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When Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D hits the Nintendo eShop for 3DS, players will be able to partake in an optional easy mode and hit up other players through multiplayer if they so choose. Local multiplayer was also an option in the original Wii version, and instead of only having two hearts for health, easy mode grants you an extra one. Easy mode also offers items which can make Rocket Barrels take more damage, save players from a bad fall, and one that allows users to make use of the DK Barrel anytime they wish. That’s not all either: check out Nintendo UK for word on some of the new content included in the 3DS version.

The game is out May 24. Thanks, Nintendo World Report.

Nintendo has announced it’s giving Japanese customers who purchase the digital version of New Super Mario Bros. 2 or Demon Training a copy pf the original Donkey Kong on 3DS. The game will include an extra stage omitted from the original. A download code for the title will be handed out, but customers will only have 150 days before it expires. The game was also handed out in Europe to those who purchased the red, Mario 25th anniversary Wii back in 2010.

Here’s a couple of neat anniversaries for you. As noted by GoNintendo, we have two birthdays this week. Atari turns 40 on June 27; gloss over the great crash and remind yourself the company was responsible for making video games a thing people understood, paving the way for the NES and, you know, our entire industry. Meanwhile, king of the arcade Donkey Kong, the father of Mario, hits 30 years on Saturday. Bless.

Dr. Hank Chien current record holder for surpassing 1 million points in Donkey Kong, has surpassed his original score which now boasts 1,110,100 points.

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GameStop has said the Donkey Kong 3D display cases at EB Games, shots of which which popped up over the weekend, were “not supplied by Nintendo and have been taken down.”

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It’s hump day, your week is half over. Read these shorts and close your Wednesday out.

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The hotly contested Donkey Kong title has returned to New York’s Hank Chien, after a snowstorm kept the plastic surgeon inside long enough to tot up a whopping 1,068,000 points in a single session.

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Nintendo’s announced it’s to release a special Mario Kart Wii bundle in the UK.

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Know that Wii bundle announced last week for Japan by Nintendo to celebrate 25th years of Mario? It’s coming to Europe as well. So is the previously-announced DSi bundle

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Somehow we missed this the other day, but it looks like there’s another rumor to add to the growing list of possible announcements at E3 this week.

This one is all about the Gorilla.

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Steve Wiebe has set a new Donkey Kong Jr. record, according to Twin Galaxies.

The King of Kong star surpassed Ike Hall’s previous score of 1,033,000 with a massive 1,139,800.

Loads of patience there we reckon.

Attendees at E3 this year can watch Wiebe try for the fourth time to break Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong record on June 2.

Via Joystiq.