Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 3 Comments

Nordic Games is making a significant change to its company today. They’ve been reincorporated, and will be known as “THQ Nordic” going forward.

An official statement reads:

Whilst we take great pride in our Swedish roots and accomplished a great deal under the Nordic Games masthead, we decided it was time to incorporate the THQ name. Those key brands will continue to shape our business in a meaningful way going forward, and THQ Nordic represents a core approach of doing much more than “owning” a highly competitive portfolio of IP. We cherish them, and align them with the very best development resources to expand upon them with the level of experience that communities and established fan bases expect and deserve. Side note – another upside to this whole rebrand thing is we don’t get asked about the Nordic Game parties at Gamescom anymore – it was the other guys who threw them. With this rebrand we are entering the next phase in our company’s evolution.

As of now we have 23 game projects in development, 13 thereof have not yet been publicly announced, but are sure to be in the next months. Needless to say, the majority of these projects are based on former THQ owned IPs and franchises.

Today’s news was accompanied by a new logo, pictured above. About the image, THQ Nordic founder/owner Lars Wingefors said:

“As for the new logo design, we literally stumbled across it when browsing some art files, after we bought the THQ trademark and figured: why not? We hope the reception from our partners is less ambivalent but we’re OK either way. We invite you to our Gamescom booth to play our games and see the logo in large-scale format.”

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 1 Comment

Update (8/11): New Nintendo Selects are up on Best Buy.

Update (8/10): These are all now live on Amazon. $16 each for Prime members.

Original (8/9): Retailers are beginning to take pre-orders for the new Nintendo Selects and Wii U amiibo bundles Nintendo announced earlier today.

Five Nintendo Selects are currently up on GameStop here. Amazon Canada is now taking reservations for all except nintendogs + cats here.

If you’re looking for the amiibo bundles, they’re all available on Amazon here. Amazon Canada also has them here.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 131 Comments

A trio of patents filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office appeared today. Originally, they were filed on January 11.

This looks to be a partial continuation of a previous patent. Two explore the hand/gesture tracking functionality in more detail, but with the third, Nintendo makes mention of an accessory (buttons) to the side of the portable device, and using an infrared camera to read button presses instead of using any form of electrical connection between the two.

Here’s the abstract:

“An example accessory can be attached to an information processing device. The accessory includes a housing, a movable operation section, and a movable portion. An inside of the housing is visible from an outside thereof through at least a portion thereof. At least a portion of the operation section is exposed on the outside of the housing. The movable portion is placed at a position inside the housing that is visible from the outside of the housing through the portion of the housing. A position and/or an attitude of the movable portion changes in response to the operation section being operated.”

You can find the three patents here, here, and here. The third one is definitely the most interesting out of the bunch.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Zack in 3DS, General Nintendo, Videos | 0 comments

Nintendo has released a new episode in their Play Nintendo Show series. This episode focuses on some “fabulous styling tips” from Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. You can find the video below.

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GamesBeat was recently given the opportunity to speak with The Pokemon Company consumer marketing director J.C. Smith. Smith had plenty to say about the Super Bowl commercial which aired earlier in the year, the Detective Pikachu film (we’ll hear more “soon”), Pokemon GO, and more.

Per usual, we’ve rounded up some of the important responses below. You can read the full interview on GamesBeat here.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 5 Comments

The Lucina amiibo hasn’t been the easiest one to find since Nintendo brought it out last year. Soon, however, you may have another chance to nab the figure.

On Monday, Nintendo updated the official Children’s Product Certificate for Lucina. The document states that it’s seeing a new run of manufacturing during July and August. It’s a strong sign that Lucina will become more widely available again in the near future. We’ll let you know if we hear anything else about a restock.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Mobile, Videos | 2 Comments

At the GamesBeat 2016 conference, Niantic CEO John Hanke stopped by for a thirty minute chat. Hanke talked about Pokemon GO and more during the event. Here’s the full recording:

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in GBA, General Nintendo | 1 Comment

It’s Mr. Pants is a very interesting game. Banjo-Kazooie developer Rare created the Game Boy Advance title back in 2004. As some of you may know, Mr. Pants started out as the studio’s mascot on their website.

Rare recently shared a feature in which the making of It’s Mr. Pants was discussed. Check out the 10-minute video below.

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Later this month, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Graphics will release in Japan in celebration of the series’ 30th anniversary. It was initially announced a few weeks ago, but we finally have some details about what will be included.

The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Graphics will contain all published official illustrations from the first entry up through Twilight Princess HD. All kinds of art like main visuals, character illustrations, and items can be seen here. There will be also a symposium of Nintendo’s legacy designers recorded as well.

The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Graphics will be A4-sized and has 416 pages. It’s set on release on August 26 for 4,300 yen. You can order it on Play-Asia here or Amazon Japan here. See some sample pages in the gallery below.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, Videos, Wii U | 12 Comments

With several new Nintendo Selects having been announced for North America today, a new promo video has been published. Check it out below.