Update: Tomita has clarified on Twitter that he will still work with Good-Feel, but as a freelancer.
Tomoya Tomita worked as a composer for Konami way back in the day before moving on to Good-Feel during the Wii era. In collaboration with Nintendo, he contributed to the music of Wario Land: Shake It, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Yoshi’s Woolly World, and more.
Tomita has now decided to depart from Good-Feel and is a freelancer. He just made the move at the start of 2017. Tomita is now taking on requests, and even uploaded unused music from Yoshi’s Woolly World.
The latest episode of Nintendo’s Japanese show Nyannyan Neko Mario Time has now gone live. We’ve included it below.
Update: Swapped out the Japanese video of the animated video for the North American upload. Also confirmed as one of the shorts included with the game.
Original: Nintendo just now uploaded a new Japanese commercial for Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World. It’s attached below.
If that wasn’t enough, we have another animated video for the game. That’s below as well.
Sadbot has been revealed for Runner3. In the latest issue of Nintendo Dream, there’s a one-page article on the game and new playable character.
The magazine has this to say about Sadbot:
“As for Sadbot, he may just be the very first Bit.Trip baby! Radbot, CommanderVideo’s hulking sidekick from the original Bit.Trip Runner, was too massive to make the journey for Runner3, so he grabbed some junk and made Sadbot – a smaller, stranger robot boy, born to run as Radbot’s proxy. His bucket-headed profile and torso built from canned Schlortz Premium Matt Fluid both beg the question: What lies in the soul of Sadbot? If Radbot uploaded his psyche into Sadbot’s motherboard, does that make Sadbot a mental clone of his ‘father,’ or will the sweet, lingering Sclortz in Sadbot’s heart-shaped hard drive intermingle with Radbot’s CPU to create a wholly unique mechanical offspring? Only time will tell.”
If that wasn’t enough, Nintendo Force also teases a Switch release of Runner3. While that was largely expected already, this blurb from the magazine is very interesting:
“Speaking of time and telling, we’ve heard that Nintendo is asking indie developers who have Switch games in the works to stay quiet for now. That means, for the moment, we can’t confirm if Runner3 is Switch-bound or not. We also can’t encourage you to look back on Choice Provisions’ consistent history of support for Nintendo consoles so that you may draw your own conclusions on where this Rhythm Alien’s future legend will soon be told. In fact, we may have already run our mouths off too much as it is!”
Nintendo released yet another Zelda: Breath of the Wild screenshot today, and the folks over at GameXplain noticed something interesting about the image. In the lower left hand corner, a character is shown that looks a whole lot like Beedle.
For one thing, the bag takes on the resemblance of an actual beetle. If that wasn’t enough, the character takes on a similar appearance as Beedle himself from past entries in the series with the color of his hair, shorts, and shoes. The art on the character’s shorts seems similar as well.
Beedle is a merchant in several of the Zelda games, such as Wind Waker and Skyward Sword. It would make sense for him to serve a similar role in Breath of the Wild.
My Nintendo added in some discounts for North American members a few days ago. However, there’s one additional reward not on the site until now.
For 20 Gold Points, you can pick up a 30% discount on Kirby & The Amazing Mirror. It expires on April 2 – just like the previous discounts from the weekend.
Thanks to TruExtent for the tip.
Nintendo has once again shared a brand new screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Facebook. See the latest image above.
The nominees are in for the 2017 Game Developers Choice Awards. Pokemon GO is the main highlight in terms of Nintendo-related titles, picking up a few nominations and honorable mentions in various categories. Super Mario Run and Pokemon Sun/Moon are also being considered as best mobile/handheld title.
Find the lineup of Nintendo-related nominees below. The 2017 Game Developers Choice Awards will be held on March 1 at 6:30 PM PT (9:30 PM ET) at the San Francisco Moscone Center during the 2017 Game Developers Conference in conjunction with the Independent Games Festival Awards (IGF). It will be streamed live on Twitch.
Update (1/4): Added a couple of additional videos after the break.
Original (1/3): Quiet, Please! from Nostatic Software is due out on the 3DS eShop in a couple of days. For a look at the game, watch the off-screen footage below.
Nintendo is finally delivering on a long-awaited Wii U Virtual Console title in North America. As of tomorrow, Pokemon Snap will be available on the eShop.
Here’s a brief overview:
“Travel to Pokémon Island and meet Professor Oak to begin a safari to take the best possible photographs of 63 different Pokémon. The island has many types of climates and environments to explore, along with secret activities and hidden passages to discover. Some of the Pokémon can be a little shy and won’t pose for the camera unless you tease them with special items! After you’re done, submit one picture of each Pokémon to Professor Oak, and he’ll judge it based on size, pose, technique, and number of Pokémon captured. Start practicing if you want to snap the perfect shot!”
Pokemon Snap will cost $9.99 on the Wii U Virtual Console.
