Puzzled birds and whipped vampires lead today's eShop updates!

I hope last week let you take some time to catch your breath from the eShop onslaught, because it's back and swinging. Toki Tori 2 is out today for the Wii U, so be sure to check out Guillaume's review. The 3DS eShop gets some digital versions of retail releases with Gabrielle's Ghostly Groove 3D... Read more...

No news on Cowardly Option. 

Bravely Default: Flying Fairy may be coming to the west according to Siliconera.

Their report states that multiple trusted sources have said it is being localized for English speaking players. Bravely Default is a well received JRPG that released in October of last year in Japan.

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This morning, Nintendo has added two new features to the Miiverse service on the Wii U.

There is now a more streamlined community menu, with everything being split up in various sections. Now you can find the specific services and games even quicker than before, with the menu just showing the newest games directly on the front.

The mouse house wants it to license games instead. 

LucasArts will no  longer be internally developing games after changes made by its owner, The Walt Disney Company.

A statement released by Disney reveals LucasArts will not be developing games, and instead will be licensing them in order to work on "minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games." This shift is also the cause of layoffs happening today at LucasArts.

The last of the three Operation Rainfall games is almost here.

Pandora's Tower is set to release across North America on April 16, according to XSEED Games via their official Twitter account.

Pandora's Tower was one of three games that fans fought hard to bring to North America over the last two years. Following 2012's releases of Xenoblade Chronicles... Read more...

The developer has confirmed several problems and is working on a patch.

The European version of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked is said to contain a number of serious game-breaking bugs.

The problems were confirmed by developer Ghostlight on their official blog, after several reports from players who had encountered these bugs cropped up following the... Read more...

The Fire Emblem house discusses the future of their other strategy series. 

Intelligent Systems, the makers of the recent 3DS hit Fire Emblem Awakening, say that they would love to develop another title in the Advance Wars franchise.

In an interview with localisation firm 8-4 Ltd., Fire Emblem Awakening project manager Masahiro Higuchi remained open to the possibility of another Wars game in the future.

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.