● As promised: sale time! Some of you may know about the sale of Great Egg Adventure (from ¥400 to ¥280), Fluidity Spin Cycle (¥1234 to ¥860) and Crazy Construction (from ¥600 to ¥420) until 4 March but one other game is on sale Grinsia from 25 February until 4 March reduced from ¥1,080 to ¥500 and at that price bought!

● One of the sexiest looking kisekae plates was announced today with a Xenoblade Chronicles one planned for 2 April priced at ¥2,000 (+ tax) so that’s ¥2,500 (+ tax!) spent today!

● A(nother) Monster Hunter 4G bundle was announced today with blue New Nintendo 3DS LL, digital copy of the game, AC Adapter and 16GB SD card all for ¥24,000 (again + tax) on 12 March.

● And a fourth early purchase benefit was announced today for Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition with a Super Mario stylus (the others are a theme, card and ticket).

● Sumikko Gurashi has crossed the 100,000 sales barrier. Well done Nippon Columbia!

● The Corpse Party: Blood Covered …Repeated Fear website opened today at the cool URL of http://corpse.jp/

● Joysound are releasing an awesome set of 61 sound effects (available individually for ¥250) on iTunes featuring Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and Hoshi no Kirby etc for use as ringtones or alarm. The website is at http://camp.joysound.com/nintendo-melody/

● Fukuoka Stadium has become Level-5 Stadium to celebrate Yokai Watch 2 (all three versions) totalling 5.5 million sales.

● Today’s daily Kumamon. This guy, well, bear is seriously the greatest!

● And finally a commercial for Bravely Second: End Layer. I’m off to Gurgu Volcano now!