Update 2: Name update: the game is going by the tentative name “Project Ukulele”. Additionally, reader Noble Wrot tried adjusting the levels and contrasts of the image below to bring out the forms of the shadowy figures. We might be looking at a bird and some kind of reptile!

Update: Teaser site open here. The team is entirely comprised of those who were formerly from Rare. We also have this piece of art:

This month’s issue of EDGE contains an interview with Playtonic. The studio’s first game will be a spiritual successor to Banjo Kazooie, and the team seems to have quite a bit of interest in the Wii U.

As stated in the magazine:

“There’s a history of working with Nintendo so we’d naturally love to see our game on a Nintendo platform. If people tell us to make Wii U our target console platform then we’ve got the flexibility to do that.”

Playtonic has funding, but the company would like to team up with a publisher if the two sides were interesting in working together. The plan is to first release this game on Steam Early Access, followed by consoles.

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Videos: A look at the Sonic and Shulk amiibo

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Flipnote Studio 3D is now available for Club Nintendo members

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Club Nintendo has made Flipnote Studio 3D available for members starting today.

Check your To Do List to download!

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Photos of the Shulk amiibo

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Thanks to Tim Fletcher for the tip.

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Video: Fan manages to complete Super Mario World with a score of zero

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Dolphin emulator allows GameCube games to run at 60fps, including Super Mario Sunshine

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Super Mario Sunshine and Pikmin 2 did not run at 60 frames per second back in the day. Thanks to the Dolphin emulator though, this is now possible.

There are some issues – pertaining to audio in particular, which there is a workaround for. The results thus far are certainly impressive.

We’ll also mention that there’s a 120fps hack floating around, but Dolphin Emulation forum member Knuckles500 warns: “There is also a 120fps hack for those with higher frame-rate monitors, but it does begin to break stuff at that point…”

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Nintendo tried to secure the rights to Harry Potter in the late ’90s

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In a new report, Unseen64 claims that Nintendo Software Technology created a pitch in 1998 to obtain exclusive access to the Harry Potter franchise. Had Nintendo been successful, it would have “secured the rights to produce all adaptations of the book series for the indefinite future in video game form; potentially preventing the eventual movie adaptations from being created altogether”.

Unseen64 says – via a former artist at NST – that two groups planned separate pitches. One group would focus on a third-person adventure title, while the other (including Marvel comic book artist Adi Granov) would concentrate its efforts on a game based on Quidditch.