GameStop allowed Shulk amiibo orders to be placed for a second time in February. The restock was originally planned for early May, though shipments are only now just starting to be sent out. If you placed an order in February, you should be receiving an email soon with a shipment confirmation.
Back in late 2012, Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise. Avalanche was also hard at work on Disney Infinity at the time. Although the team wasn’t able to create anything too significant surrounding Star Wars, they did want to include a treat for the fans. This ended up being the lightsaber, which players could unlock by owning all Disney Infinity 1.0 characters.
Disney Infinity vice president of production John Vignocchi was able to get in touch with one of his friends from Lucas before hearing about the Stars Wars acquisition, and after the deal went through, he began making calls.
Vignocchi told Game Informer:
“We want to do an ultimate unlock in the game. We’d like to put a lightsaber in the game. Here’s what we’re thinking: If you own all the figures then this is like this super-secret end of the end – the Yoshi on top of the Princess’ castle.”
Vignocchi also mentioned how the team needed to scramble in order to get the lightsaber in the game. Rather than sending it out via an update, they wanted it to be included as part of the game that shipped to stores.
Engadget recently held an interview with Hisashi Nogami in which they discussed all things from his beginnings with Nintendo, his success with Animal Crossing, and what it was like to come up with an idea for Splatoon. Lots of interesting tidbits in the article that you should check out, but we’ve grabbed an excerpt you can read below where he explains a bit about new IP with Nintendo, in this case Splatoon.
In a recent Iwata Asks interview with the Splatoon team at Nintendo EAD, you explained that after finishing your work on the Wii U, you set out to make a game that didn’t fit into any established genre. You wanted to make something that wasn’t a Super Mario Bros. or Legend of Zelda. What’s the biggest challenge in making something totally new at Nintendo?
Rather than setting out to make something that didn’t fit into any genre, I would say that we didn’t want to get caught up in the idea of genre. In making the game, we started out by reconsidering our experiences making and playing games as well as our experiences in life. The sort of things we enjoyed doing while growing up. We wanted to make something that captured those past experiences.
I think it’s true that, with Nintendo, in an established franchise like the Mario series, there are challenges and new things that need to be done with each new title. I think it’s really true that in creating a game like Splatoon, we were basically starting from scratch and there were many more fundamental ideas and decisions that we needed to set in place before we could get going with the rest of development. That was what I considered to be the largest challenge we faced.
You can read more of this insightful interview with Hisashi Nogami here
For those of you who are still looking for this beautiful beast to properly play Super Smash Bros. with, Amazon has them in stock right now! Get one here.
We’ve seen tons of awesome Mess Fest videos from Nintendo’s recent event a few weeks back to help promote Splatoon, and now there’s another one! Check out the newest video where you can get a look at the event with Joey Bragg and Kelli Berglund:
Nintendo’s Hisashi Nogami says it’s difficult to answer when Animal Crossing could come to the Wii U
In a recent interview Hisashi Nogami of Nintendo EAD did with Engadget, they touched on tons of topics from Splatoon, his early career, Yoshi’s Island and much more. One of the more notable pieces of the interview is when he discusses a bit about Animal Crossing on the Wii U, which a lot of people have been asking for, with rumors flying around of a potential showing at this year’s E3 event. Here’s an excerpt below:
So my very last question then is: When are we going to see Animal Crossing on Wii U?
Well, that’s difficult for me to answer at the moment! Yup. That’s pretty much all we can say.
What I will say is that you may have seen an announcement recently about anAnimal Crossing product coming out on the 3DS… I can tack that on to the end of my response.
We’ve already talked about how the Villager amiibo seems to have received a few reprints with its recent Japanese reprint. There aren’t massive changes, but the eyes and mouth have been modified in particular.
Take a look at some comparison images in the gallery below, courtesy of GameSpot. Original is on the left, reprint is on the right.
Aurelien Regard has shared a new The Next Penelope trailer. It’s to promote the racer’s Steam launch, but we do have additional footage.
Here’s the trailer:
Regard has also suggested that news about the Wii U version of The Next Penelope is coming soon:
@NintenDaan Thanks! I'll be able to share some news about the WiiU version right after the Steam release :)
It's stiil on!
— Aurelien Regard (@AurelRegard) May 27, 2015
