270,197 people attend TGS 2013, record broken
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A total of 270,197 people visited this year’s Tokyo Game Show, smashing last year’s attendance record. 223,753 attendees showed up for the 2012 expo.
The full overview is as follows:
September 19 (Business Day) – 29,171 people
September 20 (Business Day) – 23,183 people
September 21 – 102,399 people
September 22 – 115,444 people
The dates for Tokyo Game Show 2014 have already been set. It’ll be held between September 18 to 21 at the Makuhari Messe.
It’s Nintendo’s 124th birthday today
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Today, Nintendo is celebrating its 124th birthday. The company, established on on September 23, 1889, was quite a bit different back then than it is today.
Initially, Nintendo started out as a hanafuda cards business. Instant rice, love hotels, and taxi services were later added to the mix.
Nintendo began producing video game systems and titles in the 80s. The era brought along the birth of Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and other hit titles.
It’s safe to say that the video game scene wouldn’t be the same without Nintendo. So on that note, happy birthday to the Big N!
Yamauchi memorial attended by over 2,000 people, Nintendo not selling Mariners stake
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A memorial was held for Hiroshi Yamauchi on Saturday, after the former Nintendo president passed away due to complications of pneumonia. Over 2,000 people attended the event, Mariner’s chairman/CEO and Nintendo of America board of directors member Howard Lincoln told The Business Journals.
Lincoln, recalling memories of Yamauchi, only had positive things to say.
“There’s a flood of recollections. I’ve known and worked for him (Yamauchi) for more than 30 years. More than 2,000 people came to his (memorial) in Japan on Saturday, I was told. He was a man of small stature and commanding presence. People liked him. I saw him in action in Japan and the United States, and he was always very warm. He was a visionary. We need to think about and never forget all he did for Seattle and for the Northwest.”
Yamauchi was former owner of the Seattle Marines before Nintendo of America – represented by Lincoln – took over. Despite his passing, the company “has no plans to sell its majority interest” in the team.
Photos of the Zelda Box Set bookmark
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Along with several guides and a signed certificate of authenticity from Eiji Aonuma (plus a special message), Prima’s Zelda Box Set features a unique bookmark. You can get a look at the two-sided laser etched metallic bookmark below:
You can pre-order at any of the following retailers:
Amazon
(has biggest discount)
Barnes & Noble
GameStop
Nintendo Minute: Wii U Zelda bundle unboxed
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Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda shares his thoughts on the passing of Hiroshi Yamauchi
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– Pokémon director Junichi Masuda
Former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauichi passed away yesterday due to complications from pneumonia.
Miyamoto can see Retro developing multiple titles simultaneously, studio “is a very high priority” for new potential Metroid
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Shigeru Miyamoto sounded off on a number of topics in the latest issue of Official Nintendo Magazine, including one of Nintendo’s most important developers: Retro Studios.
Miyamoto first spoke generally about the company, noting that the team is “very capable” and has the ability to “design a lot of different types of games”. He now feels that Retro “has really come to a point at which it’s possible for it to have multiple lines running at the same time and having different projects in development.”
Miyamoto’s comments in full, as transcribed by Nintendo Insider:
La-Mulana 2 announced
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La-Mulana is getting a sequel. Nigoro revealed the news on its blog today, but didn’t share much in the way of details.
The company said:
To tell the truth, this project launched when we began to develop WiiWare version’s LA-MULANA.
Before we set up NIGORO, we originally had an idea that making a game is such a tough work, so we wouldn’t last unless we publish another gameusing same system and replaced data.
LA-MULANA2 was born on that idea, and I would have to say “New scenario on LA-MULANA system”.
This is a sequel to LA-MULANA that we were saying it was impossible.
You might think “Can you make the continuation of that story?” or “Is there few idea for the ruins game?”
So, I said this project had simultaneously started with LA-MULANA four years ago.
We will give away new information little by little. In the meantime, how about finding underplots of LA-MULANA2 that are scattered in LA-MULANA?
Interestingly, there is a playable demo at the Tokyo Game Show which allows players to walk around in a field. After TGS, development will be started “from zero”.
It isn’t clear if La-Mulana 2 will head to Nintendo platforms at this time. But given how the original game hit WiiWare, hopefully the sequel has a chance of coming to the Wii U eShop.
Short Pokemon: The Origin clips
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Don’t expect Pokemon to get too mature or dark
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The Pokemon games have always remained light-hearted. Nintendo has yet to come out with a seriously mature take on the series or a title with a lot of dark elements – and this won’t be changing in the future.
First, here’s what Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda said when asked if the stories could take on a more mature direction:
