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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

3DS Download

The Legend of Dark Witch – Chronicle 2D ACT – €3.99 / £3.49 / CHF4.80
WRC FIA World Rally Championship The Official Game – €34.99 / £29.99 / CHF44.90
Riding Star 3D – €29.99 / £24.99 / CHF38.90
Christmas Wonderland 4 – €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF7.00
Mindfeud – €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF6.99

3DS Demo

Urban Trial Freestyle Demo – Free

3DS DLC

Shin Megami Tensei IV: Radiant Equipment – €0.99 / £0.75 / CHF1.20
Shin Megami Tensei IV: For the Past… For the Future – €1.99 / £1.59 / CHF2.40
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Sub-Persona: Thanatos – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Sub-Persona: Magatsu-Izanagi – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Sub-Persona: Orpheus Telos – free

Wii U Download

Cake Ninja 3 – €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF6.99

Wii U Demo

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric demo – free

Wii U Virtual Console

Crash ‘n the Boys Street Challenge – €4.99 / £3.49 / CHF7.00
S.C.A.T. – €4.99 / £3.49 / CHF7.00
Shadow of the Ninja – €4.99 / £3.49 / CHF7.00

3DS Virtual Console

S.C.A.T. – €4.99 / £3.49 / CHF7.00
Shadow of the Ninja – €4.99 / £3.49 / CHF7.00

3DS Themes

A Merry Mario Holiday – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Animal Crossing: New Leaf Jingle’s Toy Day – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Amy Rose Theme – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Chao Theme – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Sonic the Hedgehog – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Shadow the Hedgehog – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80

Special Offers

Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two – €17.49 / £14.99 / CHF21.90 until 11.12.2014, 23:59 UTC. Regular price is €34.99 / £29.99 / CHF49.99
Fit Music for Wii U – €14.90 / £12.40 / CHF19.40 until 30.01.2015, 23:59 UTC. Regular price is €29.90 / £24.90 / CHF38.90
Luv Me Buddies Wonderland – €14.90 / £12.40 / CHF19.40 until 30.01.2015, 23:59 UTC. Regular price is €29.90 / £24.90 / CHF38.90
DuckTales Remastered – €7.49 / £5.99 / CHF10.50 until 11.12.2014, 23:59 UTC. Regular price is €14.99 / £11.99 / CHF21.00
Abyss – €1.49 / £1.34 / CHF2.10 until 25.12.2014, 23:59 UTC. Regular price is €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
99Seconds – €1.49 / £1.34 / CHF2.10 until 25.12.2014, 23:59 UTC. Regular price is €2.49 / £2.29 / CHF3.50
Crash City Mayhem – €7.99 / £6.99 / CHF11.00 until 18.12.2014, 23:59 UTC. Regular price is €19.99 / £17.99 / CHF28.00
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked – €11.99 / £9.99 / CHF16.00 until 18.12.2014, 23:59 UTC. Regular price is €34.99 / £29.99 / CHF44.90
Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion – €9.99 / £8.99 / CHF14.00 until 11.12.2014, 23:59 UTC. Regular price is €19.99 / £17.99 / CHF28.00

Source: Nintendo PR

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Site updates | 65 Comments

Update: Max has now sent along the winners!

For North America, we have…

MadCrain
Kody B.
HigiCura

And Europe:

Beta
Giovanni “Frulla” Moglia
MrLip

We’ll be in touch with the codes shortly. As always, thanks to those who entered!

It’s time for another giveaway! With the launch of Thomas Was Alone on the Wii U eShop this week, we’re ready to hand out six codes (thanks Max Criden and Curve Studios!). We have three codes for North America and three for Europe.

To enter, leave a comment below about a game whose story emotionally affected you (note: please specify your region in your comment!). We’ll give more consideration to those who put some effort into their post, as it’s only fair! That being said, we’re not expecting you to write a novel or anything – far from that!

We’ll let this latest giveaway run through Saturday. Good luck to everyone!

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 19 Comments

The last Zelda game, Skyward Sword, featured visuals inspired by impressionistic paintings. The new Zelda game for Wii U also takes inspiration from another source.

Producer Eiji Aonuma told Famitsu in an interview earlier this month:

“Everyone has been imitating this (snaps fingers) (laughs). I was told by many people that it was ‘beautiful.’ I thought about various ways to make the graphical style fit the vast new Zelda world; imitating the real world attached an important feeling of realism, and making it look different to the past [Zelda titles], this was done by drawing inspiration from Japanese animations.”

We’ll next be seeing Zelda Wii U at next year’s E3. The game itself is expected to launch sometime in 2015.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 13 Comments

Game Informer published the “Smash Bros. Diaries” from director Masahiro Sakurai in its previous two issues. Most of what has been shared thus far is rehash from Sakurai’s Famitsu columns, but this month’s entry does have some very noteworthy quotes.

One of the questions Sakurai addresses: “You’ve talked about how you select characters, but why does the roster continue to expand with each release?”

Sakurai starts out by stating how when he works on Smash Bros. – or any other project for that matter – he puts in his full effort. “I throw my body and soul into every project with the mindset that this is the last one,” he says. This has led to a huge amount of characters and features “where it’s almost an impossible quantity to work with.”

Characters are remade in each Smash Bros. release since there are different development studios working on the games. There is also a higher development cost per character “since it takes work to give characters a wide dynamic range while still sticking to their backstories”.

All in all, Sakurai calls the entire process “relentless.”

If you’re interested in checking out Sakurai’s full comments, head past the break.

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

A few new tweets were added to the Japanese Xenoblade Chronicles X Twitter account earlier today. Director Tetsuya Takahashi shared an update on the game’s artists (which extends to the alien races) and script. For the new information, take a look at the summary below.

– Aside from Kunihiko Tanaka’s designs, the team has many other artists working on different types of designs
– Different alien races in the game
– Wants to really bring out the various unique characteristics in their cultures
– For the graphics in the game to be able to reflect the different cultures, they have different artists fleshing out the details in the design phase
– We’ve apparently seen one of the unannounced races on the early tease site from Monolith Soft
– The script isn’t written by Yuichiro Takeda alone
– Compared to Xenoblade, this time there’s a lot more text to handle
– Kazuho Hyodo (an anime script writer) was brought in to help with the workload
– Since he has much experience with sci-fi works, Takahashi is not worried
– Some design staff will be introduced next week

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Posted on 10 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in News, Screenshots, Wii U | 1 Comment

European Smashers, the wait is finally over! It’s been a long week but the release has finally come. In addition to rejoicing that fact, Sakurai talks a bit about the Wrecking Crew stage, exclusive to Wii U:

he continues:

You might get stuck inside a metal barrel that falls from above. Players can attack you while you’re stuck, so get yourself out by mashing buttons.

With both Smash Wii U / 3DS now out in both Europe and North America, this will be our last ever daily screenshot post! If you want to keep up with the remainder of Sakurai’s posts you can do so on the Miiverse page here. It’s definitely been a fun ride up to launch but now all that’s left to do is enjoy the games!

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 2 Comments

Nintendo is pulling two Tetris games from the European 3DS eShop at the very end of this year. You have until December 31 to purchase the 3DS retail game Tetris as well as the classic Virtual Console release.

It’s unclear why the Tetris titles are being removed at this time. As far as we know, there are no similar plans for North America.

Thanks to Simonsskidor for the tip.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 13 Comments

Back in late June, Nintendo filed a patent in the US for “Hand-held Video Game Platform Emulation”. The application was just made public today.

The core of Nintendo’s patent is about Game Boy emulation on mobile phones, PDA’s, PC, and other devices. Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance are all mentioned in the filing.

Here’s the official abstract, which should give you a pretty good idea about what this entire thing is about:

A software emulator for emulating a handheld video game platform such as GAME BOY.RTM., GAME BOY COLOR.RTM. and/or GAME BOY ADVANCE.RTM. on a low-capability target platform (e.g., a seat-back display for airline or train use, a personal digital assistant, a cell phone) uses a number of features and optimizations to provide high quality graphics and sound that nearly duplicates the game playing experience on the native platform. Some exemplary features include use of bit BLITing, graphics character reformatting, modeling of a native platform liquid crystal display controller using a sequential state machine, and selective skipping of frame display updates if the game play falls behind what would occur on the native platform.

You can find some images from the patent below. If you’d like to check out the full filing, head on over to this link. Keep in mind that patents often are filed, but are never acted upon.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 11 Comments

Remember those retailer exclusive Hyrule Warriors costumes? By pre-ordering the game at Amazon, Best Buy, or GameStop, players could receive Link and Zelda costumes based on Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, and Ocarina of Time respectively.

Koei Tecmo has now revealed that these costumes will be available for purchase – at least in Japan – starting on December 18.

Here’s the full breakdown of content:

“Courage” Costume Set

– 400 yen
– Includes Skyward Sword, Twilight Princess, and Ocarina of Time Link costumes

“Wisdom” Costume Set

– 400 yen
– Includes Skyward Sword, Twilight Princess, and Ocarina of Time Zelda costumes

“Power” Costume Set

– 300 yen
– Includes Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time Ganondorf costumes

Nintendo hasn’t said anything about selling this DLC in the west, but I’d say it’s likely that the costumes will be offered in North America and Europe next month as well.

Thanks to David S for the tip.

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Posted on 10 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 Download

Thomas Was Alone
GetClose: A game for RIVALS
Shiny the Firefly
Heptrix

Wii U Virtual Console

Mario Pinball Land
Mighty Final Fight

3DS Retail

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

3DS Download

Mighty Gunvolt (available Friday)
Chat-A-Lot
My First Songs
My Life on a Farm 3D

3DS Virtual Console

Mighty Final Fight

3DS Demos

Ohno Odyssey
AiRace Xeno

eShop Sales

The Nintendo eShop Cyber Deals will let you save up to 30 percent each on 10 select games from Thursday, Nov. 27, at 9 a.m. PT until Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 8:59 a.m. PT. Visit www.nintendo.com/eShop-cyber-deals for more information. Plus, don’t forget to check out discounts on other great games! Head to the Nintendo eShop on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS and look under “Price Drops” to find out more about these great deals.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is on sale for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec. 1.
Nintendo eShop on Wii U

Rock Zombie is more than 10 percent off (reduced from $6.99 to $5.99) starting at 9 a.m. PT on Nov. 27 until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec. 4.

ZaciSa’s Last Stand is 25 percent off (reduced from $1.99 to $1.49) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Jan. 7.

Code of Princess is 50 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $14.99) starting at 9 a.m. PT on Dec. 1 until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec. 15.

Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars is more than 30 percent off (reduced from $39.99 to $24.99) starting at starting at 9 a.m. PT on Dec. 1 until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec. 15.

Azure Striker GUNVOLT is more than 30 percent off (reduced from $14.99 to $9.99) starting at 9 a.m. PT on Nov. 28 until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec. 15.

Farming Simulator 3D is 50 percent off (reduced from $9.99 to $4.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec 11.

Farming Simulator 14 is more than 30 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $19.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec. 11.

Parking Star 3D is over 30 percent off (reduced from $2.99 to $1.99) until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec. 18.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies is 50 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $14.99) starting at 9 a.m. PT on Nov. 26 until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec 2.

Chain Blaster, Crazy Construction and other games from G-Style are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec. 31.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked is 50 percent off (reduced from $29.99 to $14.99) starting at 9 a.m. PT on Dec 1. Until 8:59 a.m. PT on Dec. 8.

Miiverse

Spend Thanksgiving holiday with your family fans in the Turkey Fest community on Miiverse. From Nov. 21 to Dec. 1, you’ll be able to join in all kinds of special events such as tournaments, polls and challenges featuring Nintendo games and characters. And what better time to bowl a turkey in Wii Sports Club Bowling? Don’t miss out on tons of fun activities featuring Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Mario Kart 8, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Fantasy Life and Pokémon Art Academy. Also be sure to join our Miiverse Turkey Fest tournament in Mario Kart 8 using the new DLC Pack 1 this Thanksgiving weekend. The tournament code is 2593-0985-4929.

Source: Nintendo PR

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