A new wave of Nintendo Selects joined the North American lineup on Friday. Five games were added, including nintendogs + cats: Golden Retriever & New Friends. Most of these titles had their prices updated on the eShop, but there’s now a strange situation surroundings the nintendogs + cats games.
Back in 2014, all three versions of nintendogs + cats became available digitally and at just $15. Now, however, they’re gone entirely. Searching for nintendogs + cats brings up zero results. All of the Nintendo Selects had their prices updated on the eShop this past Friday and Nintendo Land even made a return, but it seems that nintendogs + cats is gone. It’s likely related to the fact that Golden Retriever & New Friends’ old price ($15) was lower than it would have been under the Nintendo Selects line ($20).
Will nintendogs + cats ever return? That’s a good question. If the different versions ever come back, they probably won’t be at $15 again.
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Developers taking down their games from the eShop isn’t something that we see too often. However, TreeFall Studios has decided to move in that direction for one of its older releases.
The Wii U title Outside the Realm will be gone as of September 1. Regarding the decision, TreeFall said “it no longer meets our quality standards”.
TreeFall said on Twitter earlier this month:
Outside the Realm was more of an experiment, we are removing the game from the eShop on Sept 1st as it no longer meets our quality standards
— TreeFallStudios (@TreeFallGames) August 18, 2016
Crystalline Green, the indie developer behind Totem Topple, has pulled back the curtain on its next project. The Wii U eShop game “Flight of Light” mixes music and racing.
The point of Flight of Light is to race in time with the music. When you hit the beet, your vehicle’s speed will be boosted. Nine levels and local multiplayer will be included.
Flight of Light is due out early next year on Wii U and other platforms. View a trailer below.
The Girl and the Robot recently debuted on PC, though it’ll be heading to Wii U later in the year. Check out some footage below.
With new Nintendo Selects coming out in North America on Friday, Nintendo has prepared two more promos. One is specific to Wii U, while the other is just for 3DS. Both are posted below.
It’s not too often that we hear about the Nintendo games made for the CD-i. And there’s good reason for that: they’re largely considered to be some of the worst titles out there. They weren’t actually created by Nintendo, as Philips handled them instead.
Philips worked with two developers on a few Nintendo games for the CD-i. There were a trio of Zelda titles, along with Hotel Mario.
Stephen Radosh was one of the people who was very involved with the Nintendo efforts on CD-i. On Hotel Mario, he was executive producer. While he wasn’t there for the initial negotiations Philips had, Nintendo was said to be quite cooperative.
Radosh told Game Informer this month:
“They could have kept saying no, and then it would have never hit the market. I was expecting nothing but combative, and I got the exact opposite.”
“I still had to get approval from Nintendo on everything, because these were their trademark characters. And anyone who owns trademark characters will tell you, you don’t want Link having sex with Zelda on the ramparts of the castle.”
More footage of Axiom Verge has been posted, which launches on the eShop in North America and Europe on Thursday. Watch another half hour of gameplay below.
The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Graphics may not be a standalone book. Inside the collection, which just came out in Japan yesterday, specific wording hints at more releases. We may see a second book this winter followed by a third in 2017. Obviously there have not been any specific announcements yet.
In North America and Europe, Zelda: Hyrule Graphics is known as The Legend of Zelda: Art and Artifacts. It will be available next February.
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This past week, Dark Horse Books announced that the company is teaming up with Nintendo for The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts. North America and Europe will need to wait until next year for its localization, but in Japan, it came out yesterday as “The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Graphics”. You can view some photos of the book below.
