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Most Recent: 3DS
Nintendo Download: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy 2, Cooking Mama 5, FIFA 15, more
It’s a 3DS bonanza this week in the Nintendo Download.
Square Enix has released Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call, the sequel to their fan favorite Final Fantasy rhythm game. Bigger in every way, Curtain Call includes “221 songs and more than 60 characters” to tap away the hours. Another big sequel available this week is Majesco’s Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appetit. The fifth helping of Cooking Mama includes more than 60 recipes. And finally, EA Sports has confirmed that FIFA 15 will be available to download through the 3DS eShop on Tuesday, September 23.
Of course, the real big news this week is that the Super Smash Bros. For 3DS demo will be available to all beginning tomorrow. Just in case you were on the fence, Nintendo’s got you covered.
More information on all of these titles (including a few more and a trio of new downloadable games for the Wii U) can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Wii U
Tagged Cooking Mama 5, FIFA 15, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call
Super Smash Bros. For 3DS sells one million copies in two days in Japan
Nintendo released Super Smash Bros. For 3DS in Japan over the weekend and it has been a smashing success so far. How good are its sales? Well… in its first two days of availability, Nintendo has confirmed that Super Smash Bros. For 3DS has sold more than one million copies. This number includes downloadable sales through the 3DS eShop as well.
Super Smash Bros. For 3DS will be released in North America on October 3, but fans who want to try it out today can obtain a demo version of the game through the 3DS eShop if they’re a Platinum level member of the Club Nintendo program. The demo will become available to all this Friday, September 19.
Posted in 3DS, News
Tagged Super Smash Bros. For 3DS
New Releases: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy 2, Cooking Mama 5, Fairy Fencer F, More
The spotlight is on oddities from Japan in this week’s new release report. Chief among them is Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call, a sequel to the popular Final Fantasy-based rhythm game for the 3DS. The first printing comes with a special soundtrack CD, so you’ve ever felt the urge to tap Final Fantasy themes with a stylus, now’s the time.
And speaking of sequels to handheld favorites, Majesco is back with a new Cooking Mama game for the 3DS, Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appetit!. Also available this week is Fairy Fencer F, a turn-based RPG for the PS3 from NIS America, and Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution (PC, PS3, Xbox 360), the latest game to star the whiskered ninja.
Finally this week, Majesco will release an “Ultimate Edition” of Air Conflicts: Vietnam for the PS4.
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360
Tagged Cooking Mama 5, Fairy Fencer F, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call
Madden NFL 15 spikes the competition by outselling all games in August 2014
Even though his stance said, “stop,” Richard Sherman took it to the house as the cover athlete of Madden NFL 15. While it’s too early to be concerned with The Curse, EA Sports’ latest football sim, as expected, toppled the competition and emerged as the best-selling game of August 2014, according to The NPD Group.
Only a small number of new releases made their way onto store shelves last month and many of them were re-releases of older titles. This tactic helped Diablo III: Reaper of Souls reach the #2 spot as the “Ultimate Evil Edition” is now available for previous-generation and current-generation consoles. And thanks to its PlayStation debut, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare cracked the top ten for the first time at #7.
Joystiq posits that this lack of major releases is the reason why game sales were down when compared to last August. The eighth month of 2013 saw the release of Madden NFL 25 as well as Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Saints Row IV, and Disney Infinity.
A full look at the top ten best-selling games of August 2014 can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, DS, News, PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Lego Marvel Super Heroes, Madden NFL 15, Minecraft, NPD, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare, The Last of Us, The Lego Movie, Watch Dogs
Nintendo Download: Teslagrad, KickBeat, Adventure Island, more
We interrupt your latest game of Destiny to deliver an update on this week’s Nintendo Download, which is a little light on the Destiny.
Instead, Wii U owners will have to content themselves with Teslagrad, a side-scrolling puzzle-platformer with hand-drawn environments; KickBeat: Special Edition, a rhythm game that combines music and kung fu (available September 16); and Adventure Island, the NES classic that introduced the world to Master Higgins.
Over on the 3DS side of the shop, players will be able to download The Keep, a dungeon crawler with real-time combat; Top Model 3D, a game that asks players to step into the (ridiculously expensive) shows of a famous model; and Hideaways: Foggy Valley, a hidden object game.
More details on all of these new releases can be found after the break. (more…)
Nintendo Download: Nobunaga’s Ambition, Cubemen 2, more
Welcome to another update for Nintendo’s eShop. This week, the store becomes home to a few NES oddities, warring cubes, and dessert-based superheroes…
- Nobunaga’s Ambition, the dense strategy game originally released for the NES, is now available to download on the Wii U.
- Cubemen 2, a 3D strategy game for the Wii U starring… wait for it… Cubemen.
- Ice Cream Surfer, a Super NES-styled side-scroller for the Wii U starring the titular superhero in his battle against EVIL BROCCOLI.
- Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight, Capcom’s weird Street Fighter spinoff is now available to download on the 3DS.
- Tappingo 2, a tapping puzzle game for the 3DS.
More information on all of these games can be found after the break. (more…)
Mighty No. 9’s PAX Prime 2014 trailer is mega colorful
PAX Prime came to an end on Monday, but we’re still sorting through all the news to emerge from the expo and the latest Might No. 9 trailer is too good to pass up. Once again, Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune mesmerized a PAX crowd with new details of his beautiful platformer, including a look at several of the boss battles. It’s colorful, it’s polished, and it’s embedded above.
Mighty No. 9 will be available for the 3DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One in Spring 2015.
Gone Home leads Nintendo’s upcoming slate of Wii U and 3DS eShop releases
Fullbright’s award-winning Gone Home will be coming home to the Wii U (via the Wii U eShop) this Fall. That’s rather fitting as a stash of Super NES games play a small part in the game’s plot. Gone Home is just one of more than three dozen games that Nintendo plans to add to the eShop through the end of the year and into early 2015.
Other highlights include the announcement that Slightly Mad’s Project CARS will be available exclusively through the Wii U eShop sometime in 2015 and that Renegade Kid has three 3DS games planned for this Fall: Treasurenauts, Xeodrifter, and Moon Chronicles: Episode 2.
Nintendo’s complete eShop release calendar for the next six months (or so) can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Wii U
Tagged Gone Home, Moon Chronicles, Project CARS