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Kirby's Dream Land, DSi update released
As predicted, today’s portable Virtual Console release is Kirby’s Dream Land, the debut of the pink character (or white, if you go by the Game Boy box). It’s not Gargoyle’s Quest, but Tinkle Popo is well loved here, too.
Other eShop/DSiWare releases today: Chillingo’s Trials HD knock-off Moto eXtreme, Skyworks’ Boardwalk Ball Toss (really?), Circle’s...
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“Thanks for being such incredible fans! Unfortunately, there continues to be no...”
– Nintendo of America’s response to recent grassroots efforts by gamers to release Japanese RPGs Xenoblade, The Last Story, and Pandora’s Tower to the States (the former two are announced for Europe but not the U.S.).
I presume NOA is too busy working on other Wii localization projects...
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Arino enters the Super Fantasy Zone this week on... →
Sometime around Thursday at 8PM EST, depending on whether or not the Viddler servers are up, Kotaku will “premiere” its next episode of the localized Game Center CX. This week’s Retro Game Master is Season 8’s Super Fantasy Zone challenge, in which Arino attempts the Mega Drive’s Defender-style cute-em-up.
You can see a trailer on Kotaku — sadly, I...
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WayForward reveals new Mighty eShop game
Along with “actively pursuing” a portable Virtual Console release for GBC platformer Shantae, WayForward Technology is working on another eShop release from its Mighty series, Mighty Switch Force.
Developed by the studio’s Contra 4 team, the 3DS eShop game mixes platforming, shooting, and block-switching elements, as well as themes like “T-rexes with eye lasers,...
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Grezzo kept Ocarina 3D glitches on purpose
You know all those glitches from the N64 version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that re-appeared in the recent 3DS remake? According to Ocarina of Time 3D’s developer Grezzo, it deliberately preserved those bugs!
The studio talked about it in an Iwata Asks roundtable with Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata:
Grezzo programmer Shun Moriya: One conflict arose when, as...
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$10 off Ghost Recon, other Ubi 3DS games →
It’s been featured in a number of “Buy 1, get X off” deals already, and I’m unsure how any of you could have gone this long without buying it after how much we’ve raved about the game, but Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is now available with a $10 off discount at Amazon.
Anyway, if you haven’t picked it up yet, you need to do so, as there’s a sequel at stake...
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Earth Seeker DSiWare game interacts with Wii game →
This week, along with Game & Watch Gallery, Nintendo sneaked a DSiWare spinoff of Kadokawa Games’ Wii RPG Earth Seeker onto the DSi Shop in Japan. Odekake! Earth Seeker is a collection of six minigames set in the universe of the console game (a human colony 1,000 years after landing and terraforming).
The minigames include making burgers, grilling skewers, marking maps, and doing...
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Game Night 5 at Giant Robot LA tonight →
If you’re in the Los Angeles area and want to get together with like-minded gamers, don’t forget that Giant Robot 2, Attract Mode, and Meatbun, and others are holding their bi-monthly Game Night event tonight, starting at 7PM.
While there, you’ll have an opportunity to play unreleased indie games (projected outdoors and playable in game stations indoors) like Haunted Temple...
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Solatorobo coming to North America this fall
We already deduced this a couple weeks ago, but Xseed announced that it is publishing Solatorobo: Red The Hunter, CyberConnect2’s extolled spiritual sequel to Tail Concerto, in North America this fall. While Amazon lists the DSi-enhanced game listed for September 27, Xseed hasn’t yet put out a firm release date.
I’ve heard nothing but great things about the action RPG, and...
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Game Center CX's first U.S. episode up! →
Despite some initial technical difficulties with the video stream, Kotaku has posted the first U.S. episode of Game Center CX/Retro Game Master — well, it’s actually the ninth episode from the Japanese show’s fourth season, but no matter, it’s subtitled and released!
I didn’t see if the video includes some of the show’s tangential bits (the Japanese airing...
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New Love Plus's 200 yen import fee, expanded photo... →
New Love Plus for 3DS will let you import “your” Nene, Manaka, or Rinko from a previous Love Plus game, with all her memories of the precious relationship you shared. For a price. ¥200. According to 4Gamer, the reason there’s a charge associated with the data import is that Nintendo currently doesn’t offer third parties a way to distribute free downloads on the eShop.
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Game & Watch Gallery headed to Japanese eShop next... →
On June 22, Japan’s 3DS eShop will get two new Virtual Console games: the crummy Game Boy version of Double Dragon (which Europe got this week and we’ll likely receive tomorrow), and Game & Watch Gallery, which has remade Game Boy versions of Fire, Manhole, Octopus, and Oil Panic, along with more “authentic” style recreations.
Technically, three of these games are...
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U.S. Game Center CX episodes subtitled, running... →
Despite early reports that the show would be dubbed — and that it would be the first season — a new preview on Kotaku reveals that the first episode of the website’s English-language run of Game Center CX will be subtitled when it “airs” tomorrow, mostly. In the trailer, a new English voiceover provides narration, while star Shinya Arino is subtitled. Good news,...
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Scroll zine issue 2 downloadable for free →
Feel like checking out Ray Barnholt’s labor of love, Scroll magazine? That actually wasn’t a question. Feel like it.
Thanks to “one too many printing gaffes,” Barnholt has reduced the price of the downloadable edition of the Dragon Quest-themed Issue 2 to “free forever,” providing an excellent opportunity to see what the magazine’s about.
I suspect...
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Reggie: 3DS's biggest problems addressed →
Speaking to Kotaku during E3, NOA president Reggie Fils-Aime claimed the two biggest issues holding the 3DS back from DS-like sales based on Nintendo’s “consumer information”: a lack of Nintendo franchise games, and a lack of a functional web browser.
The first issue, Fils-Aime said, is taken care of by yesterday’s launch for Ocarina of Time 3D, and “We’re...
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Amazon deal: $25 credit with 3DS systems →
For a limited time, if you buy a Nintendo 3DS from Amazon, you can get a $25 credit for anything at the shop — like, say Ocarina of Time 3D, Dead or Alive Dimensions (only $28 right now), or a bunch of other games.
It’s a price match for a similar deal other retailers are running, so I’ve no idea how long this will last. If you’ve been waiting for any kind of discount to...
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3DS TV content comes to Japan this week →
Nintendo of Japan will release a new 3DS app this week that delivers TV content from Japan’s Fuji TV channel and Nippon TV — though it doesn’t include Fuji’s show Game Center CX, clips of which are available separately through Japan’s eShop.
The “Itsu no Ma Terebi” (SpotPass TV) service, first announced on September of last year, will begin June 21,...
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