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Hideki Kamiya likes to have a bit of fun with the fans who ping him on Twitter… especially when it comes to trolling. Ask him when we’ll see news on one of Platinum’s titles, and you’ll get a response that is something along the lines of “Next week… in gaming magazines”.

Sometimes though, fans can be rather persistent – particularly when it comes to Bayonetta 2 coming to additional platforms alongside Wii U. And so Kamiya took to Twitter and reminded gamers once again that Nintendo is funding and publishing the new Bayonetta as well as The Wonderful 101. Those two projects would not be possible without the Big N. A release of Bayonetta 2 on other consoles would only be possible if Nintendo were to publish the game.

Platinum Games’ JP Kellams seemed to take over Kamiya’s Twitter account for a brief moment to add on with this humorous comment:

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What would Monster Hunter look like if Capcom brought the series to the Game Boy or Game Boy Color? British artist Gary Lucken may have the answer. Lucken created a series of images showing the potential of Monster Hunter on Nintendo’s older portables. Take a look below:

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At E3 2013 last week, Austin caught up with Platinum Games’ Hideki Kamiya for a brief chat. Kamiya shared an interesting nugget about the Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2 development teams.

According to Kamiya, because The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2 groups work in the same space, there’s often some (lighthearted) rivalry between the two. He can look over his desk and see what is going on with Bayonetta and feel as though he needs to one-up their intense action scenes, so in an indirect way, the games may bleed over into one another slightly.

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Austin, Laura, and Jack created this incredibly random yet amazing video for E3 2013. The gang asked a bunch of people to say lines from George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” song and put the whole thing together. You’ll see appearances from folks like Charles Martinet (the voice of Mario!), Jessica Nigri, and other random people!

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This year’s E3 was jam-packed with games. Games for next-gen consoles. Games for a variety of different genres. Indie games.

But for Shigeru Miyamoto, what he saw at the show didn’t seem to overly impress.

When asked about his E3 impressions and titles coming from Sony and Microsoft, Miyamoto said “there does not seem to be any games that I would like to have created myself.”

He stated:

“Of course, I would like to know what they do with their machines, but there is no game that I feel the need to go see. So far, from what I’ve seen on the show this year, there does not seem to be any games that I would like to have created myself.”

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Satoru Iwata isn’t worrying about the competition, even with new next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft on the way. He put it succinctly to CNN in a new interview: “We just don’t care too much about what other companies are doing or are trying to do.”

Iwata said that Nintendo is busy thinking about creating new ideas that can’t be recreated on other hardware. Nintendo also wants to put emphasis on experiences that can only be experienced on Nintendo platforms.

“We just don’t care too much about what other companies are doing or are trying to do. Our primary focus is to think about and actually carry out something which other company’s hardware can never realize. We are trying to provide consumers gaming experiences that can only be available on Nintendo platforms. Software sells hardware. The number of hardware selling and the number of people who can experience the unique attractions of the Wii U are going to increase, and thereby the knowledge and the understanding about the Wii U system shall naturally expand.”

Nintendo and the Wii U will certainly have a heck of a lot of competition this holiday. Sony will launch the PlayStation 4 while Microsoft will put out the Xbox One.

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Level-5 published a new teaser site today. But whereas you may be expecting it to be Japanese-related, the page actually comes from the company’s North American branch. That likely means some kind of localization announcement is on the way.

The website currently houses a door. Click it, and you’ll be shown that another door hidden inside. Click several more times and you should see a magnifying glass appear. If you click once more on the doorknob, you’ll come across the image above.

I’m inclined to think that Level-5 is teasing Layton Brothers: Mystery Room – an iOS game – but we won’t know for sure until an official announcement is made.

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Nearly 50,000 people with video game-ties showed up at E3 2013 this past week. The ESA has announced that 48,200 video game industry professionals, investor analysts, journalists, and retailers from 102 countries were at the expo.

28,000 total hotel room nights were generated from E3 visits and Los Angeles profited from close to $40 million in revenue. Roughly 230 exhibitors displayed content.

Not a bad E3 for the ESA!

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Numbered Shin Megami Tensei games have never featured female leads. Could Atlus be open to making a change in the future?

Shin Megami Tensei IV character designer Masayuki Doi is personally a fan of highlighting a female lead in a mainline Shin Megami Tensei title. Doi did explain, however, that some longtime players could be opposed to that kind of move.

“I like female protagonists. It would be cool to have a female protagonist in the next SMT game.”

“However, there are traditionalists that see the series from the past to present and all of the protagonists have been male. To keep that tradition, there is feedback I’ve been hearing saying that if there is a new SMT title we should keep the tradition of having a male lead.”

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