Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 8 Comments

Despite the introduction of LEGO Dimensions, Warner Bros. Interactive has no plans to stop creating one-off LEGO games.

LEGO Marvel’s Avengers game director Arthur Parsons told Polygon:

“One million percent this is not the last Lego standalone game. The first day Lego Dimensions was announced internally, we were told there will be a standalone video games alongside Lego Dimensions. People love Lego video games and we will continue to make Lego video games.”

LEGO games have a tendency to tease future entries. As an example, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes teased LEGO Batman 3 in the post-credits. LEGO Batman 3 hinted at LEGO Marvel’s Avengers. Unsurprisingly, the latter title has a tease as well.

“There’s a tease at the end of this one too,” Parsons noted. “But you’ll have to play it to find out what it is.”

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Gamasutra has several quotes up from producer Risa Tabata and Kensuke Tanabe, who work with external teams at Nintendo. Tabata has been involved with games such as Metroid Prime while Tanabe has been with the company for nearly three decades.

While speaking with Tabata and Tanabe, Gamasutra asked about how Nintendo tends to make its games, working with external developers, and even amiibo. Continue on below for their thoughts.

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Update 3: Bumped to the top again. You can now have Falco shipped to your home.

Update 2: Bumped to the top. Pre-orders are now officially open, though note that you can only order one from your local store.

Update: This is now confirmed. You will be able to pre-order Falco here (should be live soon).

Best Buy appears to have snagged yet another exclusive amiibo. By searching for Falco on the store’s website, you’ll notice that an image shows saying that this figure is only available from the retailer.

We haven’t received an official confirmation about this, so it’s possible that the listing was made an error. That being said, it does currently look like you’ll only be able to purchase the Falco amiibo from Best Buy if you’re in the United States.

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Some news came in earlier today about David Production working on the Monster Hunter Stories anime. That information came from a recent interview with Fuji TV president Chihiro Kameyama.

In the interview, Kameyama mentioned that the Monster Hunter Stories anime is planned as both a broadcast and an anime business, which includes products, distribution and licensing. He also indicated that there might be plans to bring it overseas. There’s interest in having the series be a business much like how Yu-Gi-Oh! and Naruto are big businesses for TV Tokyo.

If the anime does make it over, that would also likely mean that we’ll be seeing the game here as well. We’ll just have to wait until next year to learn more about the situation.

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Nintendo will be hosting an Extra Life charity stream consisting of official team members on November 7. To keep track of it, head on over to the company’s page here.

Extra Life is a charity event in which people host 24-hour gaming sessions in order to raise money for local children’s hospitals. Various publications, companies, and people in general participate in streams.

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Following yesterday’s tease, Toys “R” Us has now officially confirmed an exclusive restock of the Villager amiibo. The figure will be available once again on November 8.

Note that you’ll only be able to pick it up in-store. Quantities will also be “limited”.

Here’s the relevant tweet from Toys “R” Us:

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The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses concert series will be returning once again in 2016. Today, more dates were announced for both North America and Europe.

Here’s the full lineup:

Nashville, TN, Schermerhorn Symphony Center; January 21, 22
Boston, MA, Symphony Hall; February 23
Costa Mesa, CA, Segerstrom Center for the Arts; March 8
Toronto, ON, Sony Centre; March 19
Jacksonville, FL, Moran Theatre; March 24
Kansas City, MO, Music Hall Kansas City; March 26
Memphis, TN, The Orpheum; March 31
New Orleans, LA, Saenger Theater; April 1
Columbus, OH, Ohio Theater; April 3
Charlottesville, VA, JPJ Arena; April 8
London, UK, SSE/Wembley Arena; April 23
Guadalajara, MX, Auditorio Telmex; May 11
Monterrey, MX, Arena Monterrey; May 13
Mexico City, MX, Arena de Ciudad; May 15
San Antonio, TX, Majestic Theater; May 21
Los Angeles, CA, Dolby Theater; June 13
Austin, TX, Long Center; June 23
Montreal, QB, Place des Arts; June 25
San Francisco, CA, Davies Symphony Hall; August 21
Atlanta, GA, Cobb Perf. Arts; September 10
Edmonton, AB, Southern Jubilee; September 21
Vancouver, BC, Queen Elizabeth Theatre; September 23
Paris, FR, Palais Des Congres; October 8
Lisbon, PT, Coliseu de Lisboa; October 14
Essen, DE, Grugahalle; October 15
Chicago, IL, Chicago Auditorium; November 12

The third installment of The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, going by the “Master Quest” name, will add brand-new music and visuals from Tri Force Heroes. Fans can get a sneak-preview of this content tonight on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, where an orchestra will perform the Tri Force Heroes interlude arrangement from the symphony.

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At the Tokyo Game Show last month, Capcom announced that an anime is planned for Monster Hunter Stories. This will debut in Japan sometime next year.

A new piece of information about the anime has since surfaced. Specifically, it’s now confirmed that David Production is behind the show. This team is perhaps best known for working on the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders anime.

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The Mega Yarn Yoshi amiibo is currently available for pre-order on Amazon Germany. Even if you’re in the U.S., you should be able to have it shipped to your address. I’ll try to keep an eye on things and update this post if pre-orders sell out.

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Later this week, XSEED Games will be hosting an event, and a number of announcements will be made. It will apparently be taking place on Wednesday. We’re not sure how much Nintendo news there will be, though hopefully we’ll hear about a Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale release date at the very least.

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