New downloadable rewards now available on Club Nintendo
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This month’s digital rewards on Club Nintendo have gone live. Members can choose from Bird & Beans (3DS, 100 coins), Metal Torrent (3DS, 150 coins), Paper Mario (Wii, 200 coins), and Kirby Super Star (Wii, 150 coins). These rewards will last until March 10.
Visit this page to order a downloadable game.
Japan to get Fire Emblem: Awakening, Animal Crossing: New Leaf figurines
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Photos snapped at the Wonder Festival in Japan this weekend show a new 1/8-scale figure of Fire Emblem: Awakening’s Tharja. Max Factory, the company producing the product, has also announced a Marth figure. Shizue from Animal Crossing: New Leaf will be turned into a figure as well.
GungHo on Grasshopper acquisition, Suda51 explains the move
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GungHo Online Entertainment recently announced that it has acquired the Suda51-led studio Grasshopper Manufacturer.
The move was a bit surprising. Grasshopper had always acted independently even though it did team up with companies in the past, and GungHo is more mobile-focused.
On the bright side, GungHo president Kazuki Morishita assured fans in an interview with 4Gamer that Grasshopper will “continue to make games in the manner they are accustomed to.”
“I’d like Suda-san to remain focused on Grasshopper rather than GungHo as a whole. Of course now I’ll be involved in Grasshopper’s creative output, but since Suda-san is there, in a lot of ways it actually equates to a taking load off my own work. Basically, I’d like Grasshopper Manufacture to continue to make games in the manner they are accustomed to.”
New Zelda concept has shot at LEGO set
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Remember that Zelda LEGO set idea that was never approved? Its denial was a bit of a sting, but the legendary video game franchise now has a second chance of getting the brick treatment.
“Ragaru” has come up with his own Zelda LEGO concept that seems to avoid the pitfalls in preventing the first idea’s approval. A total of 10,000 fans have pledged their support for the project, and it’s currently in the hands of the LEGO CUUSOO team.
Have a look at some concept art of the LEGO set in the gallery above. Here’s hoping it heads past the approval process!
Square Enix picks up Legacy of Kain-related domain
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CSC Corporate Domains is a domain registrar. Square Enix uses the company in acquiring new domain names. Interestingly, CSC registered a new Legacy of Kain-related site for the publisher on Thursday.
Square Enix now has WarForNosgoth.com in its possession. For those who are unaware, Land of Nosgoth is the main area where the Legacy of Kain series is set.
The Legacy of Kain series has been dormant for nearly a decade. Might we be seeing a revival in the future?
Strike Suit Zero considered only briefly for Wii U
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It’s impossible to deny that the Wii U has received a healthy dose of indie support thus far. The future looks bright with more developers pledging support for the system.
One title that won’t be coming to the eShop is Strike Suit Zero. While the team considered a Wii U version, there were only discussions for a brief time.
Born Ready Games community manager Ben Smith told Writer Trigger:
“There were brief discussions about how a Wii U version might work, but they never got further than the ideas station.”
Darksiders lead designer pretty much confirms series’ end
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Sadly, Darksiders is pretty much dead. The IP was one of the few assets that THQ was unable to successfully sell off.
Crytek did pick up a good majority of Vigil staffers – responsible for the Darksiders games – but left the series behind.
Rovio creative director Patrick Liu tweeted earlier this week: “No more Darksiders! 🙁 Whyyyyy Crytek…”. Responding to this, Darksiders’ lead designer Haydn Dalton wrote:
“Tis true Pat…sometimes good things come to an end. That’s why you’ve gotta enjoy them while you can.”
And thus Dalton confirms what we all expected at this point: Darksiders is gone.
Monolith Soft Kyoto on working together as a team, Nintendo’s relationship
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This isn’t Iwata Asks – it’s more like Monolith Soft asks!
Monolith Soft Kyoto, the studio behind titles such as Baten Kaitos, conducted an internal interview. Topics such as working together as a team were covered in the discussion. Nintendo’s influence came up in the talk as well.
A quick summary of the interview is posted below.
– Since working alongside Nintendo, Monolith Soft has realized just how important it is for a team to work closely together
– There has been a great increase in meetings between Nintendo and Monolith over the past year
– Nintendo has been actively consulting on the studio’s work and providing feedback with tweaks and ideas on how to make things better
– Monolith Soft is amazed by Nintendo’s ability to work and think together as a team
– Monolith thinks this is a major asset in producing quality products
– From a developer’s standpoint, seeing how Nintendo communicate and their companionship as the foundation of their hard work, has inspired Monolith Soft to do the same with their studio
– Monolith designer Shoko Fukuchi mentions making people feel included by—for example—asking programmers, who aren’t often in talks with designers, for ideas
– Some of the staff had been worried about moving to Kyoto, but these concerns have since dissipated
– Having taken a page from Nintendo’s book, Monolith Soft have been livelier than ever
– Monolith Soft has been working closer together as co-workers and as a family with the common goal of developing great games
Dark Horse pleased with Zelda: Hyrule Historia’s success thus far
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The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia is now out in the wild
. Thus far, the art book has performed excellently for Dark Horse Publishing.
A total of 400,000 copies have been printed up to this point. Hyrule Historia has also nabbed the top spot on the Wall Street Journal and New York Times Bestseller list.
Dark Horse believes things are just getting started for Hyrule Historia and will continue to print copies of the book in order to keep up with demand.
“We believe the buzz on The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia is just beginning and will be reprinting as many as needed to keep up with demand.”
Obsidian says they’re pitching a new Star Wars RPG to Disney
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Creator of the critically acclaimed sequel to the critically acclaimed Bioware RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Obsidian are saying that they’re attempting to pitch a new RPG based on the sci-fi series to Disney, possibly based on the events between Episode III and Episode IV. No word on exactly what the final product might end up being, but they’re hoping for the best!
[The Lucas/Disney situation] changes things a lot, but you know, we’re gonna push on it. We really worked on it hard and distilled it down to these eight or ten pages that really sold the story and characters. Then we sold it off to LucasArts and got a call back later that day. They were like, ‘This seems really cool. We want to talk to you guys, like, tomorrow about it’.
“We haven’t [talked with Disney yet]. We’re kind of waiting for the smoke to clear. But that’s one of my next big things to do. To kind of go over there and [get the ball rolling again].”
– Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart
I could definitely use a high quality single player Star Wars RPG sometime in the future! The Old Republic seemed good, but since it didn’t come to consoles I didn’t have the chance to try it out– if this new one happens to hit next-gen devices it would be a big incentive for folks to go out and get one!
