Update: Nintendo says the North American 3DS eShop will be open until 4 PM ET.

eShop update: We’re making progress in restoring our global network. The Nintendo eShop will be available in North America until 4 p.m. ET.

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) December 28, 2013

If you’ve been waiting to redeem download codes or use eShop gift cards, you can do so until 4 p.m. ET. We’ll have more updates soon.

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) December 28, 2013

Thank you so much for your patience as we work to restore the full functionality of the Nintendo Network.

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) December 28, 2013

We're making progress, but to manage global traffic, we temporarily closed the eShop on 3DS. The outage will last until 4 a.m. ET on 12/29.

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) December 28, 2013

Original: Nintendo will be taking the European 3DS eShop offline once again today. Between 10 PM CET (9 PM GMT) and 10 AM CET (9 AM CET), the store will be inaccessible.

Once again today we will temporarily close the European 3DS eShop between 10 pm and 10 am CET. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) December 28, 2013

Once again today we will temporarily close the European 3DS eShop between 9 pm and 9 am GMT. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) December 28, 2013

No word yet on whether there are similar plans for the North American 3DS eShop.

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Gunman Clive sales have topped 250,000, creator Bertil Hörberg has revealed.

The milestone was shared on Twitter earlier today. According to Hörberg, “the vast majority” of sales have come from the 3DS version.

Hörberg tweeted:

Gunman Clive has now sold more than a quarter of a million copies; the vast majority of which were on the 3DS eShop

— Bertil Hörberg (@BertilHrberg) December 28, 2013

Hörberg also says that sales in Japan “are very good”:

@Sab_Mas Yes the Japanese sales are very good, basically the same as the rest of the world combined

— Bertil Hörberg (@BertilHrberg) December 28, 2013

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The Wii U eShop as well as the 3DS eShop appear to be back up and running follow Nintendo’s 12-hour maintenance period. They’re up in the US, and we’re hearing that all is well in Europe in addition. Other online features such as Miiverse are also functioning properly.

Bravely Default/Bravely Second producer Tomoya Asano has previously mentioned that he hopes to create a new entry in the series each year. Annual releases don’t appear to be set in stone, however.

In an interview with 4Gamer, Asano mentioned how Bravely Default’s future relies upon the success of Bravely Second. This makes 2014 a particularly important year, Asano says.

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Initial D Perfect Drift Online is SEGA’s first free-to-play game on 3DS. Apparently, it won’t be their last.

SEGA chief creative officer Toshihiro Nagoshi told Famitsu:

“We don’t intend to stop with this title, and after looking over its results, we’ll think about what to do next. However, unlike games for smartphones, I believe there’s a perfect shape of ways to do things, somewhere out there, for the Nintendo 3DS. I believe that finding it will be our challenge, and in many ways, Initial D will be our first step.”

“At the moment, I can say that we’ve been thinking about plenty of things. We have suggestions amongst ourselves like ‘wouldn’t this be a perfect game for a F2P title on Nintendo 3DS’ and many more. So when the time comes to talk about it… we’ll just leave it at that for now.”

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Japanese outlet 4Gamer recently had the chance to catch up with a number of prominent staffers at Capcom, who teased the company’s plans for the future. Here’s an overview as to what was shared:

- Deep Down producer/director of the second dev. department Kazunori Sugiura said many titles were announced in 2013
- Some didn’t make it this year and will be announced in 2014
- Those will “surprise the readers a lot”
- Sugiura also encouraged fans to look forward to next year as Capcom intends to reaffirm its presence in the fighting genre
- Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara producer Kenji Kataoka says another classic from Capcom’s history will be revived by the end of 2014
- Can’t say what it’ll be yet
- Announcement about this title when it gets a bit warmer
- Shu Takumi’s new game will be announced next year
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies director Takeshi Yamazaki says the team is now working full force on the next title even if things are just getting started
- Unclear if Takumi and Yamazaki team are working on one or more new titles (whether they’re working on the same title or on different ones)