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Nintendo on Tuesday will release a new update for Super Smash Bros. 3DS that enables support for the company’s NFC-powered Amiibo toys, the company confirmed in a statement to NintendoLife.

The update, which will be free, arrives just days before the launch of the New Nintendo 3DS. The system will be released across North America and Europe on February 13.

The ‘New Nintendo 3DS’ is the latest variant of the popular handheld gaming system, which includes built-in NFC technology. This means users can simply place their Amiibo toy onto the system to “warp” it into the virtual world.

Nintendo also plans to release a peripheral for the existing 3DS, 3DS XL, and 2DS models allowing those devices to sync up with Amiibo toys. However, Nintendo has not announced an official launch date or price for the add-on.

Amiibo support has been available for Super Smash Bros. Wii U since November 2014. For more on how the Wii U version of Super Smash Bros. makes use of Amiibo toys, check out the video below.

Nintendo has sold around 5.7 million Amiibo toys worldwide to date. By comparison, Activision has sold more than 240 million Skylanders toys so far, though the Call of Duty publisher’s line of toys have been around much longer than Nintendo’s have.

Do you plan to utilize Amiibo support in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS? Let us know in the comments below!

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[UPDATE] As the Hardline Beta closed on its final day on Sunday, EA has announced that the number of registered users has surpassed 6 million.

The original story is below.

The Battlefield Hardline beta is proving to be incredibly popular as it passed the 5 million player mark.

“Wow, we’ve passed 5 MILLION players in the #BFHardline beta!” General Manager of developer Visceral Games and Executive Producer of Battlefield Hardline Steve Papoutsis said on Twitter. “So proud of our team. Glad you’re having fun and keep that feedback coming.”

To put things into perspective, Destiny‘s beta, which was the biggest for a new IP on consoles, had 4.6 million players. However, Battlefield Hardline’s beta has the advantage of both being on the PC, and coming from a well established franchise.

The beta started on Tuesday, February 3 across North America, Europe, and all other major territories that the game will ship on, and ends today. It was available on PC (Origin), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The one exception is Japan, where the beta was not available on Xbox platforms.

The Battlefield Hardline release date is March 17 in the US and March 20 in the UK on Origin for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.

For more on the game, check out GameSpot’s previous coverage of Battlefield Hardline.

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A Twitch streamer based in St Cloud, Minnesota, on Thursday aired an emotional message to the anonymous culprit who summoned a SWAT team to raid his home.

Joshua Peters, who serves in the US Air Force, broke down in tears on camera after explaining that–moments prior–an armed SWAT team of about ten officers had forced their way through his home.

Police were called to Peters’ abode while he was playing a livestream of Runescape in front of an estimated 60,000 viewers. Webcam footage shows Peters lifting off his headset after his mother, off-camera, explains that officers have entered the house.

Moments later, Peter returns to the camera to explain his family had been raided by police due to a fake distress call. It was one of Peters’ ten year-old brothers who answered the front door when armed police arrived.

“I had police point a gun at my little brothers because of you,” Peters said in a message to the anonymous culprit, who had also posted his address on the Twitch stream chat log.

“They could have been shot, they could have died because you chose to SWAT my stream,” he said, holding his emotions.

“I don’t give a shit about what you have against me, or what I did to you. For that, I am at a loss for words. Your gripe is with me so let it be with me and do not involve my family in any way, shape or form with this. They don’t deserve that.”

The illegal hoax call, known as swatting, involves obtaining someone’s home address (usually via their IP address) and making a distress call to the police. Often the hoaxer will use masking software that makes the call appear to come from the victim’s house.

While no one has yet died from the prank, one victim of the hoax believes the punishment for the culprits should be an attempted murder sentence.

In an unrelated case, a 19 year-old Las Vegas teen is expected to appear in court on Monday, charged with a spate of Swatting hoaxes. Brandon Wilson, who goes by the online handle “Famed God,” faces up to five years in prison.

Peters, meanwhile, says he has been overwhelmed with support from the community following the prank.

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Even knowing all of the ins and outs of the game’s puzzles, it still took developer Jonathan Blow over six hours to make it through a speedrun of his next work-in-progress game, The Witness

Though he said he forgot a part of the game after the fact, Blow played through The Witness as fast as he could yesterday, and managed to finish it in a little over six hours and 20 minutes. But that doesn’t mean Blow’s fastest time offers any indication of how long the average player will be able to make it through on their first playthrough; Blow also shared on Twitter that The Witness is somewhere in the range of “10x as big as Briad.” However, that comes with the disclaimer, “The time may change as the game continues to be worked on!”

Last month, Blow revealed that The Witness’ 677 puzzled are locked in. “This means that all puzzles that will be in the game when it ships are in the game now,” Blow said in a developer diary entry.

Blow also recently told Engadget that he’s put all the proceeds from Braid into funding the development of The Witness, and that he’s had to borrow money to finish the project.

[Editor’s Note: Due to some confusion with this article’s previous headline, which was “It Will Take You at Least Six Hours to Finish The Witness,” the headline and some introductory text have been updated to offer greater clarity. We apologize for any confusion the previous story’s wording may have caused.]

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The Battlefield Hardline beta is proving to be incredibly popular as it passed the 5 million player mark.

“Wow, we’ve passed 5 MILLION players in the #BFHardline beta!” General Manager of developer Visceral Games and Executive Producer of Battlefield Hardline Steve Papoutsis said on Twitter. “So proud of our team. Glad you’re having fun and keep that feedback coming.”

To put things into perspective, Destiny‘s beta, which was the biggest for a new IP on consoles, had 4.6 million players. However, Battlefield Hardline’s beta has the advantage of both being on the PC, and coming from a well established franchise.

The beta started on Tuesday, February 3 across North America, Europe, and all other major territories that the game will ship on, and ends today. It was available on PC (Origin), PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The one exception is Japan, where the beta was not available on Xbox platforms.

The Battlefield Hardline release date is March 17 in the US and March 20 in the UK on Origin for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.

For more on the game, check out GameSpot’s previous coverage of Battlefield Hardline.

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Need a Valentine’s Day card for that special someone in your life? If they love games, Nintendo can help you out.

The company posted a selection of Nintendo-themed Valentine’s Day cards to its website, which you can print, cut out, and give to your loved ones.

There are four sets of cards overall themed after different Nintendo franchises, with six cards in each. Theres a Super Mario set, a Kirby set, a The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker set, and a Yoshi set.

You can find them all on Nintendo’s site, or simply grab them from the gallery above.

In other Nintendo news, the company’s relationship with YouTubers is less than perfect following its new revenue-sharing initiative, which gives a slice of ad revenue to people who upload videos of certain Wii U, 3DS and legacy console games. Even YouTube’s biggest star, PewDiePie, spoke against the new policy.

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Compulsion Games, the developer behind 2013’s puzzle platformer Contrast, has teased its next game.

At this point, we don’t know much about Compulsion Games’ new project other than that it won’t be a sequel to Contrast. “We haven’t ruled out doing one in the future, but after so long working on Contrast, we wanted to make something fresh,” the developer said in a post to its official site. “Something new and exciting. It involves masks, drugs and memory loss, but we swear it’s not a swinger’s party.”

In addition, Compulsion Games released the concept art images you can see here. It said that you should keep checking its website over the next month if you want to hear more about the game, or sign up for its newsletter.

Contrast was released on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and last generation systems. The game blended 2D and 3D, using objects and their shadows to solve puzzles. GameSpot’s review gave Contrast a mediocre score of 5/10.

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