Mario Kart 8 – more Baby Park, Ribbon Road, and Neo Bowser City comparisons
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 0 comments
Thanks to IGN, we have yet another video comparing the upcoming Mario Kart 8 DLC courses Baby Park, Ribbon Road, and Neo Bowser City to tracks from their original games. Catch it below.
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Splatoon devs didn’t want the game to be based on a Nintendo franchise
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 7 Comments
GamesRadar was recently given an opportunity to speak with Hisashi Nogami, producer of Splatoon. During the chat, Nogami spoke about how the team wanted “to not get too caught up in Nintendo’s already existing franchises”.
He said:
“We went through a period of creating lots of prototypes. We didn’t want a franchise-based game, so we made a bunch of prototypes and one of those prototypes happened to be the game that became Splatoon. The idea was ‘something fun, something new, something different,’ not ‘a shooter.'”
Nogami also spoke about how playing other games has some impact when creating new titles:
“The development team is made up of people who play games a lot, and among them are people who play shooting games a lot, including Mr. [Yusuke] Amano, one of the game’s directors, who I’ve heard has spent his college years playing Perfect Dark. As game designers who play games, you can’t really help observing things you like and don’t like, and having those have some degree of influence on your thinking. The best way to express this is that it forms a base of thought that you bring into game development, but it doesn’t directly influence the game development.”
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Update: Back in stock – GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U in stock on Amazon, being sold for $30
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 8 Comments
Update 3: Down to $20.45
Update 2 (4/21): Back in stock.
Update: It took a long while, but it’s finally out of stock!
Amazon finally has additional stock of the GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U. The thing is, you’ll have to fork over a little bit of extra cash. Amazon’s asking price is now $29.99, which is $10 more than what the accessory sold for at launch.
Still interested? If so, you can place an order here.
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Splatoon “Claim Your Turf” promo
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 5 Comments
This is about as short as a commercial, but the ESRB rating at the beginning seems to indicate that it’s just a promo. The title on YouTube also doesn’t say it’s a commercial… so I assume it’s not!
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Splatoon Wii U bundle up for pre-order at Best Buy
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Best Buy is now taking pre-orders for the newly-announced Splatoon Wii U bundle. You can get yours in here.
As a reminder, the Splatoon bundle includes a 32GB Wii U console, a digital copy of the game, and a pre-installed copy of Nintendo Land.
A French commercial has come in for Splatoon. We’ve attached it below.
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Game Informer has a couple of more videos up of Splatoon. You can get a look at the game’s single-player and multiplayer modes below.
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Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations coming to Wii U, 3DS
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 7 Comments
Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations is in the works for several platforms including Wii U and 3DS, Little Orbit announced today. Vicious Cycle is handling development.
Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations is a fully-3D action title. Here’s the official overview:
Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations is an all-new, real-time, fully 3D action-oriented twist on the classic story-driven graphic adventure game. Finn and Jake decide to carry on the profession of Finn’s foster parents, who were Professional Investigators. Confronted with mysterious Land of Ooo disappearances and strange events, players will interrogate colorful inhabitants, dispatch evil doers in fast-paced combat, solve mind-bending puzzles, explore new and familiar locations, and genuinely feel as if they have stepped into their own personal episode of Adventure Time.
Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations launches this November. More information about the game will be shared in the weeks and months ahead. Screenshots and a tiny bit of footage can be found below.
Lots of Xenoblade Chronicles X screenshots
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Screenshots, Wii U | 16 Comments
Dengeki has posted a bunch of screenshots from Xenoblade Chronicles X. View them all in the gallery below.
Guitar Hero Live behind the scenes trailer
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Activision has prepared a new behind the scenes trailer for Guitar Hero Live. Watch it below.
