General Nintendo

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Shigeru Miyamoto recently made a media tour in North America. The press were given an opportunity to chat with the creator of Mario, Zelda, and countless other IPs.

One such interview from GameSpot covers areas such as Pikmin 3’s delay, the possibility of remaking more games for Wii U (like Wind Waker), what it’s like working with overseas developers such as Next Level Games,
the challenges with Wii U’s messaging, and more.

We’ve posted the full Q&A after the break.

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In the sports field, EA is known for IPs such as Madden and FIFA. Going forward, however, the publisher could take on additional franchises.

EA chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen was asked about the company’s upcoming releases at the Wedbush Technology Conference today. In response, Jorgensen said:

“For us, the big opportunities continue to be the FIFA franchise, the Battlefield franchise and then the core sports [franchises] of Madden [NFL], NCAA [Football], NHL, adding NBA [Live] and possibly a couple of new sports franchises along that way. Clearly, that’s a big strength of the company and we want to continue that.”

Could EA take on the UFC series? Last year, the company confirmed that it had entered with UFC a “multi-year, multi-product partnership.”

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Speaking with NowGamer, TT Fusion’s lead developer for the upcoming LEGO City: Undercover has said that the studio isn’t looking at making an NFC-based, figurine-attached game using LEGO figures anytime soon, despite the facts that such an idea would clearly be ridiculously popular, and the Wii U Gamepad already has NFC technology built into it.

Perhaps the studio simply wants to release their new game first, see what kind of press it gets, and then think about doing something new and interesting like that. Something tells me they’ll be more interesting in simply making another open-world LEGO City game though.

Via NowGamer

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Retirement is a topic that often comes up during interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto these days. One day, Miyamoto is going to have to step away from Nintendo.

That day hasn’t arrived just yet. While Miyamoto is prepping Nintendo for the day that he does retire, the “volume” of his work hasn’t changed one bit.

Below are Miyamoto’s thoughts about retirement in full:

“This year I’m past 60; I’m going to be turning 61 this year. So for me to not be thinking about retirement would be strange. But in fact, the number of projects I’m involved in–and the volume of my work–hasn’t changed at all.”

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There are a few, notable Nintendo deals running on Amazon at the moment. A roundup of sales can be found below.

• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle – $13.49 (only a few left, other sellers offering the game at similar prices)
• Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (Wii) – $16.99
• The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia – $19.24
• Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition – $35.24

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A rating for the classic Game Gear title, Tails Adventure, has popped up on the OFLC. The entry could be hinting at a re-release. One possibility: a new version for the 3DS Virtual Console.

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Renegade Kid will be bringing three games to PAX East later this month: ATV Wild Ride 3D, Mutant Mudds Deluxe, and a new shooter for the 3DS. The latter two titles will be making their playable debuts.

Notice that Treasurenauts isn’t included in Renegade Kid’s PAX lineup. According to Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham, the studio will have news about the project after the expo. Watsham said that the game is “not too far away”.

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Ubisoft France boss Xavier Poix answered a whole bunch of questions in a new IGN interview. Topics include Ubisoft’s strategy when it comes to Rayman, Wii U NFC, and Beyond Good & Evil 2.

We’ve rounded up Poix’s comments below.

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The App Store is ripe with Nintendo rip-offs. Here’s a look at a new one, which takes “inspiration” from Donkey Kong:

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The Assassin’s Creed franchise has featured a female lead before, but not when it comes to the mainline series. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag will be maintaining the tradition with Edward Kenway as the game’s star.

Ashraf Ismail, Black Flag’s creative director, was recently asked about the decision to highlight men in the Assassin’s Creed series thus far:

“It’s a bit of a tough question. Really early on, we decided to tell the story of the Kenways. So we already had in place the idea to tell Edward, Haytham, and Connor. This was actually years ago, we had this. …we actually never thought, ‘could this be a woman?’ …from the pirate perspective, there were a few famous women pirates. But it wasn’t common. So we didn’t want that element to be a detail people got stuck on.”

Regarding the possibility of releasing a mainline Assassin’s Creed with a female protagonist, Ismail said:

“I would say it wouldn’t be surprising to see a female assassin coming up in a mainline Assassin’s Creed. But for us, for AC4, it was always Edward.”

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