Nintendo shares new art to celebrate upcoming Zelda masterclass at Japan Expo
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Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma will be hosting a special masterclass session at Japan Expo 2017 later this week. Aonuma will be joined by Breath of the Wild art director Satoru Takizawa and illustrator Yusuke Nakano at the event which will cover the franchise’s art.
In celebration of the masterclass, a new piece of art has been published online. Take a look at the image above.
“The Art of The Legend of Zelda Series” masterclass will be held on Friday. It will be hosted between 12:30 PM and 1:15 PM local time.
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Evo 2017 – Smash Bros. Melee to be featured on July 15, then Smash Bros. Wii U on July 16
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in GameCube, General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 6 Comments
Smash Bros. will once again be featured at this year’s Evo, one of the world’s largest eSports events. Melee will be around as usual, as will Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
The two titles will be represented during the latter two days of Evo. Smash Bros. Melee will be closing out the festivities on Saturday night (July 15). Then on Sunday (July 16), it’ll be Smash Bros. Wii U’s turn, right before Street Fighter V and the end of the entire event.
Smash Bros. Wii U and Smash Bros. Melee were second and third in the registration voting, just behind Street Fighter V. 1,515 people signed up to play on Wii U while 1,435 intend to fight in Melee.
Activision thinking about how to continue investing in Skylanders, says Wii’s death contributed to series’ struggles
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 13 Comments
Over the past few years, the toys-to-life market seemed to be on the way out. Disney Infinity is dead. LEGO Dimensions hasn’t seen as much content as it once did. Activision also didn’t have a new Skylanders in 2017 for the first time in many years.
So at E3, it was somewhat surprising to see Ubisoft announce Starlink. And while Activision doesn’t have something completely new for Skylanders this year, it sounds like they’re still committed to the series.
In an interview with GamesIndustry, Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg had this to say about the state of Skylanders and the overall toys-to-life market:
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Rayman SNES prototype put online, direct-feed footage
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Videos | 2 Comments
Lizardcube co-founder Omar Cornut managed to get his hands on the unreleased Rayman prototype for SNES. It’s not a full game, but a development build instead.
I've dumped a prototype demo of unreleased Rayman for SNES, here it is! (NB: very early dev build, not a full game) https://t.co/F3XB9XRhTA pic.twitter.com/oLhOdNDyHF
— Omar (@ocornut) July 3, 2017
While we saw it towards the end of last year, now that the prototype is online, direct-feed footage is available. See Rayman SNES running in the video below.
Hey! Pikmin, new Pikmin amiibo up for pre-order on the Nintendo UK store
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The Nintendo UK store is now taking pre-orders for upcoming Pikmin-related products. Hey! Pikmin and the new amiibo can be reserved here. Both launch on July 28.
Bayonetta 2 director draws new art as Switch speculation ensues
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Switch | 47 Comments
PlatinumGames has opened a brand new Twitter account for its Japanese fans. To celebrate, Yusuke Hashimoto drew new Bayonetta art. Hashimoto is not only the director of Bayonetta 2, but also the producer on the series’ first game.
Based on the art and activity on the Twitter page, fans are speculating about Platinum’s potential plans for Switch. Some believe that the red and blue colors are a reference to the Joy-Con controllers. Platinum liked a tweet about the connection… and some other messages about Bayonetta and Switch.
Of course, this could very well amount to nothing. We do know though that Platinum is involved with Switch in some fashion.
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Tatsumi Kimishima’s approval rating is at 97.70 %, up more than 10 % from last year
Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 22 Comments
Nintendo held its annual shareholder meeting last week; during and after this meeting, a variety of information is published about the current state of the company. Among those is the shareholder approval rating for the five directors that were elected to the company’s Board of Directors. Their approval ratings are as follows:
– Tatsumi Kimishima: 97.70 %
– Shigeru Miyamoto: 97.59 %
– Shinya Takahashi: 97.65 %
– Shuntaro Furukawa: 97.65 %
– Ko Shiota: 97.65 %
For comparison’s sake, president Tatsumi Kimishima’s approval rating last year was 87.14 %, meaning his approval among shareholders has risen by more than 1o % in the last year. Clearly the shareholders are happy with the way Kimishima has been running the company – and the Switch’s successful launch clearly didn’t hurt either.
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Monopoly Gamer Collector’s Edition unboxing
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GameStop is currently selling an exclusive collector’s edition for the new Monopoly Gamer – a crossover of Monopoly and Mario. We’ve added in an unboxing video of the release below.
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Yacht Club “would love” to make a Shovel Knight 3D platformer and have the character in Smash Bros.
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 24 Comments
After the final round of content for Shovel Knight is wrapped up highlighted by the King Knight campaign, you can count on Yacht Club Games taking a break from the series for a little while. If and when the studio does return to the IP though, one possibility could see Shovel Knight entering the 3D space with a N64-type game.
This is something we’ve heard Yacht Club talk a bit about before, but the studio’s Nick Wozniak really seems interested in the idea. Wozniak stated the following when asked by AppTrigger where he’d like to see the franchise be taken next:
“Anything? I think one of the things we want to work on in the far future is definitely like a Shovel Knight 64, a 3D platformer. We would all love that. We all love Mario 64 to pieces and would just love to be able to jump into that.”
Nintendo Minute – “5 Things You May Not Know About Splatoon 2”
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This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta sit down with Splatoon 2 producer Hisashi Nogami to talk about Splatoon 2. View the episode below.
