The Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Kickstarter refuses to slow down. Once again, another stretch goal has been cleared. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has now surpassed $4 million, meaning the game will be receiving an online challenge mode.
Here’s what this feature will offer:
– Team up with a friend online in both co-op and versus modes
– Power through specially designed stages by clearing challenges, killing enemies, collecting items, and more
– Battle extra-powerful bosses which drop rare items
Just over two days remain in the Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Kickstarter. You can give the campaign a look here.
kantopia has once again translated the latest Fire Emblem If scans from Famitsu. Hit the gallery below for the full set.
Last night, Nintendo uploaded a new Fire Emblem If introduction video to its YouTube channel. “shadowofchaos725” has now come up with a complete translation, which you can watch below. You can also view the new commercial with English subtitles.
Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden is out now in Japan. As a result, footage is starting to find its way onto YouTube. View the intro for Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden below, along with some gameplay.
Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town is launching on the North American Wii U Virtual Console tomorrow, according to Nintendo’s website.
Earlier in the week, the game was rated by the ESRB. It was a strong sign that the classic game would soon be getting a re-release on the eShop.
You’ll be able to purchase Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town for $6.99. A brief game overview can be found below.
As a child, you spent a memorable summer on a farm in the country and experience a whole new world of excitement. Years have passed, and now the long-neglected farm that holds fond memories is yours! It is up to you to successfully rejuvenate the farm and build a life for yourself. The best part is that you can do it any way you want! Plant and harvest crops, raise farm animals, marry the woman of your dreams, and start a family! Take over the reins of life, and create your own pastoral adventure!
Armature Studio is responsible for bringing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night to Wii U. This means that the company will be working with Unreal Engine 4 in its port for Nintendo’s console. It’s a pretty big deal, as Bloodstained may end up as one of the first titles to be running on Unreal Engine 4 on Wii U.
Armature has now announced that, following Bloodstained’s launch, the team will share the Unreal Engine 4 code it’s using on Wii U. Other developers will be able to access this at no extra cost. Maybe it will pave the way for further Unreal Engine 4-made games on Wii U.
Armature wrote in a Bloodstained Kickstarter update:
“Hi Bloodstained backers – Armature here with another update. It turns out that a people have shown a ton of interest in our plan to port UE4 to the WiiU and PS Vita. Since they’re not officially supported platforms, it’s going to be a lot of work to get Bloodstained and UE4 on these platforms, but we are up to the challenge.
Since the community got these platforms off the ground, we figure that it’s best to let the community have them back when we’re done. As a result, after the release of Bloodstained we will share, for free, the UE4 WiiU and Vita code with any developer authorized to develop on those platforms! Thank you all very much for this opportunity!”
The boxart for Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice has now surfaced. You can get a look at it above.
AlphaBeatic has gone live with a new interview featuring Nintendo Canada general manager Pierre-Paul Trepanier. There’s a lot of talk specific to Canda, but the whole interview has some neat insights as a whole.
Trepanier talked Wii U and 3DS sales, Splatoon’s performance thus far, and even teased some “interesting partnerships” that we’ll apparently be hearing about soon.
We’ve posted a good portion of the Q&A below. There are a few more questions and answers on AlphaBeatic here.
With the new version of Hyrule Warriors on 3DS, fans can expect some new content. We know that Nintendo and Koei Tecmo are introducing new characters, but there seems to be other additions as well.
Case and point: an interesting crossbow spotted in the 3DS debut trailer of Hyrule Warriors. What’s particularly interesting here is that the weapon appears to be very similar to what was shown in concept art for a female Link. This character, “Linkle”, never made it into the final version of Hyrule Warriors.
Is this indeed Linkle’s crossbow that we’re looking at? Could the character herself be included in Hyrule Warriors on 3DS?
Rodea: The Sky Soldier’s overseas release won’t be launching in September as originally announced. NIS America has delayed the game about a month, and it will now ship in October.
Rodea: The Sky Soldier is due out in North America on October 13. The European launch is scheduled for October 16.
Along with today’s updated release date, NIS America announced a launch edition for the 3DS version of Rodea: The Sky Soldier in North America. This features a collector’s box and original soundtrack. As previously announced, those who pick up an initial copy of Rodea on Wii U will receive the original Wii title as a bonus.
Source: NIS America PR
