Weekly News Update from the Birthday Boy!

● Just a quick birthday weekend news recap to start with: new Puzzle & Dragons X CoroCoro gameplay videos here and here

● The teaser website for Yu-Gi-Oh! Saikyou Card Battle is now open at http://www.konami.jp/yugioh/card_battle/

● I forgot to post the complete Weekly Famitsu scores: Kirby Planet Robobot got 36/40, Ninja Smasher! 28/40, Kaminaro-ko 2 31/40 and LEGO Marvel Avengers 33/40.

● And now for the weekly news recap: Metroid Prime: Federation Force has been postponed until 25 August in order to ‘adjust the game balance’.

● Next week on the Wii U Virtual Console will see the Nintendo 64 shmup Sin and Punishment (¥1,028) and the NDS game Mario Party DS (¥950).

● And next week on the 3DS eShop will see the newly announced Picross e7 by Jupiter (¥500) and Densha Unten Shirei by Arc System Works (¥800).

● Collavier Corporation have announced Mysterious Point Connection 3D (Fushigi na Ten Tsunagi 3D) as a sequel to the DSiWare for 11 May priced at ¥800.

Pokémon Co-Master was finally released on iOS and immediately went to number one (it’s currently down to number four with 875 reviews averaging just two stars.

● And that’s all (apart from Splatoon content in Miitomo, Mario & Luigi RPG Paper Mario Mix badges in Nintendo Badge Arcade, Star Fox Zero wallpaper on the Nintendo LINE account, a Kirby Planet Robobot StreetPass Puzzle and eleven new themes added to the Theme Shop including Star Fox Zero Mentori, Tomomi Itano ‘Hide & Seek’, four The Legend of Dark Witch Ep2, Finding! Ojipockle+ and three Rascal Sweets). Phew!

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