A panel for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be held at GDC 2017, Nintendo announced today. Game director Hidemaro Fujibayashi, art director Satoru Takizawa, and technical director Takuhiro Dohta will be on hand for the panel, named “Change and Constant – Breaking Conventions with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”. The event “will provide an in-depth look at how these convention-breaking changes were implemented.”
Nintendo will host the panel between 11 AM to 12:30 PM local time on March 1 at the Moscone Center. It doesn’t sound like a live stream will be offered, but it will be shown on the GDC Vault site the following week.
Source: Nintendo PR
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Download
I C REDD – €1.49 / £1.39 / CHF 2.10
3DS Retail
Dragon Ball Fusions (available February 17th) – €39.99 / £34.99 / CHF 51.90
3DS Download
Tank Troopers – €7.99 / £7.19 / CHF 11.20
3DS Themes
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The Open World – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF 2.80
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: A New Adventure – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF 2.80
This week’s Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Wii U
1. Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo
2. Minecraft: Wii U Edition – Nintendo
3. New Super Mario Bros. U + Luigi U – Nintendo
4. Yoshi’s Woolly World – Nintendo
5. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD – Nintendo
6. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – Nintendo
7. Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash – Nintendo
8. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo
9. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – Nintendo
10. Just Dance 2017 – Ubisoft
3DS
1. Pokemon Sun – Nintendo
2. Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World – Nintendo
3. Pokemon Moon – Nintendo
4. Super Mario Maker – Nintendo
5. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
6. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
7. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
8. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D – Nintendo
9. Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Warner Bros. Interactive
10. Pokemon Omega Ruby – Nintendo
Source: Chart-Track
A new special map, Part 2: Launch Celebration, is available for Fire Emblem Heroes. The map has a normal and hard versions, each of which will earn you 3 orbs for beating the first time. The map will be available until March 14.
Nintendo has shared a video of the Baseball minigame from 1-2 Switch, which was not featured in the last round of videos. The game involves one player choosing how to throw the ball, while the other player must time a bat swing for how they think the ball was thrown. Watch it below:
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Konami has released the opening cinematic for Super Bomberman R. It shows the frustration that Bomberman is having with his many siblings, as well as the sinister plans of the Emperor Bugler and the return of the Dastardly Bombers. Watch it below:
It’s time for the latest Famitsu‘s most wanted games chart. Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Switch moves up several spots while a number of new Switch games also appear for the first time.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between January 26 and February 1.
Boxes for upcoming Switch games have started to show up in Japan. One of these includes Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers, which has been floating around on places on 2ch. The box provides a couple of important details about the game.
First, it’s now officially confirmed that Ultra Street Fighter II will have a new first-person mode. This was originally teased in the game’s debut trailer last month. It’s a unique game mode called “Unleash! Ha”DO”ken”, and is specialized for use with the Joy-Con controllers in a first-person view.
System: Wii U (reviewed) / 3DS eShops
Release date: February 9, 2017
Developer: Ratalaika Games / VaragtP
Publisher Ratalaika Games
Have you ever played Cookie Clicker or one of its hundreds of clones? Planetra is one of those idle games, now on your Wii U and 3DS. You harvest fruit, berries, eggs, manure – the whole gambit of things that come out of a farm, for gold. More gold means investing more resources into the farm. More resources yields larger quantities of produce to sell for yet more gold. Watching numbers tick up at a growing pace then releases dopamine in your brain.
