rusty soldier’s statue in town
– Prince Pietro will get to interact with special girls by communicating with them and giving them gifts
– Once they become better friends, they’ll even help out with items that can help in the farm or the journey
– Lily: innocent girl who lives in Cordan; loves insects
– Iris: strong-willed girl; loves performing experiments and also loves cats

PoPoLoCrois Farm Story launches in Japan on June 18.

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Update (5/13): Bumped to the top. Nintendo of Europe has uploaded a nearly idetical commercial, so we’re leaving it here.

Nintendo has now posted the Japanese commercial for Splatoon. You can view it below.

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This week’s issue of Famitsu has another update on The Great Ace Attorney. Specifically, we’ve received new information about one of the game’s episodes. Continue on below for a roundup of the latest information.

– New episode: “The Adventure of the Friend and the Speckled Band”
– This is a homage to the Holmes short story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
– Takes place on the London-bound steamship Alaclear
– Ryuunosuke finds himself the prime suspect in a certain “incident” involving a locked room and an adder
– Decides to clear his name
– Wherever mysteries are, so is Holmes, and so Ryuunosuke and the Great Detective meet for the first time
– New characters Nikomina Borschbich and Mitrofan Stroganov
– Nikomina Borschbich: fifteen-year-old ballet dancer Nikomina Borschbich
– Mitrofan Stroganov: sailor who was patrolling the area of the ship where the incident occurred
– Nikomina is running away from the Russian ballet corp she was once a part of to America
– Can examine an area, speak to people, move around, and present evidence
– Areas you’ve already looked at will have a check mark displayed by the cursor
– When choosing where to go, Susato will let you know if anything more needs investigating there
– The preview for the next report shows Iris and an unnamed character in the English lobby

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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

New 3DS LL – 17,875
Vita – 17,273
PS4 – 15,992
Wii U – 11,137
New 3DS – 5,446
PS3 – 4,351
3DS – 1,413
3DS LL – 1,358
Vita TV – 665
Xbox One – 187

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

Wii U – 22,898
PS4 – 19,782
Vita – 17,748
New 3DS LL – 17,062
New 3DS – 5,901
PS3 – 3,956
3DS – 1,520
3DS LL – 1,465
Vita TV – 687
Xbox One – 341

And here are the software charts:

1. [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition – 38,914 / 218,839
2. [3DS] Girls Mode 3 – 21,784 / 120,791
3. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 18,025 / 143,976
4. [WIU] Xenoblade Chronicles X – 11,689 / 97,275
5. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 – 9,454 / 983,902
6. [3DS] Bravely Second – 9,403 / 129,645
7. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 8,557 / 2,618,841
8. [WIU] Mario Party 10 – 7,406 / 137,759
9. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – 7,057 / 2,227,483
10. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 2: Shinuchi – 6,163 / 2,603,483
11. [3DS] Theatrhythm Dragon Quest – 4,866 / 115,089
12. [WIU] Dragon Quest X: Inishie no Ryuu no Denshou Online – 4,719 / 103,042
13. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 4,687 / 3,970,494
14. [WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – 4,483 / 634,070
15. [3DS] Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Kurosensei – 3,767 / 67,581
16. [3DS] Future Card Buddyfight: The Fired Up Friendship Fight – 3,654 / 26,948
17. [3DS] Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D – 3,608 / 427,697
18. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 – 3,559 / 2,502,286
19. [3DS] Xenoblade Chronicles 3D – 3,511 / 82,403
20. [3DS] LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins – 3,372 / 46,056

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SEGA released a demo for Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX on the Japanese 3DS eShop today. Footage from the download is posted below.

It’s still unclear if SEGA has any plans to make the Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX demo available in the west. If we hear anything, it’ll be right here on the site!

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