Disney turns over a very unpopular policy and more!

Today's Nintendo news includes a big policy change and a lot of Japanese game information, so let's roll.

One of the most irritating aspects of the toys-to-life genre will be eliminated this year, at least for Disney Infinity.

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Who will be the Elite Eight to join the Sweet Sixteen in Los Angeles?

The format and locations have been announced for qualification to the 2015 Nintendo World Championship.

The qualifiers will be based on performance in a special Championship Mode of Ultimate NES Remix for the 3DS, specifically using Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3 and Dr Mario. Eight Best... Read more...

Iwata's plans and more eShop release dates are all included.

Despite an apparent holiday in the Great White North, the news train rolls in the rest of the world.

Although his presence will likely be felt during the Digital Event, Satoru Iwata will not be attending E3 in his capacity as Nintendo president and CEO of Nintendo of America.

T-shirts, plushes and squirt guns! Oh my!

A whole host of Splatoon merchandise is hitting as we approach the game's May 29 release date.

The biggest one for North American fans comes from Target, who are offering a Splatoon-branded squirt gun with their preorders. This joins the Splatoon Mii costumes for Super Smash Bros which are available at Gamestop (US)/Best Buy (Canada) as far as preorder incentives.

Not one, but two special amiibos will come to the land down under!

The Gold Mario Amiibo figure is set to release in Australia and New Zealand within the coming months.

The extremely limited edition and highly sought after version of the Super Mario Series Amiibo will be exclusive to Target stores, with an unconfirmed release date. The news comes from a Nintendo press release that promises to update with new details soon.

Not something you should wear in combat.

Enterplay will soon be shipping a new series of Super Mario Dog tags to retailers in a variety of formats.

The full set will include 24 standard dog tags, 6 gold dog tags, 4 mini dog tags, 6 deluxe dog tags, 30 trading cards, 12 decals, 2 lunchbox tins, and a binder. These collectables will be available in a variety of formats.

One last shot to snipe roller using fools

There will be one more shot at trying Splatoon before launch.

Nintendo has announced a round of the Splatoon Global Testfire will happen on May 23/24. As with the previous events, there will be one hour of testing of the Turf War mode.

The key times for the event:

Limits in place, let's see if they hold.

Australia will be getting the Silver Mario Amiibo around the time North America does.

The special figure will be available from 30 May, and is an EB Games exclusive. It will retail for the standard Amiibo price of AUS$17.95.

The EB Games announcement indicates the figure is only available in limited quantities and will have a strict 1 per person limit.

Software all right, hardware not so much.

The NPD Group has released their US sales figures for April, and although a few surprising software numbers have been released, Nintendo hardware struggled with only one major release to buoy it.

In the combined software charts, Smash Bros for Wii U and 3DS combined to be the 9th best selling set... Read more...

Sadly not made of actual metal to bash scalpers with.

Nintendo has announced that the rumored Silver Mario Amiibo will launch in North America on May 29.

A part of the Mario series, the specially designed Amiibo will launch at "all participating retailers and their online stores". The metallic Mario joins the Splatoon series and Wave 4 of the Smash Bros series in launching on Splatoon day.

Wah wah!

I honestly don't recall the last time we've been able to say this; there's three Virtual Console games on the Wii U this week. The main event of the three is of course, New Super Mario Bros, a game so evergreen it was showing up in NPD Top 10 lists after the 3DS launched.

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Digital Event, more Best Buy demos, Nintendo World Championships, and more!

Nintendo has revealed their full E3 plans including a return of the Nintendo World Championship after 25 years.

To start things off, Nintendo will continue their tradition of having a Digital Event in order to make their big game announcements. This event will take place on June 16 at 9 a.m. PT.

One of which will actually be localized.

Lots of news hit overnight, so let's dive right in.

The last DQ holdout has finally come to Nintendo platforms, as Dragon Quest VIII will release in Japan on August 27.

Western gamers originally saw DQVIII release in 2005 on the PlayStation 2, and the new version promises two new companions, voice acting, an orchestrated soundtrack, new story elements and StreetPass functions.

Today's Nintendo news seems to be heavy on the roleplaying.

A new game announcement and a couple of RPG updates head up the Nintendo news as we all wait for our E3 plans.

The mobile gaming phenomenon that dethroned Puzzle and Dragons in Japan is about to head to the 3DS itself.

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And this time, they're training to prepare the body.

The mystery of Nintendo's E3 plans will be solved tomorrow at noon ET.

Nintendo's Twitter has posted the following message today:

Who’s training for E3? Find out our plans for E3 tomorrow at 9 a.m. PT!

It appears the theme of the announcement video will be boxing, possibly teasing a new Punch-Out, but we'll find out tomorrow.

E3 and download listings become clearer in today’s Nintendo Newsletter.

The week begins with an idea of what’ll be at E3 and on your friendly neighborhood eShops in the weeks ahead.

Although we don’t have a date for a digital event, we do know what Nintendo’s going to be bringing to E3, and it’s all 3DS and Wii U games.

The status quo will remain for current systems.

Although nothing is official, the next Nintendo system(s) may be more import friendly.

At an investor Q&A session, Satoru Iwata was asked to provide an update on a statement made at the 2nd quarter (October) briefing regarding region locking. Iwata's reply was "Removing region-locking from... Read more...

Includes Amiibo sales, mobile plans, download sales and more

Following the release of their financial results, Nintendo held a briefing last night (this morning in Japan) going over the results, and some interesting figures were released.

There was some question as to how Amiibo affected the bottom line, and it clearly had an impact as Nintendo sold 10.5m... Read more...

Spoilers: Zelda Wii U is now "TBD".

Nintendo's annual report included supplemental information showing the company's release plans for the next fiscal year.

The key information is that as previously announced, Zelda Wii U's release date is now showing "TBD" for all territories, similar to Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem for Wii... Read more...

At least the costumes are coming to North America.

Splatoon is making its mark on Super Smash Bros. and the New 3DS as well.

Announced in the Splatoon Direct were downloadable costumes for the Splatoon characters for Super Smash Bros. As with other costumes, they will equip to the Mii either as a hat or a full costume. In North America, a download... Read more...