Shigeru Miyamoto appearing at Japan Expo next week
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 3 Comments
Shigeru Miyamoto is confirmed to be appearing at the 2014 Japan Expo next week in Paris.
Miyamoto will be attending the event on Friday, July 4. Those who show up that day will be treated to “an exceptional masterclass, from 2.45 pm to 4.15 pm on the video game stage.”
Full details are below:
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Nintendo Minute – Mario Strikers Charged
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Graph shows the growth of Intelligent Systems’ employee count over the years
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Intelligent Systems’ staff count has been on the rise over the years. As a prominent Nintendo developer, that certainly makes sense.
81 employees were working at Intelligent Systems in 2003. That number increased steadily over the years, rising to 130 as of 2013.
Siliconera put together a graph showing the rise in Intelligent Systems’ employee count since 2003. You can find it above.
Latest Miiverse update – “Yeah” changes, embed posts, web User Page update
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 4 Comments
Another update was applied to Miiverse today, which brings about a few changes/additions.
First, the amount of Yeahs have been reduced in the activity feed. You’ll also now see the full post for each Yeah as opposed to just a few words. Also for “Yeahs”, you can prevent them from appearing in the activity feed by applying an option in the Miiverse Settings.
Miiverse now allows users to embed posts as well. Click on “Embed this post” on the web version of Miiverse, and you’ll then be presented with HTML code to add it to a web page.
Last but not least, the web version’s User Page has been updated so that it matches the Wii U and 3DS versions, and includes your favorite handwritten post.
You can find the official update notes from Miiverse’s Marty below.
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Senran Kagura producer on why Marvelous isn’t investing in as many new IPs
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These days, it may not seem like Marvelous is investing in as many new IPs as it did just a few years ago. Whereas titles such as No More Heroes, Little King’s Story, and even Senran Kagura came out of the company in recent years, Marvelous now doesn’t appear to be taking as many risks.
Senran Kagura producer Kenichiro Takaki told Siliconera that producers at the company “get a lot of freedom” to make the games they desire. Back in the day, Marvelous was creating new IPs to find a hit title, which just so happened with Senran Kagura. Now that attention has been given to the series, Takaki is “thinking of new ideas and I would like to try some of those out.”
“It’s not that orders are coming down from above that we have to make franchise titles. I feel that the producers get a lot of freedom to do what they want to inside Marvelous. When we were experimenting with a lot of little titles, the goal was always to find that IP that hit and can be developed into a series. That happened with Senran Kagura, which is why I’ve been focused on that now. I am thinking of new ideas and I would like to try some of those out.”
“The Kagura series really comes from me trying to make a worldwide hit in the past. I wasn’t able to find success that way, so I decided to focus on what I know by a Japanese person for Japanese people. That was the starting concept for Senran Kagura. I don’t want to lose sight of that, but I do want to listen to feedback from Western users. It’s kind of a difficult situation, things like gameplay systems or how the game plays would be easier to adjust.”
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Nyannyan Neko Mario Time episode 14
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Video: Zelda: A Link Between Worlds stop motion 3D chalk art
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Tecmo Koei becoming Koei Tecmo in Europe
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Tecmo Koei is changing its name ever-so-slightly in Europe. Starting on July 1, the company will be known as “Koei Tecmo”.
From July 1st, our company name will be changed from TECMO KOEI EUROPE to KOEI TECMO EUROPE. This means #TKfamily will become #KTfamily.
— TECMO KOEI EUROPE (@tecmokoeieurope) June 24, 2014
It’s unclear if Tecmo Koei will be making the same name change in the US. If that is the case, we’ll update this post.
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Iwata had surgery last week to remove bile duct growth, came through well
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Prior to this year’s E3, we learned that Satoru Iwata would not be attending the expo due to health reasons. Now we know just what happened exactly.
Iwata explained in an official message today that he suffered from a bile duct growth. Fortunately, it was detected very early and was surgically removed last week.
Iwata is now recovering, though it’ll be a little whole longer before he returns to work. He will not be attending the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders this week.
You can find Iwata’s full message below.
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Marvelous on Story of Seasons’ name, series will continue, more
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At E3 2014, GameSpot and NintendoWorldReport spoke with Yoshifumi Hashimoto, head of development over at Marvelous AQL, to discuss Story of Seasons. Hashimoto spoke about the game’s name, the separation between the title and Harvest Moon and plans to continue the series, same-sex relationships, and more.
You can find excerpts from the interview below. Head on over to this link for the full thing.
