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Nintendo Pocket Football Club (Nintendo) - €11.99/£10.79 (Special offers ends May 1, normally €14.99/£13.49)
Head up your own football team and shoot for the top! Nintendo Pocket Football Club puts you in the manager's seat at your very own football club, only on Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS. Can you keep the crowds chanting and guide your pint-sized players from the lower leagues to the wonders of the world stage? As manager, train up your players and choose your tactics wisely to make the most of their abilities. Once you're satisfied, send your team forth and watch your decisions play out in matches packed with action - but don't be afraid to alter your approach if it all starts to unravel before your eyes. Delve deep and show plenty of skill on the side line and you could lead them all the way to the glorious treble of the Pro League 1, the Federation Cup and the European Challenge Cup. With enough work, you could even bring the World Club Classic back home!

From release on 17th April 2014 until 1st May (23:59 local time) Nintendo Pocket Football Club will be available at a special launch offer price of €11.99 (£10.79) After this date, the game will be available to purchase from Nintendo eShop for €14.99 (£13.49).

Putty Squad (System 3 Software) - €19.99/£17.99
Putty Squad is a no-holds-barred retro gaming experience brought to life for the modern gamer. Our hero, Putty, can inflate, morph, stretch, punch and absorb, taking on ferocious enemies on his mission to rescue imprisoned putties. Putty Squad features lovingly created levels that will test your timing, skill and imagination in a charming and incredibly addictive adventure.

Tiny Games - Knights & Dragons (Reactor) - €2.99/£2.49
Tiny Games - Knights & Dragons is the first in a series of mini-games collections for kids.

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (KONAMI, NES VC) - €4.99/£4.49
Fight back against Dracula in the third exciting instalment of the highly popular Castlevania franchise! As with the original 'Castlevania', the player's goal is to work their way through deviously challenging levels, but this time there's a difference - when the level ends, you can choose one of two paths to take for a completely different experience!

Mario Golf: World Tour Demo (Nintendo) - Free
Grab your clubs and bring fun to the fore in Mario Golf: World Tour on Nintendo 3DS family systems! Join Mario and friends for engrossing golf action on your own, or tee off with players from all over the world in thrilling online multiplayer matches. The Mario Golf series is known for combining deceptively deep golf gameplay with ideas you could only find in a Mario game, and Mario Golf: World Tour is no exception! Master a range of courses sure to test even the most experienced player. It's not all lush greens and blue skies though - take to the fairway on sandy shores, or shoot for the pin on courses inspired by the world of Mario!

Special Offer for Mario Golf: World Tour from 02/05/2014:
You can get a free download code for Mario Golf (Game Boy Color) if you purchase Mario Golf: World Tour from Nintendo eShop by 29/05/2014! Mario Golf (Game Boy Color) is exclusively available through this offer until 29/05/2014! It will be available for purchase from 29/05/2014 for €4.99 (£4.49). If you take advantage of this offer, you can download it before the official release for free. The download code will be shown on the screen after purchase, and also on your receipt. You can redeem it immediately on your Nintendo 3DS system or redeem it on any other Nintendo 3DS system later. The download code is valid until 30/06/2014.

Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl Demo (NIS America) - Free
Etria is a land that has long welcomed explorers, yet even they will discover stories untold. In Story mode, you will encounter the mystery of the maiden who has lived a thousand years. Should you brave Classic mode, you'll experience the beautifully upgraded version of the original Etrian adventure, with new 3D graphics and gameplay improvements.

Special offers
Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion (Disney) - €9.99/£8.99 (Ends April 24, €19.99/£17.99)


Nintendo eShop (Wii U)

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (Nintendo, GBA VC) - €6.99/£6.29
The famous futuristic racing series that originated on Super Nintendo hits Game Boy Advance with supersonic force! F-Zero: Maximum Velocity brings brand new vehicles and unique tracks packed with deadly tight turns, stomach-churning speed boosts and gravity-defying jumps. Master 20 different courses and four difficulty levels as you work your way up the ranks from lowly rookie to F-Zero champion!

Golden Sun (Nintendo, GBA VC) - €6.99/£6.29
Evil is slowly covering the world. Forces of darkness are pursuing the lost art of Alchemy, and the fate of mankind hangs in the balance. You and your companions, armed with weapons, Psynergy magic, and a host of elemental creatures, must return peace to the world. Golden Sun is an epic role-playing game with an engrossing story, set in a massive world. Gather the elemental Djinn - fire, water, wind and earth - and combine them in unique ways to produce awesome magical effects.

My Exotic Farm (BiP Media) - €4.99/£4.49
At the beginning of the game, all you own is an empty field, a few pennies and a single little ostrich. You need to feed your ostrich, take care of it and improve its lifestyle. Well-fed with seed, your ostrich will lay eggs which can then be sold to the Shopkeeper. With this money, you can buy new animals at the Farmers' Market. You can get My Exotic Farm for €3.49 (£3.14) if you already own or purchase My Farm from Nintendo eShop on the same Wii U.

Special offers
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (Disney) - €17.49/£14.99 (Ends April 24, €34.99/£29.99)
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (Black Forest Games) - €8.99/£7.79 (Ends April 24, €14.99/£12.99)
My Farm (BiP Media) - €4.99/£4.49 (Permanent, was €7.99/£7.19)


Nintendo DSiWare

I am in the Movie (CIRCLE Ent.) - €1.99/£1.79/200 Points
By using real time visual effects, this software literally puts you inside famous Hollywood movies. Now you can be the actor or director and recreate famous scenes or create your own ones.

Source: NoE PR

Coming from an ex-Red Fly dev...

“We didn’t hear from them for two weeks. Two and a half weeks. No word. Nothing. And when I say no word, I mean nothing. We tried to contact them over and over and over again. We know how slow they move, and we’ve seen them do this before. We were at least hopeful. But still no word came. We did manage to get some of the guys, the internal producers that were on our project, on Skype, and they looked like they were kicked in the nuts. We knew what was going on. They just couldn’t tell us. But we didn’t know the extent of what was going on. We thought, ‘Okay, they’re not going to buy us. Fine.’ We didn’t know the game would get canceled.”

It seems that part of this decision came from Lucas' move to sell the brand to Disney. Obviously, this was a super-secret business plan at the time.

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The following info comes from Red Fly CEO Dan Borth...

“Not on purpose, we carved out that we were the Wii guys. They wanted [the Wii port of Force Unleashed II] to be better, but didn’t know what to do really. We built a demo in two weeks with little assistance from LucasArts. Neil Garrett, their head of external production, thought we should do it.

The project moved quickly – way too fast for LucasArts to give us art assets in a timely manner. So we built almost everything from scratch. They kind of kept us on the hook. They told us Force Unleashed III was coming, and there were some rumors we might actually get the next-gen versions to prove ourselves worthy, but they just kind of dismissed us as, ‘You are just the Wii guys. You can’t do that.’ When publishers look at you, you have to fit into their wheelhouse or you don’t get the job.

I got a call from Paul, and he asked me if I would be interested in making a Darth Maul game. I was like ‘Yes, of course, of course.’ They signed us to a contract that was basically, ‘You guys start working on ideas, start working on demos, start working on mechanics.’ It wasn’t really a game contract; it was more like a work-for-hire, month-to-month thing. We started to flesh out our ideas and content and stuff like that. I think after about three or four months we entered into the game contract. It got intimate pretty quick.”

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A portion of a C3 interview with Prismatic's Chris Jennewein and Mario Castañeda...

Cubed3: How would single player work? Would there be a central storyline/campaign feature?

Chris: Campaign mode would essentially be a collection of story driven missions based off the modes we have set in place. As the project grows and we're able to add more modes, the campaign mode grows as well. Regarding single player, the premise we're working with is that the GamePad still controls the classic RTS, but also fills the role of up to 2 players on the TV. They'll have to switch between their characters to manage everything at once - something very similar to Pikmin 3.

Cubed3: Would you consider portable platforms like Nintendo 3DS for a port or possible extra screen for multiplayer?

Mario: It's been talked about. Right now, Unity doesn't support the 3DS, but if it ever does, it's something we would easily consider. The way we're laying the foundation to the game makes it easy to scale to less powerful hardware.

Coming from an Engadget interview with Sony's Shuhei Yoshida...

"The first time was because I had my Twitter account in my profile and that's against the rules. The second time is because I wrote, 'I love PS.' You're not supposed to promote a commercial product in MiiVerse, so they correctly interpreted 'PS' as 'PlayStation.'"

Sounds like Yoshida took the bannings all in stride. Let's hope he manages to avoid a third ban!

"You know, I used to be [a gamer] so much. When systems first came out I was all over regular Nintendo [the NES], Super Nintendo, Sega, N64. My N64 was the only thing I couldn't live without in college. Into my 20s I still played a lot of Mario Kart but I kind of just tapered off and now I find that I have too much to do in real life to sit down and explore a videogame." - Actress Kristen Bell

I don't know about you, but I think making time to partake in the things you enjoy is an important part of life! No matter how hard you work, you should always find at least a small amount of time to entertain yourself. Maybe Kristen will come to learn that and get back into gaming!

2 million downalods, this is our recent milestone we have reached, even most are Demo, but its still an encouragement. Half came from Japan.

— CIRCLE Ent. (@CIRCLE_Ent) April 13, 2014

@kitroplious Oops, we are talking about all 3DS/ DSi wares we've published. This is great encourgement for CIRCLE and developers.

— CIRCLE Ent. (@CIRCLE_Ent) April 13, 2014

Some sales are under 50%, but others are actually over 50%!