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March 7th, 2012
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Darksiders II Creative Director: “Don’t Compare It to Zelda”

THQ's original Darksiders on PS3 and Xbox 360 drew a lot of comparisons with Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series, but creative director Joe Madureira wants the upcoming Wii U sequel to skip those analogies this time.

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Store Update: 6th March 2012 (North America)

Unit 13 ready for deployment

A free game on Vita and more await in this week's jam-packed Store Update. Let's get to it.

PlayStation Plus

Journey Full Game (Early Access – $14.99) — Journey review
Mass Effect 3 Full Game Trial
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X 2 Full Game Trial
Qore Episode 46 (Early Access – Free)

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Junction Point Holding “Epic” Event on 27th March

What could it be?!

After months of speculation, rumour and cat-out-of-bag-letting, it seems Junction Point is finally ready to lift the lid on Disney Epic Mickey 2.

The developer has scheduled a press event for 27th March, saying nothing more than it will reveal an "epic project".

Late last year a Disney newsletter mentioned Epic Mickey 2, and rumours about the game have been doing the rounds for months.

Of course Epic Mickey 2 isn't a foregone conclusion: we've also heard rumblings that Donald Duck may get his own Epic treatment in future, but that could be a way off yet.

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Two More Sonic Game Gear Games Rated

Have a Blast

The Australian Classifications Board has rated two more Sonic the Hedgehog games for 3DS Virtual Console.

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Pokémon Champion Stripped of Title After Hotel Incident

Update: Puig tells his side

After the unsavoury hotel incident at the Pokémon Video Game Championships this past weekend, it seems Masters champion Rubén Puig Lecegui has had his title taken off him.

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March 6th, 2012
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North America, These Are Your Upcoming eShop Games

Lots on the horizon

While Europe is celebrating something of a Virtual Console revival this month, North America has a stack of 3DS eShop content on the way in the coming weeks and months.

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Nintendo Download: 8th March 2012 (Europe)

Minigolf ahoy

It's a big old Nintendo Download this week, with a 3DS demo, Game Boy game, two Wii Virtual Console games and original 3DS download software hits alongside DSiWare puzzlers and a WiiWare demo. Let's get to it.

3DS Virtual Console

Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters (Game Boy, Nintendo, £2.70/€3) — Pit's second adventure comes to 3DS ahead of the release of Kid Icarus: Uprising. Find out if it's worth a punt in our upcoming review.

3DS Download Software

Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH! (Shin'en Multimedia, £4.50/€5) — A much-enhanced follow-up to Shin'en's WiiWare original, we recently took this for a spin with our Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH preview ready to read ahead of our review, coming soon.

3DS Demo

Dead or Alive: Dimensions (Tecmo Koei) — Tecmo's sensationalist fighting series gets a free version from the eShop this week. You can read our Dead or Alive: Dimensions review to learn more about its ample charms.

Virtual Console

Mega Man X (Super NES, Capcom, 800pts) — Only 11 months after it launched in North America, the Blue Bomber's legendary 16-bit adventure comes to Europe. Read our Mega Man X review and get those Points at the ready.

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Dead or Alive: Dimensions Demo Punches Europe This Week

On guard

Tecmo Koei scrapper Dead or Alive: Dimensions is the latest 3DS game to get a playable demo in Europe this week.

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Nothing Says “Marry Me” Like Swapnote

Romance is alive

Communication freebie Nintendo Letter Box/Swapnote is ideal for sketchy doodles and sharing glorious 3D photos of your dinner, but could it have a higher purpose? Could it be used to bring about a life of blissful matrimony? Yes.

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3DS Notches Up 4.5 Million U.S. Sales So Far

Outstrips DS

3DS recently hit 4m console sales in the United States, and Nintendo of America has just revealed the system sales now stand at over 4.5m in the U.S. alone.

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