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Deadline is reporting that Dwayne Johnson – otherwise known as The Rock – will be starring in a live action movie based on the Midway game Rampage.

In the original title, players could take on the roles of George the gorilla, Lizzie the lizard and Ralph the werewolf. The game tasks them with reducing different North American cities to rubble.

New Line Cinema is handling the film, which will begin production next summer. Plot details are currently being kept under wraps, but Johnson’s character “gets in [the monsters’] way.”

Ryan Eagle is handling the Rampage movie script. Beau Flynn will act as its producer.

Rampage originally came to arcades in 1986. It later ended up on the NES, N64, and GameCube in various forms.

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Polygon has put up another round of quotes from Reggie Fils-Aime, this time focusing entirely on amiibo. The main takeaway is how Reggie conveyed that they won’t distract Nintendo from its bread and butter: making games. Other than that, he commented more on the supply for figures and a few other areas.

All of Reggie’s comments can be read below.

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Nintendo World Report was able to hold a discussion with Warren Spector. Spector discussed Nintendo bringing games to mobile, Epic Mickey, his love for DuckTales, and more. You can view the full interview below.

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Disney XD has teamed up with Dentsu Entertainment to air the Yo-Kai Watch anime in the United States. Later this year, the network will broadcast 26 half-hour episodes based on Level-5’s series.

As previously announced, VIZ Media is bringing over the Yo-Kai Watch manga in September, and Hasbro toys are coming in the spring. Nintendo is publishing the debut 3DS game this holiday.

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The latest addition to the Nintendo Family Channel has Rosanna Pansino and her sister Molly facing off in Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire. Check it out below.

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Keiji Inafune has been very outspoken about the state of the Japanese gaming industry over the past few years. While the situation has been improving, Inafune still believes that companies in Japan could go about things in a better way.

He told GameSpot in a recent interview:

Japanese creators and Japanese companies need to start looking outside of the box. They can’t just stay inside Japan and make their own game and bring it to E3 and hope it will be a hit. That’s not going to happen. You have to work with foreigner companies, in North America, Europe, and other places around the world so there’s a new taste coming into your game.

The language barrier is always there, that’s not going to change. But, if you always stay away from the world market, just because of that, you’re not going to evolve. So, the next thing is that people should get out more and see outside of Japan more. You can’t just stay inside, hoping that your game will be a success around the world. That’s not going to happen.

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Rare created Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, but the team never went on to develop a third platformer in the series for the N64. Some may wonder why.

Speaking with Kotaku, Grant Kirkhope indicated that it came down to fatigue. While Rare did go on to make Donkey Kong 64, they were a bit tired when it came to making 3D platformers, and Rare didn’t do too much else in that space.

As Kirkhope explained:

“I think with Tooie we were tired of it at that point. We’d done two games, and, if you do continual sequels—Rare didn’t like to do that—we didn’t want to do another Banjo game. And that’s why it kind of ended there.”

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GameStop is starting to restock the Wii Fit Trainer amiibo at some of its stores. It’s not available at every area, but you can see if a local location has it in stock here. Good luck, and happy amiibo hunting!

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