G-Style discounting 3DS eShop titles starting on Saturday
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 0 comments
G-Style will be putting all of its 3DS eShop games on sale starting on Saturday. Crazy Construction, Chain Blaster, Undead Bowling, and Jump Trials Supreme will be available for $2.99 each. The sale will last until April 27.
Chubbins screenshots, plus a few details
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments
Dahku Creations has released a few screenshots from Chubbins on Wii U, which we’re told is tentatively slated for release in May. Among the images is a comparison showing improved backgrounds over the iOS version.
Like many Wii U titles, Chubbins can be switched between the GamePad and television. The GamePad presents a few control options such as the d-pad and shoulder buttons depending on the player’s preference. Menus can be navigated with the touch screen when playing on the controller.
As far as the future goes, Dahku “would absolutely love to continue support for the Wii U eShop (and 3DS if Unity supports it in future),” the studio’s Paul Burns told us. “We have other existing titles and are considering how they might be enhanced for Wii U, but we are also very excited about the possibility of future Wii U exclusives. The success or failure of Chubbins on Wii U will be an important deciding factor in how we proceed.”
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Mario Kart 8 – off-screen Twisted Mansion footage
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Media Create software sales (3/24 – 3/30) – Top 50
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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./00. [PSV] Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd
02./01. [3DS] Mario Party: Island Tour
03./00. [PS3] Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd
04./08. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch
05./02. [PS3] Samurai Warriors 4 #
06./03. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
07./00. [3DS] New Love Plus+ #
08./04. [PS3] J-Stars Victory Vs #
09./05. [PSV] J-Stars Victory Vs #
10./00. [PSV] Hakuoki SSL: Sweet School Life #
11./09. [PSV] Samurai Warriors 4
12./00. [PS3] Winning Post 8 #
13./10. [PS3] Dark Souls II
14./07. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2014
15./13. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2014
16./17. [3DS] Kirby Triple Deluxe
17./18. [3DS] Fossil Fighters: Infinite Gear
18./06. [PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
19./00. [PSV] Winning Post 8 #
20./00. [PSV] Atelier Ayesha Plus: The Alchemist of the Land of Twilight #
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Mario Kart 8 may not feature voice chat
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 45 Comments
Will Mario Kart 8 feature voice chat? Right now at least, the answer seems to be “no”.
Mario Kart 8 already has a listing up on the eShop. Online multiplayer, leaderboards, and Miiverse are all included in the “Supports Online Play” sub-category. Voice chat, however, is nowhere to be found. Typically, “Game Chat” is listed if a particular game supports the feature.
This isn’t exactly an official confirmation from Nintendo, though right now I wouldn’t expect the functionality to be included.
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Mario Kart 8 – another Rainbow Road comparison with N64 version
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GBA Wii U VC games feature old ads in the digital manuals
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There’s a lot to like about the Game Boy Advance Virtual Console for Wii U. For instance, each game comes with the title’s original instruction manual. As shown above, this even includes old advertisements… like one for the Game Boy Player!
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Super Mario Land/Super Mario Bros. development details
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German website Nintendo-Online has researched the development of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Bros. Here’s a summary of the site’s report passed along to us:
Super Mario Land:
– Development was handled by a team consisting of eight R&D1 members; noone from the Super Mario Bros. development team – not even Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto – was involved.
– The core development team – producer Gunpei Yokoi, director Satoru Okada and designer Hirofumi Matsuoka – had worked together with Intelligent Systems on Famicom Wars before Super Mario Land. Famicom Wars was released in August 1988. That means that development of Super Mario Land started around August 1988 and did take approximately six to nine months.
– Compared to Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, the development time was short. Also, the development team did not have experience developing a Mario game. These two points caused the game to be glitchy, short and a bit weird.
– Yokoi and Okada were also the main engineers working on the Game Boy. Super Mario Land might have started as a kind of intern tech demo.
Super Mario Bros.:
– It is often claimed that the development team of the original Super Mario Bros. consisted of the following six people: Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka (designers), Koji Kondo (composer) and Toshihiko Nakago, Kazuaki Morita and Yasunari Nishida (programming).
– While there are sources proving that Miyamoto, Tezuka, Kondo, Nakago and Morita were involved in the project (e.g. Iwata asks), there is now such proof for Nishida.
– The operator of the website Kyoto-Report.wikidot.com that deals with the history of Nintendo confirmed to us that Nishida was in fact not part of the development team.
– We believe that this misconception derives from a misinterpretation: The pseudonym “Yachan” which is listed as a programmer in the credits of The Legend of Zelda was interpreted as “Yasunari Nishida”, but in fact the Nintendo programmer Yasunari Soejima was behind that pseudonym.
– Because of that, the development team of Super Mario Bros. only consisted of five developers, and Yasunari Nishida was not one of them.
Gears hitting the Wii U eShop this spring
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Mobot Studios is working on a Wii U version of the iOS title “Gears”. It’ll be hitting the eShop sometime this spring.
In Gears, players navigate a ball across three unique worlds. Here’s what’s being changed for the Wii U version:
Complete graphics overhaul for the big screen
New higher res textures
Real-time lighting and shadows
New Gamepad functionality
Gears will support tilt and touch control schemes from the iOS version as well as analog and button inputs.
