Several new titles are coming to the Japanese eShop next week. Here’s a look at the upcoming digital downloads:
Wii U Virtual Console
Atlantis no Nazo (Famicom 514 yen)
3DS Download
Pony Pets 3D (500 yen)
New Hyu Stone (500 yen)
Shinzuku Memory (300 yen)
Escape Adventure 6 (820 yen)
SIMPLE DL Series Vol. 38 (600 yen)
The games above launch in Japan on April 22.
Nintendo has revealed the full set of courses coming to Mario Kart 8’s next DLC pack. Baby Park (GameCube), Ribbon Road (GBA), Neo Bowser City (3DS), and Cheese Land (GBA) are the returning courses. Nature Road, Big Blue, Lingling Metro, and Animal Crossing are the new ones.
Check out the full set of videos for the new DLC below.
Japan has received five new Virtual Console games on the Wii U eShop today. To recap, they are WarioWare: Touched! (DS, 950 yen), Donkey Kong Jr. Math (Famicom, 514 yen), Power Sports (PC Engine, 617 yen), Mr. HELI (PC Engine, 617 yen), and Gofer’s Ambition Episode II (MSX, 823 yen). Trailers for each game can be found below.
Update: Pre-orders are open now on Best Buy and GameStop. And for what it’s worth, Amazon changed its release date to “December 31”.
Amazon is the first retailer to be taking pre-orders for Guitar Hero Live. You can reserve the game here.
Guitar Hero Live will cost $99.99. Activision has pinned down a Fall 2015 launch, though Amazon lists it for October 20.
The gold Mario amiibo was distributed by Walmart last month, but we’re still waiting on an official announcement (and launch) of the silver variant. It’s particularly strange then that one fan has already managed to get his hands on a silver Mario.
“matteomax” recently won a Chinese auction for the figure, and although it’s unclear how the seller originally obtained it, everything seems to be legitimate. As shown below, the amiibo came pre-loaded with a silver token for use in Mario Party 10.
An internal document from Toys “R” Us reveals additional details about upcoming in-store pre-orders for the Greninja and Pac-Man amiibo.
Customers will be limited to reserving one of each figure. Moreover, there will be 10-20 units of the Greninja and Pac-Man amiibo per store.
You can find additional information about how stores will be handling the pre-orders above. Reservations will take place on April 27.
Polygon was recently given an opportunity to go hands-on with Guitar Hero Live, and published an extensive report about the game. We’ve rounded up a ton of details below, though you can find the full article here.
– Fist-person perspective live-action video
– Always online music
– Game comes with one guitar
– In development for about 3 years
“Guitar Hero created this pop culture phenomenon. Really, I would argue, it was one of the first titles to transcend our entire category and become this household name. But it’s been a while. It’s been five years since the last release. There’s so much emotion and passion around the Guitar Hero brand at the company. It’s something we always intended to bring back, when we had that legit innovation that would transform the way you play the game in a fundamental way. It’s taken until now to have that. FreeStyle delivered that vision. I believe this truly is the reinvention of Guitar Hero.” – Tyler Michaud, senior director of product management at Activision
“We always knew, like Tyler said, if we ever brought Guitar Hero back it had to be because we came up with some great innovation and made some big changes. The way we started it, we took it right to its core, its base. We said, what was it about Guitar Hero that was so cool in the first place? Why did it become the game it became?” – Jamie Jackson, creative director and studio head at FreeStyleGames
– The team was examining the game and plastic controller, and felt they could make mastering the game easier/deeper with a more prolonged experience
– The new guitar keeps the whammy bar and strummer of the original
– This version shifts all of the buttons to the top of the neck
– Controller has 6 buttons in 2 rows of 3
