– Ubisoft senior PR manager Stone Chin
Eh, that’s a fair response. Hiding behind the guise of “it’s historical!” is more or less false considering that “glorification” implies you’re stretching the truth to make things seem cooler than they were, but simply stating “sorry, it’s a game, get over it” is completely fair, and I would be obliged to agree with that sentiment! They aren’t being historical, but too bad, it’s a piece of storytelling.
Speaking with NowGamer, TT Fusion’s lead developer for the upcoming LEGO City: Undercover has said that the studio isn’t looking at making an NFC-based, figurine-attached game using LEGO figures anytime soon, despite the facts that such an idea would clearly be ridiculously popular, and the Wii U Gamepad already has NFC technology built into it.
Perhaps the studio simply wants to release their new game first, see what kind of press it gets, and then think about doing something new and interesting like that. Something tells me they’ll be more interesting in simply making another open-world LEGO City game though.
Retirement is a topic that often comes up during interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto these days. One day, Miyamoto is going to have to step away from Nintendo.
That day hasn’t arrived just yet. While Miyamoto is prepping Nintendo for the day that he does retire, the “volume” of his work hasn’t changed one bit.
Below are Miyamoto’s thoughts about retirement in full:
“This year I’m past 60; I’m going to be turning 61 this year. So for me to not be thinking about retirement would be strange. But in fact, the number of projects I’m involved in–and the volume of my work–hasn’t changed at all.”
Challenger will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Famicom download on March 13 for 500 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.
This week’s Japanese eShop update is as follows:
3DS
Downloadable Titles
Azito 3D Osaka – 500 yen
@Simple DL Series Vol. 8 The Uwaki Kareshi – Uwaki no Daish? – 300 yen
Arc Style: Happy Ocean – 500 yen
Mansion Percussion – 500 yen
Pretty Rhythm – My Deco-Rainbow Wedding Demo – FREE
Doraemon Nobita no Himitsu D?ga Hakubutsukan (retail title) – 4,700 yen (from 03/07)
Virtual Console
Ganbare Goemon! Karakuri D?ch? (Famicom) – 500 yen
Nekketsu K?k? Dodgeball-bu (Super Dodge Ball, Famicom) – 500 yen
Wii U
NA
Video Content
Wii Karaoke U promo
10-minute Super Robot Wars UX video
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacies preview video
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon commercials
Gameplay footage for Nano Assault Neo, Mansion Percussion, Simple DL Series Vol. 8, Azito 3D Osaka, and Arc Style: Happy Ocean
New Super Mario Bros. U Super Play videos
ChronoBlade developer Corecell says that its game is still in development. It has undergone a name change, however. ChronoBlade is now known as “AeternoBlade”.
Corecell is currently involved with AeternoBlade’s final testing and localization. Once that’s done, maybe the title will be ready for primetime.
