The June 16 episode of Pokemon Smash will be a “Pokemon X and Pokemon Y Special”. Game Freak director Junichi Masuda is confirmed for an appearance.
This episode follows Pokemon X/Y’s presence at E3 2013, as well as CoroCoro’s monthly magazine on June 15. There’s a good chance that Pokemon Smash will be presenting much of the same information offered through these two sources.
[Famicompendium] Umihara Kawase – Ridiculous fishing
Author: Patrick
Welcome to Famicompendium – a new regular (or at least semi-regular) column where I’ll be taking a look back at the best and worst the world of import gaming has to offer. From the Famicom to the Wii, I’ll be exploring some of the most fascinating titles to never be officially released in English.
I thought I’d start the column off with an adorable, charming and brutally difficult platformer from the 90s. Lately we’ve been giving a fair bit of coverage to a little 3DS game called Sayonara Umihara Kawase (and hopefully even more once an English version is announced at E3 – don’t leave me hanging, Agatsuma) so it’s worth examining just who the heck Umihara Kawase is and why we’re saying goodbye to her.
E3 2007 was heavily lacking in new announcements. It was quite the downturn compared to E3 2006 – a show that impressed many.
One of Nintendo’s first announcements was the Wii Zapper. A few third-party games were promoted with the peripheral, including Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. Nintendo also teased a game of its own (Link’s Crossbow Training), that would be packed in with the Zapper.
Later in the show, Nintendo announced a release date for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but the game would eventually be delayed. Mario Kart Wii was also revealed, along with the Wii Wheel that would be bundled with the accessory.
Nintendo highlighted a few core titles during the conference: Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and Super Mario Galaxy.
Nintendo closed things out with Wii Fit. It’s Wii Fit – not much else to say! But we did get Reggie’s famous “My body is ready” quote from his on-stage antics, at least.
Not too exciting. But if you thought this was disappointing, wait until we look back on the 2008 media briefing…
A new visitor will be awaiting 3DS owners in the StreetPass Mii Plaza. Nintendo sent out the official Mii for Satoru Iwata, who is wearing a Luigi hat and gold pants.
When visiting the StreetPass Mii Plaza, Iwata will tell you about the Nintendo Direct happening on Tuesday. His most recent software is Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon.
Iwata’s Mii also comes with a SpotPass message. It states:
Lady Hunk and Rachel Ooze are coming to Resident Evil: Revelations HD on June 11 as DLC. Both will be playable in Raid Mode.
Nintendo has opened a special Miiverse community for E3 2013. For a limited time, fans can partake in the official “Nintendo@E3 2013 Community”.
You can access the main section on your PC/mobile device here. There’s also a “Backstage” section, located here, which is for more official announcements and such.
Read the official announcement post here, or find it below.
Would you look at that… yet another sports title will be skipping Wii U.
2K Sports confirmed to GameSpot that NBA 2K14 will not be available on the platform. Senior vice president of sports operations Jason Argent explained that the company “didn’t want to take resources” from the other versions.
Argent said:
“We are not doing a Wii U version this year. The decision was made internally that resources would be best put toward building a really, really amazing current-generation and next-generation game and we didn’t want to take resources away from creating amazing experiences on…all those platforms.”
Are any major sports titles heading to Wii U this year? There’s no Madden, FIFA, UFC, NHL, or PES titles planned.
There hasn’t been a whole lot of Harvest Moon news since A New Beginning. That title came out in Japan back in February of last year.
It doesn’t sound like Marvelous AQL has forgotten about the series, at least. When Harvest Moon was mentioned by Siliconera, chief creative officer Yoshifumi Hashimoto teased: “The series is getting very interesting…”
What could that mean?
