Antipole could turn out to be one of the better DSiWare games. It was well received on Xbox Live Arcade!
Tokyo Girls Collection
- A fashion show themed around “real clothes,” or the kind of clothes that teens and 20-year-old girls wear.
Yoshimoto Nintendo 3DS Experimental Theater
- Various skits from comedians.
3D Fura Fura Machi Aruki Kyoto
- A 3D tour of Kyoto, hosted by Tomoko Tabata.
Like Satoru Iwata’s interview with Mashiro Sakurai regarding the next Smash Bros. games, Monolith Soft posted an interview on their website involving their next Wii U project. By discussing their ambitions and goals, the company hopes to attract new employees.
Monolith CEO Hirohide Sugiura. Toshiaki Yajima (main programmer on Xenosaga and Dragon Ball Kai), Katsunori Sakai (main programmer on Xenoblade, event system programmer on Disaster) and Michihiko Inaba (Xenosaga, Soma Bringer) all participated in the interview. You can read up on what they had to say below:
– Monolith Soft has been doing continuous research/development on other company’s products including HD machines
– Sugiura thinks that the company will be able to show the fruits of their work with Wii U
– Yajima says that they’ve been doing R&D for awhile now, so they aren’t experiencing issues on the technical front even though this is their first HD game
– Yajima believes that the potential expressive ability of the game has risen because they can use physics and shaders
– Yajima feels that they can really show their skills as programmers as a result
– Inaba interested in Wii U’s controller, could be interesting to play on the TV and the second screen
– Yajima wants to try out the controller quickly and possibly show different things on each screen
– Inaba wants to make something that surprises everyone since it’s Monolith’s first HD game
– Inaba wants to show that Japanese technology does not lose out to America
– Inaba said that he wants to be at the level of Bethesda Softworks, but joked that maybe he’s going too far
– Sakai excited about the design document for their Wii U game since it would require a high level from the staff
– Yajima wants many people with specific knowledge in such areas as Havok and Shaders
– When trying to portray realistic expressions on the screen, you end up needing to use external programming libraries
– Sakai wants people who are interested in using such libraries for game development
Thanks to Thomas N for the tip!
This service is launching in both Europe and Japan tomorrow, yet we haven’t heard a thing about a launch date for North America. Nintendo Video is still planned for the region – I just have no idea when it’ll be released here!
11th July 2011 – Nintendo 3DS owners will be able to download the new Nintendo Video application from Nintendo eShop from the 13th of July 2011 providing access to a range of new and exclusive 2D and 3D video content on their Nintendo 3DS system.
The Nintendo Video application allows you to view specially selected 2D and 3D video content, including comedy clips, cartoons and music videos to name a few, and all automatically received via SpotPass when a wireless Internet connection is available. SpotPass revolutionises the way you receive content while on the move. Nintendo has partnered with a range of Wi-Fi providers which will enable you to automatically receive free 3D content from supported public Wi-Fi access points – even when your Nintendo 3DS system is in Sleep Mode.
Initial Nintendo Video content which will be available through SpotPass will include selected episodes of Oscar’s Oasis – the charming cartoon TV series produced by TeamTO & TUBA, which has been broadcast across Europe, will become available to view for the first time in full 3D on your Nintendo 3DS system.
3D specialist D4D has also produced an array of exclusive 3D episodes of Magic Tricks for your Nintendo 3DS. Be entertained and stunned viewing classic card tricks and optical illusions in 3D, in the palm of your hand.
The 2D and 3D content will not stop there; in the near future Nintendo Video will be bringing you a host of additional content, including movie trailers, classical music concerts, children’s animations plus much more content, all in full 3D.
For more information on Nintendo 3DS and SpotPass, visit the official Nintendo 3DS website at www.nintendo3ds.co.uk. For information on performing a system update, visit the Support section at support.nintendo.com
Reminder: Game Night will be taking place later tonight. Please join us!
It’s been a longgggg time since we’ve had a Game Night on the site. I’ve been thinking about it quite a bit recently, in part because a few of you have brought it up. So, I’m officially bringing back Game Nights with the “revival” planned for Friday.
Austin’s Wii is broken, though he told me that he could try hopping over to a friend’s house to join us and he’ll most likely be a part of the IRC regardless. I haven’t really considered any format yet, so we’ll decide on which game(s) we’ll play in the chat.
If you’d like to take part, simply visit the site this Friday at 8 PM EDT. I’ll then post up an IRC page around that time. To join, you’ll just need to enter a nickname of your choice (no registration required).
I have no idea if we’ll be able to get back on a smooth schedule with these events, but I have to say that it’d be great if we can host them more frequently. The Game Nights I’ve been a part of have been a blast. Hopefully those of you who have participated feel the same way!
On this week’s episode: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Mega Man 5, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
Namco Bandai has opened a new teaser site for… something. What is it exactly? I honestly have no idea, though perhaps you guys can make something of the background image on the page.
Some fans are speculating that it might be .hack related, but of course, that’s nothing more than a guess at this point. All will be revealed in nine days.
You can check out the teaser site here.
