Pokemon GO will be compatibile with the main games in the future, trading reconfirmed
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 1 Comment
As revealed by Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda during today’s Treehouse stream, there are plans for Pokemon GO to connect with the main Pokemon games in the future. This won’t be at launch though, as the developers want players to focus on catching Pokemon in real life. The same stream also reconfirmed that trading will be coming to Pokemon GO at some point.
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Pokemon GO – Pokemon GO Plus targeted for release at the end of July
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During today’s Nintendo Treehouse stream hosted at E3, it was announced that the Pokemon GO Plus device for Pokemon GO is planned for release at the end of July. It will be priced at $34.99.
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Pokemon GO will eventually bring in all generations of Pokemon
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 1 Comment
Pokemon GO is only going to have the first generation of Pokemon to start out. However, in the future, there are plans for future generations to be added. This tidbit was shared during today’s E3 Treehouse stream.
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Photos of the new Super Mario series amiibo, pre-orders open
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News | 14 Comments
Update 2: Up for pre-order at Best Buy.
Update (6/15): Bumped to the top. All of these are up again on Amazon. Some like Waluigi and Boo sold out at different intervals yesterday.
Pre-orders live on Amazon here.
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse E3 2016 trailer
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 3 Comments
BoxBoxBoy! coming west, appearing on today’s Treehouse stream
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News | 8 Comments
Nintendo is localizing BoxBoy! One More Box as BoxBoxBoy!, the company has revealed. We’ll be seeing the game on the Treehouse stream later today.
BoxBoxBoy! launched on the Japanese 3DS eShop back in January. The original game debuted last year, and quickly became one of the standout titles on Nintendo’s digital shop.
Thanks to ch08137 for the tip.
Nintendo Treehouse: Live @ E3 2016 live stream (day two)
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos, Wii U | 0 comments
The second day of Nintendo’s Treehouse stream will begin in about an hour from now. Expect it to kick off at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 6 PM in the UK / 7 PM in Europe.
Pokemon GO will be kicking off today’s broadcast with a developer Q&A. We’ll also be hearing about a new 3DS RPG apparently, in addition to Mario Party: Star Rush, Paper Mario: Color Splash, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, Dragon Quest VII, Yo-kai Watch 2, Rhythm Heaven Megamix, and Monster Hunter Generations.
You can watch the stream below. If any big stories come in, we’ll have the news up on the site.
Two Pokemon New 3DS XL units announced for Japan
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News | 4 Comments
Update 2 (6/15): Bumped to the top. These are now up for pre-order on Play-Asia here and here.
Update: We have a few higher-quality photos of the new units as well as their packaging. Those images are in the gallery below.
Original (6/14): A pair of New 3DS XL units are on the way to Japan. One model is black and features Solgaleo and Lunala while the other is yellow and has Pikachu on the front. Each model comes out on November 18 and costs 18,800 yen.
Pokken Tournament update files include references to Scizor, Darkrai and Empoleon
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 25 Comments
Pokken Tournament received a new update last night, bringing the game up to version 1.3. Some people have since been poking through the files to see if there’s anything interesting hidden away.
Reddit user BananaMuffinFrenzy did manage to come across some potentially interesting things. First, the inclusion of a “evt_sphit_Scizor” file was found. There were also a few other noteworthy files:
btlseq_en.drp\evt_395_iwakudaki_hit
btlseq_en.drp\evt_491_darkhole_throw_catch
btlseq_en.drp\evt_491_darkpulse_hit
btlseq_en.drp\evt_491_darkpulse_hold_hit
btlseq_en.drp\evt_491_exATK_hit
Empoleon is 395 in the Pokedex, and ”Iwakudaki” is Rock Smash. Darkrai is 491 in the Pokedex, and can use Dark Pulse and Dark Void (Dark Hole in Japanese).
These findings have people speculating about Scizor, Empoleon, and Darkrai being added to Pokken Tournament. It remains to be seen what will actually happen in the future, however.
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Aonuma on Zelda: BotW – Link jumping, art style, Guardians, open world, breaking traditions
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch, Wii U | 13 Comments
This information comes from Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma regarding Zelda: Breath of the Wild via a TIME interview…
On letting Link jump manually…
Aonuma: We never really questioned it, we just created a game where there wasn’t a jump function. But we always had an auto-jump. In order to create an environment where we implement an auto-jump function, we had to make sure players always know where to go. We basically created an environment where, say there’s a cliff, a wall, then we created a wider area where users could approach and then auto-jump.
In Breath of the Wild, where you have an environment where things are rounder and rockier, it’s really hard to create that auto-jump function. That meant we had to let it go. We really wanted for Link to climb up things, but it wasn’t fun to create an auto-climb function. By contrast, it was really fun to have Link actually grab on things, and then being able to control that climbing motion. That’s why we needed to introduce jumping, so Link could jump up on things and start climbing.
Back when we were working on this, I wasn’t 100% sure players would be happy with the change, because it’s been such a big part of the franchise for such a long time. But after this E3 experience, I’ve gained confidence it was the right decision.
