If you visit a McDonald’s with your 3DS over in Europe, you can nab an exclusive puzzle over in the StreetPass Mii Plaza. Take a look at the video below for a look at the completed image.
Update (9/27): Bumped to the top. You can save about $10 on the Xenoblade guide and $7 on the Star Fox Zero guide.
Original (9/14): Yesterday we learned that The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes would be receiving a guide from Prima, including a collector’s edition release. It’s since been confirmed that Star Fox Zero
and Xenoblade Chronicles X
are getting the same treatment.
Amazon is listing the Star Fox Zero and Xenoblade Chronicles X guides – both of which are collector’s edition – for $34.99 a piece. They’ll also come with hardcovers and a screen cleaner.
Update: These are all now price matched on Amazon
(Smash Bros. Wii U is actually a bit less). However, some are for Prime members only. Also, some items are temporarily out of stock, but can still be ordered.
A select Nintendo games are on sale over at Best Buy. Through October 3, you can save on six Wii U and 3DS games.
Here’s the full list:
– Splatoon
– Mario Kart 7
– Mario Party 10 (including the amiibo bundle)
– Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
– Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D
– Animal Crossing: New Leaf
You can check out Best Buy’s official sale page here. We’ll let you know if Amazon does any price matching.
New footage has come in showing Assault Android Cactus. You can watch the latest video below.
Over on Miiverse, Intropy Games shared some news about an upcoming Astral Breakers update.
The patch will introduce anew round of bug fixes as well as graphical updates. Additionally, Black Hole Breaker will be added (presumably a new mode).
Here’s the full Miiverse notice from Intropy:
Nintendo UK recently put up an interview with Martin Sauter from Shin’en. As you would expect, the discussion was entirely about FAST Racing Neo. Sauter commented on a number of topics, including the locations in the game, difficulty, controls, Easter eggs, and more.
You can find a number of excerpts from the interview below. The full piece is located here.
A few days ago, we received confirmation that Toto Temple Deluxe is launching on the European Wii U eShop on Thursday. We now know that the title is due out on the same day in North America.
According to Nintendo’s website, Toto Temple Deluxe is slated for October 1. Pricing is set at $9.99.
This month’s issue of GamesTM has an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. The two developers talked about all things Mario, including the evolution of the character’s design.
Tezuka shared the following when asked about Mario’s appearance and how Nintendo has resisted the urge to modernize him:
“I do think it’s changed a bit… For example, in Mario 3 we made him a little cuter. And perhaps with the Tanooki tail and the cape we definitely added items and features so that there’s more variety in Mario’s actions.”
Miyamoto shared a few words on the subject of evolving Mario as well. He also stated that Nintendo keeps Mario close to the vest, and doesn’t allow other teams to develop the core titles since the company wants to be control of the character and his abilities.
“In terms of the 3D Mario performance, it has evolved, but we have always been consistent in trying to be cautious in terms of when you do a B-dash, how far he can jump or how many blocks he can break. We have made it a little bit simpler for players as it’s evolved, because there are more complicated things that we’re asking the players to do. In the original Mario when you’re stopped he can’t do B-dash, but you can do it now with more recent games. So we have made it a little bit simpler and tweaked it throughout the years. In terms of Mario games we definitely don’t have other teams develop it, because we do want to control it and manage those features.”
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword introduced us to the memorable character Groose. But as it turns out, this wasn’t his original name. While he may be known as Groose in the west, his Japanese name is Bado – essentially a reference to bird.
Groose’s localized name was created by former Nintendo Treehouse staffer Mike Drucker. On last week’s episode of the GI Show, Drucker talked briefly about how he came up with the idea for Skyward Sword’s character.
During a naming meeting, Drucker was told that Groose was a jock and sort of a jerk. Nintendo was also trying to stick with a bird theme with Skyward Sword. With that information, he went from “Bruce” to “Goose” to “Groose”.
We’ve included the podcast segment in which Groose is discussed below. The whole talk is actually very interesting though since Drucker spoke about his days at the Nintendo Treehouse (before eventually moving on to The Tonight Show!), so you should definitely give it a watch.
Thanks to Jake for the tip.
Telltale Games showed an extended gameplay demo of Minecraft: Story Mode during TwitchCon today. We have the full recording below.
