Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Podcast Stories, Wii U | 0 comments

Project Cars developer Slightly Mad Studios is a big fan of the Wii U GamePad. The team believes that the new controller “just screams new innovations for gameplay”.

For Project Cars, Slightly Mad Studios intends to put the GamePad to good use, and it sounds like there could be plans in store for Miiverse as well.

Speaking with NowGamer, Slightly Mad Studios creative director Andy Tudor said:

“The gamepad just screams new innovations for gameplay and is a perfect match when thinking about using the gyroscope as a handheld wheel like in Mario Kart Wii and showing data on the screen such as a map, telemetry, speedo, or rear view mirror. When you couple that with Miiverse functionality and community it’s a no-brainer.”

When it comes to all four versions of Project Cars, Tudor feels that they’re all equal since each can bring something different to the experience:

“Honestly, each has their own advantages: the PC will always benefit from the most bleeding edge processors and graphics cards but the Wii U has brand-new ways of interacting via the Gamepad, and the PS3/Xbox 360 versions continue to push those machines to their very limits whilst hooking in to already-popular systems like PSN and Xbox Live. So no one single platform wins I’m afraid!”

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Podcast Stories, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

The confusion surrounding Shovel Knight on Nintendo platforms has been cleared up. It is in fact coming to both Wii U and 3DS, as was originally thought.

Developer Yacht Club Games shared an early Shovel Knight PAX East banner on its Twitter account, which just so happens to contain logos for both systems.

Details regarding Kickstarter reward tiers for Wii U and 3DS are coming soon.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Podcast Stories | 0 comments

EA has announced that its CEO is stepping down and leaving the company. On March 30, John Riccitiello will relinquish his role as Chief Executive Officer along with his Board of Directors status. The company plans to begin its search for a new, permanent CEO and will “consider internal and external candidates”.

Of his departure, Riccitiello said:

“EA is an outstanding company with creative and talented employees, and it has been an honor to serve as the Company’s CEO. I am proud of what we have accomplished together, and after six years I feel it is the right time for me pass the baton and let new leadership take the Company into its next phase of innovation and growth. I remain very optimistic about EA’s future – there is a world class team driving the Company’s transition to the next generation of game consoles.”

You can find the official PR below.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Podcast Stories | 0 comments

Mighty Switch Force 2 is coming. Developer WayForward confirmed the game’s existence late last month.

Just a short while ago, WayFoward sent out a tweet that seems to contain the first screenshot from Switch Force 2:

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Podcast Stories, Wii U | 0 comments

As it turns out, LEGO City: Undercover can be downloaded from the Wii U eShop without a hard drive. Wii U Basic Set owners will not be able to fit the 22GB file on their system, but Deluxe Set owners should be good to go. It will definitely take up most of a Deluxe Set’s internal storage!

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News, Podcast Stories | 0 comments

Some have said that Nintendo should go third-party. Others, like analysts, have suggested that the company should bring some of their content to mobile platforms including the iPhone and Android. However, Nintendo’s top brass including Satoru Iwata have not exactly been open the possibility.

One game that wouldn’t work so well on mobile devices is Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, according to its developers. A couple of the team’s staffers were asked about their thoughts about whether they could imagine the 3DS game on a piece of hardware such as the iPhone, but both feel that it’s a perfect match for Nintendo’s portable.

First up, here’s one comment from supervisor Yoshihito Ikebata:

“Actually, I really think that the feeling and the core of the game is only possible because it’s on this particular hardware, the 3DS. And it is really hard to imagine it running on anything else.”

And another from Next Level Games director Bryce Holliday:

“For me, I would add that Luigi’s an expressive personality. We spent a lot of time on the presentation and showing a lot of his face. Having your fingers on top of him—like you would have to do on a smartphone—would occlude some of that character. It’s nice to have buttons basically. It also might be hard to do a fishing mechanic with siding and tapping on a touch screen rather than having a circle pad and shoulder buttons.”

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in GameCube, General Nintendo, News, Podcast Stories, Wii | 0 comments

When you think about it, the fact that Nintendo allowed Next Level Games to make Super Mario Strikers was somewhat unexpected. The studio was a bit unproven at the time yet the Big N nonetheless allowed the developer to get its hands on some of the company’s most-beloved characters.

You might be wondering: how did Next Level’s partnership with Nintendo begin? It was actually the initiative on the part of Next Level that got the ball rolling. The team first decided to make a Mario soccer demo “with no direction from Nintendo”.

Read on below for comments from Next Level Games discussing how Mario Strikers as well as Punch-Out!! came to be.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Podcast Stories, Wii U | 0 comments

Not much has been said about the Wii U version of Project Cards, but it sounds like it’ll be a fairly competent version.

Developer Slightly Mad Studios is looking to achieve a resolution of 720p while maintaining 30 FPS. While some may have hoped for a higher resolution or FPS count, the company is assuring that the game will “look and feel amazing”.

Creative director Andy Tudor, in an interview with NowGamer, said:

“We always prefer to aim for 30fps generally in order to keep gameplay-specific features like having more cars on track or better weather effects etc. So that’s standard across all consoles, and we’re more likely to utilize the native 720p support of the Wii U for launch especially since our physics and rendering systems demand a lot of processing power in order to deliver a truly next-gen experience. All you need to know is that when you get the game, it’ll look and feel amazing and you’ll want to show it off to your friends.”

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Podcast Stories | 0 comments

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon has fairly extensive download play features. After a host connects with other 3DS users, players can hop online or participate in games locally. In other words, the host isn’t needed, and players can continue playing even with a copy of the title.

Any limitations to the feature are currently not known. Even if there are any, this is still a pretty neat inclusion.

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Posted on 11 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in Features, Podcast Stories, Videos, Wii | 0 comments

Here we go: I’ve finally given in to your demands and jumped right back into the uber-crazy ‘Back in Time’ glitch from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Last time we explored it, we ended up in twilight-realm Kakariko Village playing as human Link, but the game froze when we went inside of a house and then left. This time? Stuff gets even crazier, which is hard to believe considering how ridiculous last time was.

Artwork courtesy of Andrew Nixon. :]