Alan Young passed away yesterday at the age of 96.
One of Young’s more iconic roles was voicing Scrooge McDuck. He most recently provided the character’s voice in DuckTales Remastered, and was also involved with titles such as Disney Magical World.
There’s no question that Young’s work as Scrooge McDuck will always be remembered. We wish his family well during this tough time.
A new gameplay trailer for the indie Wii U eShop title Drop It: Block Paradise! has arrived. You can view it below.
Drop It: Block Paradise! is due out this fall.
This week’s episode of Nintendo Minute has gone live. In today’s video, Kit and Krysta share some of their gaming confessions. Check it out below.
LEGO Marvel’s Avengers will be adding a new Spider-Man character pack featuring the character from Civil War, USA Today reports. The new content is set to arrive “soon”.
Warner Bros. and TT Games have been updating LEGO Marvel’s Avengers with DLC on Wii U, so Spider-Man should be on that platform for sure. USA Today mentions 3DS as well, but I believe that’s less certain.
New videos from YouTube user ChallengeTimeLP give us a good look at Hyrule Warriors Legends’ new Master Wind Waker Pack. Get a look at an hour of footage below.
Update 2: Animal Crossing cards series 4 are up on Amazon.
Update: Bumped to the top. All of the Kirby amiibo are now live here.
Individual links:
Kirby
Meta Knight
King Dedede
Waddle Dee
Additionally, Isabelle pre-orders are open. Get the Summer Outfit version here and Winter Outfit version here.
Amazon has opened up pre-orders for one of the new Kirby series amiibo. You can now reserve Waddle Dee here (save 20% with Prime). The other Kirby figures aren’t up yet strangely, but I imagine they’ll be available soon! Keep an eye on this link for the Kirby, King Dedede, and Meta Knight amiibo.
Nintendo has prepared a new Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE trailer under the name “Hyped for Combat”. Check it out below.
PokePark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure came to the North American Wii U eShop yesterday as a Wii download. View an hour of footage from the game below.
Playtonic has started its big blowout of Yooka-Laylee today. New content about the game is being unveiled, and even more updates will be shared over the next few weeks. The team is also “getting close” to settling on some launch news.
Read on below for today’s update covering topics like the story, collectibles, and a Toybox demo for Kickstarter backers due out in July. There are new images sprinkled throughout as well.
Over the past year the Playtonic team has tripled in size, moved office and quietly slaved away on what would become the final form of Yooka-Laylee. You can see some of the results of our work below and over on the Yooka-Laylee game page.
There’s lots to talk about – and today is just the preliminary act. Over the next few weeks we’ll hope to wow you with increasingly dazzling dance numbers, first clicking our heels in the new Edge Magazine on May 26, which will be packed full of details and purchasable in both print and digital flavours.
Soon after you’ll see eyes-on reports of the final Yooka-Laylee appear on your favourite online channels and video platforms, quickly followed by the hijinks of the Electronic Entertainment Expo. We will of course ensure that Kickstarter backers are kept fully up to date with everything we reveal going forward.
One thing we’re not quite ready to reveal yet is the game’s final, day-and-date release plan, but we’re getting close. The Playtonic team is working towards the same release window penned last year, but as fans of some of our past work will attest, we’re a group committed to releasing games only when they’re polished, complete and at the quality level you expect. As soon as we’re confident we’ve ticked all of those boxes, we’ll inform our backers directly of when to mark their calendars.
So without further ado, this is what Yooka-Laylee looks like today.
Update (5/20): Timing of the next update has been announced. News will be shared at the following times:
– 6 AM PT
– 9 AM ET
– 2 PM in the UK
– 3 PM in Europe
Original (5/18): Excitement has been growing within the community of Pokemon fans after the first trailer for Pokemon Sun & Moon was released earlier this month, showing footage of the three new starter Pokemon available in the upcoming games.
The news for the games will continue as today the Japanese Pokemon Twitter has confirmed that brand new information about Sun & Moon will be released on June 2nd 2016. There are no hints yet about what this information might be but fans can be happy knowing that the wait for more news will not be too much longer.
