Rovio’s Executive Vice President of Games Petri Järvilehto has revealed Angry Birds Trilogy for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and 3DS. Järvilehto says that the experience has been “built from the ground up”.
Angry Birds Trilogy features three games in one: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio. The package offers support for PlayStation Move, Kinect, and StreetPass. Additionally, individual leaderboards will be available for each level.
According to Järvilehto:
“You can think of the game as the ultimate collector’s edition. There are new cinematics, extras and other entertaining content. In addition all of the existing material has been uprezzed and re-treated for the high-resolution and big screen.”
“The backgrounds have been animated, we’ve added lighting modes, reactive backgrounds, the list goes on and on. We believe that there are a lot of people on the consoles who appreciate a great casual game play experience. This is a game that resonates across a wide audience on many platforms.”
“There have been so many fans asking to be able to play the game on their home console with their friends and family, and so far we haven’t been able to offer anything to them. Now we’re finally able to have a great high quality experience on those platforms.”
Angry Birds Trilogy will be released this holiday.
Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada believes that the Wii U’s CPU clock speed “is kinda low”. It may even be “a little bit” lower than that of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Those comments might not elicit the most positive thoughts about the Wii U, but Harada did say that “graphical processing and such” haven’t been problematic.
Speaking about the Wii U’s CPU, Harada commented.
“I think maybe the game is coming along smoother than most people would think, as far as the look of the game. As far as graphical processing and such, it’s not much of an issue. But as far as the CPU goes, the clock is kinda low. I guess they’re trying to keep power consumption down so we have to come up with creative ways to get around that and that’s taking a little bit of time.”
Harada was then asked if the CPU is lower than that of the Xbox or PS3.
He responded:
“Maybe a little bit. For example on PS3 it was kind of difficult at first, but if you made good use of the different cores, you could split up the processing tasks and you could achieve very good effects. But this is kind of a different issue than that.”
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 for Wii U is “coming along quite rapidly”, according to Harada. He also said that it isn’t “far behind” the Xbox 360 or PS3 versions.
Regarding a release date, Harada is hoping it’ll be out “as close as possible” to the other versions.
Nintendo has opened an official North American website for New Super Mario Bros. 2.
It’s in a teaser state for now, but there is a trailer and a few screenshots to check out. The full page will be opening soon.
You can take a look at the site here.
The next Smash Bros. is “a big priority” for Namco Bandai, says Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada. He also indicated that his Tekken Tag Tournament 2 team will likely he assisting in the Wii U and 3DS projects even though they’re currently occupied with their own title.
Harada said:
“Obviously it’s a big priority for the company, so company-wide there are a lot of people involved with that particular project. Not just from Tekken but a lot of our franchises. Although our main core staff is busy with Tekken Tag tournament 2 and trying to finish that up, I do think we’ll support the initiative in some kind of capacity.”
As far as characters in the new Smash Bros. games are concerned, Harada noted:
“That question was one of the most frequently asked questions we got when we announced the project. Especially from abroad. The fans, rather than asking about Tales or Gundam, or some of our other franchises, the fans abroad saw Tekken as one of the key words and took off on that. We’re not really sure at this moment but when thinking of the playerbase who is playing Smash Bros, maybe Tekken characters is something they wouldn’t want, so I’ve been pulling back on that a bit. But I don’t know.”
Now that there’s an actual Smash Bros. team being assembled, we’ll start to hear about the Wii U/3DS games on a more regular basis. If we’re lucky, maybe Nintendo will have something to show at next year’s E3.
Get Ready to Enter the Pokémon World Tournament in Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2
10th July 2012 – Nintendo has revealed new information about the Pokémon World Tournament gameplay mode that debuts in Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 launching for the Nintendo DS family of systems on 12th October 2012. The game is also playable in 2D on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL. In Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2, players will return to the Unova Region and embark on a brand new adventure set two years after the events of the acclaimed Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version games.
The new Pokémon World Tournament mode includes the following:
Bomberman GB3 will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Game Boy download on July 11 (tomorrow!) for 400 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.
The history behind Nexon’s MapleStory DS is pretty incredible. It was announced for the DS way back in 2006. Nintendo finally published the title in Korea back in 2010, and it made its way to Japan late last year.
Could a North American/European version be possible as well? Dirctor Hong Sungjoon has said that Nexon will consider releasing the game overseas as a download on 3DS. By that, he likely means distributing the title on the eShop.
Sungjoon said:
“In reality, we think it is now too difficult to publish it as a package in America and Europe. However, we will consider if it is possible to publish it in the form of a download on Nintendo 3DS.”
