Level-5's action RPG might be coming to the West.

Fantasy Life, an action RPG crossed with elements of Animal Crossing for the Nintendo 3DS, has been trademarked by Level-5 in the United States. Despite the trademark being made both in the United States and Europe, the game has not been formally announced for a release in the West.

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The decision to include a more casual way to play Fire Emblem was met with skepticism initially. 

The team behind Fire Emblem Awakening discussed the implementation of the Casual mode and the difficulties behind making such a decision in a recent developer interview.

When the idea was first brought up, some of the team members were against the idea. However, the team realised that many people... Read more...

The exclusive Club Nintendo title for gold and platinum members is available for download starting today.

Nintendōji, a 2012 Club Nintendo prize available to gold and platinum members in Japan, is now available for download on the Nintendo 3DS eShop and Nintendo DSi Shop. Players who opted for Nintendōji last year were given a special download number which they can now utilize to download the free software. The game is a dungeon-crawling, card-battling, turn-based RPG.

Where a gauntlet lets you conjure demons to do your bidding, not tell you how badly a wizard needs food.

Shin Megami Tensei IV will arrive in North America this summer according to publisher Atlus. The 3DS title is a Japanese RPG that casts players as demon-controlling samurai, sent out to rid Tokyo of the evil that has taken over.

The series, which also spawned the popular Persona series, last appeared... Read more...

Assassin's Creed is here to stay, unless you want it to leave.

Yannis Mallat, the CEO of Ubisoft Montreal, talked about the future of the Assassin's Creed franchise in an interview with Eurogamer.

The frequency of use does not matter if the content is of sufficient quality, according to Mallat. He stated, "When you have quality content, the frequency of... Read more...

Buy one of twenty-four titles on the 3DS eShop, get 500 yen back.

A special campaign for first party Nintendo 3DS downloadable retail titles giving gamers 500 yen back per title started today, April 1, in Japan.

Titled the Spring Downloadable Version New Life Campaign (Haru no Download-ban Shin Seikatsu Campaign), gamers who buy one of the twenty-four first party... Read more...

Run as fast as you can to download this patch. 

A patch for for Bit.Trip Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien is now available.

The patch is most notably a fix for a bug that causes Runner2 to lock up during play. It also includes other small fixes, including saving high scores to the leaderboards instead of most recent scores.

A free, Super Mario Bros. themed special AR card and application are coming to stores across Japan later this month.

Special Augmented Reality/Nintendo Prepaid card sets featuring characters from the Super Mario series are coming to Japan starting April 23, Satoru Iwata revealed at a Chotto Nintendo Direct today. 

The prepaid card doubles as an AR card which can be used with Nintendo 3DS downloadable AR software.... Read more...

The new Pokémon will also be shown on the Japanese TV program, Pokémon Smash. 

A new Pokémon from the upcoming games Pokémon X and Pokémon Y is being revealed next Saturday.

The official Pokémon Twitter announced that news about X and Y would be revealed next Saturday. The news will be a reveal of a new Pokémon, according to a post on Serebii. The reveal of a Pokémon was also announced on the Japanese TV show Pokémon smash.

More missions, more characters, more Fire Emblem. Are you in?

Another two sets of downloadable content for Fire Emblem Awakening have been made available in North America.

"Rogues and Redeemers 1" is the first in a trilogy of DLC packs starring classic characters from the entire history of the Fire Emblem franchise. In this high-level map, the game's protagonist, Chrom, goes into battle alongside 10 series veterans, including Ephraim, a major character from GBA title The Sacred Stones. 

All the games are now 50% off their original list price.

Ubisofts Wii U games are now 50% off their Nintendo eShop retail price until April 4.

The titles and prices are as follows:

ZombiU - $89.95 - $44.95Assassin's Creed III - $89.95 - $44.95Just Dance 4 - $59.95 - $29.95Rabbids Land - $59.95 - $29.95Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth - $59.95 - $29.95Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013 - $59.95 - $29.95

New game is heavier on story and features voice acting.

A new entry in the Etrian Odyssey series will be released as early as June, revealed Famitsu. Contrary to previous rumors, the game titled Shin Sekaiju no Meikyu: Millennium no Shojo (New Etrian Odyssey: The Girl of Millennium) is not a remake of the original Etrian Odyssey, though it is set in the same universe.

Could the Dark Knight's next escapade involve other members of the Justice League? 

Batman Arkham Origins is a Silver Age-inspired prequel and could be revealed at this year's E3, a recent report suggests.

Unnamed industry sources purportedly told French outlet Gameblog that the third instalment in the popular Arkham series, once again in development at Rocksteady Studios, will... Read more...

The third game in the N series is coming. Which systems will pick it up?

N++, the sequel to N+, was officially announced by developer Metanet Software during a panel at this week's Game Developers Conference (GDC).

Metanet Software most recently released an entry in the N series on the Nintendo DS in 2008. Since then, the developer has been struggling while attempting to develop games outside of the N franchise.

Collecting Smiles announces a contest as well, offering up a Wii U.

Colors! 3D, a drawing application available on the 3DS eShop, will receiving a long-in-the-works update on April 5. 

As noted on developer Collecting Smiles' website, features of the update include:

• Follow your favorite artists in the gallery to make sure you don’t miss any of their paintings.

Vigil's last game will no longer be sold digitally at the end of the month.

Action-adventure game Darksiders II will be taken down from the Wii U eShop in Europe on March 31, 2013, according to The Nintendo Channel.

European users who have already bought the title digitally will still be able to re-download it from the eShop, but the game cannot be purchased after this... Read more...

Music and fish, the greatest combination of anything ever.

Slim pickings this week, gang. However, when one of them pickings is HarmoKnight, you don't talk sass. Got it?! What else is on tap? Natsume's Legend of the River King is up for grabs on the 3DS Virtual Console, and retail releases Sonic & All-Star Racing Transformed and Resident Evil Revelations... Read more...

The quest to find the best is over.

Nintendo Australia has crowned their Monster Hunter champion.  Recently Nintendo Australia ran a competition to find the Ultimate Monster Hunter, with the prize being to have their gameplay footage of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate recorded at Nintendo's head office to be used in a commercial for the game.

The social network will be more deeply integrated with games.

Nintendo is planning updates to Miiverse functionality, including the ability to more deeply integrate the social network with Wii U games.

The Miiverse API will be updated in a future version of the Wii U Software Development Kit to include features to improve interactions within games, producer... Read more...

Game & Wario turns the Miiverse into a microgame.

Game & Wario will include a Miiverse-centric feature called Miiversketch, which tasks players with quickly drawing items from memory.

During Kiyoshi Mizuki's Nintendo Miiverse GDC talk, the developer revealed Miiversketch, a Game & Wario mode that makes use of Miiverse's in-game message... Read more...