● Huge news day and little time! Kumamon ★ Bomber Puzzle de Kumamon Taisou website is open at http://www.rocketcompany.co.jp/kumamon/

● The shoot-em-up Karous: The Beast Of Re: Eden was rated 27 (8/7/6/6) in Famitsu magazine.

● Detective Conan: Phantom Rhapsody was announced for 3DS today releasing on 17 April.

● Ultra Baseball Card Battle (which is a card battling sequel to the Famicom/Super Famicom Ultra Baseball series) has been dated for 27 February.

● A playable demo for Fossil Fighters: Infinite Gear and a new dungeon for Puzzle & Dragons Z are available in the latest issue of Coro Coro. In addition, the Labyrinth of Dimension dungeon is available in the latter from today with the boss The Gatekeeper.

● Kirby: Triple Deluxe sells over 225,000 copies to lead the retail charts with Kirby still reigning supreme on the eShop.

● An update to Flipnote Studio makes attaching photos impossible so finally no more dick pics so hopefully it can be localised soon.

● Ashley from the Wario Ware series will be in the new Super Smash Bros. game although I don’t think she will be playable.

● A budget version of the DS game Maru Pass Qualification Dash will be released on 27 March for ¥2,500. More information at http://www.media-5.co.jp/ds/dash/

● The first screenshots (but no date) for Touch Detective Rising 3: Does Funghi Dream of Bananas? are now been released. Here is one! Hopefully I’ll post a preview when time allows.

● Square Enix are bringing The Legend of Kage to the 3DS Virtual Console next week for ¥500.

● A trio of edutainment Otona VS Greco Kanji no Tou to Obake Tachi titles are also coming to the eShop next week for ¥500 each or ¥1,500 for all three together (no saving!). The website is at http://www.media-5.co.jp/3ds/otonagureko/kanji.html

● I’ll add the videos and anything I’ve missed to tomorrow’s update as waaaay too much news today! The release schedule and Kirby review will be late Friday night (UK time). And thanks for following!