Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News | 18 Comments

Update: Bumped to the top. Another set of rewards have just been added in, including discounts for Star Fox 64 3D, Pandora’s Tower, EarthBound Beginnings, and more.

My Nintendo has been updated once again in North America with the latest round of rewards. Kirby and more are represented in today’s update.

For Kirby, Nintendo has added in a Kirby: Right Back At Ya! video and theme for 3DS along with a wallpaper. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has also received wallpapers, and a couple of Miitomo rewards are available.

The full lineup of rewards is as follows:

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Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Switch, Videos, Wii U | 1 Comment

More footage is in for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero’s upcoming Pirate Queen’s Quest campaign. An area featuring Mermaid Falls is attached below.

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EA Sports held a FIFA 18 live stream earlier today. The publisher showcased the full feature set for FIFA 18 Ultimate Team, more FUT ICONS, gameplay, and more. EA also briefly showed and talked about the Switch version at the 1:11:00 mark. For the full recording, continue on below.

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Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Switch eShop, Wii U | 10 Comments

Yacht Club Games will be returning to PAX with Shovel Knight once again. Next month, the studio will be bringing along the campaign for King Knight. No word yet on the specifics, however.

PAX West 2017 will begin on September 1. The expo will last through September 4.

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Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop | 13 Comments

Phantom Trigger’s release date is official. The game will be heading next week on the Switch eShop – specifically August 10.

Here’s a trailer for the game:

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Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 158 Comments

It’s been a busy day for Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle interviews, and another one has surfaced from ntower. The site spoke with Andrea Babich, lead narrative designer at Ubisoft Milan.

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle will be the first Switch game to make use of Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine. Despite that, there were no issues along the way.

When asked if the team encountered any problems while developing for Switch, Babich noted:

“Actually we were really surprised about how easy the development for this system is. I don’t want to sound like a Ubisoft or Nintendo fan, but when we got the Dev-Kit and put the Snowdrop-Engine onto the Switch, these two perfectly fit together. The Snowdrop-Engine, which is our engine for almost everything and which we used for the last South Park game is so versatile that we quickly lost our worries about the development.”

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Not every idea developers come up with makes it into the final game. With Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, this was the case as well.

One mechanic Ubisoft scrapped early on was “Fumble”. This would have players missing attacks. Rather than successfully shooting an enemy, the gun would explore in your face as well.

Ubisoft talked with Nintendo about the idea, and the feature was ultimately cut. Nintendo felt it was a bit too chaotic and random for it to be accessible.

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle lead producer Xavier Manzanares told USgamer:

“We thought it was like Rabbids. Even if it sounded cool on paper, when you play it you say, ‘awww man I was about to defeat the enemy but I got this fumble.’ It’s funny one time, but not funny the second time.”

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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle takes inspiration from all sorts of games and sources. Among these was actually Mario Kart. Although the two are in completely different genres, creative director Davide Soliani mentioned to Game Informer that the team wanted to translate that action into the Switch game.

Davide said the following when asked how Mario + Rabbids sets itself apart from other strategy titles:

“Since the very beginning, when we started to brainstorm this game, we wanted to come up with something that was totally new. If we were going to propose to Nintendo, we knew we had to have something that they were not used to or that they weren’t already doing. So, we started with the intention of saying we should renew the genre a little bit. We thought that tactical games are known to be slow paced and they tend to be a little niche, so why not try to have something very dynamic and colorful and fast paced. That’s why our first reference was Mario Kart. How cool would it be to try to translate that kind of action into the combat of our game? Compared to a lot of other tactical games, you see enemies taking cover and the heroes are doing the same, and they’re both shooting at each other, but they’re not moving much. In our game, the A.I. is coming towards you, so you must react to the situation, and the action is focused on moving around the battlefield.”

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Nintendo sent out the boxart for Super Mario Odyssey during E3 in June. Since then, the packaging image has been updated.

The boxart is still very similar to what was released originally. Nintendo has made just one change to the scene in the lower left-hand corner. It previously depicted Mario in his sombrero, but now has him swimming with a snorkel and an inner tube.

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Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

Back in June, Nintendo and LeSportsac announced a new travel collection featuring Mario products. The line launched a couple of weeks ago in Japan, and has now been extended to the US.

Products can be ordered from LeSportsac’s site here. They should begin to appear at its limited stores as well.