Overhead photo provides brand new look at Super Nintendo World
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If not for the current coronavirus pandemic, Super Nintendo World would be pretty close to opening in Japan. The original goal was to have the park’s construction all wrapped up in time for the 2020 Olympics.
While we wait for the world to return to normalcy, work on Super Nintendo World is indeed starting to come to a close. And a new overhead photo gives fans some sort of idea as to what they can look forward to when the park is ready to open. Check it out above.
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Anime Expo Lite 2020 announced, The World Ends with You featured in special art
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Anime Expo 2020 is another loss from the coronavirus pandemic. The show must go on though, and in its place will be a two-day live stream event known as Anime Expo Lite.
Anime Expo Lite will have special guests, panel discussions with industry leaders, industry announcements, live content, exclusive content from Japan, Q&As, and giveaways. In the past, we’ve seen a few Nintendo-related reveals – notably from Aksys Games.
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LEGO Super Mario lead designer on scrapped ideas, Nintendo’s involvement
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The creation of LEGO Super Mario has been a long process for both LEGO and Nintendo. Since 2015, the two sides have been working together to see how they could bring a unique product to life.
Unsurprisingly, there were a few scrapped ideas along the way. Speaking about the creation of LEGO Super Mario with GamesIndustry, lead designer Jonathan Bennink said:
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My Nintendo offers free Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition wallpapers in Europe
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In celebration of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition launching this week, My Nintendo is distributing several Xenoblade Chronicles themed wallpaper sets for European users at no extra cost.
You can find them available for download here.
Currently this deal is only for My Nintendo users in Europe. If these wallpapers begin to be offered elsewhere, we will let you know.
SEGA on Sonic – Sonic Boom TV series seems to be over, focusing on “high quality content”, more
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Ivo Gerscovich, chief brand officer for Sonic Studio at SEGA of America, recently held a Reddit AMA. Gerscovich addressed several questions from fans regarding the IP’s future and more.
One important note concerns the status of Sonic Boom. The days of the Wii U and 3DS games are long gone, though a show had been airing through the end of 2017. With a lack of news over the past couple of years, it’s unsurprising that the show appears to be over. Gerscovich said “there are no plans for a new Sonic Boom specific TV series or game.” Some fans believe that the comment leaves the door open to more episodes in the future, but executive producer Bill Freiberger has been putting out tweets indicating that the show is finished.
Elsewhere in the AMA, Gerscovich was asked about the future of the Sonic brand. Gerscovich said SEGA will be focusing on “respecting the past while looking to evolve the brand and its characters and storylines for the future across all content, products, and platforms.” He also stressed the importance of releasing “high quality content”.
Here’s a full roundup of the important bits from the AMA:
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The Game Awards 2020 will still happen, but could be digital-only
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The Game Awards have been taking place every December since 2014. It should be returning this year, but the event may end up going digital-only.
Creator and host Geoff Keighley told VentureBeat that The Game Awards could be impacted by the coronavirus. However, the team has about five different contingency plans in the works, depending on how things play out.
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Nintendo hit with another leak, including source code for 3DS OS and Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
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2020 has been very active as far as Nintendo leaks are concerned. We’ve seen files and code being distributed online involving Pokemon Gen 2 and Pokemon Gen 3, not to mention assets involving Wii (though its severity was later downplayed).
Unfortunately for Nintendo, it appears that the leaks won’t be ending anytime soon. The latest report concerns data coming online for the 3DS operating source code and Pokemon Diamond/Pearl.
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Summer Game Fest Developer Showcase events announced
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Summer Game Fest today announced the addition of two Developer Showcase events. The digital presentations, which have been curated by the Day of the Devs team and Geoff Keighley (The Game Awards), will be held on June 22 and July 20. Both live streams will offer gameplay, news, and musical performances.
The initial group of participating developers and publishers confirmed for the showcases include:
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Former Rare devs on Perfect Dark – skipping GoldenEye 007 sequel, the name, requiring the Expansion Pak, more
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Perfect Dark, Rare’s classic N64 shooter, is officially 20 years old today. To celebrate the milestone, Eurogamer caught up with several of its key developers as well as then Nintendo of America producer Ken Lobb to learn more about the creation of the project. Several interesting topics were discussed in the feature, such as how Rare decided against making a sequel to GoldenEye 007, how the Perfect Dark name was chosen, using the memory Expansion Pak, and more.
We have a roundup featuring these notable points below. The full feature from Eurogamer can be found here.
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Pokemon Gen 3 source code leaks, some new details discovered
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It was just last month that the second generation of Pokemon games were hit with a huge leak. A ton of sprites surfaced, offering a look at a bunch of different beta designs.
There are even more Pokemon leaks, this time impacting Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald. We won’t be sharing any links here, but source code for the games have appeared online.
Some fans have gone to work and poked through all the various files and codes in hopes of uncovering previously-unknown information. Twitter user eclipse_tt has shared some of the early discoveries, which are as follows:
