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

This is a rather interesting glitch. One Smash Bros. player, who was trying out the Smash Tour mode, was presented with a game-breaking bug.

As shown in the video above, after Zelda was defeated, Mario was supposed to come in as the third CPU’s final fighter. That didn’t happen for some strange reason, and the match became impossible to complete. You’ll even see that the “battle” continues after the announcer says “Game!”

Thanks to yollych for the tip.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 19 Comments

The last Zelda game, Skyward Sword, featured visuals inspired by impressionistic paintings. The new Zelda game for Wii U also takes inspiration from another source.

Producer Eiji Aonuma told Famitsu in an interview earlier this month:

“Everyone has been imitating this (snaps fingers) (laughs). I was told by many people that it was ‘beautiful.’ I thought about various ways to make the graphical style fit the vast new Zelda world; imitating the real world attached an important feeling of realism, and making it look different to the past [Zelda titles], this was done by drawing inspiration from Japanese animations.”

We’ll next be seeing Zelda Wii U at next year’s E3. The game itself is expected to launch sometime in 2015.

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Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 13 Comments

Game Informer published the “Smash Bros. Diaries” from director Masahiro Sakurai in its previous two issues. Most of what has been shared thus far is rehash from Sakurai’s Famitsu columns, but this month’s entry does have some very noteworthy quotes.

One of the questions Sakurai addresses: “You’ve talked about how you select characters, but why does the roster continue to expand with each release?”

Sakurai starts out by stating how when he works on Smash Bros. – or any other project for that matter – he puts in his full effort. “I throw my body and soul into every project with the mindset that this is the last one,” he says. This has led to a huge amount of characters and features “where it’s almost an impossible quantity to work with.”

Characters are remade in each Smash Bros. release since there are different development studios working on the games. There is also a higher development cost per character “since it takes work to give characters a wide dynamic range while still sticking to their backstories”.

All in all, Sakurai calls the entire process “relentless.”

If you’re interested in checking out Sakurai’s full comments, head past the break.

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Yesterday, Kadokawa Games shared a whole bunch of additional information about Rodea: The Sky Soldier. Gematsu posted a translated of the details, which cover the plot, characters, and gameplay.

Head on below for the full overview. And if you missed them, you’ll find a batch of new screenshots here.

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Update: The dream is dead! It’s true that the amiibo interacts with the gate’s locking mechanism and changes its light to green, but the gate itself will still close on when trying to pass through.

Eurogamer was provided with the following explanation from one of its readers:

“The confusion here is that the gates in Moscow metro seem to be opened all the time, but in fact they’re actually closed. You need to place your card on the reader to ‘unlock’ it and go past them. If you don’t, the gates quickly shuts right before you, possibly injuring your private parts. You can see that green light disappear really quickly – it’s supposed to stay green until you’re past the gates.”

amiibos aren’t just for games, guys. They hold some extra abilities as well. Take the Samus amiibo, for instance, which apparently opens the Moscow Metro ticket gate.

I’m playing around a bit here, but it does in fact look like the Samus amiibo worked in this situation. Reddit user “edkisin” posted the photo above and just posted the Vine clip below an hour or so ago to back up his claim. Looks pretty legitimate to me!

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Thanks to John for the tip.

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Yet another blog update has landed on PlatinumGames’ official blog. This time around, we get to hear about how the team went about bug checking.

Check out a few excerpts below:

Now, do we need every aspect of bug checks to be handled by actual people? My policy is: if a machine can do it, let’s make a machine do it. In this instance, we determine a set of actions for Bayonetta to perform, and make the console play the game over and over and over again.

For example, our first method for bug checking, the full playthrough—if we’re just going to play through the game’s main story, we know what that route is, and what we need to do along the way, so shouldn’t this be possible?

Then there’s bug checking by playing the game for extended periods of time. People need to sleep, eat, and take breaks, but we can make a machine play the game as long as we want and it’ll never even have to use the restroom! This is where automated bug checking really shines.

There also happen to be these kinds of bugs that have a very low chance of reoccurring, sometimes even as low as only a 1/50 chance. If there’s a bug that we randomly came across at one point and want to find the exact conditions for reproducing it, we can program the game to try something in the most precise way possible, and experiment around until we figure out what’s causing the problem.

Head on over to the PlatinumGames website for the full post.

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Update (11/28/14): New Super Mario Bros. 2 is currently available for only $15.

Amazon officially began its Black Friday 2014 deals earlier today. Most of the significant Nintendo-related sales will be delegated to Lighting Deals, but there are a few things on the side as well.

You can purchase games such as:

Scribblenauts Unlimited (Wii U) for $10
Scribblenauts Unmasked (Wii U) for $10
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Wii U) for $15
The LEGO Movie Videogame for $18
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark for $15
Injustice: Gods Among Us for $14
The Legend of Korra: A New Era Begins for $15
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (3DS) for $15
Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appetit! for $20
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze for $15
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call for $20
The LEGO Movie Videogame (3DS) for $15
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (3DS) for $15
Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars for $21
Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire guide for $9.20 with code HOLIDAY30 (code works on other books as well)

Also be sure to keep track of Amazon’s Black Friday deals calender here. We’ll be seeing things like Smash Bros. for Wii U with $15 credit, and sales for Mario Kart 8, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.

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