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Nintendo Download Update – Skylanders SuperChargers, Year Walk


This week’s Nintendo download features an artsy iGaming hit, the latest toy-selling vehicle in the Skylanders series, and a 3DS game that takes advantage of the latest developments in jiggle physics.

Read on for this week’s new Nintendo content!

This week?s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:

  • Nintendo eShop on Wii U
    • Year Walk ? Lose yourself in an ancient rite that bleeds from the TV screen into our world through the Wii U GamePad controller. Use the second screen in your hands to study a mysterious folklore encyclopedia, decipher hints and take notes. Solve tactile puzzles using motion controls, and listen for clues through the GamePad. Click here to watch the latest trailer.
    • Skylanders SuperChargers Portal Owner?s Pack ? Kick your adventure into overdrive! The Skylanders SuperChargers Portal Owner?s Pack includes the full video game, works with any Portal of Power from the Skylanders series and includes digital versions of the Instant Spitfire and Instant Hot Streak. Expand your game-play experience with more than 40 Skylanders and vehicles to collect, and embark on epic adventures over land, under sea and through the sky. Skylanders Superchargers will be available in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U on Sept. 20. Click here to watch a trailer. (Note: A Portal of Power is required to play, sold separately.) Click here to watch a trailer for this game.
  • Nintendo eShop on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS
    • Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows ? Download this free DLC for hit game Shovel Knight on Wii U or Nintendo 3DS and embark on a new adventure starring Plague Knight, the addled alchemical master of disaster! Featuring a new playable character, new relics, new systems, new boss battles, level tweaks and a new story to adventure through, Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows is available to download for free to everyone who owns the Shovel Knight game. Click here to watch a trailer.?
  • Virtual Console on Wii U
    • Car Battler Joe ? In this Game Boy Advance racing game, play as Joe Todoroki to become a car battler, just like his father before him. Customize a vehicle in the Garage to enhance or diminish its performance. Sign up for jobs, missions and even tournaments as Joe explores the dangerous highways and byways that surround his village.

Nintendo eShop Sales:

Activities:

  • Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. ?Red Badge? Tournament ? See how your squad stacks up online in Nintendo?s Public Tournaments. Top players earn unique titles that are visible online and earn major bragging rights with your friends and around the world. The new ?Red Badge? tournament runs through Sept. 20. Opt in via the SpotPass feature on your Nintendo 3DS system for notifications about future tournaments. Good luck, agents!
Theme Shop on Nintendo 3DS:
  • New themes this week include:
    • Pokémon: Dancing Pikachu
    • Pokémon: Pikachu?s Cry
    • Pikachu Bundle: Dancing & Cry
    • Pokémon 151: Mewtwo
Price reduction:
Also new this week:
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