There was a time when Factor 5 was one of the more reliable developers around. The company churned out titles such as the Star Wars: Rogue Squadron games, and was heavily rumored to be working on a Kid Icarus reboot for Wii. However, it wasn’t long before Factor 5 lost its steam and it is now all but defunct.
Former Factor 5 developer Albert Chen opened up on a few important topics in a new interview, including the creation of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, the studio’s relationship with Nintendo, and his person interest in seeing Rogue Squadron II brought to the Virtual Console/3DS.
Highlights include:
– Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II was completed in nine months
– There were early talks with Microsoft about doing a Turrican game on the Xbox 360, but nothing ever came from this
– “Not sure which publisher got the most proposals from us, but we had a long relationship with LucasArts and Nintendo.”
– says “Wii is essentially an upgraded Gamecube.”
– On Miyamoto saying that Factor 5 was working closely with Nintendo on a project in 2003: “Factor 5 had a very good relationship with Nintendo until the Gamecube started losing the console wars to the PS2 and Xbox. There were some discussions about working with Miyamoto, but most of the dev team was in the dark.”
– Interest in seeing Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II on the Virtual Console or a 3DS remake
Be sure to read the entire interview here.
Thanks to Mike James for the tip.
Software
1. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
2. Super Mario Land
3. Super Mario Bros.
4. Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
5. Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!
6. The Legend of Zelda
7. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX
8. Photo Dojo
9. Colors! 3D
10. Bird Mania 3D
11. Metroid II – Return of Samus
12. Cut The Rope
13. 3D Classics: Kirby’s Adventure
14. Planet Crashers
15. Touch Battle Tank 3D
16. Plants vs. Zombies
17. Pushmo
18. Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive!
19. Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble
20. 3D Solitaire
Videos
1. New Super Mario Bros. 2 Rainbow Course
2. New Super Mario Bros. 2 Warp Canon
3. New Super Mario Bros. 2 Trailer
4. Nintendo Show 3D: August 9, 2012
5. New Super Mario Bros. 2 Info Video
6. Nintendo Show 3D: July 26, 2012
7. Pokemon Black/White 2 Video
8. Kingdom Hearts 3D Trailer
9. New Super Mario Bros. U Trailer
10. Wii U Experience: Chicago
11. Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros. 2
12. New Super Mario Bros. 2 Commercial
13. Touch Battle Tank 3D Video
14. Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! Video
15. Pokedex 3D Video
16. Mario Kart 7 Video
17. Super Mario Land Video
18. Pokemon Rumble Blast Video
19. Planet Crashers Video
20. Petit Computer Video
Source: 3DS eShop
Earlier today, Capcom announced a new collaboration with Dontnod Entertainment for the upcoming project “Remember Me”. This kind of title seemed like it would be a perfect fit on Nintendo’s new console, given its unique style and gameplay. It doesn’t hurt that some gamers feel that it’s somewhat comparable to Capcom’s old GameCube release, P.N.03.
Remember Me was considered for Wii U at one point, but to put it simply, Capcom decided against the idea. The company felt that burdening Dontnod with new hardware would be a poor move and it wanted to keep the studio focused.
Capcom’s Christian Svensson explained on the Capcom-Unity boards:
“As for WiiU, this project was started many years ago, long before WiiU was even a twinkle in Nintendo’s eye. We explored the idea of adding a SKU, but in the name of keeping the team focused and not adding dev tasks for the team to get up to speed on new hardware and time to the schedule, we’ve opted to keep it on the original platforms for which it was planned.”
The upcoming Wii U game ‘Tekken Tag Tournament 2’ is shaping up nicely, even more so now that Namco Bandai has announced collaborations with various manga artists to work on the costumes for characters in the game. Here’s the full list as we know it:
Jaycee: Mutsumi Inomata
Alisa: Shigeto Koyama
Miguel: Ryouji Minagawa
Anna: Ito Oogure
Heihachi: Simon Bisley
Kunimitsu: Katsuya Terada
Additionally, we’ve got screenshots and a trailer featuring the costumes, posted after the break.
Thanks to Jake for the tip.
This week’s ESRB updates are as follows:
Wipeout 3 (Wii) – E10+
Moshi Monsters: Moshlings Theme Park (3DS) – E
The dog days of summer continue, so there are only a couple of updates this week.
