Nintendo has uploaded the North American commercial for Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition. Check it out below.
Without any sort of announcement on Nintendo’s part, it appears that the prices of physical rewards on Club Nintendo have been reduced. Items like the Fierce Deity Link Jigsaw Puzzle, Majora’s Mask 3D Messenger Bag, and Retro Mario T-shirt are discounted by up to 50 percent.
All of the new prices are shown above. Here’s a look at how much each of the items costed previously:
Mario & Luigi Greeting Cards – 300 coins
Nintendogs Greeting Cards – 300 coins
3DS Game Card Case: 2015 Edition – 400 coins
2016 Desktop Calender – 400 coins
3DS XL Pouch: The Legend of Zelda – 600 coins
Retro Mario T-Shirt – 700 coins
Fierce Deity Link Jigsaw Puzzle – 800 coins
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D Messenger Bag – 800 coins
North American Club Nintendo members can redeem their coins up through June 30 at 11:59 PM PT. The site will then be shutting down, though a new Nintendo rewards membership service will launch later this year.
Update: Yooka-Laylee has now reached £1.5 million on Kickstarter, which means that the game will be receiving an orchestral soundtrack (thanks Maxime).
£1.5 Million! #YookaLaylee will have an orchestral soundtrack @David_Wise @grantkirkhope @SteveBurkeMusic https://t.co/99Z6m4pVjO
— Playtonic (@PlaytonicGames) May 11, 2015
Playtonic shared a first look today at one of Yooka-Laylee’s support characters. It’s none other than Trowzer, who is pictured above.
Playtonic posted the following description of the character on its website:
Trowzer is a business-snake whose career never took off. Not that he knows it – the smug, serpent salesman thinks he’s the bee’s knees (not that he has knees), and for a little dosh he’ll teach you some of the slick moves he picked up on the high-stakes sales floor.
Yooka-Laylee’s creative lead, Gavin Price, shared the following about Trowzer:
Trowzer thinks of himself as the best salesman ever, but with his downbeat appearance and 1980’s mobile phone, life never took off for him. He’ll take your money and count it (he’s an Adder…) and because he knows best he’ll even demonstrate the moves you just bought for you to replicate… if you can follow his jiggling.
Character artist Steve Mayles added:
I didn’t want him to be a snake in the traditional sense, and when Gav suggested he should have shorts on (do I have to add shorts to all of my characters?!), a great idea for this was his body could curl back up through the other leg hole. So he’ll move with a certain springiness, which will be fun to animate.
We’ve now seen three core characters from Yooka-Laylee. Along with Trowzer, players will take control of both Yooka and Laylee. You can read up on their naming origins here.
A new video from YouTube user “justonegamr” has 70 minutes of footage from Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains. View it below.
Update: Now sold out!
Nintendo is selling packs of Kid Icarus: Uprising AR cards through its online website. Pricing is set at $2 per pack, though you’ll need to throw in the shipping charge as well. Those who are interested in the cards can place an order here.
Thanks to Jake R for the tip.
Ronimo Games released the seventh “Daily Duel” video for Swords & Soldiers II. In today’s video, the battle is one Berserker and six Swordsmen versus one Barrelrider, one Naga, two Axethrowers, one Heal spell and one Necromancer. Check it out below.
Castlevania has a long-standing history on Nintendo platforms. So the hope was that the next game from Koji Igarashi, one of the series’ main creator, would end up on a Nintendo system.
Igarashi finally announced “Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night” today in partnership with Inti Creates after several days of teasing. The current plan is only to make the project for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. However, a Nintendo version hasn’t been ruled out entirely.
On the game’s Kickstarter page, a statement from the Q&A says the following about why the campaign doesn’t include support for Nintendo systems:
Our budget left us with two options: Build the biggest, most beautiful game we can, or make sure it runs everywhere from the start. As things stand today, we can’t afford to create the two separate versions of this game that would be necessary to make it run on every console. That said, we’ve heard legends about a remarkable treasure hidden in the castle basement…
That sounds somewhat encouraging! Perhaps if the Kickstarter campaign clears its initial stretch goals, a Nintendo version might be something that will be given greater consideration – especially given that last sentence, and how the stretch goals are constructed at present:
You can check out Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on Kickstarter here. If there’s any concrete news about a Nintendo version, we’ll have it right here on the site.
Shapes of Gray is hitting the North American Wii U eShop on May 21, Secret Tunnel Entertainment has announced. Pricing is set at $6.99.
Secret Tunnel Entertainment’s Trent Steen told us that a European launch “wouldn’t be any time soon, but I’d definitely like to, theoretically.”
A new trailer for the game was also released today. You can find that below.
Source: Secret Tunnel Entertainment PR
Last week, Viz Media reprinted the Zelda: A Link to the Past comic that was featured in Nintendo Power over two decades ago. GameXplain has now posted a video showing a look at the graphic novel, which is posted below.