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

The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses concert series will be returning once again in 2016. Today, more dates were announced for both North America and Europe.

Here’s the full lineup:

Nashville, TN, Schermerhorn Symphony Center; January 21, 22
Boston, MA, Symphony Hall; February 23
Costa Mesa, CA, Segerstrom Center for the Arts; March 8
Toronto, ON, Sony Centre; March 19
Jacksonville, FL, Moran Theatre; March 24
Kansas City, MO, Music Hall Kansas City; March 26
Memphis, TN, The Orpheum; March 31
New Orleans, LA, Saenger Theater; April 1
Columbus, OH, Ohio Theater; April 3
Charlottesville, VA, JPJ Arena; April 8
London, UK, SSE/Wembley Arena; April 23
Guadalajara, MX, Auditorio Telmex; May 11
Monterrey, MX, Arena Monterrey; May 13
Mexico City, MX, Arena de Ciudad; May 15
San Antonio, TX, Majestic Theater; May 21
Los Angeles, CA, Dolby Theater; June 13
Austin, TX, Long Center; June 23
Montreal, QB, Place des Arts; June 25
San Francisco, CA, Davies Symphony Hall; August 21
Atlanta, GA, Cobb Perf. Arts; September 10
Edmonton, AB, Southern Jubilee; September 21
Vancouver, BC, Queen Elizabeth Theatre; September 23
Paris, FR, Palais Des Congres; October 8
Lisbon, PT, Coliseu de Lisboa; October 14
Essen, DE, Grugahalle; October 15
Chicago, IL, Chicago Auditorium; November 12

The third installment of The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, going by the “Master Quest” name, will add brand-new music and visuals from Tri Force Heroes. Fans can get a sneak-preview of this content tonight on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, where an orchestra will perform the Tri Force Heroes interlude arrangement from the symphony.

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Toys “R” Us seems to have nabbed another amiibo exclusive in the United States. On Twitter, the retailer teased that Mega Yarn Yoshi – as well as a restock of Villager – will only be available at its stores.

Here’s the relevant message:

An image surfaced yesterday of Mega Yarn Yoshi on the Toys “R” Us holiday big book. Given today’s information, it now makes sense that they’d want to feature the amiibo prominently in its promotional materials.

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

Nintendo has gone live with a new trailer for Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. Check it out below.

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

This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Download

Momonga Pinball Adventures – €5.99/£4.99

Rakoo & Friends – €9.99/£8.99

Wicked Monsters Blast! HD PLUS – €7.99/£7.19

Wii U Virtual Console

Konami Krazy Racers (GBA) – €6.99/£6.29

3DS Retail

Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden (available October 16th) – €39.99/£29.99 (Bonuses for purchasing in Nintendo eShop:
1. Download code for the game “Dragon Ball Z: Super Butoden 2” (in Japanese) for Nintendo 3DS, redeemable immediately.
2. Download code for the theme “Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden Theme” for Nintendo 3DS, redeemable immediately.)

3DS Download

Thomas and Friends Steaming Around Sodor – €24.99/£19.99

Ninja Usagimaru – The Gem of Blessings – €4.99/£4.49

3DS Demo

Ninja Usagimaru – The Gem of Blessings

Mercenaries Saga 2

3DS Themes

Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden Theme (theme available October 16th) – €1.99/£1.69

Snoopy and Woodstock (available October 16th) – €1.99/£1.79

Geronimo Stilton Reporter (available October 16th) – €1.99/£1.79

Geronimo Stilton and Trap (available October 16th) – €1.99/£1.79

Geronimo Stilton in the jungle  (available October 16th) – €1.99/£1.79

Paw Patrol: I cuccioli (available October 16th) – €1.99

Mia and Me: Mia in Centopia (available October 16th) – €1.99/£1.79

Mia and Me main characters: Mia, Mo, Yuko and Onchao (available October 16th) – €1.99/£1.79

Adventure Time: Finn (available October 16th) – €1.99/£1.79

Adventure Time: Jake (available October 16th) – €1.99/£1.79

eShop Sales

Wii U

Rock ‘N Racing Off Road – €2.99/£2.69 (Ends November 5th, normally €5.99/£5.39)

ZaciSa: Defense of the Crayon Dimensions! – €1.19/£0.90 (Ends November 5th, normally €2.99/£2.29)

3DS

10-in-1: Arcade Collection – €0.99/£0.89 (Ends November 13th, normally €1.99/£1.79)

Atlantic Quest – €5.59/£3.99 (Ends October 27th, normally €6.99/£4.99)

Castle Conqueror EX – €2.99/£2.39 (Ends November 5th, normally €3.99/£3.19)

Crazy Kangaroo – €0.99/£0.89 (Ends November 13th, normally €1.99/£1.89)

Dress To Play: Cute Witches! – €1.99/£1.79 (Ends October 29th, normally €3.99/£3.59)

Dress To Play: Magic Bubbles! – €1.99/£1.79 (Ends October 29th, normally €3.99/£3.59)

Fairune – €1.99/£1.59 (Ends October 29th, normally €2.99/£2.50)

Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH! – €2.20/£1.85 (Ends November 5th, normally €2.99/£2.50)

Hazumi – €1.29/£0.99 (Ends November 13th, normally €2.69/£1.99)

League of Heroes – €1.99/£1.79 (Ends November 13th, normally €3.99/£3.59)

Monster Shooter – €1.99/£1.60 (Ends November 13th, normally €4.00/£3.20)

Parking Star – €1.99/£1.25 (Ends November 5th, normally €2.99/£2.49)

Pick-A-Gem – €1.49/£1.29 (Ends November 13th, normally €2.99/£2.69)

PIX3D- €1.99/£1.79 (Ends November 13th, normally €3.99/£3.59)

Rage of the Gladiator – €3.49/£3.09 (Ends November 13th, normally €6.99/£6.29)

SpeedX 3D – €1.49/£1.29 (Ends November 13th, normally €2.99/£2.69)

SpeedXD 3D Hyper Edition – €0.99/£0.89 (Ends November 13th, normally €1.99/£1.79)

Undead Bowling – €5.59/£3.99 (Ends October 27th, normally €6.99/£4.99)

Zombie Panic in Wonderland DX – €4.99/£4.49 (Ends November 12th, normally €7.00/£6.30)

Permanent price drops

Nintendo Selects line – From October 16th on, the following first party titles are dropping in price from €44.99 / £39.99 / CHF 57.90 to €19.99 / £15.99 / CHF 24.90.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

Star Fox 64 3D

nintendogs + cats Golden Retriever & New Friends

nintendogs + cats French Bulldog & New Friends

nintendogs + cats Toy Poodle & New Friends

Mario Tennis Open

Yoshi’s New Island

Mario Party: Island Tour

Source: Nintendo PR

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This week’s UK software sales are as follows:

Individual formats

All formats

Source 1, Source 2

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The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes features over 30 costumes that can be accessed through normal play. But there’s one that is only obtained by teaming up with friends locally.

When playing local multiplayer (including Download Play), you’ll receive an item called the “proof of friendship”. You’ll get one “proof” per friend’s system. A currently unspecified amount is needed in order to obtain the special costume.

Speaking with Japanese website 4Gamer, Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma and Tri Force Heroes director Hiromasa Shikata explained that the team thought they should make a reward for those people for play locally. Head past the break for our translation of the interview excerpt.

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Update: First look at battles in the game:

Atlus debuted the first Shin Megami Tensei IV Final trailer during a live stream event today. Watch it below.

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Last month’s issue of GamesMaster contains an interview with well-known Nintendo developer Takashi Tezuka. There were a few interesting topics that we wanted to highlight.

First, here’s what Tezuka said when asked about why Mario resonates so well with people and the key to his longtime success:

“Personally, I think that even before people come to like Mario as a character, it’s the gameplay of Super Mario that really resonates with them. We created Super Mario Bros paying close attention to intuitive feelings – things that anyone in the world can relate to – which users feel through the gameplay; running is fun, jumping high is something you want to do, falling is scary and spikes hurt you if you touch them, etc.

I think it all started with how the gameplay resonated with players. From there it’s been how we’ve continued to make Mario games for so long, and all the work we have put into making sure that Mario is never used in an inappropriate way, that has allowed him to slowly become such a well-loved character.”

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 10 Comments

Europe’s sixth Splatfest in Splatoon is now confirmed for next weekend, though it may look familiar to some. The topic is cats vs. dogs, which was actually the very first Splatfest in North America.

Europe’s new Splatfest will begin at 7 PM in Europe / 6 PM in the UK on October 17. It will last for a full day.

Here’s the official news straight from Nintendo of Europe’s Twitter account:

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

Pokemon Go was announced last month. We saw a trailer and received some information, but we don’t really know how the game will play. That should be changing very soon though. Niantic representative Evan Dexter told Slate a couple of weeks ago that more information would be shared in “mid-October”. It’s October 10 today, so an update shouldn’t be too far off.

Dexter said:

“We’re not quite ready to talk in more depth about Pokémon GO than what was revealed in the announcement press release and assets. Come mid-October we’ll be able to start going into more depth about our plans for the game, and about our plans for real world gaming overall.”

Pokemon Go is a new smartphone game coming from The Pokemon Company, Niantic, and Nintendo. It makes use of “real location information to encourage players to search far and wide in the real world to discover Pokemon.” The title is arriving sometime in 2016.

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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