Starlight Fun Centers in hospitals now feature Wii U units
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 10 Comments
Before this year, Starlight Fun Centers in hospitals across North America and other areas included Wii units. Sometime in around April, they were swapped out with Wii U consoles.
The Starlight Fun Center has the Wii U (with related controllers) and a flat panel screen. 25 games are pre-installed, including Mario Kart 8 and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
UCraft screenshots
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Screenshots, Wii U eShop | 13 Comments
Nexis Games passed along a new batch of screenshots from UCraft. We’ve rounded them up in the gallery below.
More: indie, Nexis Games, UCraft
Candle gameplay video
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment
Teku Studios recently prepared a video showing lengthy gameplay from its upcoming title Candle. You can watch it below.
More: Candle, indie, Teku Studios
NDCube working on Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 30 Comments
A classification from Australia reveals that NDCube is developing Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival. In the past, NDCube has worked on the Mario Party and Wii Party games.
Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival is set to arrive this holiday. It will be a free download from the eShop, but a retail version will also be made available which comes with a game disc, two figures, and three amiibo cards.
Nintendo shop maintenance set for Tuesday
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, DSiWare, News, Wii Shop Channel, Wii U eShop | 0 comments
Update: Bumped to the top. The maintenance period has changed, as things have been bumped up two hours earlier. Here are the new times:
– 11 AM PT – 3 PM PT
– 2 PM ET – 6 PM ET
– 7 PM in the UK – 11 PM in the UK
– 8 PM in Europe – 12 AM in Europe
All of Nintendo’s shops will be experiencing online maintenance next week. The Wii U and 3DS eShops, Wii Shopping Channel, and DSi Shop will all be down while this is taking place.
Here’s the relevant times for the maintenance:
More: maintenance
Kirby: Canvas Curse rated in Australia for upcoming Wii U Virtual Console release
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment
Kirby: Canvas Curse (Kirby: Power Paintbrush in Europe) has been rated in Australia. You know what that means – a Wii U Virtual Console release should be happening in the future. We don’t have a date of course, but hopefully the DS game will be heading to the eShop soon.
Kid with life-threatening condition has dream come true by visiting NoA HQ, meeting Reggie
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 8 Comments
Shea Sparling is a 10-year-old boy with polyarteritis nodosa, a life-threatening condition. Thanks to the charitable organization Dream Factory, Shea’s wish was recently realized.
Shea took a trip to Nintendo of America’s headquarters, and also met company president Reggie Fils-Aime. The two even played a round of Mario Kart together.
Shea’s mother spoke very positively about the experience, saying:
“We had so much fun. They had signs welcoming us and we went on a tour of the building. We met with Reggie and the kids even played a game of Mario Kart with him. He was so gracious and relaxed and spent time chatting with Shea, answering his questions.”
More: Reggie Fils-Aime
Mario Golf (N64) Wii U Virtual Console footage
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 0 comments
Mario Golf for the N64 made its way to the Wii U Virtual Console on Thursday. Take a look at some footage from the game below.
More: Mario Golf, Virtual Console
Animal Gods trailer #3
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment
A third trailer for Animal Gods recently came online. View the video for the upcoming indie Wii U game below.
More: Animal Gods, indie, Still Games
Elliot Quest version 1.2.6 coming soon
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments
Another update is coming soon to Elliot Quest. Version 1.2.6 could be out next week, so long as Nintendo approves it.
This new Elliot Quest update will address more bugs. Additionally, it will unlock some Miiverse stamps based on save data.
PlayEveryWare posted the following news on Miiverse:
In a separate post, the company added the following:
I also want to thank all of Miiverse community for being patient and understanding, while sharing with us the issues that are surely frustrating you.
What happened was that we made a whole bunch of performance optimizations alongside our Miiverse Journal feature update. Unfortunately one of the optimizations had some unintended, but serious consequences. We also wanted to address the feedback we were getting about players wanting to have Stamps unlocked based on their save data. Along with fixing bugs that were my fault, I really want to be sure we are adding in features that you the community find important!
We really hope this will be the final update for Elliot Quest on Wii U, but of course we will continue to support the game by watching Miiverse and elsewhere to see if players find any further issues or have any additional feature requests for the game!
