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GameSpot recently spoke with Platinum Games’ Yusuke Hashimoto, one of the directors working on Star Fox Zero.

First, here’s what Hashimoto said about working with two screens:

“Those two screens, you can’t find that anywhere else. When we were doing Bayonetta 2, we just used that screen as a touch pad. With Star Fox, Miyamoto originally had the idea that he wanted to create a shooting game that used both of these screens, and then we said, okay, how can we combine this with Star Fox? Just having to use those two screens makes things interesting.”

“We’ve been working with action games long enough. We understand how the players play an action game, how they respond to an action game, how they’ll move, what they’ll do in the situational stuff. What we’re making here now, it’s totally a new learning experience for us, which is kind of fun to find out.”

Hashimoto also discussed the importance of nailing a solid 60 frames per second. The game not only runs at this speed on the television, but also on the GamePad.

“We’ve got them both moving at 60 fps, which is big for a lot of people, I think. But I think that it’s kind of a milestone in gaming, in a way. It’s not something that we have done ourselves before at Platinum, and it’s just not even something that has been done in gaming before. So it’s a lot of new challenges.”

Finally, Hashimoto briefly touched on Star Fox Zero’s delay. The decision was made in order to give the game more of a “Platinum feel”.

“We want to make it feel as great as possible. It’s easy to say [it was delayed] to increase its quality, or whatever, but that entails a lot, whether it be visuals, or controls.”

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Screenshots | 3 Comments

Amazon Japan has posted a number of screenshots from Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. View the full set below.

Note that some of these screenshots have scenes that were featured in the original E3 images. However, they’re still different from what was shown a few months back.

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The Nintendo UK store has started taking pre-orders for the Mewtwo amiibo. To reserve the figure, head on over to this link. Mewtwo releases on October 23 for £10.99.

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A listing on Amazon shows us the Japanese boxart for Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival. You can get a look at the packaging above.

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The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes wasn’t only created by Nintendo. Interestingly, it appears that Grezzo also played a role in the game’s development.

Grezzo has been quite involved with the Zelda series over the years. The team worked on Ocarina Time 3D, Majora’s Mask 3D, and Four Swords Anniversary Edition.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 192 Comments

Each time a new Smash Bros. patch is prepared, fans do a ton of data mining in hopes of finding some hidden secrets. There wasn’t anything too shocking in the game’s new 1.1.1 update, though a couple of interesting tidbits were recently discovered.

First, three empty character slots have been added with the patch. Six stage slots have been found as well (split between omega and standard versions). Regarding stages, two may have been for the Pirate Ship given their placement, so this is a bit unclear right now. Therefore it could be a total of two or three stages.

In the images above, all of the Marios are for character placeholders. Meanwhile, Tikibuzzes are stage placeholders. Note that there were only two character placeholders before the new update was issued.

What do these findings mean for the future of Smash Bros. DLC? Only time will tell!

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 3 Comments

Play-Asia is now taking pre-orders for a pair of amiibo. You can reserve the Famicom version of R.O.B here and Mewtwo here. I’m guessing these won’t last too long!

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Bandai Namco published the first Japanese Project X Zone 2 commercial today. Give it a look below.

Thanks to RobinNop for the tip.

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Splatoon’s sixth Japanese Splatfest has been scheduled for next weekend. In the new competition, squid and octopus sushi are being pitted against each other (with some Kura Corporation branding).

This new Splatfest will begin on October 10 at 9 AM Japan time. Per usual, it will last for a full day.

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A few hours ago, we saw the first trailer for Monster Strike’s new 3DS game. We now have the first commercial below.

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