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As previously mentioned, Koei Tecmo considered including a female Link character in Hyrule Warriors known as “Linkle”. This scrapped character was shown for the first time in the game’s Japanese art book.

It now sounds like Koei Tecmo is having – at least partially – second thoughts about not including Linkle in Hyrule Warriors. The company posted the following on the title’s Twitter account earlier today:

“Linkle (tentative name) was a rejected story character featured in the art book, but it looks like she got a quite lot of attention… maybe we should have included her in the main story…”

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Temple of Yog in development for the Wii U eShop

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Indie developer CHUDCHUD Industries has announced “Temple of Yog”, a new game that “explores the hubris of civilization and the myth of progress using roguelike conventions and unique gameplay elements achievable only on the Wii U console.”

Below is a comprehensive overview of the game:

The player sends Tributes into the Temple to their inevitable demise. The roguelike staple of permadeath has meaning in this context. The player selects a Tribute of random class and stats that will always ascend to the Temple Zenith and return a lifeless body. Where this game breaks permadeath tradition is in the Village’s progress based on that Tribute’s death. As more sacrifices are made, more advancements to the Village occur, transforming it from a primitive backwater town to a futuristic acropolis.
The Temple is a human meat-grinder of progress and this game explores what it means to be complicit in that process.
TEMPLE OF YOG also employs the roguelike standard of procedural content generation and applies it to an experience possible only on the unique hardware of the Wii U console. The Temple interior shifts and changes from floor to floor. Strange geometries transport Tributes to impossible realms. The player is immersed in two worlds, one of Light on the TV, and one of Shadow on the GamePad. Tributes swap between these worlds where rooms, puzzles, and creatures manifest themselves differently: a butterfly in Light might be a hellbeast in Shadow, a wall in Light might be a door in Shadow. The player will have to use this unique gameplay to overcome challenges to offer up a worthy sacrifice.
The interplay between TV and GamePad and the procedural generation of those worlds highlight the uniqueness of the Wii U and what is possible with a second-screen gaming experience.

Temple of Yog is targeted for release in November. Screenshots can be found above.

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Final Fantasy Explorers – final stream gameplay

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 2 Comments

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Aonuma wants to take fan reaction into account while developing Zelda Wii U

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 31 Comments

Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma made some comments during interviews at E3 which initially suggested that the character featured in the new game for Wii U could be female. Eventually though, his remarks were clarified.

Aonuma spoke about the situation with EDGE this month and told the magazine, “this reaction from the fans is something I would like to take into consideration as we proceed with development”. He was quick to clarify, however: “that doesn’t mean that we are going to change the main character to a girl.”

Check out Aonuma’s full comments below:

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Another 20 minutes of Final Fantasy Explorers footage

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments

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Nintendo Download (8/28/14, North America)

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This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Download

SteamWorld Dig
The Fall

Wii U Virtual Console

Mega Man X3
Donkey Kong Jr. Math

3DS Retail

Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (available Friday)

3DS Download

Azure Striker Gunvolt (available Friday)
Thorium Wars: Attack of the Skyfighter
Outback Pet Rescue 3D

eShop Sales

Select Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games from Capcom are now up to 60 percent off in the Nintendo eShop. This offer is valid until 8:59 a.m. PT on Sept. 4.
Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo is 50 percent off (reduced from $7.99 to $3.95) from 9 a.m. PT on Sept. 3 through 8:59 a.m. PT on Sept. 24 in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS.
Soccer Up 3D is 71 percent off (reduced from $6.99 to $1.99) until 9 a.m. PT on Sept. 17 in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS.

Price Reduction

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist is being reduced to $19.99 (from $39.99) starting Sept. 1 on Wii U.

Coming Soon

Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight – Sept. 1 (Virtual Console on Wii U)
Nobunaga’s Ambition – Sept. 4 (Virtual Console on Wii U)

Source: Nintendo PR

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Nintendo has more “Garage” games in development like Splatoon

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 8 Comments

Nintendo is working on more “Garage” games similar in nature to Splatoon, Shigeru Miyamoto revealed in the latest issue of EDGE. Project Guard and Project Giant Robot also fall under the same category.

As reported by EDGE:

Splatoon and the three prototypes are the first games to emerge from Garage, a new Nintendo development programme set up last year in which developers break off into small teams and work on new ideas. “There are increasing numbers of young staff at Nintendo’s development studios these days,” Miyamoto says, “and these young guys really want to express themselves.” Work is done during office hours, but he compares Garage to an after-school club, in spirit if not in schedule. “Class time’s over: they gather together and think about new projects completely apart from their everyday business assignments. When all of those projects have advanced to a certain stage, we gather together and exchange opinions on the outcome of each of them, and together we decide which ones should continue. We may have shown several software titles at E3 [that came from Garage], but there are many others in development too.

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