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Nintendo has added a few new rewards to the US My Nintendo program. As usual, these mostly consist of discounts on a selection of recent and classic games for both 3DS and Wii U, although you can also redeem your points for some holiday 3DS themes and a handful of printable Animal Crossing rewards.

In terms of discounts, 3DS owners can get 30% off of the critically acclaimed Legend of Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds, for 50 Gold points. Additionally, Nintendo is offering 40% off of the humorous 3DS life sim, Tomodachi Life (60 Gold points); 30% off of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (300 Platinum points); and 40% off of Picross 3D Round 2 (600 Platinum points).

On top of that, My Nintendo members can get discounts on a couple of Eshop-exclusive games for 3DS, including HarmoKnight, a rhythm-platformer by Pokemon developer Game Freak. You can snag 40% off of the title for 300 Platinum points. Nintendo is also offering 40% off of the tank action game Tank Troopers for 240 Platinum points.

Meanwhile, Wii U’s new selection of discounts are all for Virtual Console titles. Members can get 40% off of two N64 classics, Star Fox 64 and F-Zero X, for 200 Platinum points each. You can also get 40% off of the SNES title Kirby’s Dream Course on either Wii U or 3DS for 240 Platinum points.

Beyond that, My Nintendo members can redeem their points for a couple of holiday themes for their 3DS. Nintendo is also offering printable Animal Crossing holiday cards (30 Platinum points) and a 2019 Animal Crossing calendar (80 Platinum points), the latter of which keeps track of every villager’s birthday.

A number of other rewards are also still available, including discounts on The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Majora’s Mask 3D, and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, among many others. You can find the full list on My Nintendo.

While there are no dedicated Switch rewards on My Nintendo, members can use their Gold points to purchase Switch games or DLC on the Eshop and Nintendo’s website.

Mario’s most recent sidescrolling adventure is coming to Nintendo Switch next month as New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. The title bundles the original Wii U launch game alongside its more challenging DLC expansion, New Super Luigi U, with a couple of new playable characters thrown in for good measure. As it turns out, it boasts another surprise feature over the Wii U version: NES controller support.

As GameXplain discovered, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe is compatible with Switch’s NES-style controllers, which are one of the company’s exclusive offers for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. Nintendo had advertised the NES controllers as only being compatible with Switch’s NES game library, but they can indeed be used with other titles; however, given how few buttons the gamepads boast, most games are effectively unplayable with them.

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, on the other hand, very much follows in the vein of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, so the lack of buttons isn’t an impediment here. As GameXplain notes, you’ll need to tweak the default control scheme so that B serves as the run button, but it appears there will otherwise be no issues if you try playing the game with the NES controllers, just like a classic Mario platformer.

As previously mentioned, the Switch NES controllers are only available to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. If you have a membership, you can order them through Nintendo’s website. Each set retails for $60 and comes with two controllers. Just like standard Joy-Cons, these can be recharged by slotting them into the sides of the Switch itself while it’s docked.

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe launches for Switch on January 11, 2019. New to this version are two playable characters, Nabbit and Toadette, both of whom have abilities geared toward helping newer players; the former is impervious to damage, while the latter can grab a new power-up–the Super Crown–and transform into Peachette, who can double jump and hover in the air using her billowy dress.

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Microsoft has announced free Funimation anime titles on its store. Most of the series are shonen, but they represent a wide range of different types of the stories within the genre.

All of the free anime offered are the first part of the series’ first season, so you can take advantage of these deals to easily jump into a new series you’ve had your eye on. We suggest starting with My Hero Academia if you haven’t seen the anime yet. It’s the uncut version of the anime, so expect a bit more blood, sexual fan service, and other adult material that might not have made it onto other streaming services. MHA tells the story of Izuku Midoriya, a young boy who wants to be a hero but is one of the few people in the world born without a superpowered Quirk. That won’t stop him from trying to get into Japan’s number one school for aspiring heroes though, and when the world’s number one hero offers some unexpected help, Midoriya might have just found the strength he needs to fulfill his dream.

If you’re looking for something a little more fantasy based, both Fairy Tail and Assassination Classroom are being offered for free as well. The former is about a guild of rambunctious wizards who fulfill contracts for non-magical folk and participate in fights that last for multiple episodes. The latter is about a classroom of students who suddenly get a strange octopus-like creature for a teacher, who promises to destroy the whole world if the class can’t manage to find a way to kill him before the end of the school year.

Attack on Titan is also free. The story of humans striving to survive against monstrous Titans is jam-packed full of explosive action–all of which is beautifully animated–and the first season is regarded as one of the best anime series of 2013.

If you’re looking for more anime to watch, check out our list of our favorite series of 2018. We’ve also highlighted the series we’re most looking forward to in 2019.