OPUS Collection: The Day We Found Earth + Rocket of Whispers boxart
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Thanks to a listing on Amazon, we now have the boxart for OPUS Collection: The Day We Found Earth + Rocket of Whispers. View it above.
OPUS Collection: The Day We Found Earth + Rocket of Whispers is coming to retail in early 2019.
Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy Jump Festa 2019 footage
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Square Enix held a stage show for Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy at Jump Festa 2019, which came with a new round of footage. Check out the full recording below.
Fire Emblem Heroes hosting Summoning Focus: Heroes with Fortress Skills
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The latest summoning event is live in Fire Emblem Heroes. A trio of Heroes with Fortress skills, which trade attack in favor of increased defense, are available as part of the 5-star summoning focus.
This will be live until January 6. For new summoning events, you won’t have to use Orbs the first time you summon.
Nintendo nabs several entries on Twitter’s most-tweeted video games of 2018 in the U.S.
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Twitter has provided a fresh set of data about the most-tweeted video games in the U.S. to close out the new year. Nintendo made the list with several spots, including Pokemon and Smash Bros. Unsurprisingly, Fotnite came in at #1.
The full list is as follows:
More: Twitter
Kirby Star Allies director shares secrets from the last update
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Kirby Star Allies was recently given its third and final update. In a news post this week, director Shinya Kumazaki shared a few secrets implemented that players may not be aware of. Kumazaki also goes over some impressive statistics concerning the amount of content that has been added over the past few months.
Here’s the full post:
More: HAL Laboratory, Kirby Star Allies
Gorons were originally going to look “drastically” different in Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch, Wii U | 0 comments
When The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was early on in development, Nintendo had some very different ideas in mind for the design of the Gorons. Lead NPC artist Hirohito Shinoda revealed in the recently-translated Creating a Champion art book that the team was planning a drastic change in which they had bigger heads, a more human-like appearance, and more. However, “none of them really fit.” This led to basing the Gorons on their original design from Ocarina of Time.
Shinoda said:
Sakurai on how he wasn’t directly involved with character balancing in Smash Bros. Ultimate
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DenFamiNicoGamer was recently given the opportunity to speak with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai. At one point of the discussion, Sakurai revealed that he wasn’t directly involved with character balancing for this game.
Siliconera translated the relevant portion of the interview. Here’s what Sakurai said on the subject:
Snowboarding The Next Phase coming to Switch Switch in January
Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop | 0 comments
The Switch eShop is showing a new title from Session Games and RedBullMediaHouse. Snowboarding The Next Phase is releasing digitally next month, according to the store listing.
Snowboarding The Next Phase features an Arcade Mode and Career Mode. You can also shred the slopes with a friend thanks to split-screen multiplayer and split Joy-Con support.
Shakedown Hawaii – “Get to the Mission!” trailer
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Vblank Entertainment issued a new video for Shakedown Hawaii. Watch the “Get to the Mission!” trailer below.
Shakedown Hawaii launches Q1 2019 on Switch and 3DS.
Game Freak wanted Pokemon: Let’s Go’s visuals to be acceptable for parents, not scary
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Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee director Junichi Masuda has commented on the game’s visuals.
According to Masuda, the team wanted to make the graphics approachable – especially for parents. He explained that he “didn’t want to make it a game that would cause parents to feel mistrustful of our games.” Game Freak also “didn’t want it to look scary.” This is partially why the team went about making character proportions “look a bit childish”.
