Game & Wario ended up as a retail product. That wasn’t always the plan, though.
In a new Iwata Asks, Intelligent Systems’ Naoko Mori and Nintendo president Satoru Iwata discussed how the title originally started out as pre-installed software for Wii U. Mori said that “it wasn’t actually conceived of as being part of the WarioWare series.” With the arrival of E3, the team “began working on something that we could present and which would be easy for people to pick up and play.”
Since this was intended to be included with the Wii U, “we didn’t want to make it overly quirky. We didn’t want something that would only appeal to a certain section of our customers.”
The full exchange between Mori and Iwata can be found below.
Capcom says they’d be willing to do more “retro remakes” a la DuckTales, hint at Aliens vs. Predator (1994) possibility
In an interview with Polygon, Capcom’s senior product manager revealed that the company would absolutely be willing to continue looking to the past for old franchises or games that could use modern remakes, similar to what they’re doing with DuckTales later this year. They’re unable to talk about exactly what games might be getting the treatment, but they did hint that Aliens vs. Predator (the 1994 side-scroller) is the one that fans have been requesting most.
We’ll let you know if they announce anything else for a remake.
A new Animal Crossing: New Leaf is now available to 3DS owners. Simply visit the Puzzle Swap section of StreetPass Mii Plaza to begin filling it out. You’ll automatically receive one free piece through SpotPass.
Amazon has posted
the boxart for The Wonderful 101. Additionally, the game has a new logo. You can find both images below.
Thanks to Yoho, Pir, and Jake for the tip.
SEGA may have let a couple details slip about Sonic Lost World through its official Sonic Facebook page.
Three images are rumored to have been shown on the page while more information had been promised for May 29. The first photo described sounds quite a bit like the official artwork piece released today. Another image, Sonic Stadium writes, “is said to have featured the outline of six ‘guardians’ from the game who may be friends or foes.”
One reader tip sent to Sonic Stadium reads:
Update: Summerwill’s tweets have been removed, so we’ve added in a screencap of his more-recent comments instead.
This hasn’t been a good month for the Wii U in terns of EA news.
A few weeks ago, DICE’s Frostbite technical director Johan Andersson said that Frostbite 3 has never been running on Wii U while Frostbite 2 tests were “not too surprising”. EA ended up announcing Frostbite Go for mobile platforms just a couple of days ago.
And just recently, EA confirmed that it isn’t working on any Wii U games. When asked why the publisher isn’t bringing FIFA to the console this year, a spokesperson pointed to poor sales of last year’s release.
Unfortunately, things haven’t stopped there. EA Sports senior software engineer Bob Summerwill has pretty much trashed the Wii U on Twitter, calling it “crap” and “Less powerful than an Xbox 360.” The console’s online store and GamePad were also criticized. And that was only one tweet.
Here’s the full roundup of Summerwill’s quotes:
“Why not both!?”
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