Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 17 Comments

How about that! Reggie Fils-Aime is celebrating his birthday today. The Nintendo of America president turned 55 years old today. We send warm wishes to Nintendo of America’s big executive!

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Zero Time Dilemma is a violent experience, especially when compared to its predecessor. Producer Kotaro Uchikoshi spoke about this aspect of the game with Siliconera.

Uchikoshi stated that the team was “holding back” with Virtue’s Last Reward. Given the importance of this entry though – the finality of it all – Spike Chunsoft decided to go all out.

He explained:

“I spoke with the producer, Iizuka-san, and since this is the third and final entry in the series we should do all of the things that we’ve always wanted too. We were holding back before, but this is a chance to do everything. Since the game revolves around making absolute decisions life and death hangs in the balance. If we were to pull our punches, it would take away a lot of the narrative impact. By making the violence more extreme it makes the choices hit home.”

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7th Dragon III Code: VFD was previously announced for a summer release in North America. Earlier this week, SEGA revealed a final date on Twitter. You’ll be able to get your hands on 7th Dragon III Code: VFD starting July 12.

Here’s the relevant tweet from SEGA:

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Review copies of Star Fox Zero and Star Fox Guard are starting to make their way out to reviewers. The disc art for both games can be found above.

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Nintendo has the upcoming Kirby series amiibo on display at WonderCon this weekend. Paul Fierce took some photos of the figures, which you can find below. The shots show Kirby, Meta Knight, Kind Dedede and Waddle Dee.

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Nintendo has gone live with the official North American Bravely Second commercial. You can watch it below.

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For the most part, the team behind LEGO Dimensions managed to include the games they wanted to in the new Midway Arcade pack. There were a couple that were scrapped though. Mortal Kombat and APB both did not make it into the final product.

Mark Warburton, associate producer of LEGO Dimensions, explained to Polygon that Mortal Kombat didn’t make it in given the main demographic the game is targeted at. In the end, it just wasn’t the best fit.

Warburton said:

“There was an age consideration. We had to take into account the typical age of our players and what sort of content we usually have. Some of the more mature games we decided we didn’t think was the right fit for the game.”

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PixlCross is coming to the North American Wii U eShop next week. It’s planned for PAL regions as well, but it’ll be another couple of months before it arrives. Developer Nick DiMola told 4colorrebellion that it’s targeted for mid-May in Europe and Australia.

DiMola also commented on the possibility of a 3DS port. Here’s what he said on that front:

“So the sticky situation with this is that we’ve built PixlCross on top of the Nintendo Web Framework. Unfortunately, that makes porting it to other console platforms a bit tough. Natively, the game runs in a browser, so it’s easy to port to PC/Mac/Linux. If we start talking about the 3DS, it means rewriting the game in native code, which is not something that’s currently within my capabilities.

The New 3DS would be a more likely target for us, but it still means a total rewrite in Unity. Unity would also give us the flexibility to bring the game to other platforms like the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. All of that’s a longwinded way of saying, we’re thinking about it. If we do pretty decently on the Wii U, it’ll make the rewrite in Unity seem much more appealing!”

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17 minutes of footage is in for Shantae: Risky’s Revenge Director’s Cut. Check out the gameplay below.

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HORI is readying another Wii U GamePad protector. Amazon has a listing up for a retro-styled Zelda design, which is pictured above. The page says that Wii U owners can protect the front and back of the GamePad with the plastic protector featuring 8-bit artwork from the NES game.

This Wii U accessory is set to go on sale on April 21. You can find the Amazon listing here.

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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