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The New Nintendo 3DS, which is slated to come to the West sometime in 2015, , Iwata responded to the question of whether his company had any plans to unlock the region-specific restrictions.

The game business has a history of taking a very long time with localization among other things, such as having to deal with various issues of marketing in each particular country, or games that have made use of licensed content that did not apply globally, and had all kinds of circumstances, so to say, that region-locking has existed due to circumstances on the sellers' side rather than for the sake of the customers. In the history of game consoles, that is the current situation. As for what should be done going forward, if unlocked for the benefit of the customers, there may also be a benefit for us. Conversely, unlocking would require various problems to be solved, so while I can't say today whether or not we intend to unlock, we realize that it is one thing that we must consider looking to the future.

While it's not the concession to finally abandon the practice that many fans may have wanted, it's still better than a blanket rejection. After all, up until the Nintendo DS, the Nintendo's handheld consoles were region-free.

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Planet Nam Nam is a planet inhabited by nefarious birds. They flew to Earth to steal our monuments (Eiffel Tower, Stature of Liberty, etc), for whatever purpose, and now you've got to get them back. How do you do this? It involves a gun, some bullets, and... well, that's it, actually. This is a first-person shooter. The Nam Nam birds fly across the screen like clay pigeons, trying to drop eg...

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Today, 11 Bit Studios shares gameplay footage in an epic trailer of their upcoming game titled The War of Mine. Unlike most war-based games where you play as an elite soldier, This War of Mine puts you into the shoes of a group of civilians during a constant struggle but on a crusade to survive this besieged city. Based on decisions and consequences, your intentions will lead to your survival.

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Even in the face of mainstream scrutiny during the embarrassing, ongoing #gamergate debacle, theres an optimistic perspective from well-respected magazines and other publications that videogames are, despite all odds, an art form; a recent piece from The New Yorker concludes that games have a vibrant future, while the New York Times categorizes its video game articles online under both technology and arts. In reality, theres not much of an argument to put against the notion; art is, by definition, a creative work that affects its viewers, usually emotionallya response nearly unanimous upon the release of games like Bioshock, Journey, and The Last of Us. To take the argument one step further, Id assert that games are not just art, but poetry.