Nintendo 3DS Was The Best-Selling Videogame System In July

The Nintendo 3DS was the best-selling videogame system in the U.S. during the month of July, Nintendo have announced—although they haven’t provided exact sales figures, instead mentioning that 3DS hardware increased by 14% over July 2012.

Meanwhile, Animal Crossing: New Leaf sold over 150,000 copies between retail and download versions in its second month, bringing total U.S. sales to over 660,000 copies.

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon is still going strong, too, and has now surpassed 820,000 copies sold, between retail and download copies. Finally, on the Wii U front, New Super Mario Bros. U has crossed 830,000 in sales.

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Final Fantasy X Prelude, Last Remnant Music And More Mixed Up For New CD

Square Enix Composers Best – Black Disc – is a compilation of songs chosen by nine composers from Square Enix to remix for a new album. Tracks on the CD include Final Fantasy X's 'Prelude,' 'Savior' from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, and a bunch of songs from The Last Remnant. The final selection of songs adds a couple of tracks like 'Hero of the Sword' from the PC game Square Enix Legend World.

The CD comes out on September 18 and you can sample the album here.

Best_Black_Sekito from Tsuyoshi Sekito

Relics Keeper from Musashi: Samurai Legend
Savior from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Desperation from The 3rd Birthday
Hero of the Sword from Square Enix Legend World

Best_Black_Mizuta from Naoshi Mizuta

Steel Sings, Blades Dance from Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan
Ragnarok [HD version] from Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan

Best_Black_Kawamori from Keiji Kawamori

The Chase of the Highway from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Last Order – Crisis Mix from Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

Best_Black_Iwasaki from Hidenori Iwasaki

Skydive from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
Guild War from Monster x Dragon
Sekigahara from Sengoku IXA

Best_Black_Yamazaki from Ryo Yamazaki

Battle I from Unlimited SaGa
Blinded by Light from Final Fantasy XIII
Beyond the Horizon from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
Battle Field from Monster x Dragon

Best_Black_Ishimoto from Takeharu Ishimoto

We Have Arrived from Final Fantasy Type-0
Twister Original version from The World Ends With You

Best_Black_Noda from Hirosata Noda

Prelude from Final Fantasy X
Cyber Sound Orchestra from Hanjuku Hero 4
Research Data Get! from Hanjuku Hero 4

Best_Black_Yamanaka from Yasuhiro Yamanaka

Sword Sparks from The Last Remnant
Reversal! (Bench Mark Edit) from The Last Remnant
Press to Victory from The Last Remnant
Out of Control from The Last Remnant
Beat the Odds from The Last Remnant
Nisus (Intro) from The Last Remnant

Best_Black_Suzuki from Mitsuto Suzuki

Sazanamu Dream from Sigma Harmonics
Defiers of Fate from Final Fantasy XIII
Queen from The 3rd Birthday
Historia Crux from Final Fantasy XIII-2
Saturn Remix from Demons Score

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See How The Street Fighter Assassin's Fist Live-Action Series Is Being Made

As we reported during Comic-Con week, filming of of the Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist live-action TV series has begun. Below, you can watch a behind-the-scenes video of filming and fight choreography.

Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist is planned for release in early 2014. The series’ story is meant to act as a lead-up to the story of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.

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The Legend of Zelda A Link Between Worlds Set For November 22

Nintendo 3DS will get its first original Zelda game on November 22 when The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds comes out. This game is a 2D, top down Zelda game set after the events of (and even has the same map) as The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The game will cost $39.99.

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Mario Party: Island Tour is scheduled to come out on the same day and retail for $39.99.

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How Shadow of the Eternals' Sanity System Draws From Eternal Darkness

Like Eternal Darkness before it, spiritual successor Shadow of the Eternals will have sanity effects. In a new developer diary video, Precursor Games’ Shawn Jackson discusses the game’s sanity system and the inspiration it draws from Eternal Darkness. Watch it below:

Shadow of the Eternals is in development for the PC and Wii U.

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Is This Injustice Gods Among Us Tease Connected To Lobo

NetherRealm Studios founder Ed Boon appears to be teasing something Injustice-related again. This morning, Boon tweeted along with an image: “What does this have to do with Injustice?”

A dolphin? Something Aquaman-related perhaps? But the dolphin is in space, so perhaps Boon is teasing something related to the Space Dolphins, which are kept as pets by Lobo, who was added to the game’s playable roster via DLC.

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Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn Muses About Being A Final Fantasy Creator

While Naoki Yoshida is the producer and director of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, he didn't start his career with the series. In fact, Yoshida came from the Dragon Quest team and moved over to Final Fantasy when the game needed a reboot.' How did Yoshida feel about joining the ranks of Sakaguchi, Kitase, and Nomura?

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"That feeling that this Final Fantasy feels like this creator, that Final Fantasy feels like that creator, it's pretty much up to the players," Yoshida said while speaking to Siliconera. "For example, Final Fantasy VII… a lot of creators in Square Enix who can say 'I made Final Fantasy VII!' But from the fan's perspective, they go, 'That's Tetsuya Nomura's Final Fantasy.' And so, it depends really on who is looking at it."

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Since taking on the role as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn's director, Yoshida incorporated many elements from previous Final Fantasy titles such as using the idea of Materia from Final Fantasy VII as a base for the game's weapon upgrade system and adding Magitek Armor from Final Fantasy VI.

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"With Final Fantasy XIV, one of the things that we've tried to do is bring in a lot of aspects from a lot of different Final Fantasies. It's what we feel is a Final Fantasy. We think to ourselves Final Fantasy has this in it, and that in it. So we're gathering from the whole series," Yoshida explained.

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"Whether that's turned into something players will declare has the feel of Yoshida feel on it, we won't know until I make [another] Final Fantasy! Right now there's only one. Maybe when I make two, people will go 'Oh, that's a Yoshida Final Fantasy. Because we joined this project, halfway through, when there was already a foundation, this is not something I created 100%. But then, having fans coming up to me and say, 'We want you to make another Final Fantasy, from the ground up', makes me very happy," said Yoshida.

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We will have more Final Fantasy XIV coverage soon and for readers that managed to login and play Final Fantasy XIV, what do you think a "Yoshida Final Fantasy" is?

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Toukiden The Age Of Demons Bumped To Early 2014

Back at E3, Tecmo Koei announced they would localize Toukiden, a PlayStation Vita hunting game imbued with Japanese mythology. The game was supposed to come out sometime this year, but Tecmo Koei announced today Toukiden: The Age of Demons is an early 2014 title.

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Players fight oni in Toukiden and can enlist help from the souls of Japanese historical figures (this is a Koei game after all). Toukiden has six different and a couple of NPC characters designed by Atelier Ayesha artist Hidari.

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Soulcalibur IV Programmer Is Soulcalibur Series' New Producer

At the San Digeo Comic-Con this past week, Namco Bandai announced Soulcalibur 2 HD Online for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game is slated for release this fall and will include Tekken’s Heihachi, who was in the PS2 version of Soulcalibur 2.

Additionally, Namco Bandai also announced that Masaaki Hoshino will serve as producer on the Soulcalibur series in the future. Hoshino’s Twitter account is now the official Twitter for the series’ Project Soul development team.

Hoshino’s past involvement with the Soulclibur series had him as a programmer on Soulcalibur 2, lead programmer on Soulcalibur IV, and Technical Programming Director on Soulcalibur V.

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