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VANCOUVER, B.C., November 5, 2015 – Do your socks go missing in the dryer? Are you constantly shopping for useless stuff? Or maybe you can’t stop spilling all of your secrets?  All of this could be caused by Yo-kai! Hundreds of these sometimes spooky, sometimes cute and usually mischievous Yo-kai secretly inhabit our world. They can’t be seen by the human eye, but they’re hiding everywhere! In YO-KAI WATCH, an original game from top Japanese entertainment company LEVEL-5 Inc. launching exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems on November 6, you must explore the in-game world to find and befriend more than 200 of these Yo-kai, each with unique skills, strengths and personalities.

“After selling millions and becoming a cultural phenomenon in Japan, YO-KAI WATCH plans to make a big splash in Canada as part of a broad entertainment blitz of a video game, toys, a comic book and an animated comedy series,” said Pierre-Paul Trepanier, Nintendo of Canada’s General Manager and Senior Director. “People will find it easy to love this charming game and its memorable characters.”

After selecting to play as a male or female character, you begin an adventure in an expansive world filled with hidden Yo-kai waiting to be discovered. As you explore the world, you will encounter Whisper, the self-proclaimed “Yo-kai Butler,” who entrusts you with a Yo-kai Watch. With this special watch, you’ll be able to see Yo-kai everywhere in town and even befriend them. Befriending new Yo-kai is not always easy, though – in many cases, you will need to battle with them and impress them during your battle. Once befriended, you’ll receive a Yo-kai medal as proof of your new friendship. Then you can summon your new friends with their Yo-kai Medals, form a team, and challenge troublemaking Yo-kai or solve the problems of people in need. Finding all the Yo-kai in the game (especially the rare ones) and seeing their inspired names and charming designs is all part of the fun. As you progress through the story and solve various mysteries around town, you’ll be able to befriend more than 200 Yo-kai in the game. You can summon up to six Yo-kai friends at a time to join your team at any time.

As you collect Yo-kai throughout the game, you can form teams of six Yo-kai at a time. Since each Yo-kai has different abilities, it will take strategy to form the right team and gain the upper hand when confronting particularly troublesome Yo-kai. By strategically initiating Soultimate Moves and purifying your friendly Yo-kai using the touch screen of the Nintendo 3DS system, you can gain the advantage in battle. You can even feed your Yo-kai food, beverages and medicine in battle to heal them. Your assistance and leadership in battle is crucial to success.

Be part of the newest cultural phenomenon and buy YO-KAI WATCH in stores and in the Nintendo eShop on November 6 at a suggested retail price of $49.99. If you want to try before you buy, a free demo of the game is now available to download in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS. For people looking to get the game along with a Nintendo 2DS system, an amazing bundle is also available in stores onNovember 6 at a suggested retail price of $129.99. The bundle includes the Nintendo 2DS system and a pre-installed version of YO-KAI WATCH. For more information about the game, visit http://yo-kai.nintendo.com.

Alongside the video game, the YO-KAI WATCH animated TV show is being broadcast on Teletoon on Saturdays at 2 p.m., full episodes of which will be appearing on the Yo-kai Watch Official YouTube Channel on November 5. VIZ Media’s Perfect Square imprint has also made the original manga series available in Canada for the first time. Starting in December, Hasbro, Inc. will introduce an innovative YO-KAI WATCH product line featuring a system of play centered around the YO-KAI WATCH accessory and collectable medals, along with board games, plush and figures. Fans can pre-order the YO-KAI WATCH accessory at select* retailers in Canada starting on November 6.

The Nintendo 3DS family of systems feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visithttp://www.nintendo.com/en_CA/3ds.

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*Pre-order available at Toys R Us, Amazon and EB Games.  See your local store for details.

About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii U^™ and Wii^™ home consoles, and Nintendo 3DS^™ and Nintendo DS^™ families of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System^™, Nintendo has sold more than 4.3 billion video games and more than 686 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL, as well as the Game Boy^™, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi^™ and Nintendo DSi XL^™, Super NES^™, Nintendo 64^™, Nintendo GameCube^™ and Wii systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario^™, Donkey Kong^™, Metroid^™, Zelda^™ and Pokémon^™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at http://www.nintendo.ca

This isn’t like part two, it’s a completely different game. It’s built up from the ground – it’s the same engine but we’ve added and changed a huge amount. It looks and feels different and we’ve focused on the feeling of speed. We had a great reaction to FAST – Racing League so we thought it was a good idea to revisit when we started three years ago.

We want to focus on the F-Zero vibes and fast racing, not worrying about pick-ups. It should feel like a rhythm, like Boost-Boost-Boost-pick up. So if you know where the pick-ups and boosts are you can effectively boost all the way around a lap. There’s a lot of depth, such as boosting into or landing on others to spin them around, or boosting while flying to land quicker. There are various things you don’t know in the beginning which don’t necessarily matter until to take on Time Trials or online races. We really want this to be a deeper game, not just a shallow arcade game – though we like arcade games too!

You start off with one cup and three ships. The early ships are easy to use but the heavier ships behave differently and drift, so you have to use strafing and so on. It’s harder but they are faster, for example. So in the single player campaign you unlock different ships that are harder to use but faster, and then you access faster speed classes. The top speed in the expo demo (at EGX) is about 400, but in the fastest ships – it’s too fast for me but I’m told by someone else in the team that it’s good – you go at about 1000. It’s fun for the player to progress and unlock more stuff.

It’s not totally finalised, but there might not be a lot of players online all the time – we hope lots! – so we’re keeping it quite simple. You just choose ships from those unlocked and choose any track you’ve unlocked, then just like in Mario Kart others jump in and you race. You collect points which make up your online score, so you can see if someone’s pretty good or not, and you can try and improve on the leaderboard. We’re keeping it simple for fast races.

The response to E3 was tremendous. That was a first time for us. In the past we’d just make a game and release it, but Nintendo were saying to us “show the game, do something with the people”. It’s so important to show the game, there are so many people surprised to see a new game, so we’re happy to show it and get their reactions. We’re pretty sure we’re on the right track.

We are much more present, doing these shows and showing the game. We’ve really focused on going to shows and showing footage – it’s been almost three years of development and it’s been the biggest production for us. We’re sure it’ll pay off.

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Source: Nintendo Life

Word Puzzles by POWGI, an upcoming multi-puzzle game for the Nintendo 3DS eShop, will include support for all amiibo figures and amiibo cards.

Indie studio Lightwood Games will include a special amiibo mode in Word Puzzles by POWGI that, when players scan any amiibo figure or card, will read the nickname and owner’s name. That information will then be used to unlock “special, custom content” for puzzles in the game.

Source: Nintendo News

It's official! Toki Tori 3D is coming to Nintendo 3DS eShop worldwide on November 5th for just $1,99 / €1,99. pic.twitter.com/ZfnWoueDPH

— Two Tribes (@TwoTribesGames) October 30, 2015

Here’s our video review of The Letter by TreeFall Studios for the Nintendo Wii U.

Stella Glow now has a demo available to download off of the eShop. This demo includes the prologue chapter of the full game, and introduces players to the main character, Alto.

For those that do not know, Stella Glow is a 3DS-exclusive title developed by Imagepoch and published by Atlus. Stella Glow is the developer’s last game before it filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.

Hopefully this demo for the game will provide good insight as to whether you want to purchase Stella Glow when it launches, as the launch edition of Stella Glow comes with a free CD and cloth poster. Stella Glow is slotted for launch on November 17th.

Source: Nintendo Enthusiast

Here’s our video review of Human Resource Machine by Tomorrow Corporation for the Nintendo Wii U.

Here’s our video review of Color Bombs by RCMADIAX for the Nintendo Wii U.

CHUDCHUD Industries told us at IndieCade this weekend that Temple of Yog is now in certification. At the moment, the team is aiming for a November release.

Source: Nintendo Everything