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Posted on 14 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 5 Comments

There’s been a lot of buzz surrounding Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono over the past few days. He made a proposal to Keiji Inafune, and hyped up a new project by saying that Super Street Fighter IV “is nothing compared to what’s coming.” Now Ono has indicated on his Twitter account that his new title will be announced at Comic-Con.

“You’re in for a treat. I can’t say announcement at EVO. Maybe, I’ll be able to speak new thing at Comic-Con !! Don’t miss it on next Saturday !! I finally hope to reveal a bit about what I’ve been relentlessly working on lately..”

Ono also said that he has prepared a trailer for Comic-Con, but he didn’t specify if it’s for the new game announcement.

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**ROCK BAND MEDIA ALERT** THE VINES AND SWEET BILLY PILGRIM DEBUT NEXT WEEK ON ROCK BAND
Guildford, UK. – 9th July, 2010 – Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that Australian alternative rockers The Vines, as well as English pop rockers Sweet Billy Pilgrim, will both make their Rock Band debut next week in the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and WiiTM.

With more than 400 artists, including Jimi Hendrix, The Who, AC/DC and Green Day, who are exclusive to Rock Band, as well as more than 1,500 songs available through the Rock Band platform and 70 million songs sold through its download store alone, Rock Band is the undisputed sales and content leader in the interactive music space, providing the deepest and best selection of artists, songs and albums.

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DSi LL – 93,734
PSP – 89,436
Wii – 77,566
PS3 – 73,380
DSi – 53,911
Xbox 360 – 25,913
DS Lite – 15,285
PS2 – 5,705
PSP go – 3,426

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Pokemon have been revealed left and right over the past few days, and it doesn’t look like that’ll be stopping anytime soon. As what has become a tradition on Pokemon Sunday, the show teased a new creature by only showing its silhouette. More news is expected on next week’s show.

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I originally held back on posting this when the Japanese version of this Iwata Asks edition went live. Now that the text and video are in English, I think you’ll get a better idea of what this neat little Super Mario Bros. secret is all about. Well, I suppose it’s not really a secret, but it’s still very interesting!

Mahito Yokota: That’s right. I didn’t even realize it until it was pointed out to me. There are a lot of things I’m careful about when I create tunes for Mario games, too, but I couldn’t express those in words, either.

Still, when I tried analyzing my own music the other day, I realized that the World 1-1 background music melody in Super Mario Bros. might have been timed to Mario’s walk.

Satoru Iwata: I see, in other words, the melody is written to be in time with Mario’s steps.

Koji Kondo: I didn’t write the tune with that in mind. At first, when he starts walking, it goes “Da dum dum dum dah”, then when he finds the Goomba and backtracks so he can time his jump, then starts forward again, the music goes “Dum da da, Dum da da”, and finally when he starts walking, jumps and stomps, it goes “Da dum dum dum dah, da da dah!”, like that. The melody really matches Mario’s movements well that way.

When I actually wrote it, I wasn’t thinking anything of the sort. I think maybe I had that image inside me, though, latent, and that’s why the music turned out the way it did. Maybe that’s far-fetched, I don’t know (laughs).

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Minezumi

Unnamed Pokemon

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Of course, this video is poking fun at the flash game Super Mario Crossover. It provides players with the opportunity to play through Super Mario Bros. as numerous characters such as Link, Samus, and Mega Man. Support for Ninja Gaiden’s Ryu Hayabusa is also on the way.

Thanks to Smeagle for the tip!

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Tranformers War for Cybertron: 8.5 (SO: 8.75)
Toy Story 3: 8 (SO:  8)
Singularity: 8.5
NCAA Football 11: 9 (SO: 8.75) (co-GOTM)
Lego Harry Potter: 7.25
Limbo: 9 (co-GOTM)
Crackdown 2: 7.25 (SO: 7)
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker: 8
Dragon Quest IX: 8

Also worth noting, Game Informer rated/reviewed the E3 press conferences:

Nintendo: A-
Sony: B+
Microsoft: C+

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It looks like Nintendo will be doing these Iwata Asks interviews in video form from now on. At least that’s what it seems! It started with E3, and now a set of Dragon Quest IX interviews have been released. You can check them out below.

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