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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 0 comments

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata delivered the surprising news last night that Namco Bandai would be playing a significant role in the next Smash Bros. entry as one of its main developers.

There are some franchise followers out there who weren’t pleased with the announcement. One person went as far as to send an angry tweet to Masahiro Sakurai, writing that Namco Bandai is “incompetent”. The fan additionally said that Sakurai shouldn’t be involved with the development process.

Unsurprisingly, Sakurai wasn’t amused with the comments. He responded with the following:

“Knock off looking down on them with narrow-minded thinking.”

This is a very unconventional move for the Smash Bros. series and Nintendo as a whole, but we might as well give the project a chance, right? I mean, we don’t even know anything about the Wii U/3DS games yet.

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The Japanese presentation should begin in a half hour. It looks like it’s a bit longer than normal, clocking in at 53 minutes. Another 11 minutes will showcase bonus content.

We’ll have coverage throughout and after the event, as well as updates from the North America/European presentations.

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THQ’s latest departure is Teri Manby, who has resigned from the company. Manby was vice president, corporate controller, and chief accounting. Come July 6, she’ll be gone from THQ.

The moved prompted THQ to promote Rose Cunningham to Vice President, Corporate Controller of the Company. CFO Paul Pucino will become the Chief Accounting Officer.

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Platinum Games released a behind-the-scenes video last week giving fans a bit of insight as to how it approaches game development and more. The issue was that it was only available in Japanese – until now.

English subtitles can now be seen in the video above. Just click the “CC” button and you should be good to go!

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Capcom isn’t holding onto all of its Mega Man 25th anniversary plans until December. Today the company announced the “Rockcan”, a special item being made for the commemoration.

The Rockcan is a 10-disc soundtrack item packed inside an E-Tank tin. Capcom will be adding in a full color booklet as well.

Mega Man 1-6 features the Famicom and PlayStation tracks, all of which have been remastered using the original sound sources. Mega Man 8 makes use of the PlayStation version while Mega Man 9/10 pull music from the Xbox Live Arcade releases.

Japanese consumers can purchase Rockcan from the e-Capcom shop on September 19 for 14,700 yen.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Patrick(@Patricklous) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

Three Nintendo Directs in the same month?! That’s right, Nintendo of Japan isn’t the only one hosting a live-stream tomorrow if this tweet by Satoru Shibata, president of Nintendo of Europe is anything to go by.

The presentation will be streaming on Nintendo’s website an hour after Iwata’s Japanese one. Though the focus will be on the Nintendo 3DS, it wouldn’t surprise me if a few upcoming Wii games like Project Zero: Wii Edition are mentioned.

Nintendo of America, care to bring the number of presentations to four?