● Agatsuma Entertainment sadly announced today that they are no more. It’s recommended that you should purchase their eShop games quickly (only two are available: Sayonara Umihara Kawase at ¥4,500 and IRONFALL -Invasion- at ¥1,500) before they are permanently removed.

● The Japanese Nintendo Badge Arcade this week saw Kirby Squeak Squad, Splatoon, Ice Climber, Swapnote Nikki and Ashley badges. Both Nikki and Ashley are partaking in a bit of Santa cosplay!

● Starsign have announced that they’ll be localising the Minecraft clone Battleminer for 6 January release priced at ¥500.

● The seventh Escape Adventure game unsurprisingly code-named Escape Adventure 7 is being developed by Intense and will release on the eShop any week now with Arc System Works again being the publisher.

● Yokai Watch Busters: Getto-Gumi (the huge free update) is out now (1,662 blocks). The second promo video is at https://youtu.be/URHn7FOC-R8

● A five minute trailer for Zelda Musou: Hyrule All-Stars is at https://youtu.be/pPYjT5mfSVM

● D3 Publisher have opened up a teaser site for an unknown game at http://www.d3p.co.jp/countdown2015/ although no platform specified.

● A Christmas Set of festive themed clothes and items are deliverable in Girls Mode 3 with details here.

● Kinopio-kun added two more wallpapers to Nintendo’s LINE account today.

● The Japanese Mighty No. 9 site has a new trailer uploaded at http://www.spike-chunsoft.co.jp/MightyNo9/

● The video for the Super Smash Bros. presentation will be at http://youtu.be/VnH3PgXlUZ0

● Nintendo Co. Ltd. stocks closed the week at just 18,035.0 down from 18,980.0 last week and the lowest for about nine months.

● The Release Schedule covering Japanese 3DS / Wii U / mobile / amiibo is completely up-to-date at http://www.japanese3ds.com/schedule and have a great weekend!