Video: Nintendo NY ribbon cutting ceremony
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Prior to the public reopening of Nintendo NY, members of the press were invited for a brief event. One part of this involved a ribbon cutting ceremony, which you can see below.
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Zero Escape-themed room opening in Los Angeles
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Aksys Games, SCRAP Entertainment, and Spike Chunsoft have announced an escape room based on the Zero Escape series. This will open on April 15 at Weller Court in Los Angeles.
“Real Zero Escape: Trust on Trial” will offer “an all new custom scenario centered in the Zero Escape universe and puts players inside a locked room with a mere 60 minutes to escape”.
Tickets for Real Zero Escape go on sale on February 29. Access the official website here.
Source: Aksys Games PR
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Gears of War, Darksiders devs talk about how Zelda influenced them
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The Legend of Zelda is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. In honor of that, GameSpot’s Mike Mahardy wrote an article about the series’ legacy, and reached out to some developers to see how it influenced them. Cliff Bleszinski – former Gears of War maker – as well as Darksiders developers Joe Madureira and David Adams shared some thoughts.
Continue on below for a look at what the three developers said. You can also find the original article with comments from artist David Hellman here.
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Photos from the Nintendo NY reopening
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Nintendo World has been closed for several weeks of renovation as it rebrands to Nintendo NY. Today, the grand reopening was held. Take a look at some photos from the event below.
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DICE honors late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata with Lifetime Achievement Award
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During the DICE Awards tonight, Satoru Iwata was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime accepted the reward for Iwata and then delivered a speech about his former boss and friend.
Here’s the full segment:
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Sakurai’s 500th Famitsu column to be published in next week’s Famitsu
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Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai has been writing columns in Famitsu for a long, long time. In next week’s issue, his 500th piece will be published. It’ll be in April that Sakurai has had columns featured in Famitsu for 13 years.
To commemorate the milestone, a special live stream will be held on Famitsu’s Nicovideo page on March 10 at 9:30 PM Japan time. The main contents of this broadcast stream will be mentioned in Sakurai’s upcoming column. Japanese fans can also submit questions on Famitsu’s website for a chance to have them be answered.
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Video: A look at the SNES Counter Tester
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Back in the day, if you experienced issues with your SNES, a Counter Tester would be needed to determine issues with specific components in the console. Similar hardware was made for the NES as well. You can get a close look at the SNES Counter Tester in the video below.
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The LEGO Movie producer says Nintendo film would be his dream movie project
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At the DICE 2016 “Franchise Fever: Pursuing Ideas and Big Audiences” panel earlier today, Vertigo Entertainment president and The LEGO Movie producer Roy Lee was asked what his dream movie project would be. His response? Nintendo.
Lee explained:
“Mine would be Nintendo. I think Zelda, Mario, and the whole universe of characters would be perfect for a Lego Movie type of [film]. I don’t have the rights to it, but I would love to. That would be my Holy Grail.”
Adrian Askarieh, CEO and president Prime Universe Films, also commented on the same question. He believes that Nintendo could have success at the box office, and just needs to find people to put something together.
The Pokemon Company not saying if Shadow Mewtwo is canon
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Shadow Mewtwo was created in close collaboration with the minds behind Pokemon for Pokken Tournament. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the creature is a canonical part of the overall universe.
In an interview with Polygon, Pokken Tournament producer Masaaki Hoshino said:
“When we were originally coming up with the design, we worked very closely with The Pokémon Company and Game Freak to make sure everything was right. What happened was, we at Bandai Namco had the idea of making a really cool dark-colored Mewtwo, so we had one of our designers take a crack at it and then presented that to The Pokémon Company and Game Freak. They all thought it looked really cool, so then we worked together to brush it up.”
“Because everyone really liked Shadow Mewtwo, I have a personal hope that they’ll continue to use it, but it’s not really our decision, unfortunately.”
Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada, who is also working on Pokken Tournament, weighed in as well:
“For this game, it is kind of a spin-off from the main series. It takes place in this area called the Ferrum Region, which means something like ‘Iron Region,’ playing back into the Tekken connection. So, within the context of this spin-off, [Shadow Mewtwo] is obviously a canonical character. Of course, how The Pokémon Company and Game Freak decide to use the character is up to them, but I think Mr. Hoshino’s passion for the character might inspire them and encourage them to use it!”
Polygon also reached out to The Pokemon Company and asked if Shadow Mewtwo can be considered canon. To that, a representative said “No comment.”
All data you lose when deleting your Nintendo Account
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It’s an entirely possible to delete a Nintendo Account. Doing so will result in the major loss of information, however.
When attempting to ditch a Nintendo Account, Nintendo warns users that they’ll lose a whole bunch of data. This includes your “mission status”, points, and rewards with My Nintendo, digital content purchased/required that is linked to your Nintendo Account, save/user data of apps linked, and special offers.
You can find more support information regarding Nintendo Accounts here.
