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Nintendo has announced that they will be hosting another Nintendo Direct broadcast before the start of E3 2012. This broadcast will focus on the concept behind the Wii U, and can be watched at these times:

• Australia – 8am on June 4th
• Europe (GMT) – 11pm on June 3rd
• Japan – 7am on June 4th
• United States (East Coast) – 6pm on June 3rd
• United States (West Coast) – 3pm on June 3rd

The streams themselves can be seen via nintendo.co.jp or nintendo.com. If you sign up for the Nintendo Newsletter I will send a notification an hour or two before the event begins.

Animal Crossing: Jump Out is confirmed to be the official name of Animal Crossing in Japan. It was also revealed the game will be available in Fall of this year within that region. There’s a few screenshots you can find after the break.

(And for the curious, I’ve arrived in Africa. Expect videos soon.)

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In the perfect case of bad timing (considering I’m going to Africa very soon), Nintendo has announced their next Nintendo Direct event. It’s on Saturday, and you’ll be able to click here to watch it. It’s on at midday in Japan. You should be able to use Google to figure out the time zone differences.

For the small amount of readers who live in Korea, the first Nintendo Direct presentation for the region can be found after the break. But for the rest of the readers, move along. There’s nothing to see here.

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Masahiro Sakurai has talked in-depth about Kid Icarus: Uprising in the recent Nintendo Direct broadcast, sharing that it’s possible to combine items within the game and also trade “seeds”, which allows you to make combinations with other players via StreetPass. In a similar vein, there is a weapon known as “Genesis” that you build by collecting its three parts. This is a single-use weapon, but fires a powerful blast.

As we’ve heard in the past, the game supports online play, and Sakurai mentioned that playing the game online “was very smooth”, even when playing with players outside of Japan. Support for SpotPass is also confirmed and will provide a new weapon to download every day. There’s lots of footage after the break.

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We won’t have any details yet, but the recent Nintendo Direct broadcast in Japan has confirmed that SEGA, Capcom and Namco Bandai are collaborating on a mystery project for the 3DS. That’s all we have to go on for the time being, but feel free to make lots of wild guesses as to what it might be.

You can click here to see a teaser website for the game. (Thanks to Joshua for mentioning this.)

Nintendo will be hosting another Nintendo Direct broadcast via the intertubes tomorrow. It starts at 8pm in Japan on February 22nd, which is equivalent to:

• 11am GMT
• 6am EST
• 3am PST

As always, this is the link to watch the stream.

There is also word that people are receiving a Swapnote message in the United States announcing that Reggie Fils-Aime will be providing a presentation via this link at 6am PST / 9am ET, so it seems like there’ll be plenty of stuff to pay attention to tomorrow (although it will surely overlap).

Update: Nintendo in Europe will also be hosting their own Nintendo Direct stream. This starts at 1pm CET.