Official invitations sent out by Nintendo of America confirm a few extra details about the company’s pre-E3 media event.
The press will initially listen to opening remarks from Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime and Shigeru Miyamoto, which is expected to last only a half hour. This will be followed by a Q&A and hands-on time with various titles.
Here’s the invite sent out to the press in full:
After their departure from NIS America, a trio of former staffers have gone on to form a brand new company known as “Acttil”. Jack Niida, Hiroko Kanazashi, and Nao Miyazawa have established the publishing group that will be involved with games and digital content across PC, consoles, web, and mobile platforms.
Acttil is a new, independent game and digital contents publisher, established in Los Angeles, CA.
Founding member Jack Niida said:
“We are optimistic with the current digital content environment. It is quite promising for independent developers and we would love to work closely with them and help achieve their goals.”
Acttil plans to assist independent developers with publishing duties. Additionally, it can provide marketing expertise, analytics, monetization strategies, game feedback, and promotional/sales plans along with localization services such as translation, editing, package design, and advertisement design.
Source: Acttil PR
C-Wars is an interesting pixel-art RTS that’s coming to PC later this year, but today we’ve learned that the folks behind the game, ‘Onipunk’, were just approved as a Nintendo 3DS developer, meaning that if their $65K goal is met the game will launch on the platform in October. If you want to support the game or learn more about it, check out the Kickstarter page here.
XSEED Games has been rebranded. Marveous USA has been formed, which is comprised of XSEED as well as Marvelous Online and Atlus Online Division. President and CEO Shinichi Suzuki will lead Marvelous USA going forward.
Suzuki said of the news:
“Marvelous USA unifies our US operations under the global Marvelous brand while giving our customers topnotch products and support for both traditional and online social and mobile games. Our XSEED Games console and PC brand will continue to offer the quality games and service for which it is known, and Marvelous Online gives us expanded reach into mobile and online social gaming markets.”
Ken Berry will still be managing XSEED Games’ publishing aspects while Tatsuya Nishioka will act as Marvelous Online’s senior director. The two will report directly to Suzuki.
Source: XSEED Games PR
– Capcom Statement, via Capcom Unity Forums
16-bit love, eh? I guess that means we’ll be seeing some cool Super Nintendo titles hit the Wii U soon! Aside from Super Ghouls n’ Ghosts and Street Fighter II, what more would we want!?
Although Nintendo won’t be hosting a press conference at E3 this year, we’re hearing rumblings that the company will be holding a smaller event before the expo that will be attended by two bigwigs from the Big N.
The news, which comes from NintendoWorldReport, states that Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime and Shigeru Miyamoto will lead a presentation for the press. It is set to take place on Tuesday morning, the day that is typically reserved for Nintendo’s big media briefings. This lines up with Nintendo’s official comments concerning E3.
Will the press event be streamed? For now, the answer isn’t clear.
The recently revealed (and recently cancelled) Mega Man FPS Maverick Hunter split the fan community in two. Admittedly, the opinions towards the negative were slightly more prevalent than those towards the positive, but the polarity of the opinions was nevertheless rather extreme, and Capcom’s Christian Svensson said that the thoughts on the game from within the company were also mixed:
– Capcom USA Senior Vice-President Christian Svensson
Perhaps it’s for the best that the project was cancelled. I know that I certainly wasn’t the biggest fan of the style they chose for it!
EA announced today that it has signed a multi-year exclusive licensing agreement with Disney to develop and publish new Star Wars games. Disney will still be holding on to certain rights when it comes to releases for mobile, social, tablet and online platforms while EA will be handling “new Star Wars titles for a core gaming audience, spanning all interactive platforms and the most popular game genres”.
Disney Interactive co-president John Pleasants said of the deal:
“This agreement demonstrates our commitment to creating quality game experiences that drive the popularity of the Star Wars franchise for years to come. Collaborating with one of the world’s premier game developers will allow us to bring an amazing portfolio of new Star Wars titles to our fans around the world.”
EA Labels President Frank Gibeau added:
“Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe. Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans. DICE and Visceral will produce new games, joining the BioWare team which continues to develop for the Star Wars franchise. The new experiences we create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay.”
EA did not provide any financial terms in its announcement.
Source: EA PR
Maverick Hunter was a unique take on the Mega Man X series from Armature Studio. Capcom ended up cancelling the game, but we did get a look at the project last month through various screenshots and videos.
A new piece of concept art has since emerged online courtesy of Adi Granov, who designed Mega Man’s armor. Take a look:
