Pokemon Company says recent teaser shots “are merely conceptual images”
Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 4 Comments
It sounds like The Pokemon Company is trying to squash any rumors of a new Pokemon fighter, or some kind of new game that people have been speculating about based on a recent image.
An official statement reads:
“There is nothing to announce at this time. These are merely conceptual images.”
It definitely seemed like a new Pokemon title was being teased during the Pokemon Game Show. That, and the Pokken Fighters/Pokken Tournament trademarks, point in that direction. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see how this plays out!
Hideki Kamiya will be at Gamescom 2013
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Hideki Kamiya arrives in Cologne, gearing up for #gamescom and the launch of The #Wonderful101 #gc2013 #TW101 pic.twitter.com/UYmzqXn6Ok
— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) August 20, 2013
Happen to be at Gamescom 2013 this week? Then you may come across The Wonderful 101 director Hideki Kamiya. Kamiya will be at the show this year, and it sounds like he’ll be around for the game’s launch.
The Pokemon Company trademarks “Pokken Fighters” and “Pokken Tournament” in the US
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Remember that strange Pokemon screenshot that popped up a few days ago? You know, the one that looked kind of like a fighter?
Well, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company may indeed be planning a fighter of sorts for the franchise. Siliconera detected trademarks for “Pokken Fighters” and “Pokken Tournament” in the US. One of those two could be alluding to the name of a potential Pokemon fighter title.
Take a trip down memory lane with these EarthBound 64 screenshots
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With a 2000 EarthBound 64 cancellation interview having just been published, there’s no better time to look back at some of the game’s screenshots. Images are still up on one of Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun’s old pages, and you can find the full set above.
Video: “Ubisoft Quebec’s Behind Closed Doors” – episode 7
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Watch Conan O’Brien attempt to play Splinter Cell: Blacklist
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Kamiya not making a big deal out of The Wonderful 101’s reviews
Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U | 7 Comments
The Wonderful 101 reviews have started to hit the net. And of course, fans are bugging director Hideki Kamiya about some of the scores the game has received over the past day or so.
Kamiya, however, isn’t big on review scores. He doesn’t care what The Wonderful 101’s Metacritic average is. He doesn’t care if one site gave the game a so-so score. Instead of relying on scores, Kamiya thinks you should rely on your own intuition and thoughts about the game (that demo sure comes in handy!).
You can find Kamiya’s tweets below (warning: one expletive).
Itoi, Iwata, Miyamoto discuss EarthBound 64’s cancellation in 2000 interview – now translated
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EarthBound 64 never saw the light of day in light of a tumultuous and lengthy development cycle. The project was ultimately canned in 2000 – and on the same day, Nintendo published an interview with Shigesato Itoi, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Satoru Iwata covering the cancellation.
You can find the full thing here. It’s a long read, but certainly worth checking out.
We did want to highlight one bit from Iwata that is making the rounds. He actually put a good amount of the blame on himself, stating:
That one was clearly my fault. A long time ago I once said, “Never say a programmer CAN’T do something.” Those words sort of take on a life of their own—dropping the word “can’t” can close the doors of possibility. Generally speaking, everything will work out eventually if you put in the effort and push onwards, but everything still operates within certain limitations. So if something is honestly impossible to do, you need to accept that. Oftentimes the case is that something is possible, but sacrifices will need to be made. Or that something is possible, but it cannot exist alongside some other thing. So that’s what I meant when I said “Don’t say you CAN’T be a programmer,” but “don’t say you CAN’T” is the only part that took off.
There was a time when the early designs for MOTHER 3 were really reckless. We were working with specifications that surpassed the system capabilities and memory capacity. We starting working on the game with the premise that we’d create something that’s never been done before.
Yakuza Restoration is the next Yakuza game
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SEGA hasn’t announced the next core entry in the Yakuza series, but the company has pulled back the curtain on a brand new game.
“Yakuza Restoration”, otherwise known as Yakuza Ishin, features a character named Ryoma Sakamoto. And that’s all we know at the moment! Details will be revealed in the upcoming issue of Famitsu.
If you don’t see any updates by Wednesday, that means Yakuza Restoration isn’t coming to Wii U. Any details will be posted on our sister site regardless.
Pokemon franchise sales at 172,000,000 units since Red/Blue
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Just how successful has the Pokemon franchise been? Since Pokemon Red/Blue’s release in 1996, 172,000,000 units have been sold around the world, according to the Pokemon Company. Quite an impressive figure!
