Much like its predecessor, Sumo Digital is cramming in a bunch of modes for Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. One of the game’s new modes is called “World Tour”.
Details about the mode, courtesy of French gaming site Jeuxvideo, are posted below.
– Set up like a board game
– Each square represents a race challenge
– Earn a bronze, silver, or gold medal in each
– Bronze: pass to the next square
– Need a silver/gold medal to access squares that hold challenges that unlock characters and boss fihgts
– Difficulty varies based on the objective of the challenge
Romino Games, the studio behind Swords & Soldiers on WiiWare, has unveiled a cancelled Wii project that was intended for retail.
Back in 2007, Romino was working on Snowball Earth for the console. The game was developed for more than a year, though it was unfortunately cancelled due to a lack of publish interest.
A synopsis provided by Romino reads:
“Snowball Earth is about a robot boy who thinks he accidentally started the last ice age. His robot masters have sent him to Earth to undo his mistake and together with his robot doggies he has been given the task to melt the earth. During his quest, he discovers that he has been deceived: a large fridge manufacturing company has illegally sold fridges to the yeti’s on earth, who can’t get enough of snow and ice. Our little robot hero must battle the evil polar animals, close all the fridges, and prove his innocence!”
Game designer Fabian Akker commented:
“Although it’s a shame the game never got a chance to see the light of day, we hope people will enjoy playing the demo. Hopefully we will be able to give the game a second chance.”
Snowball Earth is now seeing new life. Interested gamers can download a playable demo for the title, available here.
Additionally, there’s even more backstory about the project here.
Source: Romino Games PR
River City Ransom 2, announced for WiiWare and PC well over a year ago, is now on hold. Miracle Kidz confirmed on Twitter that this is an indefinite move, so the game will probably never see the light of day… at least as far as we can tell.
If there’s a bright spot to this, it’s that River City Ransom’s 2 developer isn’t going anywhere. Miracle Kidz plans to work on original games going forward.
Update: Video is gone now. Hope you watched it while it was up!
It should go without saying that you should be cautious of spoilers…
Nintendo has opened a teaser site for a third Wii U game that is set to come out on launch. You can take a look at the official page for Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge here.
Look for the full site soon.
This is an important day for two reasons. First, my guinea pig is turning one year old today. Wait… I’m the only one who cares about that? Well, aside from my personal update, you may be surprised to hear that Nintendo Everything is celebrating its fifth anniversary today as well!
When I look back on things, I seriously can’t believe that the site has been up this long. I’ve grown along with NE in many ways, and I truly believe that our updates have steadily improved over the years – in terms of quality and quantity.
I’m really pleased with where NE is at right now. I feel like we have a great handling of the news, and always post appropriate content in large bunches that is relevant to everybody’s interests. Austin has also been doing a bang-up job with features over the past couple of months with his podcasts and other initiatives like our Extra Life charity event.
At this time next year, I think you’ll find that NE’s ability to deliver updates will be better than ever – more on that in a few months. For now, let’s take the time to enjoy this day.
Happy anniversary, Nintendo Everything!
Note: Now that the day has passed, I figured you’d all love to hear that my guinea pig had a lovely birthday!
We’re slowly but surely starting to see more of Burger King’s Wii U toys. Photos of additional ones have emerged, and they’re all in the gallery above.
Keep in mind that the items pictured aren’t the only Wii U toys that the fast food restaurant is offering. In total, ten toys should be made available.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed won’t support voice chat on Wii U. Executive producer Steve Lycett briefly discussed the decision, but has since provided a more in-depth explanation about the missing feature.
Here’s what he had to say:
“…Bear in mind Voice chat is only supported by third party peripherals and then only on the GamePad. Given we felt only a select few players would therefore go buy said peripheral and it meant only one player being able to chat, we opted to spend the time and effort on features more players would enjoy.
“We’ve hardly rushed it out, we’ve attempted to support as many WiiU specifics as we can via the 5 player splitscreen both off and online, WiiU specific game modes, Mii’s with a unique vehicle and more.
“You make these calls with a launch title as you don’t know what kind of uptake a given feature has. Besides, lack of voice chat never hurt Mario Kart Wii eh? :P”
Amazon is selling 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors for just $14.99. Considering Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward is due out tomorrow, this would be the perfect time to get yourself acquainted with the original game.
You can order 999 here.
Bry Sharland isn’t pleased that Nintendo Power will soon be shutting down. Actually, he tells us that he’s been “depressed” over its imminent closure.
In hopes of paying tribute to the magazine, Bry has been working on a painting since August while being involved with two jobs. It features some of Nintendo’s most popular characters as well as Nester – one of Nintendo Power’s older mascots.
Props to Bry for making this painting. There’s no way we could have made something like this!
