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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Podcast Stories, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments

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

Wii U Retail

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – $49.99

Wii U Virtual Console

Ice Hockey – $4.99

3DS Download

Weapon Shop de Omasse – $7.99
Kung Fu Rabbit – $4.99
Quell Reflect – $3.99

3DS Virtual Console

Sky Kid – $4.99

Inazuma Eleven Episodes

To celebrate the recent release of INAZUMA ELEVEN, check out the first three full-length episodes of the INAZUMA ELEVEN anime for free in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS. The INAZUMA ELEVEN game is a world-renowned soccer RPG that lets you build your team, learn spectacular super moves and take your character all the way to the top.

Source: Nintendo PR

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 1 Comment

A new update has been applied on Miiverse today. No major functionality has been added, but there are a trio of changes.

First, for all versions of Miiverse, users can follow/unfollow others directly from the Followers page. Also for all versions, an icon of a screenshot with an X will appear when posting in an area where it’s not possible to attach screenshots. And lastly, the Wii U version of Miiverse now features an icon below posted videos to play them in high quality.

You can find the full update notes from Miiverse’s Marty below.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 7 Comments

This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:

1. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters 2 – 118,427 – 562,083
2. [WIU] Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – 35,717 / NEW
3. [3DS] A-Train 3D – 27,009 / NEW
4. [3DS] Kirby Triple Deluxe – 23,017 / 440,131
5. [3DS] Youkai Watch – 22,230 / 423,836
6. [3DS] Magi: A New World – 15,793 / NEW
7. [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons Z – 15,462 / 1,359,241
8. [3DS] Puyo Puyo Tetris – 13,717 / 58,345
9. [PS3] Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. Full Boost – 13,704 / 313,291
10. [3DS] Pokemon X/Y – 12,750 / 3,950,322
11. [PS3] Diablo III – 7,345 / 62,277
12. [WIU] Super Mario 3D World – 6,952 / 489,596
13. [PS3] Sengoku Basara 4 – 6,611 / 224,094
14. [PSV] Terraria – 6,245 / 21,315
15. [PS3] GTA V – 5,904 / 707,610
16. [3DS] Sentouchuu Densetsu no Shinobi to Survival Battle – 5,450 / 270,846
17. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 5,75 / 3,672,543
18. [3DS] Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind – 5,273 / 248,079
19. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 – 5,103 / 3,219,168
20. [3DS] Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – 4,785 / 377,432

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 7 Comments

The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

3DS LL – 27,650
Vita – 17,081
3DS – 12,066
PS3 – 10,226
Wii U – 8,782
PSP – 2,944
Vita TV – 1,267
Xbox 360 – 256

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

3DS LL – 36,306
Vita – 16,951
3DS – 12,002
PS3 – 10,240
Wii U – 7,180
PSP – 2,948
Vita TV – 1,331
Xbox 360 – 194

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Screenshots | 1 Comment

Along with today’s screenshot, Sakurai passed along the following message on Miiverse:

This dog is huge… Wait, no, the playable characters are small. The Smash Bros. series doesn’t always stay true to scale.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 6 Comments

Care to see Youkai Watch in North America and Europe? Level-5 wants to know.

On Twitter, the official Level-5 International America account wrote:

Perhaps with enough interest, we’ll eventually see Youkai Watch – the game, anime, or both – overseas.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 12 Comments

The Year of Luigi is finally coming to an end next month. Shigeru Miyamoto posted a message on Miiverse earlier today and confirmed that the festivities will conclude on March 18.

With the year-long event’s end, Nintendo is closing off the Year of Luigi Miiverse Community and its Developers’ Room to new post and comments. Miyamoto is asking fans to leave a few words for Luigi on his post as a means of bringing closure.

You can find Miyamoto’s message in full below.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Patrick(@Patricklous) in 3DS, DS, Famicompendium, Features | 3 Comments

Hey everyone, how was your Valentine’s Day? Maybe you spent the day with your loved ones; maybe you spent it devouring chocolate. Personally I spent the day slaving over a Word document, trying my hardest to convey my true feelings on a truly bizarre romance. No, I wasn’t writing some kind of love letter – I was musing on Konami’s hella heteronormative “girlfriend simulator”, LovePlus. Games tend to stay away from handling romantic relationships, especially when compared to other mediums, so I was curious to see if this Nintendo DS title was really as original (and weird) as I’d heard. So can love truly blossom between a grown man and a DS cartridge?

The answer to that question is no. Absolutely not. But as someone who is fascinated in the potential of games to blend narrative and gameplay in developing fictional relationships, LovePlus is an incredibly interesting, albeit flawed take on interactive romance.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, General Nintendo, News | 14 Comments

Nicalis isn’t done trying to bring The Binding of Isaac to Nintendo platforms. Founder Tyrone Rodriguez, writing on Twitter, said yesterday that he still hasn’t “given up on” finding a way to make a version happen for the big N’s systems (presumably 3DS at the very least).

Rodriguez’s tweet in full:

One of the main obstacles preventing a release of The Binding of Isaac on Nintendo platforms is the game’s religious aspects. Nintendo won’t approve it due to this content.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 0 comments

Activision has officially announced Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, set to release on various formats in June.

Here’s the game’s official overview:

Serving as a follow-up to both the upcoming TRANSFORMERS live-action film and Activision’s TRANSFORMERS: WAR FOR CYBERTRON and TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON titles, TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE DARK SPARK jumps worlds and factions as it weaves the tale of the hunt for an ancient relic as powerful as the Matrix of Leadership – the Dark Spark. Players will be able to switch between the heroes of the noble AUTOBOTS and the nefarious DECEPTICONS throughout the single-player campaign. Similar to High Moon Studios’CYBERTRON entries in the highly regarded series, gameplay features nimble, fast-paced running-and-gunning combat paired with traversal and vehicle action across open battlefields for large-scale, dynamic conflicts.

Rise of the Dark Spark will feature the return of Escalation – a wave-based, survival-style gameplay mode that supports up to four players online cooperatively. Players will also find new, upgradeable defense systems, recognizable adversaries, and even more playable characters from past and present.

Developer Edge of Reality has also included a new leveling system so that progress is unified in single-player and multiplayer. “Experience earned in any part of the game unlocks potent awards and tactical loadout choices – including new characters, stronger weapons, special abilities and consumable bonuses – for use throughout the entire game,” Activision says.

You can find today’s full announcement below.

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