● Capcom have announced that Monster Hunter X has shipped two million copies (retail/download card/eShop).

● A Mario Hanafuda theme released this morning costing the usual ¥200.

● SteamWorld Heist has been confirmed for Japanese 3DS release although no date at present. I assume Intergrow will again be the publisher. The game releases on 10 December in the West.

● Next week on the eShop (9-16 December) sees a Harvest Moon sale with Story of Seasons (¥5184 yen → ¥2500) and PoPoLoCrois Harvest Moon (¥5940 yen → ¥2900).

● Several new releases today including the big first party holiday game Mario & Luigi RPG Paper Mario MIX which also releases as a double pack with Mario Kart 7.

● Nintendo have opened up a Children’s Playground website for kids at https://www.nintendo.co.jp/kids.

● To the surprise of perhaps only those few that believe Monster Hunter 5 is coming to Vita, Kouenji Joshi Soccer 3 will of-course not be releasing on 12 December.

● The major 2.0 update to The Legend of Zelda: The Three Triforce Musketeers is now live.

● Nintendo Co. Ltd. stocks have closed at 19,340.0 up slightly from yesterday (19,330.0).

● I’ve updated the Release Schedule again at http://www.japanese3ds.com/schedule with quite a few new changes on both 3DS and Wii U so worth checking out.

● A video for Linkle from Zelda Musou: Hyrule All-Stars at https://youtu.be/r9mQo2qIgi8

● That’s all for now. Collectible Badge Center update this evening and some more Famitsu scans queued overnight. Thanks for following!