In a recent issue of Famitsu, the magazine had a massive interview with Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino. The discussion covered the company’s Level-5 Vision 2016 event, plus specific games: The Snack World, Lady Layton, Megaton Musashi, and Inazuma Eleven Ares.
It starts out with Famitsu talking about how there’s a theme each time a Level-5 Vision is held. This time around, it’s “New Heroes”. Hino notes that it’s probably just the company’s usual practice of deciding themes and holding announcement events.
Nintendo Everything was at this year’s Tokyo Game Show! We had a low-key presence at the event, but we did manage to try out several upcoming Japanese 3DS titles. Look for our impressions in the coming days.
One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum is a 3DS fighting game developed by Arc System Works for Bandai Namco. It will be released soon in Japan on September 21, but there was a demo available at Tokyo Game Show 2016 and we were able to try it out. However, we were limited to CPU battles.
Although One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum will have many playable and assist characters, not all of them were available in the TGS demo. For example, the only available Straw Hats were Luffy, Sanji, and Franky. One side can either pick two main characters and two assist characters, or substitute the assist character slots for a third main character.
On Thursday, NPD released a chart for the top ten best-selling games in the United States during August. Nintendo has since commented on its own performance.
According to Nintendo, the “excitement for the Pokemon brand” led to a big increase in sales of its handheld line. The 2DS experienced a 500 percent bump in 2DS sales year-over-year while 3DS hardware also rose by 83 percent.
With software, physical and digital first-party 3DS sales increased by 57 percent. Pokemon Omega Ruby and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire were both on the software charts.
Nintendo also shared some positive news about Wii U. Software sales on the console were up 30 percent in the U.S. last month.
Amazon has given us a look at the Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Heroes boxart and some screenshots as well. See the packaging above and the images below.
At the Tokyo Game Show earlier today, Capcom hosted three Nintendo-centric stage shows. Monster Hunter Stories, Ace Attorney, and Megami Meguri were each featured at the expo. Recordings for each can be found below.
It’s been a three year wait since the original Japanese release, but Dragon Quest VII finally landed in North America and Europe on 3DS yesterday. However, Nintendo is also hard at work localizing another Dragon Quest game. Next year, we’ll be seeing Dragon Quest VIII on 3DS.
At the PAX panel for Dragon Quest VII a couple of weeks ago, Nintendo showed some footage from the English version of Dragon Quest VIII. Fans were treated to the intro, which confirmed voice acting just like the PlayStation 2 version as both the king and Yangus spoke. Also, it seems that there will not be orchestrated music like Dragon Quest VII’s localized 3DS release.
GameStop is offering an exclusive pre-order bonus for Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice. If you reserve it at the retailer, you’ll receive the poster pictured above. The offer is valid both online and in-store.
Those who pre-order or pick up Sonic Boom upon release will also be entitled to the “Launch Edition”. The package includes three episodes of the Sonic Boom animated series on a bonus DVD.
During a stage show at TGS, Capcom showed a special 15th anniversary video for Ace Attorney which takes a look back at the series. It’s now been published online, and we have it below.
The Great Ace Attorney 2 is in development, Capcom revealed today. News about the project was just shared during a stage show at TGS for Ace Attorney’s 15th anniversary.
Here’s the first trailer:
The Great Ace Attorney launched in Japan last year. However, it has yet to make its way to North America and Europe.
Capcom has not yet said when The Great Ace Attorney 2 will be available, but 2017 is a likely target. It’s also unclear which platform(s) the game will be on.
