Today, GamesIndustry published a new interview with a couple of people involved with Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Director Davide Soliani and composer Grant Kirkhope participated in the discussion.
During the interview, Kirkhope talked about first finding out about the game, also shared an… interesting story about an encounter with Shigeru Miyamoto from his time at Rare. Soliani also talked about being starstruck with Kirkhpoe, worries stemming from the initial leaks, and the game’s inspirations.
You can find that and a bit more below. You can read up on GamesIndustry’s full piece here for additional comments.
A little while back, the Japanese Super Mario Odyssey Twitter account provided an official introduction for the bird that appears in Luncheon Kingdom. We now have the English equivalent from the UK Twitter page.
That bird, pictured above, is officially going by the name “Cookatiel” in English. Here’s the brief message that was posted by Nintendo UK:
Introducing the Cookatiel. As the name suggests, this bird likes to eat a lot! #SuperMarioOdyssey pic.twitter.com/RfMAa7sSQn
— Super Mario UK (@SuperMario_UK) July 18, 2017
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
DiRT 4 (PS4/XBO) – 9/8/8/8
Utsusemi no Mawari (PSV) – 8/8/8/8
I and Me (NSW) – 8/8/7/7
Implosion: Never Lose Hope (NSW) – 7/8/7/8
Kirby’s Blowout Blast (3DS) – 7/8/7/8
Typoman: Revised (PS4) – 7/7/8/8
Cursed Castilla (3DS) – 7/8/7/7
Wagamama High Spec (PSV) – 7/7/7/7
LOUD on Planet X (PS4) – 6/6/7/6
Nintendo has scheduled a maintenance period of about 2 hours and 40 minutes for “certain network services” for Wii U and 3DS later today / tomorrow. Below are the exact times:
– 5:50 PM PT (July 18) – 8:30 PM PT (July 18)
– 8:50 PM ET (July 18) – 11:30 PM ET (July 18)
– 1:50 AM in the UK (July 19) – 4:30 AM in the UK (July 19)
– 2:50 AM in Europe (July 19) – 5:30 AM in Europe (July 19)
Just like for the first game, Famitsu is holding a Squid Fashion Contest for Splatoon 2. Fans can submit designs for pieces of gear to Famitsu, and the winning submission will be added to the game. This time, the contest will also include a graffiti category. More details will become available once the full issue of Famitsu is out tomorrow.
The new Grand Hero Battle will be against Berkut from Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. You will be able to recruit a bronze or silver Berkut depending on the difficulty you challenge him at from hard to infernal. You will have until July 25th to obtain Berkut.
For those of you that participated in the Pokemon Sun and Moon Global Mission, the rewards are now available for you to obtain. Participants who defended their champion role will receive 5 rare candy and a moon ball. The prize can be obtained through a serial code from the Pokemon Global Link. You will have until August 30th to take these rewards.
A new rotation of Pokemon Shuffle stages are now available again. This time we have repeat runs of Meloetta Pirouette Forme, Hitmonlee, Ho-Oh and Raikou with the addition of Butterfree. The safari zone also has Caterpie, Metapod, Venonat, Venomoth, Burmy Trash Cloak and Wormadam Trash Cloak. All of these will remain available until August 1st.
Infinite Minigolf was originally planned for spring. We’re passed that point, but it looks like we won’t have to wait much longer for Zen Studios’ first Switch game.
According to a European eShop listing, Infinite Minigolf is scheduled for July 24. We would anticipate it launching around the same time in North America, assuming the eShop page is accurate.
Here’s a look at the Infinite Minigolf trailer from May:
Source: Switch eShop
Miiverse launched with Wii U back in 2012. It expanded to 3DS in later years, but the service as a whole could be coming to an end soon.
As we reported earlier, Nintendo pushed out a new update for Wii U tonight. We don’t really have any specifics, though dataminers appear to have made an interesting discovery.
This text was apparently changed with version 5.5.2:
“The Miiverse service has ended. Miiverse and any software features that make use of Miiverse are now unavailable.”
Miiverse isn’t a part of Switch at all, so it wouldn’t be entirely surprising to see the service end at some point soon. Some community members likely wouldn’t be too happy though.
