More off-screen Mario Kart 8 footage
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Voice/text chat officially confirmed for Mario Kart 8 (friends/lobbies only)
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This is included in the press release already posted on the site, but I figured the below news deserves some attention of its own. Nintendo has officially confirmed both voice and text chat (the latter coming in the form of certain phrases) for Mario Kart 8, though the feature will only be available if playing with friends and in lobbies.
Nintendo’s official notice about Mario Kart 8’s chat functionality states:
Like to trash-talk your friends while you’re preparing for a race? You’re in luck! Mario Kart 8 lets players chat with one another in the lobby area using the Wii U GamePad microphone or text phrases as they wait for their friends to join.
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Mario Kart 8 – off-screen Battle Mode footage
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Mario Kart 8 – “More New Features” trailer
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New Mario Kart 8 info – US Wii U bundle, free Wii U game offer, online, Mario Kart TV, new items and racers
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REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–One month from today, Mario Kart 8 will be driving players wild with anti-gravity racing action. To get people revved up for the Wii U game, Nintendo released a new Nintendo Direct video that announced some additional news nuggets, including a Mario Kart 8 Wii U bundle, a free downloadable game offer for Wii U owners who buy Mario Kart 8, details about online features, cool new characters and devastating new items.
“Everyone loves Mario Kart,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “It’s a franchise that brings people together for fun at a family gathering, a frenzied race against friends or just an afternoon break at the office. The numerous new features of Mario Kart 8 make this the most ambitious version yet, and one that will have players of all skill levels racing for the checkered flag.”
To view the Nintendo Direct in its entirety, visit http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct. Some of the new information announced today included:
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Mario Kart 8 Direct (4/30/14)
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Nintendo to release new ‘World of Nintendo’ toy line
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It looks as if Nintendo is geared up and ready for a bigger presence in the merchandise world with a set of new goodies set to hit stores relatively soon. Among them is your Mario showing from plushies to mini play-sets of various stages, and a picture of what look to be figurine mock-ups for other characters like Link, Zelda and Pit among others. Perhaps most impressive however is the Mario Kart 8 branded loop tracks, which look to be pretty elaborate with a number of different characters available for purchase.
The release window is currently listed as ‘September 2014’ so hopefully we’ll have more info in the following months
Check out Banter Toys for more pictures of the full line
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U screenshot (4/30/14)
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Today’s screenshot details a new item, the Super Leaf. Sakurai explains:
With the Super Leaf, any fighter can have ears and a tail. You can also float in the air by pressing the jump button. We’re still figuring out whether you’ll be able to attack with the tail…
Live event planned for Disney Infinity 2.0 on April 30th
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Today it was announced that there will be a launch event for Disney Infinity 2.0. The event will take place at 10am PST on April 30th and is to be held at Pacific Theater’s Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles. Alongside the event will be a live stream for the folks at home so you check out all the action. We’ve embedded the stream below, so you can catch it when it goes live!
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[Weekly Screenshot] Art of Balance Wii U #3 – Perfect Imperfections
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As we’ve done for the last two weeks, today we have another exclusive screenshot of the upcoming Wii U eShop game Art of Balance from our friends at Shin’en. They’ll be showing off some genuinely neat stuff this time around, including some changes to the core user-interface and some of the small graphical touches that their known for putting in all of their games. Like before, the following quote comes from Mr. Manfred Linzer over at the developer, and you can look at the screenshot he’s talking about above:
Hi guys! Another week, another screen from our upcoming beautiful Wii U game called “Art of Balance”. This time I’ll show you a screen from the 2nd world.
When creating the Wii U version we thought about how we could make the game feel more ‘real’; a subtle but nice change was how to pick the shapes. On 3DS and Wii, the shapes were simply picked from a 2D HUD Layer and then projected into the 3D screen. On Wii U, we placed the shapes directly on the table, so you can select them with your GamePad or Wii Remote. This feels very natural and gives a more ‘solid world’ feeling.
Also we wanted the game to feel ‘gemuetlich’ as we say in German, so the levels should feel warm and inviting. Besides choosing the correct lighting and props, we figured out that it was important not to have that typical ‘clean’ computer rendering style, so we tried to give everything little imperfections. Just look at the table – all of the little scratches and variations in particular. This is used on every asset in the game. It’s very subtle, but gives that little extra touch we wanted.
