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New Play Control is a line of Gamecube games re-released on Wii with enhanced Wii-Remote control styles. And even though NPC: Pikmin 2 came out in Japan in March 2009 and a month later in Europe, North America has had to wait until next month to get a hold of the title. I myself had a very hard time finding Pikmin 2 for Gamecube as the title has become pretty obscure, and goes for a pretty penny on the internet these days. I wanted to play through it because I loved the first one and am going to soon enjoy number three on WiiU. I finally found a friend who owned it and let me borrow it, which was very nice because the game rocks solid. Now I have to decide weather to OWN it again... Read more for the full magazine scan from Nintendo Power Magazine (as found on Nintendo Life).

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Official: Nintendo set a "Fall 2012" launch date.

Rumor: An internal based memo from Nintendo circulating through Japanese game retailer MediaLand, claims that the Nintendo Wii U will launch in North America on Sunday, November 18th and then a week later in Japan, with no European date cited.

Remember: November is a very important time for system and software launches. The Nintendo Wii launched on Sunday, November 19th in 2006, and on December 2nd in Japan. This is why the rumor sounds reasonable, but remember, the best way to start a fake rumor is to make it sound reasonable! If you copy-paste dates from Wii to Wii U it pretty much fits 'in-line' with Nintendo strategies.
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It looks as if Gamestop Stores and Multiplayer.com are displaying place-holder box art for the pre-order of "Donkey Kong Country 3D". No such game has been announced by Nintendo, Retro, or anyone else for that matter, it's just kind of out there now. Anyone with a fairly decent knowledge of Donkey Kong games would notice that the fake box-art is actually the DS Jungle Climber art, with a new title imposed over it.

Not only are they 'holding' a May 25th release date, there also appears to be a Smash Brothers 3DS box in the Gamestop picture as well, with a release-year of 2012. The work on Kid Icarus JUST finished, giving the studio very very little time to prepare the Smash title for this year. So remember it's all rumors still.
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A Fatal Frame II remake has been sitting on the sidelines of Wii forever, so long in-fact that speculation was rising as to the game becoming a WiiU title instead, especially knowing that Tecmo has a "launch game" planned for the system, and nobody outside of the company knows what it is. Nintendo of Europe has issued an official press release of upcoming games, one of which is Fatal Frame II on Wii.

The press release actually barely mentions the game, fitting it into a tag-line in a bigger announcement of Spirit Camera for 3DS, and in doing so neglects to give a release date. This is pretty interesting news, considering that Fatal Frame IV once upon a time had a European release date, but was then canceled and never saw release. American Wii owners still are left completely in the dark as there is still no news about the title coming state-side at all. I personally have an import copy of Fatal Frame IV, and because I'm using the fan-translation patch, enjoy the hell out of it! I would be very pleased to hear a North American release announcement.

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I... I'm going to try as... best as I can to not write this news update with any jokes. It's pretty difficult given that the name of the game is a joke itself, aptly named to create giggles for anyone who... understands the subject matter, and because there are three dimensions involved... and also a touch-screen... oh my.

Andriasang reports that Nintendo plans to "revive other publisher's titles on the 3DS as part of a strategy to bring new strong titles to the system", and the one title mentioned specifically as an idea is the Sega Dreamcast cult-classic: Seaman. I have been saying since the original DS came out that Seamasn needs to be ported or sequelled for the system, and now it looks like it just might, remember it might, this isn't an official announcment for a release.

Seaman is a game where you start by raising tadpoles into man-faced-fish creatures day by day. It takes place in a real-time clock like Animal Crossing games, but is more of a pet simulation game... narrated by Spock (Leonard Nimoy). During the course of 'gameplay' you will teach your Seaman to speak by talking to him in real life, and answering questions that he has, because he actually learns from you. You also have to keep the tank water temperature to a comfortable setting or they may die, also you need to clean the tank. You really treat Seaman like a fish in a fish tank day by day, but you also will grow as friends who understand each other more and more as you talk. Seaman can be picked up out of the water, but he doesn't like it, and he will show his disgust if you say the wrong things to him.

Having a touch screen, and a microphone, and two screens (at one point you grow moths in a second tank as food) is actually what the game was designed for, only the designers didn't know it yet. Now the crazy dream may be a reality. Since Nintendo plans to visit other titles as well, what games do you think they should bring to the 3DS?

Here everyone, I made you a card using real screen shots of myself from Animal Crossing: City Folk!

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