NES Classic Edition – Miniboss and Extend Link overview
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Nyko created a new overview for its latest NES Classic Edition accessories, the Miniboss and Extend Link. The retro-looking video can be found below.
Video: Build-A-Bear Charmander unboxing
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Build-A-Bear recently announced – and released – a new plush based on Pokemon’s Charmander. IGN now has an unboxing video on its YouTube page, which you can watch below.
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Video: Fairly OddParents creator draws Nintendo characters in the show’s style
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Butch Hartman, the creator of Fairly OddParents, has his own YouTube show in which he draws fan-requested characters in the cartoon show’s style. In his newest video, Nintendo is heavily featured. Hartman created his own takes on the Splatoon squid, Link, Pikachu, and Mario. Sonic was also thrown in since he’s often associated with Nintendo these days. We have the video below.
VIZ Media planning Zelda: Twilight Princess / Ocarina of Time special for Free Comic Book Day 2017
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We have several months to go until Free Comic Book Day 2017, yet VIZ Media is already confirming its involvement. Moreover, the publisher is planning something special for Zelda fans.
VIZ Media will make a special book available containing excerpts from the manga adaptations of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It will span 32 pages.
Free Comic Book Day 2017 will take place on May 6, 2017. You’ll be able to pick up the Zelda special from participating comic book stores.
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Skylanders Academy showrunner on giving Crash Bandicoot a voice in the show
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Skylanders Academy premiered on Netflix back in October. After the show appeared, it came as somewhat as a surprise that Crash Bandicoot was in, and even had his own voice.
GameSpot caught up with Skylanders Academy showrunner Eric Rogers to talk about giving the character a voice. He also touched on the mixed reaction and why the news of Crash’s involvement wasn’t talked up beforehand.
Head past the break for Rogers’ comments. Read GameSpot’s full interview here for other topics, including what’s in store for season two of Skylanders Academy.
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Miyamoto on the durability of Mario, says technology will influence the franchise’s future
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Mario is here to stay. As Nintendo’s biggest franchise – and one of the biggest in general – there are plenty of additional adventures in store for the future. Shigeru Miyamoto is unsure about where Mario will be taken down the road, though technology will play an important role.
Miyamoto was asked about where he sees the future of Mario going during the Super Mario Run event at the Apple Store a few days ago. He reflected on a poll conducted after Super Mario Bros. launched, and how Mario was more popular than Mickey Mouse. Miyamoto realized at the time that “Mickey Mouse was a character that had evolved with the evolution of cinema and animation, and so it was then when I felt that if I want Mario to continue to survive as a character, then Mario needs to evolve with technology and video games.” And so Mario’s future will depend on the technology Miyamoto stumbles upon in the future.
Miyamoto’s full comments:
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Nintendo opens Japanese Kirby 25th anniversary Twitter account
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Kirby is celebrating its 25th anniversary next year. In celebration of that, a new Japanese Twitter account is now open. Access it here. We should be hearing about plans for Kirby’s big anniversary in the months ahead.
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Best Buy employees purchase Wii U for a visitor who stopped by every day to play Smash Bros.
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One teenager has been stopping by the Best Buy in Valley Stream, New York every day to play Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Keeping in line with the holiday spirit, associates from the store’s Appliances Department chipped in collectively to get him a console of his own before Christmas.
The heartfelt moment was recorded on camera:
One of the Best Buy employees apparently offered to drive the teenager home so that he wouldn’t have to walk home alone with it. Even though the video has resulted in negative comments, it’s nice to see that there’s some good in the world!
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Miyamoto wants to put more energy into Star Fox, Pikmin
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Fans were able to submit a bunch of questions to Shigeru Miyamoto when he showed up for the Super Mario Run event at the Apple Store in SoHo a few days ago. At one point, he was asked if there was any character he wanted to develop or felt very passionate about that didn’t make it. He pointed to two franchises: Fox McCloud (Star Fox) and Pikmin.
Miyamoto said:
“Yeah, I always wanted Fox McCloud to be a bit more popular than he is. But I think one more would be Pikmin. So I think these two, I’ll need to put some more energy into.”
With Pikmin, we know that a new side-scroller is coming to 3DS in 2017. Miyamoto has also previously mentioned Pikmin 4 which one would assume is a different game.
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Miyamoto says Nintendo conducted Minecraft-like experiments on N64, some designs “were very similar”
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There’s one additional excerpt from Glixel’s new interview with Shigeru Miyamoto that we wanted to give the spotlight to.
As part of the discussion, Miyamoto was asked if he’s playing games other than the mobile title Neko Atsume. This led him to speak about his enjoyment and respect of Minecraft.
Interestingly, Miyamoto told Glixel that Nintendo conducted “a lot of experiments that were similar to that back in the N64 days”. There were apparently “some designs that were very similar.”
Miyamoto’s full words:
“I do like Minecraft, but really more from the perspective of the fact that I really feel like that’s something we should have made. We had actually done a lot of experiments that were similar to that back in the N64 days and we had some designs that were very similar. It’s really impressive to me to see how they’ve been able to take that idea and turn it into a product.”
