Photos of Nintendo’s 2013 company handbook
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We’ve already seen Nintendo’s company handbook for 2014. Today, photos have surfaced from the 2013 edition.
It’s quite interesting to look at. The latter pages are particularly impressive, as one of the final sections can be folded to look like Nintendo’s HQ in Kyoto.
Mario Kart 8 – off-screen Mario Circuit footage
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European Pink + White 2DS boxart
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Bit Boy!! Arcade hitting the North American 3DS eShop this month
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Bit Boy!! Arcade will finally be launching on the eShop next month, according to a listing on Nintendo’s website. The game will apparently be available on April 17 in North America (and the European release shouldn’t be too far behind).
You can find an overview for Bit Boy!! Arcade below.
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Gaist Crusher God story details
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Capcom has started to share information about Gaist Crusher God, a sequel to the 3DS game released in Japan last year. Here’s what we know about the story thus far:
– Recca and the other Gaist Crushers will need to stop God Gaists from wiping out the human race to “fix” the world
– Begins in year 2047
– Rare metal “Gaimetal” was found 50,000m in the depths of the land
– The Gaimetal is a metal with the purest form of energy
– It was considered to be the discovery of a whole new resource of energy
– Everyone around the world has been digging mines to search for Gaimetal
– In 2046, protagonist Recca joins the GCG (Gaist Crusher Garrison) and has participated in various events and saved the world from danger (or so it was believed)
– After things started looking normal again in the world, the ultimate Gaist “God Gaist” appeared out of nowhere
– God Gaist believes humans created this chaos
– In order to stop the God Gaist and put an end to his twisted ideals, Recca and his fellow Gaist Crushers will be standing up to a new challenge
– God Gaist is said to have the power to “unify” the world
– The new God Gaist is called Hino Kaguchi
– It is said that there’s a total of four God Gaists out there, who have the power to see through the “hearts” of humans
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Mario Kart 8 – off-screen Cheep Cheep Beach footage
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Alphadia Genesis – 40 minutes of footage
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Why game sales saw a boost in Japan last week
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Game sales experienced a rather large increase in Japan last week, even though there was no special occasion/holiday. So what happened here?
The rise can be attributed to three factors. Consumers were spending more prior to a 3 percent increase in consumption tax starting on April 1, many Japanese schools were holding a spring vacation, and gamers were receiving payments from Japanese companies, which usually take place on the 25th of each month.
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Retro City Rampage on 3DS outsells Xbox 360 version in first month
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Retro City Rampage: DX seems to be doing very well for Vblank Entertainment.
In its first month, the 3DS version has already managed to outsell the Xbox Live Arcade release. That’s despite launching a year later on Nintendo’s portable and only in North America initially.
Vblank tweeted out the sales news a short while ago:
Despite launching a year later/only in North America initially, RETRO CITY RAMPAGE's first month on 3DS exceeded the XBLA ver's worldwide.
— Retro City Rampage (@RetroCR) April 4, 2014
Hanakai Studio hopes to develop Prodigy for Wii U
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Wii U is one of a number of platforms Hanakai Studio hopes to create its new project Prodigy for. PC is the only confirmed system at present, but the team is developing in Unreal in order to make a multiplatform release possible.
Hanakai’s Kickstarter for Prodigy states:
Beside PC/Windows, we hope to develop Prodigy for Mac, Linux, PS3, xBox360, PS4, xBoxOne and WiiU. Our current focus is on PC, but we are developing with Unreal 4 to make it possible to port to other platforms in the future.
Prodigy sounds neat, as the RPG combines figurines with video games. It’d be interesting if the game could take advantage of Wii U’s NFC features somehow…
You can check out Prodigy on Kickstarter here.
