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I thought I seen either €2.99 or €3.99. I too thought the early adopters would get a better discount. Seems pretty pricy for an art app. Is there really so much more content to have a ten fold increase in the price? Edit: The € price is €3.99.

The site's back working now though there's no £5 discount anymore. I got to the checkout at 00.10 last night but got "error 400" messages.

Yes it can be switched off. Press the "HOME" button, then click "controller settings" in the top right hand corner, then under the "gamepad settings" header select "settings", down the bottom you find an option to turn "rumble" on or off.

@S\.C\.G I'd a look online. Turns out Mario Party 10's points expire on 29th August this year which is unusual because most other recent games like Smash and Treasure Trackers codes expired at the end of March. Weird. Is there any other recently released game that has points yet to expire?

I wonder did they shut it down on purpose. Maybe too many people may have been milking it. There were £10 games and people were getting 50% off. Like Injustice was. I can get on the site now but the code isn't on the main page anymore and when I login at checkout there's still problems so I can't see if the code is still valid. If only they had done that promotion last week.

I bought Watch Dogs and Injustice in the last week. They still haven't arrived mind you. But had I waited I could have saved £10 today IF THEY EVER SORT THE SITE OUT. It's 10.15p.m., I don't think it'll be sorted before midnight and then the code expires.

In Japan, Famitsu are holding a Splatoon: Squid Fashion Contest. The idea is to design a full set of gear:- headgear, clothes, and shoes. The winning entrants will have their designs included in a future update of the game. The competition closes on June 11th and the winners chosen later that month. http://www.famitsu.com/news/201505/21078513.html It would be nice if we have an equivalent competition in Europe. We will afterall most likely buy more copies of the game than Japan.

I was half thinking of dazzybeing(is that the right spelling? It looks better that way but should this made up word have another e?) Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush because the price is good but I don't really like the game and it's pointless as nobody can get on their site at the moment anyway.

Shoot? I know what you mean and nowhere near one of your worst conundrums. It's like your brain kicked into gear after that bit of verbal gymnastics. Shopto are bad price wise. I take it people are using them as a last resort.

99% sure the Mario Party 10 code is expired. All the recent games from about Smash Bros. on, their codes expired on March 31st.

Or it could be that Bowser's pointing out what he wants future revenue to be and that's why they're crying. He did come from EA afterall. It's his unprecedented partnership plan. Fear his accounting indeed.

Maybe the 3DS but probably not there either. Playstation may be referring to Vita or Microsoft may have to honour whatever agreements were in place before the acquisition. Yes Microsoft don't mind putting games on platforms where they're not in direct competition from another competitor. Which is why we got Rare GBA and DS games.

With Mario Kart 8 you knew exactly what you were getting. With Splatoon, while they've given some information, we don't know how much content we'll get post launch. It's a bit of a leap into the unknown. How many more multiplayer maps are there, what do look like, how many more modes, weapons, accessories, clothing, perks, etc. will we get? At what point do they say, everything from here on out you've to pay for?

It's Microsoft's franchise now. Whatever chance there was in the past of it happening are gone.

The links I followed on the site brought me to somewhere different. http://www.game.co.uk/en/olimar-amiibo-super-smash-bros-collection-557564?catGroupId= http://www.game.co.uk/en/dr-mario-amiibo-super-smash-bros-collection-557566?catGroupId= http://www.game.co.uk/en/bowser-jr-amiibo-super-smash-bros-collection-557568?catGroupId=

They're gone at GAME already. The links I followed on the site only let you add them to your wishlist.

Bowser's first board meeting as vice-president of sales.

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. failed to make the top 20 on its debut and according to Famitsu it sold 1,835 copies in Japan. That's a complete and utter failure. There are games more than 6 months old that scrape into the charts with better sales.

Nintendo of America Hires Bowser as New VP of Sales - Press release Nintendo of America Hires Bowser as New VP of Sales Doug Bowser Brings Decades of Experience, Not Fire Breath, to New Role REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nintendo of America has hired a new Vice President to lead the United States sales organization with a name that’s well-known in the Mushroom Kingdom. Effective today, Doug Bowser (no relation to the King Koopa and Mario’s longtime nemesis) will oversee a variety of sales-related functions, including Sales, In-store Merchandising, Retail Strategy and Retail Marketing. He will play a key role in driving national sales strategies to generate demand and achieve revenue objectives across all of Nintendo’s product lines. Bowser also will manage Nintendo’s key retail customer relationships and will oversee retail marketing for the Nintendo World store in New York. Nintendo of America has hired Doug Bowser to oversee a variety of sales-related functions, including Sales, In-store Merchandising, Retail Strategy and Retail Marketing. Bowser will report to Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “Doug Bowser is an outstanding addition to our Nintendo team, as he brings a deep blend of both consumer package goods and video game sales experience,” said Moffitt. “I know he will work tirelessly with our internal and external partners to ensure the broad Nintendo product lineup of hardware, software and accessories are strongly represented throughout U.S. retail points of distribution.” Bowser comes to Nintendo from Electronic Arts, where he has worked since 2007, most recently as Vice President of Global Business Planning, a role that made him responsible for EA’s console, PC and mobile game forecasting. Prior to EA, he worked at Procter & Gamble in various sales leadership roles in Asia, Latin America and the U.S. He attended the University of Utah, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in communications. For more information about Nintendo, visit http://www.nintendo.com. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bowser? What are the odds. He came from EA. Makes sense he has a bad name so. :p

The link doesn't work. The site's working alright though. With the £5 discount it puts Splatoon back at £22.95. The discount is only good for today so act fast if you want it. http://www.rakuten.co.uk/shop/thegamecollection/product/13996/?l-id=gb_search_product_thumbnail_3 It seems all links are down at the minute.

This weeks Japanese software and hardware sales. 1. [PS4] Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster – 15,913 / NEW 2. [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition – 13,844 / 232,683 3. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 11,303 / 155,278 4. [3DS] Girls Mode 3 – 7,422 / 128,213 5. [PS4] Borderlands: The Handsome Collection – 5,944 / NEW 6. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 – 5,405 / 989,307 7. [3DS] Bravely Second – 5,260 / 134,905 8. [WIU] Xenoblade Chronicles X – 4,236 / 101,511 9. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 3,648 / 2,622,489 10. [PS4] Dying Light – 3,252 / 44,450 11. [WIU] Mario Party 10 – 3,204 / 140,963 12. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – 3,133 / 2,230,716 13. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 2: Shinuchi – 2,723 / 2,606,206 14. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 2,439 / 3,972,933 15. [WIU] Dragon Quest X: Inishie no Ryuu no Denshou Online – 2,300 / 105,342 16. [PS4] Tropico 5 – 2,133 / 17,997 17. [3DS] Theatrhythm Dragon Quest – 2,072 / 117,161 18. [WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – 2,041 / 636,111 19. [3DS] Xenoblade Chronicles 3D – 1,944 / 84,347 20. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2015 – 1,863 / 100,345 PS4 – 11,489 (15,992) New 3DS LL – 11,340 (17,875) Vita – 10,685 (17,273) Wii U – 6,428 (11,137) New 3DS – 3,483 (5,446) PS3 – 2,964 (4,351) 3DS LL – 790 (1,358) 3DS – 742 (1,413) Vita TV – 439 (665) Xbox One – 148 (187) Really poor hardware sales for everything this week. Xenoblade Chronicles X has broken the 100,000 barrier after 3 weeks. Expected so much better. Nintendo must be disappointed by that. And Monolith Soft, all that effort for so little reward. I hope we in the West show the game more respect.

I didn't mean you wouldn't get them ever. I meant you wouldn't get whatever's being released that day. That should have been obvious. I'm not referring to you as you weren't the troll calling me a liar and nitpicking everything I write.

New Roller Weapon Trailer

I know nothing about this years Eurovision but heard while listening to a football show last night that David De Gea's girlfriend is representing Spain.

And as others have said, they probably only lasted 40 minutes because they caught everybody unawares.