Yoshi will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Famicom download on August 22 for 500 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.
Thanks to the game’s Facebook page, we have the first art and details for Star Beast.
We should preface this by saying that it’s not entirely clear how much of this information is still relevant. Most of the gameplay ideas are probably still intact, but the page does mention that the Wii and 3DS are targeted platforms. That’s no longer the case as a LinkedIn profile states that the game will be released on the Wii U, PC, and mobile devices.
In any case, you can find all of the content below.
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Me and the cloudy, question-answering collective at n-Space virtually sit down to discuss Heroes of Ruin, developmental frustrations, Star Wars: Battlefront, the fate (and possible future) of ‘Winter’, and much more. Even “Mary Kate and Ashley” makes a brief appearance.
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There is only one video game company in the entire world that could simultaneously say it has worked on a series as prolific as Star Wars, legendary as Mary Kate and Ashley, and classic as Roller Coaster Tycoon. That developer is n-Space, who most of you probably know due to their work on the Call of Duty DS games and various other FPS adaptations on Nintendo’s handheld. Their portfolio is huge and their experience dates back to 1997 with a PS1 game called ‘TigerShark’, so needless to say, I went into this interview a little nervous– like a court jester trying to impress the king, or a game blogger trying to interview a well-known developer.
I was ready though, and I stepped into the room prepared for anything. Nothing, however, could have prepared me for that with which I was faced…
Take a look at another batch of Project X Zone details below. The latest information covers more details on how some of the game’s characters meet. Also be sure to check out the latest screenshots.
– .hack’s Kite and BlackRose are in The World
– They run into Mega Man Legends’ Tron Bonne and Namco X Capcom’s Xiaomu
– The latter characters are lost in cyberspace
– .hack is about a group of characters who can’t logout of an online game, but BlackRose and Kite can logout in Project X Zone
– Kurt and Riela from Valkyria Chronicles 3 are soldiers from the 1930s
– The two meet characters from the Sakura Wars games since they are from the Taisho time period
– Before going to the past, Yuri and Estelle travel to an alternate dimension where they cross swords with Sanger Zonvolt from the Super Robot Taisen series
A LinkedIn profile confirms speculation that Star Beast is coming to Wii U. It seems that the game is being made for the system’s eShop.
Also rumored is that Nintendo is looking to attract mobile developers. Further information on this isn’t available.
We don’t actually have any details about Star Beast yet. What we do know is that the game is also in development for the PC and mobile devices.
Even though the 3DS introduced SpotPass for the first time, the concept stems from an earlier Nintendo system. The Wii made use of a similar idea with WiiConnect24, but it was severely underutilized compared to SpotPass.
So what’s the point of talking about this? Now that the “downloading while you sleep” feature has been realized with the 3DS – for the most part anyway – there’s a chance that the Wii U could be supporting the functionality.
As shown in the Wii U development kit image above, there appears to be a setting for “Spot Pass setting”. That alone isn’t enough to confirm anything (especially since we can’t confirm the validity of the photo), but it wouldn’t be too surprising to see a form of SpotPass support for Wii U.
Famitsu was on a brief hiatus this week, but it’ll be returning next week with a “surprise scoop”. That’s according to a new tease posted on the publication’s Twitter account today.
The magazine didn’t share any clues when talking about its mysterious scoop. We don’t know who’s developing the project, which genre it falls into, or any other details. But now that this year’s Tokyo Game Show is just a month away, publishers may begin to announce some of their projects making debuts at the show.
Famitsu’s next edition will be published on August 23. Although, as usual, its contents should leak out on Tuesday.
This comes from an interview I did with those cool guys at n-Space. I asked them what else might be brewing (as is mandatory if you are interviewing someone!) and they replied with this:
“Just keep your eyes on the official n-Space Facebook page and you’re sure to see a surprise sooner rather than later.” – n-Space’s invisible collective of answering interview questions
There’s truly lots of other really awesome information in the interview (SW:Battlefront talk, Heroes of Ruin tidbits, development process details, etc), but you’ll have to wait until later tonight for me to properly type it up! This, however, I felt was worth posting independently.
