Nintendo has released a new update for the Nintendo Channel. What does it do? Well, Nintendo says that it “provides a behind-the-scenes enhancement to the Nintendo Channel.” Whatever that means.

I’d love to be able to test it out and let you faithful readers know if there are any obvious changes, but I’m having some trouble connecting to the Wii Shop to download it for myself. This may have something to do with a large number of people trying to download the update. It might be a good idea to just wait a little while before attempting to update your own Nintendo Channels.

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A new trailer for Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light has popped up on the Nintendo Channel in Japan. You can view it above, and watch as it talks about the changes to class advantages introduced in later Fire Emblem games but new to this remake of the original, Wi-Fi modes, etc… I think. I don’t know, I can’t understand Japanese.

There’s also a crazy cool commercial at the end, depicting Fire Emblem as an actual, chess-like board game. If Fire Emblem could actually work as a board game, I’d totally be all over it.

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