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Posted on 11 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in 3DS, General Gaming, General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 1 Comment

In the latest issue of EDGE magazine there lays a feature about the inclusion of permanent death in a game– that is, when a character dies, they’re gone for good and you can’t do anything about it. Two notable examples of games that utilize permanent death (perma-death) have come within the last year or deux: ZombiU from Ubisoft on the Wii U and Fire Emblem: Awakening on 3DS from Nintendo. A designer from both games sat down with EDGE to discuss their experience with perma-death:

I think that all of the Fire Emblem games are fun, but a lot of beginner players stay clear of them because they think they are difficult. I think this is a real shame. A big reason for wanting to include this mode was so that those kinds of people could play Fire Emblem too…Since your characters come back when they die, one advantage is that you can play more aggressively or take more risks.

– Fire Emblem: Awakening director Kohei Maeda

[Writing ZombiU] was the toughest challenge I’ve faced in over ten years of writing for games. It took… the whole production team to find solutions for all the ‘But what happens if you die here?’ issues, which were sometimes mind-bendingly complicated.

I created the Prepper character and the survivors’ notes to establish a link and reinforce between the survivors who all fall under this mysterious character’s influence. Without a main player character, you need to embrace your main NPCs. Our character assemblage system produced avatars that were less gorgeous than a single player character would’ve been.

– ZombiU design director Gabrielle Shrager

Via NintendoLife

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 2 Comments

Everyone loves announcements of announcements, right? Here’s another one for you, straight from Image & Form:

Might this have something to do with the next SteamWorld game? Or something else entirely?

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

The third episode of Pokemon Origins is now available in English. It can now be seen through Pokemon TV.

Pokemon Origins is different than the typical Pokemon anime in that it connects directly to the Red/Blue video games.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 11 Comments

An arrest has been made for a 25 year-old man who apparently threatened to kill two Nintendo executives… among other things.

According to Sankei News, the unnamed man sent a message through Nintendo’s online inquiry form on his computer in which he said he’d kill two Nintendo executives “sooner or later.” The man admitted that he did indeed submit the note after being arrested.

The same man allegedly wrote other threats on Nintendo’s site including, “I’d planted bombs at Nintendo headquarters, tomorrow afternoon they’re going to blow up, Nintendo go bankrupt.” [SIC] It was determined that the IP address for this comment lines up with his home computer’s address.

Police are now trying to determine if similar threats made in September connect with these events.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 3 Comments

Mario Kart Arcade GP DX has been around in Japan for several months. In just a little while, the game will be making its way to the west.

Arcade Heroes has confirmed that Namco Bandai will be making Mario Kart Arcade GP DX available outside of Japan for Winter 2013. At the moment, it’s being showcased at the IAAPA 2013 trade show in Florida.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 28 Comments

Tweets sent out by Nintendo of America software engineer Nando Monterazo have revealed the existence of a new tablet for schools. It’s mainly designed to play educational games rather than core titles that Nintendo fans are used to.

The full lineup of tweets are as follows:

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Posted on 11 years ago by Patrick(@Patricklous) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Platforms, Rumors | 3 Comments

A pair of mysterious, still unannounced games developed and published by Nintendo have appeared in the form of classification decisions on the Australian government’s classification website. The first, Steeldiver Subwars, seems to be a sequel to the early, bargain-bin filling 3DS game. A multiplayer-focused, potentially free-to-play Steel Diver game was teased by Shigeru Miyamoto earlier this year and it appears that this is the game that Nintendo and Steel Diver developer Vitei were working on.

Unlike Steel Diver, we know next to nothing about the other Nintendo game classified – NES Remix. No developer aside from Nintendo was noted and it received a “G” rating for “violence with a very mild impact.” The fact it is already classified suggests that we might hear some news about what the heck it actually is fairly soon. I’d follow this up with Nintendo of Australia but I’m not sure how quickly they can reply to a letter.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Videos, Wii U | 1 Comment

Thanks to Tytygh for the tip.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in General Gaming, General Nintendo, News | 2 Comments

The following details are from a study conducted in the United Kingdom of 11,000 kids as young as five years old by the University of Glasgow:

– Exposure to video games had no effect on behavior, attention or emotional issues.
– Watching 3 or more hours of television at age 5 did lead to a small increase in behavioral problems in youngsters between 5 and 7.
– Neither television nor video games lead to attentional or emotional problems.
– There was no difference between boys and girls in the survey results.

Via Games and Learning

Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 1 Comment

The second episode of Pokemon Origins is now available in English. It can now be seen through Pokemon TV.

Pokemon Origins is different than the typical Pokemon anime in that it connects directly to the Red/Blue video games.

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