May 2012
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“Regarding La-Mulana, we have chosen to cancel publishing in North America and...”
– Nicalis commenting on the status of Nigoro’s much delayed game La-Mulana. I’m unsure what exactly went down here, but it looks like both parties have differing opinions on the matter. ::sigh:: At least Nigoro is still working on putting out a PC release for the game.
In other Nicalis...
April 2012
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Pre-order a Slime 3DS at Play-Asia →
If Japan-exclusive 3DS games like the Renegade remake, Fire Emblem, and Denpa Ningen RPG are calling to you, and you want what is clearly the best 3DS ever, this may be of use to you. Play-Asia is taking pre-orders on the Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Wonderland 3D special edition 3DS, shipping May 31.
It, um, costs $449.90. But, uh, iPads cost more than that and people buy those!...
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New Super Mario Bros. 2, other retail 3DS games to... →
Digital distribu-ton! Confirming recent rumors, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced plans to release some retail games, including New Super Mario Bros. 2 and the Brain Age followup “Onitore,” on eShop at launch.
In an interesting twist, you’ll be able to purchase them directly on the eShop, or via codes sold at retail (like GameStop’s experiments with 3D Classics...
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Our long national nightmare of not having folders...
Four months since the last firmware release, Nintendo has put out a new Nintendo 3DS update — if you’re in North America, you can download it right now!
With the new 3DS firmware, you can now create folders on the system menu, which hold up to 60 games or apps (icon size in the folders are adjustable, like menu icons).
The eShop has received an overhaul, and it appears to make...
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Nintendo Power: Cave Story update, Mighty Switch... →
Reports are coming in from the new Nintendo Power, stating that Wayforward’s rad 3DS eShop puzzle platformer Mighty Switch Force will see five new levels added soon as a free update — thanks to 3DS’s support for patches/updates that should come tomorrow.
The same issue also outs an “upgraded” version of Cave Story for eShop, which, if I’m reading correctly,...
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“I don’t ever say which of my three boys I love best, and I’m very...”
– Shadowrun creator Jordan Weisman, sidestepping my request for him to finally settle the score and admit that the more linear Shadowrun game for SNES was way better than the open-world Genesis version. Real talk, anybody whose face is not stupid knows this is true.
This bit of hard-hitting...
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Nintendo Direct news round-up: New Super Mario...
As we do with every Nintendo Direct livestream, we’ve collected all the megatons, minitons, and even a folder-ton from the Japanese/European/U.S. announcements.
Yeah-yuh:
New Super Mario Bros. 2, releasing in North America and Japan this August
New 3DS firmware slated for April 25, adding support for folders in the menu (pictured, each folder holds up to 60 items) — watch it in...
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“It’s a matter of tracking them down. We’ve actually been trying to...”
– Shadowrun creator Jordan Weisman discussing efforts to track down and re-release Beam Software and Data East’s beloved SNES game for the series.
I did a big interview with Weisman about the 16-bit games, his new Kickstarter-funded Shadowrun Returns project, and more in this new interview at...
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Nintendo Direct (Japan) tonight, 11 EDT →
With very little advance notice, Nintendo announced another streaming Nintendo Direct event in Japan. It’ll take place at noon Japan time/11pm EDT. Nintendo of America will be posting relevant news from this on its Twitter and Facebook pages. To promote the event, here is Satoru Iwata holding a Kirby. He looks pleased.
Europe will host its own at 1pm CET tomorrow… which is 7am...
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Guild01 includes Time Travelers demo →
Guild01, which is already composed of four different games, somehow has room for part of a fifth. Level-5 announced today that it’ll bundle a demo of cinematic adventure game Time Travelers with the compilation.
Guild01 is due in Japan May 31; Time Travelers is so far just set for “2012.” Maybe Level-5 will have a giant TGS-style booth at E3 to announce large-scale North...
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Devil Survivor Overclocked and Devil Survivor 2... →
Ghostlight is bringing you demons. The European publisher announced a deal with Atlus to release both Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked for 3DS and Devil Survivor 2 for DS in Europe.
There are no release dates yet, but at least we now know the dates aren’t “never.”
Buy: Devil Survivor Overclocked, Devil Survivor 2 (North America)
Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release...
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Fire Emblem: Awakening has fun with a disturbing...
[Warning: Some spoilers in this post! I waded through so many huge spoilers for the game while researching this; I fear all the game’s twists are ruined for me.]
When Intelligent Systems revealed that Fire Emblem: Awakening features a marriage system that allows you to pair two characters in matrimony, a few people wondered how the game would handle its loli/underage-looking character...
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Level-5 abandoned Ni no Kuni DS localization →
Famitsu traveled to Namco Bandai’s Las Vegas event last week to interview Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino, which is maybe a little weird. Buried in a long discussion about Ni no Kuni for PS3 is a question about the localization prospects of Ni no Kuni for DS, which, again, is a little weird coming from Famitsu.
The answer is not encouraging. Hino said that because of difficulty translating the...
