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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Screenshots, Wii U | 1 Comment

The latest Super Smash Bros. for Wii U screenshot from Masahiro Sakurai has now gone live. View it below:

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

PlatinumGames has posted a new Bayonetta 2 blog post covering the game’s music.

First, check one clip from the post below:

And be sure to read the full thing here with lots of information.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, GameCube, News, Wii, Wii U | 57 Comments

This month’s issue of EDGE features interviews with a number of different developers, including Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai. Among other things, Sakurai was asked to comment on how tournament players tend to focus on Melee as opposed to Brawl, and what will be done to ensure that something similar doesn’t happen this time around.

Sakurai answered with a very lengthy response that can only be summarized in so many words. Many of his comments addressed the need to appeal to both casual and inexperienced gamers.

He also mentioned, “Although the pace of the game had to be lowered compared to Melee in order to achieve this balance, we have managed to keep the dynamism because we didn’t have to gear towards novice players like we did with Brawl. In fact, we recreated all characters almost from scratch. Also, I feel on a personal level that this game is more interesting than the three previous games in the series.”

Head past the break for all of Sakurai’s comments. Believe us when we say there are plenty of them!

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 17 Comments

Capcom recently revealed Resident Evil HD for pretty much every major console. But unfortunately, Wii U was not included in the announcement.

Capcom producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi told Rely on Horror that Nintendo’s console is not the company’s focus when it comes to Resident Evil HD. Rather, the aforementioned platforms are – PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. A Wii U version wasn’t completely ruled out though, so there’s a small glimmer of hope.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 18 Comments

As previously mentioned, Koei Tecmo considered including a female Link character in Hyrule Warriors known as “Linkle”. This scrapped character was shown for the first time in the game’s Japanese art book.

It now sounds like Koei Tecmo is having – at least partially – second thoughts about not including Linkle in Hyrule Warriors. The company posted the following on the title’s Twitter account earlier today:

“Linkle (tentative name) was a rejected story character featured in the art book, but it looks like she got a quite lot of attention… maybe we should have included her in the main story…”

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 31 Comments

Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma made some comments during interviews at E3 which initially suggested that the character featured in the new game for Wii U could be female. Eventually though, his remarks were clarified.

Aonuma spoke about the situation with EDGE this month and told the magazine, “this reaction from the fans is something I would like to take into consideration as we proceed with development”. He was quick to clarify, however: “that doesn’t mean that we are going to change the main character to a girl.”

Check out Aonuma’s full comments below:

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 8 Comments

Nintendo is working on more “Garage” games similar in nature to Splatoon, Shigeru Miyamoto revealed in the latest issue of EDGE. Project Guard and Project Giant Robot also fall under the same category.

As reported by EDGE:

Splatoon and the three prototypes are the first games to emerge from Garage, a new Nintendo development programme set up last year in which developers break off into small teams and work on new ideas. “There are increasing numbers of young staff at Nintendo’s development studios these days,” Miyamoto says, “and these young guys really want to express themselves.” Work is done during office hours, but he compares Garage to an after-school club, in spirit if not in schedule. “Class time’s over: they gather together and think about new projects completely apart from their everyday business assignments. When all of those projects have advanced to a certain stage, we gather together and exchange opinions on the outcome of each of them, and together we decide which ones should continue. We may have shown several software titles at E3 [that came from Garage], but there are many others in development too.

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 11 Comments

The Japanese Hyrule Warriors Twitter account is further hinting at DLC characters for the future. A message posted earlier today asked fans, “who would you like to see?”

So how about it, guys? Which additional characters would you be interested in seeing in the game?

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Rumors, Wii U | 8 Comments

Update: We’ll just throw this in as well as opposed to making a new post. werejack is claiming that two new Wii U bundles for North America – LEGO City: Undercover and New Super Mario Bros. U – are also on the way.

Earlier this month, Nintendo announced a special Smash Bros.-themed 3DS XL for Europe. A similar system has yet to be confirmed for North America, though it’s possible that we’ll be hearing something in September.

Twitter user “werejack” claims that Nintendo has something planned for the states as well, but “it might be different from the Europe one.” He suggests that the North American Smash Bros. 3DS XL will be “bluer.”

We normally wouldn’t post this sort of conjecture, but werejack actually leaked news of the Zelda: Wind Waker HD Wii U bundle, black 3DS XL, and red/blue Pokemon 3DS XL systems prior to their announcements last year. Hopefully werejack’s latest tweets are accurate as well!

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 18 Comments

Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii featured a quest log that could quickly become very long and intimidating for some players. For the game’s successor, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Monolith Soft is looking to make “a much more user-friendly experience”.

Executive producer Tetsuya Takahashi told EDGE this month that in the Wii U game, “objectives and relevant people will be displayed on the map.” Monolith Soft is also implementing “a number of other features to help with quests”.

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