HAL on its relationship with Nintendo, appealing to all players with Kirby, more
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News | 19 Comments
The Worldfolio published a rare interview with Masayoshi Tanimura, the chairman and CEO of HAL Laboratory. Tanimura chatted about HAL’s relationship with Nintendo, how the team tries to make Kirby games for all players, and a few other topics.
We’ve picked out the notable excerpts from the interview below. You can read the full thing here.
Bethesda’s Todd Howard says Nintendo is now a “very good partner”, praises Switch
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Switch | 125 Comments
Speaking with GameSpot, Bethesda game director Todd Howard said that Nintendo was “less interested” in the company’s games in the past. However, that has since changed.
Howard noted that Nintendo has been a “very good partner” for Bethesda in its effort to bring Skyrim to the Switch. “Whereas before they were less interested in the types of things that we did or some other groups did,” he said.
Howard also had some praise for Switch. Regarding the new platform, he had this to say:
“I think it’s really smart what they’ve done. I think it’s the kind of device that only Nintendo could make. It’s exciting to bring Skyrim to the Nintendo audience. I don’t know where it’s gonna go. But I think it’s a really smart platform. We like it a lot.”
Some Pokémon will become Mega Bloks toys
Posted on 7 years ago by Fernando in General Nintendo, News | 11 Comments
The Pokémon Company seems to be constantly looking for new opportunities to increase their brand appreciation, and the latest news show that some Pokémon will be transformed into Mega Bloks.
Or at least the re-branded line Mega Construx, as Mattel has acquired the license and will start selling Pokémon Mega Construx this summer in North America. The new line of toys will feature Charizard, Pikachu and some other creatures from the first games.
According to The Pokémon Company’s VP of marketing, Colin Palmer:
“Mega Construx brings the engaging world of Pokémon to life in one of the most popular play expressions for kids today. We bring only the highest quality Pokémon experiences to our fans around the world and Mega Brands’ attention to detail and thoughtful creativity with Mega Construx is sure to delight kids as well as the most passionate Pokémon trainers.”
Kotaku encourages us to keep checking their site because the Pokémon Mega Construx will be at Toy Fair 2017 in New York this weekend and they will probably share more images.
More: Mega Blocks, Pokemon
January 2017 NPD: NES Classic Edition was third best-selling console of the month
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
The NPD report for January is in. No Nintendo titles were present in the top ten, but we do still have some news about sales in the United States last month.
NPD reports that the NES Classic Edition outsold Wii U, making it the third best-selling console of the month. Perhaps unsurprisingly at the month, the hardware managed to outsell Wii U.
The Play Nintendo Show – “Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World”
Posted on 7 years ago by Zack in General Nintendo, Videos | 1 Comment
The latest episode of the Play Nintendo Show is out, with the topic of this episode being Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World. Check it out below.
Photos of the new Zelda, Bokoblin amiibo
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Images | 13 Comments
Nintendo is showing off some of the new Zelda: Breath of the Wild amiibo at a European press event today. Because of that, we have new in-person shots of the Zelda and Bokoblin figures. Get a closer look below.
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Three new Zelda discounts added to My Nintendo in North America
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 2 Comments
North American My Nintendo members now have access to three new Zelda discounts. All of them are tied to Gold Points and take 30 percent off the original price.
On 3DS, the discounts for Zelda: Oracle of Seasons / Ages can be had for 20 Gold Points each. Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D requires 100 Gold Points.
All of these discounts are located on My Nintendo here.
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Second chapter of CoroCoro’s free Splatoon manga available online
Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
In February of last year, CoroCoro published a special Splatoon manga chapter for free online to celebrate the release of the regular Splatoon manga that started running in Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic around that time. Now, a year later, a second chapter of the manga is available for free online. You can read it here – in Japanese, naturally.
Video: Hacked NES Classic playing Nintendo 64 games
Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in General Nintendo, Videos | 2 Comments
Shortly after its release last year, people started tinkering with the NES Classic to see what else it could be besides play the 30 pre-installed games. Last month, intrepid hackers managed to get additional 30 NES games to run on the machine. Now, some hackers managed to take it quite a bit farther.
As the video below shows, the NES Classic is apparently capable of running Nintendo 64 games. The actual performance varies greatly from game to game, but it’s a pretty impressive feat nonetheless.
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Pre-orders open for Serena with Fennekin figure
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 37 Comments
We last heard about Kotobukiya’s Serena with Fennekin figure in July from WonderCon. It’s now set for a July release, and pre-orders have opened.
You can reserve the figure at Play-Asia here or AmiAmi here. Play-Asia has a reservation deadline of March 31.
Kotobukiya’s new figure is 1/8 scale and is a part of the Pokemon Figure Series. A closer look is in the video below.
