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Dress your DS games in Tiny Cartridge X Mare Odomo stickers! →

I’m unable to control my excitement about getting to reveal the culmination of literally years of secret work: our Tiny Cartridge X Maré Odomo “Tiny Cart Sticker Pack,” produced and sold by Fangamer.

With these, you can decorate your DS or 3DS cartridges (or, anything, really) with the face of our mascot or the cover of an imaginary game by Maré!

Each sheet includes:

Face in a Cart - Tiny Cartridge’s iconic mascot, now available as a for-real tiny cartridge
Letters to an Absent Father - A tender note from Maré Odomo’s wistful comic series
(Creepy) Black - Own the haunted game, the creepiest of pastas
Kissing Party - Give your lips practice with casual pecks or passionate make-out moments
A special (virtual) gift!

This is basically my favorite thing we’ve ever done, and you can get your own sheet for $5. I hope you enjoy them! Thanks to Fangamer and Maré for working with us on this weird daydream of a project, and thanks to you for even briefly considering a purchase!

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Capcom reveals price deflaiton for RE:R →

You might recall Capcom intended to sell Resident Evil: Revelations for $50, reasoning that the game required a bigger cartridge (4GB) that justified its $10 mark-up.

Everyone thought that was ridiculous, but the publisher ended up changing its mind anyway. A representative posted an announcement today: “After weeks of effort, we’ve been able to lower the price to $39.99.” Who knows what those efforts entailed, but yay.

Amazon hasn’t adjusted its price yet, but I expect it will update the game’s listing soon, so I linked it above. You will notice that I misspelled deflation in the link/headline, making fun of the game’s boxart typo. I am just too clever, aren’t I? I am the cleverest boy there ever was.

Preorder: Resident Evil: Revelations

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“When it comes to the appeal of the Nintendo 3DS, the 3D images have been focused on. I believe, however, the actual users understand that its expanded communication methods like “StreetPass” and “SpotPass” that have a lot of potential.”

Satoru Iwata espousing the “other” features of the 3DS, in an investor briefing. It’s basically Nintendo’s own fault the 3D has taken precedence — marketing and communication with press has heavily favored “glasses-free 3D” as the marquee feature, and the damn thing is called the “3DS” — but as one of those “actual users,” I feel way more impressed by these features.

Few things about the hardware are more exciting than receiving a new inappropriate Swapnote and seeing that blue light come on, or capturing a horde of Miis.

Nintendo is (maybe?) acknowledging the importance of networking, finally, with things like demos, decent eShop games, and the upcoming Nintendo Network, and though it’s not one-for-one with other systems in that department, interesting things happen when Nintendo does care about connectivity stuff.

Buy: Nintendo 3DS console (Flame Red, Black, & Blue)

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Four more minutes of Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai that will make you curse 3DS’s region-locking.

Did you know that more Tiny Cartridge readers are excited about this game than upcoming “core” titles like Metal Gear Solid 3D, Kid Icarus: Uprising, etc.? It’s true! Another fun fact: after watching this trailer and hearing its music, more Tiny Cartridge writers are excited about Project Mirai than those other games, too.

Buy: Nintendo 3DS (Flame Red, Black, & Blue)

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Downloadable retail 3Ds games, DLC plans, and more for Nintendo Network

Along with announcing a new Mario sidescroller for 3DS, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata talked about his company’s new online platform, Nintendo Network, which acts as a PSN-like service that works across 3DS and Wii U.

You’ve already seen its upgraded capabilities (over the DS’s dinky Nintendo WiFi Connection) in Mario Kart 7 with how the game handles communities, but Nintendo Network will also introduce features like “competitions and communication among users”, and paid downloadable content for both eShop/retail games.

One discussed feature that’s been a long time coming for eShop, though, is downloadable retail games, which Iwata says Nintendo is considering for the future:

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New 2D Super Mario coming to 3DS

In a meeting with investors today, Nintendo CEO and president Satoru Iwata announced that the company intends to put out a new 2D Super Mario title for 3DS some time between March 2012 - March 2013 (I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s toward the end of the period).

His exact statement:

“We are planning to release a totally new side-scrolling action Super Mario in 2D as a key title for the Nintendo 3DS in the next fiscal year.”

He did not provide any additional details or media beyond that, so it’s up to you to speculate on what this will be. Finally a sequel to Super Mario Bros. 2 (US)? Or could it be a continuation of the New Super Mario Bros. line? Whatever it is, my body is Reggie.

Buy: Super Mario 3D Land

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tags / super mario bros / gaming / nintendo 3ds / 3ds

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“Slime the Planet” transparent stickers by Magnetbeam. For just $5, you can give five things Slime faces.

Slime faces. On anything. 3DS? Coffee mug? Laptop? Human thigh? That is a Slime 3DS, coffee mug, laptop, or thigh now. Are you a teacher wanting to put a message of approval on your kids’ homework? Say it with Slimes. Have a Slime already? I bet it doesn’t have a face on the back? Make it so it’s never not facing you.

You guys I am so excited about this. I totally just ordered some.

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Resident Evil: Revelations has a typo on the spine of its U.S. box… Or does it? Another Capcom/Level-5 crossover!

Preorder: Resident Evil: Revelations

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Pyramids has a fanmade level editor too →

I don’t think it’s as popular as Pushmo, and… I’ve never thought about playing it, but homebrewer elisherer has made a PC-based level editor for the downloadable 3DS game Pyramids.

Like the Pushmo editor we featured before, this allows players to build levels on their computers and then generate QR codes for import into 3DS. A separate file includes a “card pack” of prebuilt levels!

This is so exciting. Since these games use QR codes for input anyway, there’s no reason you couldn’t create the content in another interface.

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Your secretary in the upcoming Animal Crossing 3DS. As mayor of your town, you’ll need an assistant to help you build your town, negotiate contracts, find new ways to screw over constituents during your climb up the political ladder, and handle other off-the-books duties.

ONM’s latest preview of the upcoming game mentions that chatting with your secretary “may be one of the game’s highlights.” And while she can be clumsy, she will be “pointing out the bits of the village that look particularly good and which parts may need some work.”

The British magazine has all sorts of other details about Animal Crossing 3DS’s model homes, separate beach area, and other features, which you can find scanned here.

Preorder: Animal Crossing 3DS

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tags / animal crossing / gaming / nintendo 3ds / 3ds / onm / ec

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Ohhh, excellent: new Tekken 3D trailer introduces you to the game’s touchscreen combos, online play (worldwide), 700+ unlockable/StreetPass cards featuring character art, 60 frames per second matches, and other junk.

I hope the game has options to play against people who don’t use the touchscreen macros, like Super Street Fighter IV 3D, because Tekken is already cheesy enough as it is. Then again, after 15+ years of playing the series with my index and middle fingers, and the 3DS not really being a comfortable system for that, I might end up being one of those dudes who uses pre-entered combos…

Preorder: Tekken 3D Prime Edition (February 14)

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See also: Tekken 3D details and footage

[Thanks, Robert!]

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Tiny Review: Mutant Mudds

Dementium developer Renegade Kid releases its first self-published game this week, the 3DS eShop title Mutant Mudds. At first, it seems like a very simple game with a 3D gimmick: you can jump, shoot, and hover, and you can move to one of three different “planes” of action by jumping on certain blocks in the level, with the goal of collecting all the floating items in each.

However, it very quickly becomes obvious that Renegade Kid is not messing around, as the difficulty curve quickly jumps, and you find yourself dying multiple times just to learn the layout of each perilous world.

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