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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 26 Comments

NPD Group has released a listing of the top ten best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of May 2015. The results can be found below.

1. The Witcher III: Wild Hunt (PS4, Xbox One, PC)
2. Mortal Kombat X (PS4, Xbox One)
3. Grand Theft Auto V (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3, PC)
4. Minecraft (360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4)
5. Splatoon (Wii U)
6. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (PS4, 360, Xbox One, PS3, PC)
7. NBA 2K15 (360, PS4, Xbox One, PS3, PC)
8. FIFA 15 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3, Wii , 3DS, Vita)
9. MLB 15: The Show (PS4, PS3)
10. Super Smash Bros. (3DS, Wii U)

We don’t have any numbers, but this seems like quite a good debut for Splatoon. Remember, it launched at the very end of May!

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 3 Comments

The latest Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Kickstater update covers a unique character as well as confirmation of two new stretch goals that have been reached.

Regarding Shovel Knight, Yacht Club Games has signed off on featuring the character in some fashion. We don’t know what exactly is planned just yet, however.

The team behind Bloodstained writes in its latest Kickstarter update:

Remember Natsume’s Shovel Knight fanart from earlier in the campaign? It’s been about a decade, in Kickstarter years, so I’ll refresh your memory (see above).

We’ve got good news: Inti Creates and Yacht Club Games have agreed that Natsume’s reimagining of their hero feels right at home in the demon castle!

They won’t tell us any more than that, but when the game comes out remember that you might bump into this guy in a crowded corridor somewhere. Who knows what might happen after that?

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 10 Comments

Atlus has officially announced that the company is bringing The Legend of Legacy to the west. In North America, the game is due out this fall.

Continue on below for some screenshots from The Legend of Legacy. You’ll also find a comprehensive overview after the break.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 13 Comments

During its first week, Splatoon experienced one of the highest sell-through rates ever in Japan. That number came in at 97.33 percent, which was a sign that the game was almost impossible to find in all stores.

Splatoon has now been on the market for a second week and has yet to show any signs of slowing down. As stated in a Dengeki report, the shooter sold nearly 70,000 copies with a sell-through rate of 90 percent between June 1 and June 7. Media Create’s information will probably vary just slightly, but this is a sign that consumers are still very much interested in Splatoon.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 3 Comments

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Retail

LEGO Jurassic World – $49.99 (available Friday)

Wii U Virtual Console

Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town – $6.99

3DS Retail

LEGO Jurassic World – $29.99 (available Friday)

3DS Download

Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure – $8.99
Swords & Darkness – $6.99
Ninja Usagimaru: The Gem of Blessings – $4.99
Japanese Rail Sim 3D Journey in Suburbs #1 – $9.99
My Zoo Vet Practice 3D – $4.99

3DS Demos

BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma
Japanese Rail Sim 3D Journey in Suburbs #1
Ninja Usagimaru: The Gem of Blessings
Swords & Darkness

DSiWare

G.G Series THE HIDDEN NINJA KAGEMARU – $1.99
G.G Series SHADOW ARMY – $1.99
G.G Series CONVEYOR TOY PACKING – $1.99
G.G Series ALL BREAKER – $1.99

eShop Sales

Wii U/3DS

– Citizens of Earth (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) is 50 percent off (reduced from $14.99 to $7.49) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on June 15 until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 22.
– Lone Survivor: The Director’s Cut, OlliOlli (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) and more games from Curve Digital are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 25.

Wii U

– Cubemen 2 is 43 percent off (reduced from $7.99 to $4.49) until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 25.
– PING 1.5+ is 40 percent off (reduced from $4.99 to $2.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 25.
– Zacisa’s Last Stand is 40 percent off (reduced from $1.99 to $1.19) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 9.

3DS

– Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl is 50 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $14.99) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on June 15 until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 22.
– Family Tennis 3D, Family Table Tennis 3D and more games from Arc System Works are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 25.
– 3D Game Collection, Funfair Party Games and Murder on the Titanic from Joindots are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 25.

Price Reductions

Wii U

– Ice Cream Surfer is now $2.50 (reduced from $5).

3DS

– Bowling Bonanza 3D is reduced to $3.99 (from $5.99).
– Gummy Bears Magical Medallion and Gummy Bears Mini Golf are reduced to $3.99 (from $5.99)
– Johnny Dynamite is reduced to $3.99 (from $4.99)

Source: Nintendo PR

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS, News | 2 Comments

Sales of the 3DS have surpassed 15 million units in the United States, Nintendo announced today. In doing so, it’s become the eighth system in the company’s history to reach this feat.

Super Mario 3D Land, Pokemon X, Pokemon y, Mario Kart 7, and Super Smash Bros. for 3DS have all sold more than 2 million copies in the U.S.

Nintendo says that, through the first six months of 2015, 3DS hardware sales have risen by more than 50 percent over sales in the same period in 2014. The system’s growth comes in large part due to the launch of the New 3DS XL, which shipped in mid-February.

Nintendo has sold nearly 270 million units of hardware since the NES debuted in the fall of 1985 – almost 145 million units of handhelds, and another 125 million home console units.

Head past the break to read up on today’s announcement in full.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 22 Comments

Armature Studio is responsible for bringing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night to Wii U. This means that the company will be working with Unreal Engine 4 in its port for Nintendo’s console. It’s a pretty big deal, as Bloodstained may end up as one of the first titles to be running on Unreal Engine 4 on Wii U.

Armature has now announced that, following Bloodstained’s launch, the team will share the Unreal Engine 4 code it’s using on Wii U. Other developers will be able to access this at no extra cost. Maybe it will pave the way for further Unreal Engine 4-made games on Wii U.

Armature wrote in a Bloodstained Kickstarter update:

“Hi Bloodstained backers – Armature here with another update. It turns out that a people have shown a ton of interest in our plan to port UE4 to the WiiU and PS Vita. Since they’re not officially supported platforms, it’s going to be a lot of work to get Bloodstained and UE4 on these platforms, but we are up to the challenge.

Since the community got these platforms off the ground, we figure that it’s best to let the community have them back when we’re done. As a result, after the release of Bloodstained we will share, for free, the UE4 WiiU and Vita code with any developer authorized to develop on those platforms! Thank you all very much for this opportunity!”

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 18 Comments

AlphaBeatic has gone live with a new interview featuring Nintendo Canada general manager Pierre-Paul Trepanier. There’s a lot of talk specific to Canda, but the whole interview has some neat insights as a whole.

Trepanier talked Wii U and 3DS sales, Splatoon’s performance thus far, and even teased some “interesting partnerships” that we’ll apparently be hearing about soon.

We’ve posted a good portion of the Q&A below. There are a few more questions and answers on AlphaBeatic here.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 0 comments

Rodea: The Sky Soldier’s overseas release won’t be launching in September as originally announced. NIS America has delayed the game about a month, and it will now ship in October.

Rodea: The Sky Soldier is due out in North America on October 13. The European launch is scheduled for October 16.

Along with today’s updated release date, NIS America announced a launch edition for the 3DS version of Rodea: The Sky Soldier in North America. This features a collector’s box and original soundtrack. As previously announced, those who pick up an initial copy of Rodea on Wii U will receive the original Wii title as a bonus.

Source: NIS America PR

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 6 Comments

Nintendo will soon be restocking a pair of amiibo in North America. Pit, along with the Wii Fit Trainer, are returning in “limited quantities.”

Nintendo of America just posted the following message to its Twitter account:

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