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This weeks Wii U/3DS specific UK software sales are as follows:

Wii U

1. Mario Part 10 – Nintendo

2. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo

3. Super Smash Bros. – Nintendo

4. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – Nintendo

5. Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo

6. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo

7. Hyrule Warriors – Nintendo

8. FIFA 13 – EA Sports

9. Lego Marvel Super Heroes – Traveller’s Tales

10. Disney Infinity 2.0 – Avalanche Software

3DS

1. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – Nintendo

2. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – Capcom

3. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo

4. Super Smash Bros. – Nintendo

5. Pokemon Omega Ruby – Nintendo

6. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire – Nintendo

7. Pokemon Y – Nintendo

8. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Wolrds – Nintendo

9. Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo

10. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo

Source: Chart-Track

This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Retail

Trine Enchanted Edition – €12.99/£10.99 (€10.39/£8.79 if you own Trine 2: Director’s Cut)

Wii U Download

Suspension Railroad Simulator – €7.99/£5.99

Wii U Virtual Console

Mega Man Zero – €6.99/£6.29

3DS Retail

Inazuma Eleven GO Chrono Stones: Wildfire (available March 27) – €39.99/£34.99

Inazuma Eleven GO Chrono Stones: Thunderflash (available March 27) – €39.99/£34.99

LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin (available March 27) – €39.99/£29.99

SpongeBob HeroPants – £19.99

Best Friends – My Horse 3D – €29.99/£24.99

3DS Download

Jet Dog – €7.99/£7.19

Excave – €4.99/£4.49

Adventure Bar Story – €4.99/£3.99

eShop Sales

Wii U

Angry Bunnies: Colossal Carrot Crusade – €3.14/£2.69 (Ends April 23, regular price €6.99/£5.99)

Cake Ninja 3: The Legend Continues – €3.69/£3.33 (Ends April 23, regular price €4.99/£4.49)

Color Zen – €2.24/£2.24 (Ends April 23, regular price €2.99/£2.99)

Color Zen Kids – €2.24/£2.24 (Ends April 23, regular price €2.99/£2.99)

My Style Studio: Hair Salon – €3.74/£3.35 (Ends April 23, regular price €4.99/£4.49)

99Seconds – €1.49/£1.34 (Ends April 23, regular price €2.49/£2.29)

Darts Up – €1.49/£1.34 (Ends April 23, regular price €2.49/£2.29)

TNT Racers – Nitro Machines Edition – €4.99/£4.49 (Ends April 9, regular price €7.99/£6.99)

Paper Monsters Recut – €3.29/£2.79 (Ends April 9, regular price €6.49/£5.49)

Zen Pinball 2: South Park Pinball (Add-on Content) – €2.49/£1.99 (Ends April 2, regular price €4.99/£3.99)

3DS

Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars – €14.99/£13.49 (Ends April 9, regular price €29.99/£24.99)

Shin Megami Tensei IV – €9.99/£8.99 (Ends April 9, regular price €19.99/£17.99)

Asterix The Mansions of the Gods – €19.99/£16.99 (Ends April 9, regular price €34.99/£29.99)

Comic Workshop – €4.49/£3.99 (Ends April 16, regular price €5.99/£5.39)

Painting Workshop – €2.99/£2.69 (Ends April 16, regular price €3.99/£3.59)

Angry Bunnies – €2.92/£2.69 (Ends April 23, regular price €6.49/£5.99)

Bubble Pop World – €3.74/£3.35 (Ends April 23, regular price €4.99/£4.49)

Color Zen – €2.24/£2.24 (Ends April 23, regular price €2.99/£2.99)

Color Zen Kids – €2.24/£2.24 (Ends April 23, regular price €2.99/£2.99)

Fishdom H20: Hidden Odyssey – €3.74/£3.35 (Ends April 23, regular price €4.99/£4.49)

My Style Studio: Hair Salon – €3.74/£3.35 (Ends April 23, regular price €4.99/£4.49)

Darts Up 3D – €1.49/£1.34 (Ends April 23, regular price €2.99/£2.69)

Football Up Online – €2.99/£2.69 (Ends April 23, regular price €3.99/£3.59)

3D MahJongg – €3.59/£3.19 (Ends April 9, regular price €4.99/£4.49)

Atlantic Quest – €4.99/£3.59 (Ends April 9, regular price €6.99/£4.99)

Crazy Construction – €4.99/£3.59 (Ends April 9, regular price €6.99/£4.99)

Undead Bowling  – €4.99/£3.59 (Ends April 9, regular price €6.99/£4.99)

Snow Moto Racing 3D – €3.99/£3.59 (Ends April 9, regular price €7.99/£7.19)

World Conqueror 3D (CIRCLE Ent.) – £3.99 (Permanent, was £4.49)

Permanent Price Drop

World Conqueror 3D – £3.99 (was £4.49)

Source: Nintendo PR

Yesterday, a short video surfaced in which Masahiro Sakurai stated that Mewtwo DLC for Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS was nearly finished and will be released “pretty soon”. But that wasn’t the only significant piece of information shared by Sakurai.

According to Sakurai, Takamaru from The Mysterious Murasame Castle was initially considered as a fighter for the new Smash Bros. entries. Unfortunately, he didn’t make the cut due to the perceived lack of familiarity among Nintendo fans. This took place before development on Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS actually began.

We’ll also mention that Sakurai is aware of the crazy Miiverse requests for fighters, like Goku and SpongeBob. Naturally, there’s no way such characters would make it into Smash Bros.

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This week’s issue of Famitsu has a big update on Rodea: The Sky Soldier. The magazine introduces the “R series” of humanoid robots, new characters, and more.

R Series

One portion of Famitsu’s article reveals information about the “R series”. This is a series of humanoid robots with the power of flight.

The emperor of Naga empire, Giado, launched the “R project” to produce robots to use as a spearhead in invading other countries. Rodea has lost the memory of that event, and is now protecting the people of Garuda by confronting his former allies. Rodea was a prototype, so the other members of the R series are more powerful.

Speaking of Giado, Famitsu has a couple of tidbits about the character. He was formerly a good father of Cecilia. That all changes, and he has since enhanced his body with machine parts.

Below is the full rundown of the R series:

KnapNok Games has sent us another screenshot from its upcoming Wii U exclusive title Affordable Space Adventures. Check out the new image above, and view the official description below.

Solving puzzles is one of the core gameplay elements of Affordable Space Adventures. While some of them might seem easy at first (you still have to be able to control the SmallCraft alone or collaborating with friends) things will soon get more complicated as you put all of the ship’s systems to good use.

Of course all this without alerting the nearby artifacts that might try to attack you if you produce too much heat, noise or electricity.

Get your Wii U console ready! Affordable Space Adventures launches on April 9.

System: Nintendo 3DS
Release: February 10, 2015
Developer: Access Games
Publisher: Bandai Namco

Author: Vincent W.

For those who aren’t aware, I’m not what you’d consider an action fan. While most people love to sit back and cause explosions and mayhem, I’ll typically be found cutting grass in the fields of Hyrule and unleashing my Wii Fit Trainer fury in Smash Bros. The last game I thought I would find myself enjoying was an aerial combat simulator, but with Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy+, I loved flying through the skies with my highly fashionable Princess Peach-skinned jet and saving the world. However, this title holds one fatal flaw that made every neat looking explosion feel not quite as awesome in the long run.

The latest edition of Famitsu DS+Wii has started to make its way out to readers in Japan, and there’s a noteworthy inclusion in the magazine. Towards the end, there is a tease regarding a big announcement about a major upcoming title for Nintendo systems. Sadly, there isn’t much said about this, but we’ll be hearing about it in the next issue of Famitsu DS+Wii.

Some Japanese news websites have speculated that the announcement could be related to Dragon Quest news teased by V-Jump. In a blog post on Dragon Quest X, V-Jump mentioned upcoming news on the series, saying that something concrete would be announced soon. Given that Dragon Quest X is available for the Wii U and 3DS, perhaps the announcement is for an expansion or new game in the series. Others have speculated that the news is related to Level-5’s Vision 2015 event early next month, which promises a look at upcoming titles like Yo-Kai Watch 3 and Fantasy Life 2.

Whether or not these rumors are related remains to be seen, and we’ll likely have to keep on speculating on any future announcements until next month’s Famitsu DS+Wii goes on sale.

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Winners are in! Congratulations to Van Nostrom, Tom, Derek, Pedro Capello, and Link Floyd. We’ll be sending our codes tomorrow!

Thanks a ton to all who entered! This isn’t the end of giveaways, so we’ll have more opportunities for you all to enter in the future.


Elliot Quest launches this Thursday on the Wii U eShop, and we have five codes to hand out to you guys (thanks Max Criden!). Just leave a comment in this post and tell us about your favorite 2D action RPGs. We may give more consideration to those who put effort into their submissions. Note that the code will only work on a North American Wii U console.

Winners will be announced on Friday. Good luck to you all!

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SEGA has been releasing several 3DS themes in Japan based on classic consoles. Two more came out this week: one based on the SG-1000, and another for the Dreamcast.

How’d SEGA go about making these themes anyway? Photos from the company’s Yosuke Okunari provide some interesting insight. Through pictures shared on Okunari’s Twitter account, it’s revealed that SEGA actually used the old consoles in recording sounds for the themes.

Specifically regarding the SG-1000 3DS theme, Okunari commented:

We wanted to recreate the short “Buu” sound when turning on the console for the SG-1000 theme and so we brought the console to the studio for recording. However, that sound varies depending on the software so we started up roughly 20 games and chose the one which sounded the most authentic.

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Masahiro Sakurai, director of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, provided an updated on the upcoming Mewtwo DLC at a recent event in Japan. Thankfully, it sounds like it won’t be too much longer before the character becomes available.

Sakurai said that work on Mewtwo “is pretty much done” and the DLC will be released “pretty soon.” Fans are advised to wait for an announcement from Nintendo.


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