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Ian Livingstone, life president of Eidos, feels that Nintendo should expand its horizons. Speaking at the Bristol Games Hub, Livingstone said that the company’s IPs should be spread out across all platforms. He believes that if this isn’t considered, “a whole generation of young people will miss out on their games.”

Livingstone’s comments in full read:

“Nintendo should have their IP on every platform. Otherwise a whole generation of young people will miss out on their games.”

While Livingstone may want this to happen, it won’t. As long as Nintendo remains in the hardware business, there’s no way you’ll be seeing the likes of Mario and Zelda on competitor systems.

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Gardening Mama: Mama and the Forest Friends has been announced as the series’ next entry. Office Create will publish the game in Japan in September.

Here’s everything we know about Mama and the Forest Friends thus far:

– Forest with furry critters that ask Mama for flowers
– Rabbit wants four tulips
– Can pack up the tulips and send to the rabbit so she can attract more customers for her store
– Animals live in a town which blooms when Mama delivers flowers.
– Mama’s fuzzy friends give her shopping tickets as rewards
– Use these tickets to get decorative items for your garden
– Touch screen mini-games included
– Plant flowers in the right order, play a timing mini-game where you pour soil, and balance a watermelon cart by moving left and right
– Mama also has a garden to take care of
– Everything you harvest goes to the barn

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Nintendo has commented on the gossip surrounding the recall of Wii U Basic Sets. An official statement states that the company is doing nothing more than “rebalancing stock” of the Wii U Basic and Premium Sets. Those who are interested in the console option “will continue to find them available.”

News surfaced last night that GameStop stores will need to return all Basic Set consoles on June 18. Nintendo’s statement suggests that there isn’t much to the recall, however.

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Zelda’s first original outing on the 3DS will run at 60 frames-per-secondd in both 2D and 3D.

In an interview with EDGE, Eiji Aonuma said that implementing 60 FPS as opposed to 30 FPS helps to maintain the 3D effect.

He said:

“The game runs at 60FPS, while all the 3D games up till now have run at 30fps. The faster the framerate, the more stable the 3D effect, so 60FPS is a big deal.”

Aonuma also mentioned that players won’t be forced to play in 3D if this is something they aren’t interested in:

“Well, there are players who don’t like 3D and always keep it switched off, so there’s nothing in the game that absolutely requires 3D, like puzzles that can’t be solved without it.”

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There are rumblings about that Nintendo could be removing stock of the Wii U Basic Set in just a couple of weeks. Kotaku obtained an internal GameStop email that recalls all such systems on June 18.

Regardless of the situation in North America, Nintendo is keeping the Wii U Basic Set around in the UK. A statement from the company states that pulling the console option is “definitely not something that’s happening in the UK.”

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Nintendo seems to have taken an interest in farting. Or something like that.

While speaking with Kotaku about Nintendo’s peculiar sense of humor in April, director of product marketing Bill Trinen mentioned Game & Wario and noted how the team making the game possesses “their own very, very distinct, off-kilter humor.”

“And then you have a game like Game & Wario. The Wario team, they have their own very, very distinct, off-kilter humor. Which I love, because any time I can talk about farting in an official capacity, it’s fantastic. You’ll see a lot of that when that game comes out for Wii U.”

When asked later what it would take for the Wii U to reach the 3DS’ success, Trinen mentioned farts once again:

“I think we’re on the way [there], certainly, we’ve got games like Game & Wario. And I mean, who doesn’t want a game that’s gonna openly talk about farts?”

And here’s another interesting tidbit. When Nintendo kicked off the Game & Wario “Crowdfarter” to promote the game, Kotaku pointed out that the site was lacking in the farting department. Perhaps in response, the site now contains a “Take This” button that plays a farting sound when hovered over or clicked on.

Yeah… this is an odd post.

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Harmonix isn’t done with Rock Band. CEO Alex Rigopulos told VentureBeat that the company will revisit the IP “at the right point in time”. When it returns, Harmonix will “reimagine it as appropriate for its time.”

Rigopulos said:

“…I’ll also say that we don’t view Rock Band as something that’s being left behind. It’s something we’ll return to at the right point in time and reimagine it as appropriate for its time.”

Rock Band 3 was the last “major” Rock Band game. That came out in 2010. It was followed up by the digital Rock Band Blitz spinoff.

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Hopefully you’ve heard of Grant Kirkhope. If not, go look up some of his tracks on YouTube right now! Kirkhope has been involved with a bunch of Rare games, including Banjo Kazooie.

Kirkhope is in the news today for one reason. On Twitter, he confirmed that if A Hat in Time’s Kickstarter stretch goals are met, he’ll write a tune for the indie title.

Over $85,000 has been raised for A Hat in Time thus far. The final stretch goal, a seventh chapter, is set at $110,000.

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IGN’s Rich George has confirmed with SEGA that the company’s third Nintendo-exclusive Sonic title will not arrive in 2013. That puts the unannounced project at a tentative 2014 date for now.

George wrote on Twitter:

The initial rumor did seem rather suspect. While it came from a valid source (Nintendo’s Germany division), the fact that we have yet to see anything from SEGA’s third title pointed to a far away release. On the bright side, there is Sonic Lost World to look forward to this year, and possible the new Mario & Sonic title.

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This month’s digital rewards on Club Nintendo have gone live. Members can choose from Super Mario Bros. 3 (Wii, 150 coins), F-Zero X (Wii, 200 coins), Link ‘n’ Launch (3DS, 150 coins), and Metroid II (3DS, 150 coins). These items last through June 30.

Visit this page to order a downloadable game.