Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 8 Comments

Splatoon’s latest update is now available for download. Version 2.4.0 can be obtained by starting up the game or by letting your Wii U download it automatically. 393MB of free space is required for the update.

If you missed yesterday’s post, we’re sharing the patch notes once again. You can read them in full after the break.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 13 Comments

Update: To clarify, the update will be up during the evening of December 21 in North America. Europe will have it in the very early morning on December 22. Also added in the official announcement below.

Nintendo has pulled back the curtain on a new Super Mario Maker update coming on December 21 which adds a number of new features.

Those are as follows:

– bumpers (create one by shaking a grinder)
– P Warp Door (create one by shaking a Warp Door)
– Fire Koopa Clown Car (create one by shaking a Koopa Clown Car)

Aside from these new elements, you’ll now be able to see the world record time for each course in addition to the person who completed it first.

Here’s a look at the upcoming update:

The Bookmark web portal, which was announced during last month’s Nintendo Direct, is also releasing on December 21:

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 2 Comments

A new Splatoon patch is coming tomorrow, Nintendo has announced. Your game will be brought up to version 2.4.0 once downloaded.

Splatoon’s latest update makes updates to matchmaking, Rainmaker, and stages. Some battle fixes have been implemented as well. The full patch notes are posted below.

It’s also worth mentioning that some Splatoon maintenance will be taking place tomorrow. All network services for the game will be affected at the following times:

– 4:50 PM PT – 6 PM PT
– 7:50 PM ET – 9 PM ET
– 12:50 AM in the UK (Friday) – 2 AM in the UK (Friday)
– 1:50 AM in Europe (Friday) – 3 AM in Europe (Friday)

From (approx.) Friday, 18 December 2015 00:50 to Friday, 18 December 2015 02:00.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 4 Comments

A FAST Racing Neo update is due out sometime next month. According to developer Shin’en, a mini-map of the track and online tags will be added. Stability improvements and bug fixes will be implemented as well.

Here’s the news from Shin’en:

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 2 Comments

The latest update for Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS is now live. Players of both titles can now download version 1.1.3.

With the new update, users can purchase Cloud and the Midgar stage. Additionally, Nintendo says “Adjustments have also been made to make for a more pleasant gaming experience.”

Today’s update on Wii U is 555MB to download. The 3DS version is 3,104 blocks.

Thanks to Brian for the tip.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Cube Life: Island Survival’s long-awaited 1.1 update finally has a release date in North America. Through Facebook, developer Cypronia confirmed that the patch has been scheduled for December 22.

The message reads:

Cube Life’s new update adds several new features and addresses a number of bugs/issues. You can find the full patch notes here.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments

Via Twitter, Young Horses shared news that an update is in the works for Octodad: Dadliest Catch on Wii U. Its primary purpose is to fix bugs that players have encountered.

The tweet from Young Horses is as follows:

We’ll let you know when we hear more about the update, including when it’s live.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Update (12/11): Bumped to the top. The update is now live in Europe for 3DS digital owners. Additionally, the update is 92MB.

Original (12/10): Shovel Knight’s latest update (version 2.1) which allows for new functionality with amiibo is up and running in Europe on Wii U. It will soon be out on 3DS as well, but Yacht Club Games ran into “a small road bump on the way to finalization.” We’ll have the news here when the update can be downloaded for Nintendo’s portable.

As for North America, Yacht Club Games plans to prepare Shovel Knight’s patch by January 8.

Continue on below for Shovel Knight’s 2.1 update notes. You can also find an instruction manual for amiibo here.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Matthew(@matthewburr) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 0 comments

Today (December 9) Nintendo sent out another update for the Miiverse social network. There are no major changes this time but the update does apply to all platforms (Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and web). The two main changes for the December 9th update are:

• titles can now be added to Discussion posts to make it easier for users to search through them and find ones that interest them.
• the layout of the Discussion section has been altered slightly to show more Discussions at once.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, Videos | 2 Comments

Image & Form has prepared a launch trailer for SteamWorld Heist. You can view it below.

In other news, Image & Form has revealed that a free update is in the works, and is planned for release in January. It’ll add support for French, Italian, German, Spanish and Russian language options as well as other “fun game stuff”.

Source: Image & Form PR

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