SEGA just announced last week that Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympics is coming to arcades in Japan. Now we have a release window as well: spring 2016. Perhaps the game will also release on Wii U and 3DS around the same time.
Before yesterday, the Crunchyroll Wii U app could only be used by premium members. However, the app now supports all types of members, including those who aren’t paying for a subscription. That means you can watch free anime on Wii U – you’ll just need to watch some ads in between!
Siliconera has translated various information about the three different settings in 7th Dragon III Code: VFD. You’ll learn more about Tokyo, Atlantis, and Eden in the detailed summary below.
Tokyo (Present/Year UE77 – United Era):
– 80 years after the arrival of the Shinryu Dragon in the year 2020 and 2021
– The Japanese Government had virtually lost all of its power
– International self-defense force called ISDF is managing the peace and order
– The people are doing their best to revive the country that was in ruins after the fight with the dragon, but it hasn’t been enough
– They’re still doing their best to go back to the way things were before the invasion
Atlantis (Past):
– Takes place about 12,000 years prior
– In a world that exists in a different timeline
– An underwater kingdom was established using a special ore called “Star Crystal” that’s found under the Atlantic Ocean
– The people living there are from a special race called the Rushe
– They established what was considered a high plane of civilization at the time
Eden (Future):
– Takes place in a different timeline that takes place 5,000 years in the future
– Shows a different kind of progress had science, technology, and lifestyles took a different twist
– This is also where the first 7th Dragon game takes place
– 80% of the world is ruled by dragons.
Miiverse’s new redesign is just a few days away. Nintendo announced on the social network today that the overhaul is scheduled for July 29.
Posts made by official Miiverse representatives about the date read:
PlayEveryWare has made a couple of big announcements pertaining to Elliot Quest.
First, the game’s next big update is due out on July 30. This will add the Miiverse Journal and Miiverse Stamps. PlayEveryWare will be celebrating the new update with a 15 percent discount in North America and Europe for two weeks following the release of the update.
Also revealed today is that Elliot Quest is coming to 3DS. We don’t have an exact date, but it should arrive sometime in 2016.
Source: PlayEveryWare PR
Nintendo’s Gamescom 2015 lineup is in. There will be a few upcoming titles on display, including Star Fox Zero and Zelda: Tri Force Heroes. Also at the show will be a number of indies and already-released games.
Here’s the full lineup:
Wii U
– Mario Kart 8 (out now)
– Super Smash Bros. (out now)
– Splatoon (out now)
– Super Mario Maker (September 11)
– Skylanders SuperChargers (September 25)
– Star Fox Zero (still slated for 2015)
– Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash (2015)
3DS:
– Little Battlers eXperience (September 4)
– The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes (Q4 2015)
– Chibi Robo: Zip Lash (2015)
Nindie titles:
– Typoman
– Mighty No. 9
– FAST Racing Neo
– Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows
– Steamworld Heist
– several other
Further show highlights
– Charles Martinet
– downloads for Pokemon ORAS (Parfinesse &Calamanero / Bisofank & Zobiris)
– fan art exhibition
– Mario flashmob
– Monster Hunter Communtiy Event
– Smash Bros & MK8 & Splatoon tournaments
– Pokemon 3DS tournament and High Score Challenge for Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition
– AR card that allows you to take photos of AC characters with a special software (downlaod code included on AR card)
Gamescom 2015 will take place between August 6 and August 9.
Yesterday, several patents relating to Nintendo’s planned Quality of Life platform were published. As was previously announced, they mostly seem to center around monitoring the user’s health via non-wearable devices. Of course, as is the case with all patents, it seems unlikely that all of these will appear in exactly these forms in the final product(s), but it’s nonetheless an interesting look at what Nintendo has plannend.
This information processing system comprises a portable terminal. The portable terminal detects sensor information for assessing a user’s emotions. It would be permissible, as an example, for the sensor information to be sound information which is detected by a microphone, or image information which is captured by a camera. The information processing system assesses the user’s emotions on the basis of the sensor information. The portable terminal detects the sensor information in a period when the said portable terminal is in a standby state. As an example, the said standby state is a state wherein a display of the portable terminal is off.
This display system is provided with a sensor, a projector, and a control means. The sensor detects user information for calculating a state relating to sleep of a user. The user information is, for instance, biological information, such as pulse rate. The projector displays, by means of projection, a predetermined image. For instance, the projector displays, by means of projection, an image on a ceiling by projecting the image upward. The control means controls the projector corresponding to the sleep-related state calculated on the basis of the user information.
A terminal system acquires physiological information from a user and transmits transmission information to a server system, said transmission information including the physiological information and/or health information relating to the health or the body of the user, obtained from said physiological information. The server system associates the transmission information received from each terminal system, and/or information obtained from said transmission information, with the user, and stores these as stored information. The server system also stores conditions relating to the generation of provided information, to be provided to the user in order to improve metrics obtained from the stored information, or metrics included in the stored information. The provided information is generated on the basis of the stored information and the conditions, and is transmitted to the user’s terminal. The server system performs an analysis of transmission information acquired after the provided information has been provided, for a plurality of users that have received the provided information, and updates the conditions on the basis of the analysis results.
Bandai Namco just released the second trailer for Super Robot Wars BX. Check it out below:
Super Robot Wars BX will be out in Japan on August 20th.
Eurogamer recently had the chance to sit down with Tsubasa Sakaguchi, one Splatoon’s directors. I’ve summarized some key statements from Sakaguchi below, but if you wanna read the whole interview, check it out here.
– “Splatoon, of course, has many elements of a shooter, but it didn’t start off with us wanting to make a shooter game. It was more that we found fun in colouring in vast areas and spaces around us, and as part of that visualisation of the movement of the characters we found really exciting, and this is how the project started.”
– “Humans can move our hands less when we’re moving them downwards, and more when we move it upwards. When we were doing the mapping for the gyro sensor, we incorporated these subtle human movements into the game. It might not be apparent at first glance, but maybe you might notice it in the future.”
– “We were slightly concerned about whether users might feel the gyro controls were a little bit difficult. But I like to use the analogy of riding a bicycle. You need a lot of practice, but once you’ve learnt that the bicycle becomes one with your body and it opens the whole world to you. In that sense, we’re really happy that many users have learnt to ride the bicycle!”
– “About 70-80 per cent of players are using the gyro controls. That’s not to say we’re forcing it on to them. From our point of view, we think that the gyro controls are the best way to play Splatoon, the reason being there are two main movements you need for a shooter. One is moving the body, the other is aiming where you’re shooting. In that sense, we think for Splatoon the gyro gives that subtle movement and more precise actions to be able to really experience the game in a much better way.”
– “When we were designing Splatoon, reaching level 20 was going to take quite a lot of time. Learning the game mechanics with the gyro sensor – we thought that would take a lot of time. In that sense we’re surprised that people have reached the level cap in such a short time. We’re actually really worried about those people – worried that they’re still sleeping and eating! We recognise that a lot of people have reached level 20, and that there’s not much left to do in the game. There’s not much I can announce today, but I hope you can look forward to some future announcements.”
– “At the moment, we’re not planning any paid download content. Beyond August, there’ll be new stages and new weapons slowly being released.”
Kyogre is the next event Pokemon in Pokemon Shuffle that is back for a “rerun”. If you missed your chance to catch it the first time around, you can have another shot at it now. The event will run until July 31st.
