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We posted the leaked version over the weekend, but just incase you missed it...

A portion of a Kotaku interview with Eiji Aonuma...

Kotaku: What Nintendo franchise would you want to tackle next?

Aonuma: It wouldn’t be Mario because I’m not any good at that type of jumping game.

Kotaku: There are different reflexes involved there. What about Pikmin? There’s some similarities there. There’s a lot of exploration and a focus on figuring out the gameworld.

Aonuma: When I look at Pikmin, I feel like it’s something that kind of comes out of a lot of the ideas for Zelda. I think that is what happened with in Mr. Miyamoto’s head. If I made a Pikmin game it might turn into a Zelda game. Zelda is the main thing I’m really interested in.

We posted this earlier today, but an interesting point was brought up...

So, what happened to the Nintendo Network logo? Or is this just a placeholder? pic.twitter.com/yE2iGX0dFS

— Jose Otero (@jose_otero) October 21, 2013

We never did learn about online features for the game. Was the original boxart with the logo just a mistake?

Coming from a VG247 interview...

“We can confirm that cross-platform functionality is possible in certain titles that play on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, as well as other video game systems not made by Nintendo. We are committed to helping developers realise the full potential of their software on Nintendo systems. We can confirm that Disney Infinity from Disney Interactive Studios, Cubeman 2 from Three Sprockets and Pure Chess from Ripstone, all have the ability to play on Nintendo systems while at the same time communicating with consumers using those same games on other systems. Additional games using this functionality are in development."

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Coming from an OXM interview with executive producer Mark Rubin...

“Regardless of platform – people’s gaming habits aren’t going to change just because there’s a new platform. We have an enormous amount of players who are more in the casual game space, but they play a lot. It’s kind of a weird, ironic thing to say; They aren’t hardcore gamers, or even gamers, but they play Call of Duty every night. And those guys are going to continue to play regardless of platform. So I think not only will we continue to engage with that existing player base, but we’ll take next gen and see how far we can go with it.”

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- includes a boss battle based on a creature from Monster Hunter 4
- the Gaist is based on Rathalos

Coming from an MCVUK interview...

“It is becoming a much broader church now, and it’s a testament to the size of the [toys-to-life] category we have created with Skylanders. It is now much more than a game. Without doubt this will be our strongest Skylanders launch ever. The support we have had from our retail partners this year has excelled. What you will see at launch is that we have some really stunning in-store activity taking place. We have got everything that we would have liked from an in-store perspective, we have very impactful interactive, in-store displays so that children can touch and feel the products before they buy it.

We have got the largest distribution footprint that we have ever, ever had for the game. We are branching outside of what we would call traditional games outlets, into toy specialists too. We are really excited. If you look at many similar industries – or non-similar industries – when a new category is created, one of the testaments to that category is when competitors move in, because they see the size, scale and opportunity of it. That is what you are seeing with Skylanders.” - Activision UK managing director Roy Stackhouse

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NOTE: UK prices weren't available at this time. This will be updated as soon as possible!

Nintendo eShop (Wii U)

Mighty Switch Force! 2 (WayForward) - €5.00/£5.00
The sequel to the universally acclaimed Mighty Switch Force, and the newest game in the Mighty series! It's a Code Red from the Galactic Fire Brigade! Planet Land is combusting and everything is ablaze! Return to HQ immediately and pick up your Infinity Dousing Apparatus; your Siren Helmet is still authorized and up to code! The mission: to fight the inferno and extricate the reformed Hooligan sisters! Now, suit up and start soaking some scenery!

Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's Cut (Square Enix) - €39.99/£29.99
Critically injured after a deadly attack, Adam Jensen undergoes a life-saving operation augmenting him with powerful cybernetics. Caught in the middle of a vast conspiracy, Adam's choices will affect both himself and all of humanity as he seeks answers across the globe.

Just Dance Kids 2014 (Ubisoft) - €39.99/£29.99
Just Dance Kids 2014 brings the fun of the Just Dance franchise to younger children. With 31 all-new songs from kids' favourite pop stars, TV shows and movies, the game includes awesome hits such as, "Hit the Lights" by Selena Gomez & The Scene, "One Thing" by One Direction, "Give Your Heart A Break" by Demi Lovato, and "Get Ready to Wiggle" by The Wiggles. Discover new modes specially designed for Kids aged 3 to 6 such as the Dance Director mode exclusive on Wii U.

Donkey Kong 3 (Nintendo, NES VC) - €4.99/£3.49
Unique to the classic series, Donkey Kong 3 is a frantic action game starring newcomer Stanley, whose greenhouse has been invaded by the troublesome ape and swarms of angry insects. Armed with a spray can, you must push Donkey Kong up the screen while fending off the swarms of bugs intent on stealing Stanley's precious flowers. Avoid the coconuts that DK throws at you, and try to grab the power spray can for a few seconds of supercharged spraying as you aim for a high score! This is the US version of the game.

Baseball (Nintendo, NES VC) - €4.99/£3.49
It's the bottom of the ninth. You're at the plate. Here comes the pitch. You swing... It's a smash deep into centre-field. A home run! In the NES classic BASEBALL, you control every action. The swing of the bat. The speed of the pitch. The hits, the steals, the double plays. Pit your skills against the computer or challenge a friend. All it's missing is the smell of hotdogs! This is the US version of the game

Pinball (Nintendo, NES VC) - €4.99/£3.49
The NES version of PINBALL was one of the first video game recreations of the classic game, and is still as crowd-pleasing as ever. Use the flippers to keep the ball in play for as long as possible, and rack up a winning score. There are two difficulty settings, and modes for one or two players so you and a friend can battle for the highest score. Mario also makes an appearance in the bonus stage in which you must save Pauline, the damsel in distress from Donkey Kong, with your pinball prowess! This is the US version of this game.


Nintendo eShop (3DS)

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies (Capcom) - €24.99/£19.99
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies sees the return of courtroom hero Phoenix Wright. The much-loved gameplay and features from previous titles in the Ace Attorney series are back, but for the first time in stunning 3D graphics, bringing the courtroom and characters to life and putting players directly in the heart of the action.

Crazy Chicken: Director's Cut 3D (Teyon) - €1.99/£1.79
Chickens have invaded a movie studio starting a hilariously messy rampage around the film sets and properties! It's time to take position in the director's seat, reload the shotgun and aim with precision at these winged intruders! Shoot down the right amount of chickens and stage props in order to progress to the next take and solve tons of brain teasing riddles for bonus points. Movie fans and action lovers will have a blast playing this game. The lights are on, the cameras are rolling and now it's time for some feathery shooting action!

Snow Moto Racing 3D (Zordix) - €5.99/£5.39 (Launch offer, will be €7.99/£7.19 as from November 8)
Experience the thrill of high-speed snowmobile racing across wildly varied beautiful winter vistas in a game perfectly suited for the Nintendo 3DS. Challenge your friends and foes in local multiplayer races via Download Play. Progress through challenging tournaments for high scores and medals to unlock better, faster and more fun snowmobiles.

Gummy Bears - Mini Golf (Enjoy Gaming) - €2.99/£2.50 (Launch offer, will be €3.99/£3.30 as from November 14)
Gummy Bear Mini Golf is an entertaining 3D mini golf game which immerses everyone into the world of crazy golf. This party style game is ideal for all age groups and can be played up to 4 players simultaneously. The simple tap and flick interface is ideal for all level of gamers, so whether you are a professional golfer or just an amateur, this game is for you!

Gummy Bears Magical Medallion (Enjoy Gaming) - €2.99/£2.50 (Launch offer, will be €3.99/£3.30 as from November 14)
The hidden Kingdom of the Gummy Bears is a tantalizing, colourful world overflowing with mouth-watering sweets! For years King Sour Berry searched for a magical artefact called the Gummy Bear Medallion, which kept the Gummy Bears hidden from him. The king finally found it and removed the three mystical gems making the Gummy Bears visible. The kings Crazy Candy Army chased and captured them setting traps for those that avoided capture. The kingdom is now under the rule of King Sour berry. You are the Gummy Bears only hope to save them from a life of unhappiness. You must accept the quest to find the gems and return them to the Gummy Bears Medallion. Only then can the magic of the medallion hide the Gummy Bears once more from the evil King Sour Berry and his Crazy Candy Army.

Bowling Bonanza (Enjoy Gaming) - €2.99/£2.50 (Launch offer, will be €3.99/£3.30 as from November 14)
For both the casual and the serious gamer Bowling Bonanza boasts full 3D rigid body physics. Create any kind of shot by adjusting your stance, direction or ball spin or for the more serious, position the ball and shape the shot as required.

Beyblade Evolution (Rising Star Games) - €29.99/£29.99
Prepare to get closer to the battling action than ever before - it's time to let it rip with Beyblade Evolution on Nintendo 3DS! Use the motion controls of Nintendo 3DS and get closer to playing for real than ever before! Experience an exciting story in the world of Beyblade as you face off against familiar heroes and villains to become a champion Blader. Collect a huge number of unique Bey parts and combine them to build the perfect Bey, then use it to smash the opposition! Face off against your friends using Local Play, or collect StreetPass data to battle other players! Use the AR Card packaged with the game and do battle in a virtual arena! Get a sneak peek at the future by unlocking the all-powerful Samurai Ifrit W145CF Beyblade from Beyblade: Shogun Steel! The Collector's Edition of Beyblade Evolution comes with an exclusive Winged Pegasus 90WF Beyblade, which will never be available to buy anywhere else!

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Avanquest) - €24.99/£19.99
Prepare to jump into food-filled fun in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, the tastiest treat to ever hit the Nintendo 3DS. Satisfying hungry appetites in time for Sony Picture Animation's movie of the same name, join Flint Lockwood and his friends on their journey to save Swallow Falls and discover new friends, 'Foodimals', along the way. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is packed with fast and energetic puzzle-based gameplay that players and moviegoers of all ages will love.

Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi (Rising Star Games) - €29.99/£29.99
The world of Otome games comes to Europe for the first time! At the time when shogunate and imperial forces clashed for supremacy over Japan, Chizuru travels to Kyoto in search of her missing father. She runs into the Shinsengumi, a band of samurai warriors sworn to protect the shogun. Chizuru soon learns that they too are looking for her father. What awaits them is more than just a missing persons case, as they face off against not just imperial soldiers, but the supernatural as well! In the midst of all this madness, will the sweet and innocent Chizuru find true love? Only you can decide!

Animal Hospital (Bigben Interactive) - €24.99/£19.99
The sick animals need you! Live the dream life of a true veterinarian. Improve and expand your surgery to accommodate more patients. Dogs, cats, horses, birds... they all need your care!

Reel Fishing Paradise 3D (Funbox Media) - €13.99/£12.59
Travel to over a dozen stunning locales in your quest to become a master angler. Fish in tranquil lakes, rocky coastal waters, and more, all in 3D that brings every leaping fish and splash of water to life. A huge variety of fish will test the expertise of even the most seasoned fishing veterans, from wily bass to powerful Bluefin tuna.

Gabrielle's Ghostly Groove 3D (Funbox Media) - €13.99/£12.59
Terror Up the Dance Floor! Poor Gabrielle sneezed her soul right out of her body, and only the ghouls and ghosts of Monsterville can help! She'll need to bust out her best dance moves to get herself back into her body.

Wario's Woods (Nintendo, NES VC) - €3.99/£3.59
The Peaceful Woods were once a safe haven for all gentle creatures...until Wario turned up. Now the place is swarming with monsters, and only Toad can clear up the mess! Wario's Woods is a fast-paced puzzle game in which Toad must line up bombs and enemies into rows of matching colours. Clear enough sections of the forest to go up against the mighty Wario himself! This version also features Download Play allowing you to connect to another player's Nintendo 3DS and compete in a VS battle, with just one copy of the game.

Treasures of the World (Barcelona, Paris, Rome) (D4D Ingenieria visual, download video) - €1.99/£1.79
Take a 3D excursion to some of the most interesting places in the world, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Coliseum in Rome.

Special offers
Urban Trial Freestyle (Tate Multimedia) - €4.89/£4.29 (Offer ends October 31, normally €6.99/£6.29)
MYST (Funbox Media) - €9.99/£8.99 (Offer ends October 31, normally €19.99/£17.99)


Nintendo DSiWare

Crazy Chicken: Director's Cut (Teyon) - 200 Points
Chickens have invaded a movie studio starting a hilariously messy rampage around the film sets and properties! It's time to take position in the director's seat, reload the shotgun and aim with precision at these winged intruders! Shoot down the right amount of chickens and stage props in order to progress to the next take and solve tons of brain teasing riddles for bonus points. Movie fans and action lovers will have a blast playing this game. The lights are on, the cameras are rolling and now it's time for some feathery shooting action!

Source: NoE PR

“What kind of Bravely Default: Flying Fairy-related items would you like to have?”

D’s Notebook—20.6%
Figurines—16.1%
Limited edition guidebook—15.2%
Novel book—8.4%
Charm strap—6.6%
Art collection—6.3%
Nendoroid—5.1%
Agnes’ pendant—4.8%
Keychain—3.6%
Drama CD—3.3%

- D’s Notebook and a series of novels will be available for purchase later
- there is strong consideration for releasing figurines
- when viewers were asked about price range for merchandise, most said 6,000 and 3,000 yen
- official drama CD is already in the works
- there's a special illustration included with the set, which will also include special messages from the leading voice actors of Bravely Default

A portion of a NE interview with VD-Dev co-founder Fernando Velez...

NE: Can you speak about some of the technical specs behind IronFall? We’ve been hearing some rumblings that 60 frames-per-second is targeted, as an example.

FV: 60 frames per seconds is our goal. Shooters offer better playing experience with this frame rate. With the engine we can reach 60 frames per second with and without stereoscopic view.

But if frame rate drops we don’t want to sacrifice the amount of IA, and graphics we have on screens, just because of the stereoscopic view (sometime we have to draw 3 screens, 1 for the left eye, 1 for the right eye, and 1 for the bottom screen where action will also take place sometimes. So maybe we will add a feature that allows in REAL TIME, the player to switch from 60 FPS with the 3D slider pushed down, or 30 FPS with 3D slider pushed up (no need to go to some menu).

NE: Does IronFall run on its own unique engine? If so, can you discuss some of its capabilities?

FV: The engine used in Iron Fall is called the ‘Big Bang Engine’. Its an engine we have programmed from scratch and is optimized for the Nintendo 3DS. It took us several months to write (days and nights), and is written fully in assembly code, using all the ARM optimizations we know. We also have written our own graphics driver for communication with the 3DS GPU to get the best of the handled graphics processor (well at least we hope) . The engine has many features, more on this will be shown on a video available on the 28 October.

NE: Assuming IronFall is successful, would you like to turn it into a series with additional releases on the eShop?

FV: If IronFall is successful we want to listen what players like or don’t like about the game, and if they want more we could realize their wish.

Monday 21 October, 2013 - The world’s premier games festival, Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), will return to Melbourne in 2014 after a critically successful sold out inaugural year in 2013. Community demand will see the show move to the larger Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, to be held from 31 October to 2 November 2014.

Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher announced the highly anticipated return of PAX Australia to Melbourne and said it was a boost for Victoria’s flourishing games industry.

“PAX is the world’s leading games festival and the return of PAX Australia to Melbourne for the second consecutive year highlights Victoria’s reputation as a key hub for games development in the Asia Pacific region,” Ms Asher said.

“This year’s event in Melbourne represented the first time that PAX had been held outside of the United States – not only was it a great coup for Melbourne but the event was a runaway success.”

The 2013 show completely sold out of tickets months before the event itself, as a result, PAX Australia 2014 will move to the Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre in order to increase its capacity.

Ms Asher said the Victorian Coalition Government is a major sponsor of the event and played an important role in securing PAX Australia 2013 and 2014 for Victoria.

“PAX Australia is a fantastic opportunity to show off the breadth and diversity of Victoria’s games development community,” Ms Asher said.

PAX Australia 2014 will build on the success of the 2013 event and will combine exciting international and local content with community events. International guests, speakers, musicians and developers will join local game industry representatives to showcase games and community events in Australia. PAX Australia is also supported by the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association and the Game Developers Association of Australia.

Robert Khoo, President of Penny Arcade said Melbourne has been an incredible home for PAX, and the Victorian Government has been as accommodating as the fans.

“Not only have they helped us secure a much-needed larger venue for the show, but they’ve paved the way for talented local creators to be showcased on the global stage. The games community here is incredible, and PAX Australia is here to stay,” Mr Khoo said.

PAX Australia will be held at the Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre from 31 October and 2 November, 2014 and will be run by ReedPOP in conjunction with Penny Arcade.

For further information visit www.paxaustralia.com.au or follow PAX Australia updates via official Twitter and Facebook.

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- not set in the actual canon of the series
- characters are rough parallels of the real Three Kingdoms characters
- towers will be actual characters that, once placed, have a certain leeway to move around
- they can chase foes as they march down the pathways towards your castle
- each has their own specific attack patterns
- unleash special moves
- story involves Kyou and the kingdom of Shu
- due out Nov. 28th in Japan

- explore the wilds and wilderness
- also explore your home
- you're in search of more of the odd dwarf children
- you're out to capture them
- due out on Dec. 12th in Japan

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