Game Informer shared another Disney Infinity-centric video today. Below, Avalanche Software’s general manager discusses the struggles of the licensed games industry and the birth of the Infinity series.
This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Retail
Splatoon (available Friday) – $59.99
Wii U Download
Don’t Starve: Giant Edition – $14.99
Baila Latino – $29.90
Wii U Virtual Console
Mega Man Battle Network 4 Blue Moon – $7.99
Mega Man Battle Network 4 Red Sun – $7.99
Mega Man Zero 3 – $7.99
Rival Turf – $7.99
Wii U Demo
SDK Paint
3DS Download
Glory of Generals The Pacific – $6.99
3DS Themes
Mighty Switch Force! Theme – $1.99
Pokémon Shuffle – $1.99
Pokémon: Mega Charizard X – $1.99
Pokémon: Eevee Collection – $1.99
Splatoon: Fresh Squid – $1.99 (available Friday)
DSiWare
G.G Series Wonderland – $1.99
eShop Sales
Wii U/3DS
– Transformers Prime (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS), The Amazing Spider-man 2 (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) and more games from Activision are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 4.
– 1001 Spikes (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) is 50 percent off (reduced from $15 to $7.49) until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 18.
– Color Zen (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS), Color Zen Kids (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) and more games from Cypronia are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 30.
– Luv Me Buddies Wonderland (Wii U and Nintendo 3DS) is up to 48 percent off (reduced to $12.90) until 8:59 a.m. PT on July 31.
Wii U
– Zumba Fitness World Party is 75 percent off (reduced from $39.99 to $9.99) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on June 1 until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 8.
– Fit Music is 56 percent off (reduced from $29.90 to $12.90) until 8: 59 a.m. PT on July 31.
3DS
– Crash City Mayhem is 75 percent off (reduced from $19.99 to $4.99) beginning at 9 a.m. PT on June 1 until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 8.
– Cave Story, VVVVVV and more games from Nicalis are on sale until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 18.
Monster Combine TD is 35 percent off (reduced from $3.99 to $2.59) until 8:59 a.m. PT on June 25.
Activities
– Miiverse Ink-redible Splatoon Sweepstakes – Head over to Miiverse for an opportunity to win the Splatoon game! A new community called “Miiverse Ink-redible Splatoon Sweepstakes” is open under the Play Nintendo community from May 26 until June 30. Visit the community here, which is already full of ink-redible drawings. To participate, just post your Splatoon fan art in the community. You can enter every week for your chance to win Splatoon.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void where prohibited. Open to U.S. residents who are at least 13 years old. Sweepstakes begins 5/26/15 at 2pm PT and ends 6/30/15 at 11pm PST. Submit fan art via Miiverse to enter. Three weekly prizes: 1 Splatoon game (ARV $59.99 each). For alternate means of entry, full sweepstakes details and official rules: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/rules/miiverse-splatoon/. Sponsor: Nintendo of America Inc.
– Best Buy StreetPass Event – To celebrate the Nintendo World Championships 2015 qualifying events, a special StreetPass event will take place exclusively in all Best Buy locations in the United States and Canada from May 29 to May 31. Bring your Nintendo 3DS system with you to your closest Best Buy store to enhance StreetPass-enabled games you already own, such as Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. It’s also a great opportunity to collect Mii characters from new locations to help fill up puzzle panels in Puzzle Swap and help out in StreetPass Mii Plaza games. For more information about StreetPass, visit http://www.nintendo.com/3ds/features/streetpass.
Pokémon Shuffle Update – A major Pokémon Shuffle update is now available. This update marks the debut of new features and stages. This update includes the new Super Catch Power feature so now Pokémon become easier to catch than before. Improvements to gameplay include How Hearts Accumulate, Checking Out Pokémon and Combo Numbers Shown Longer. These are just a few of the adjustments being made to the game. For more details, please visit http://www.pokemonshuffle.com/en-us/.
– Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. “amiibo Agent” Tournament – See how your Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. squad stacks up online in Nintendo’s Public Tournaments. Top players earn unique titles that are visible online and earn major bragging rights with their friends and around the world. The new “amiibo Agent” tournament runs from May 28 to May 31. Opt in via the SpotPass feature for notifications about future tournaments, and click here for more information about multiplayer tournaments. Good luck, agents!
Source: Nintendo PR
Contrary to popular belief, the “Final Fantasy” name didn’t come about because Square thought it would be its last game in light of supposed financial trouble. Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the series, recently said at an event in Japan that the team instead wanted something that could be abbreviated to FF in English (pronounced as “efu efu” in Japanese).
The original plan was to call the title “Fighting Fantasy”. But since there was a board game using the same name, it was changed to Final Fantasy. Kotaku points out that “Final” was probably a a logical “F” word to pick since it’s a famous word in Japan.
As for those who suggest that Final Fantasy’s name was created as the company’s final project, he said: “Those days definitely seemed like end times, but honestly, any word that started with ‘F’ would’ve been fine.”
Deep Silver parent company Koch Media has trademarked Bloodstained, which indicates that the company will be handling publishing duties for the title. It’s also a likely sign of their ownership of the franchise as a whole.
Deep Silver will already be handling the distribution of one Kickstarter project in Mighty No. 9 – another game developed by Inti Creates.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night currently sits at $2.8 million on Kickstarter. A Wii U version will be guaranteed at $3 million, which will almost certainly be reached before the June 12 deadline.
Game Informer published an extensive report about the Inside Out Play Set coming to Disney Infinity 3.0. Details from the articles can be found below, and the full article is located here.
– Sequel to the film
– Riley is still the star
– While babysitting and watching TV, Riley falls asleep
– Riley accidentally brushes up against the remote as she’s sleeping which changes the channel to a scary movie
– This breaches her subconscious and all these scary images get into her head
– Riley’s emotions need to attend to this crisis
– Fight against broccoli, swamp creatures, bats, and other baddies
– More platforming focused than the other Play Sets
– Each emotion has its own unique ability
– Anger can run across lava
– Disgust can high jump
– Fear runs quickly
– Joy can glide across large gaps
– Sadness can walk across clouds
– Clouds are a big component of the levels
– Although Sadness can walk across them with ease, any other character can only step on them briefly before they disappear
– Need to quickly jump if you want to get past them without using Sadness
– If you’re playing co-op, Sadness can pick up another character like Anger and walk across the clouds with him
– Anger can pick up Sadness and carry her across the lava should she need it
– Can play alone if you want, but co-op is encouraged
– Musical gameplay: flip switches back and forth, turning on and off various platforms; match the musical lines and which platforms you’re going on to get through the various areas
– Gravity feature switches your perspective
– This turns the world and making you platform upside down
– Pop and collect balloons in the levels
– Need to swap characters for harder-to-reach balloons
– One enemy type is a bull that charges at you the moment they see you
– Can only defeat bulls by getting near an edge and move as it charges at you, so it falls off
– Swap characters by putting the other one on the Infinity Base and then can bring up the character wheel
Disney Interactive has now released a trailer for the Disney Infinity 3.0 Inside Out Play Set trailer. Meanwhile, Family Gamer TV has extra footage and a video showing off the related figures. All of the latest videos are posted below.
Collavier has revealed that Comic Workshop 2 is heading overseas next month. We’ll be seeing the 3DS app on June 18 in both North America and Europe via the eShop.
Comic Workshop 2 will be priced at $9.99 / €7.99 / £7.19. Those who purchased the first entry will be able to take advantage of a 40 percent discount.
Collavier is including a number of new and upgraded tools in Comic Workshop 2. There are also new functions such as a layer blending mode, transparency lock, ability to display images on a grid, and more.
Watch a trailer for Comic Workshop 2 below.
It’s been a long time coming, but the BBC iPlayer is finally out on the UK Wii U eShop. After downloading the 94 MB app, users will be able to watch various on-demand programming.
BBC iPlayer for Wii U is very much like the iPlayer Smart TV app, complete with HD playback. It also supports off-TV play.
Disney Interactive has shared the first screenshots from the Inside Out Play Set that will be available for Disney Infinity 3.0. Additionally, we have a first look at the related figures as well. Hit the gallery below for all of today’s photos.
Square Enix launched the official website for Dragon Quest VIII’s new 3DS version today. Access it here. Previously, the site was in a teaser state.
At the moment, visitors can view some of the first Dragon Quest VIII 3DS screenshots (posted on the site yesterday). Expect more content on the site over the next few months.
