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Title: Limited Edition Yoshi's New Island 3DS XL Bundle Leaked
Post by: jrlibrarian on February 09, 2014, 12:42:24 PM

Your favorite handheld system now comes in Yoshi flavor!

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/36520

A Yoshi's New Island 3DS XL bundle has appeared on an online retailer, including the handheld system and the game.

The bundle, set to be priced at £199.99 (the same price as the Zelda 3DS XL released with A Link Between Worlds) is listed as coming out March 14, the same day as Yoshi's New Island. 

Although the image posted to the online retailer, shown right, is only a fan mockup, IGN has confirmed that the bundle is coming to North America.

Title: Re: Limited Edition Yoshi's New Island 3DS XL Bundle Leaked
Post by: Khushrenada on February 09, 2014, 01:14:30 PM

jrlibrarian is staff now? When did that happen?

Title: Re: Limited Edition Yoshi's New Island 3DS XL Bundle Leaked
Post by: pokepal148 on February 09, 2014, 01:28:20 PM

No idea, but I'm submitting my resume. :D

Title: Re: Limited Edition Yoshi's New Island 3DS XL Bundle Leaked
Post by: Stratos on February 09, 2014, 03:15:34 PM

Brings a tear to my eye to see little Jr grow up like this. You go get those news stories, buddy!

Title: Re: Limited Edition Yoshi's New Island 3DS XL Bundle Leaked
Post by: Khushrenada on February 09, 2014, 05:34:46 PM

When jrlibrarian first joined our forums, a staff position is what he wanted and even made this topic on it: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28745.0

I guess he finally broke through with Dasmos disappearing as that seemed to be the only person opposed to it.

Way to be, Jeffrey!

Title: Re: Limited Edition Yoshi's New Island 3DS XL Bundle Leaked
Post by: jrlibrarian on February 10, 2014, 02:43:55 AM

Oh my god, that first year of posting from me was pretty immature and obnoxious. It didn't help that I was 15 at the time.


In December, I decided to throw my hat back into the ring, and Neal remembered me. I was contacted early last week, so now I'm in the trial stage, hopefully on my way to being full staff. It only took 5+ years of work at other websites to get there.

Title: Re: Limited Edition Yoshi's New Island 3DS XL Bundle Leaked
Post by: Oblivion on February 10, 2014, 02:51:06 AM

Considering that you were posting better then than I am now, your posting habits were pretty good back then. Congrats for doing something that's been a dream of mine for years.


If I may ask, how did you get these sort of gigs on other sites?

Title: Re: Limited Edition Yoshi's New Island 3DS XL Bundle Leaked
Post by: jrlibrarian on February 10, 2014, 03:02:46 AM

It was actually pretty easy. I mostly scouted this website (http://gamejournalismjobs.com/) until I found sites that actually had, ya know, standards, instead of being glorified blogs. I just wrote up some reviews of games I had played, and submitted them. Turns out that quite a lot of websites will be impressed if you put some effort in and have a cover letter and the like. NWR is just one of the big ones that puts a lot of pride into their work.


Keep working at crafting your skills at smaller sites, and before long you'll have enough experience to impress some of the bigger dogs.

Title: Re: Limited Edition Yoshi's New Island 3DS XL Bundle Leaked
Post by: UncleBob on February 10, 2014, 09:09:57 AM

Maybe you'll eventually be given the power to fix the forums.  And redesign the front page into something useful.

:D