Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a crazy concept in its premise, yet Nintendo ended up signing off on the project. Creative director Davide Soliani told IGN that the company is actually “quite open-minded” to new ideas. You just need to come up with a concept that can justify its existence.
As many of you know, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto didn’t want Ubisoft to create a platformer. Instead, he wanted them to come up with their own concept. Ubisoft ran wild with the challenge, and created a turn-based strategy game and gave guns to Mario and the rest of the gang.
Nintendo has prepared a new commercial for Pokken Tournament DX, coming to Switch later this month. Have a look at the advert below.
GameXplain has a look at Shovel Knight’s appearance at PAX with some off-screen footage showing a battle between King Knight and Specter Knight. Watch the video below.
Eurogamer recently spoke with Andrei Lăzărescu, a developer at EA Sports Bucharest working on FIFA 18. The site asked about missing content such as the FUT Champions and Squad Battles modes, and whether this is because they expect more casual play on Switch.
Lăzărescu said in response:
“I see it as being more social. …casual represents different things to different people. I look at them as two different games, two different worlds, that I think we should take for what they are, and keep in mind that we should not try to force people onto certain things just because it works on a certain platform.”
FIFA 18 is using a different engine on Switch than other platforms. On PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, EA is using Frostbite. This is what allows for features like the Journey follow-up, the new ‘cinematic’ Career Mode transfers, a special animation system, and more detailed stadiums and crowds. Lăzărescu feels that the Switch hardware “is very difficult,” and a future mode exactly like the Journey is “unlikely.” He also added that the aforementioned additions “would take an army of people, if it was possible, to be done.”
More PAX West footage from GameXplain, this time we have some gameplay footage of Nine Parchments which you can check out down below.
Some more screenshots of Metroid: Samus Returns have been posted online, give them a look down below.
GameXplain has just uploaded a video from PAX West showing off 10 minutes of the Bowser’s Minions part of Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions. Check out the full 10 minutes below.
We heard earlier that Stardew Valley would be submitted for approval to Nintendo. Turns out it has indeed been submitted as confirmed by the CEO of Chucklefish on twitter. It’s great to have the official confirmation and now we’re one step closer to Stardew Valley on Switch.
https://twitter.com/Tiyuri/status/903528540729217024
Nintendo’s twitter has just shown off a few images of the upcoming Splatfest in Splatoon 2. The maps are Manta Maria and Shifty Station, check them out below.
