Retro Studios still staffing up, adds Battlefield and Star Wars artist as VFX lead
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Retro Studios continues to staff up as the company develops Metroid Prime 4. It has added a number of VFX artists to its arsenal, including Adad Morales, who previously contributed to Battlefield Hardline and the cancelled Star Wars Ragtag project at EA’s now-shuttered Visceral studio. Morales is on board as Retro’s new VFX lead.
Another new hire is Bryan Erck, who worked on Shadow of the Tomb Raider as that game’s lead VFX artist. And after spending twelve years at Gearbox, Nicholas Wilson is now a senior VFX artist at Retro.
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Illumination artists working on Super Mario Bros. animated movie from home
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Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, most companies have their employees working from home. That includes Illumination, the studio behind the upcoming Super Mario Bros. animated movie.
Despite the change in work environment, Illumination is apparently very well equipped for the situation. All aspects of development, production, and marketing are being done remotely. Illumination has actually always been involved with remote work due to the daily collaboration of producers, artists, designs, editors, and more between their Paris and Santa Monica staff. A source told Deadline that the past two months have been “an extremely productive, innovative and creative time at the company.”
The Super Mario Bros. movie will arrive sometime in 2022. Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination founder Chris Meledandri are co-producing.
Ubisoft Forward digital conference announced
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With major gaming shows having been cancelled and postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ubisoft has announced it will host its first ever digital conference. The event, called Ubisoft Forward, is promised to be “an E3-style showcase with plenty of exclusive game news, exciting reveals, and much more.”
Ubisoft Forward will take place on July 12 at the following times:
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Guerrilla Collective announced as yet another E3 2020 replacement
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Media Indie Exchange, in partnership with the Kinda Funny Games Showcase, will be producing a new event known as the Guerrilla Collective to act as another replacement for this year’s E3. Many game studios and publishers are coming together to showcase exclusive news, reveals, trailers, gameplay demos, and more. Kinda Funny’s Greg Miller will be hosting the event.
The Guerrilla Collective will feature the following companies:
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My Nintendo adds a pair of printable Animal Crossing: New Horizons rewards
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My Nintendo has updated with a couple of new rewards. A pair of printable items are available, both of which are based on Animal Crossing: New Horizons rewards. You can pick up some Mother’s Day Coupons as well as gift tags.
Both of these rewards are located on My Nintendo here. They cost 50 Platinum Points each.
Nintendo Minute – “Nintendo Switch Board Game Bonanza”
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This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta play some fun board games online with each other. Check out the full episode below.
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Former Retro Studios concept artist comments on cancelled Zelda and Mario spin-offs
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Earlier this week, concept art emerged from what looked to be cancelled Zelda and Mario spin-offs from Retro Studios. Sammy Hall, a former artist at the company, shared the shots online via his ArtStation account. The Zelda game would have featured Sheik while the Mario one was focused around Boo.
Hall reconfirmed to IGN that both projects were only in pre-production. He told the site:
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Tokyo Game Show 2020 cancelled due to coronavirus, online event now planned
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The coronavirus has led to the cancellation of major gaming expos in 2020, including E3 and Gamescom. Now you can add Tokyo Game Show to that list as well.
In a statement today, show organizers said that it will no longer hold a physical event “after a long consideration to place the utmost priority on the health and safety of visitors, exhibitors and stakeholders.” But while it’s been scrapped in its traditional form, an online event will be held instead.
The full statement reads:
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Wii hacker downplays recent Nintendo leaks, source code to reproducing the console not included
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A few days ago, news emerged regarding a pretty significant Nintendo leak. It was primarily centered around Wii, but hacker Hector Martin has downplayed the importance of what has emerged. Martin told PCMag says that the files involved don’t actually contain source code to reproducing the console.
Martin said:
Nintendo on its IP expansion business
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