Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle – Ultra Challenge Pack starting to go live
Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
The first piece of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle DLC is starting to go live. In the UK, we’re hearing reports that the Ultra Challenge Pack is now available, with other regions to follow very shortly.
The Ultra Challenge Pack features “Special Challenges” that offer difficult maps that you can now tackle from the “Secret Area” in each of the four worlds. It also includes the “Cataclysm Kerfuffle” co-op campaign comprised of five maps with more difficult versions that can be unlocked.
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle – patch out now, first part of DLC dropping tomorrow, part two in January
Posted on 6 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in News, Switch | 1 Comment
A new patch is now available for Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, bringing the game up to version 1.2.400297. There are no patch notes so far, but it seems like the purpose of this update is to prepare the game for the upcoming DLC, which is actually being released very soon. The digital receipt you get when buying the season pass now lists October 17th as the release date for the first part of the DLC, the challenge maps. The second part of the DLC, which will bring new story content, has also gotten a concrete release date: January 16th, 2018.
Mario + Rabbids creative director on sequel interest, upcoming DLC, patch this month, more
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Yesterday, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle creative director Davide Soliani participated in a Reddit AMA. Fans were able to ask the developer all sorts of questions. Soliani touched on interest in making sequel, teased the upcoming DLC, confirmed that a new patch is coming this month, and more.
We’ve collected many of the relevant responses from the AMA below. You can read the full thing here.
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X-COM creator was asked to work on Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
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Julian Gollop, creator of the strategy franchise X-COM, nearly could have worked on Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Creative director Davide Soliani had interest in bringing Gollop on board during the early stages of development.
In an interview with PCGamesN, Gollop stated:
“The creative director Davide Soliani is a friend of mine from Ubisoft. When I was at Ubisoft Sofia he was, and still is, working for Ubisoft Milan and I visited him a couple of times. We had conversations about project ideas… he was a fan of my previous games, like Laser Squad [Nemesis] and stuff like that, and he was really into his strategy and turn-based ideas from the beginning.”
Three years or so ago, Soliani gave Gollop a call and asked if he wanted to work on a project with him. It never worked out because Gollop had just left Ubisoft to start working on Chaos Reborn, and he wasn’t aware that it was Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Gollop may have ended up working on the Switch title had he remained with Ubisoft.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is Switch’s best-selling third-party title
Posted on 6 years ago by Tyler(@tylerlelliott) in News, Switch | 22 Comments
Ubisoft-developed Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is now the top-selling, non-Nintendo game on the Switch according to physical sales tracked across North America and Australia. The sales demonstrate clear fan interest in crossover titles, and such success could potentially lead to future collaborations.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle creative director tweets out early animation from two years ago
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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle creative director Davide Soliani provided a humorous look at the game’s development today. On Twitter, he shared an early animation from the team created two years ago.
Here’s the clip:
When you have to create 1000 animations per character just for the Combat Phase, animators started to go crazy. This was 2 years ago… pic.twitter.com/iHSXE6COzO
— Davide Soliani (@DavideSoliani) September 18, 2017
Recognize the music and poses? That’s right: this is a funny play on the Sailor Moon anime.
Video: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle – Nintendo and Ubisoft talk collaborating
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Nintendo Australia sat down with a Ubisoft representative to talk in-depth about the collaborative nature of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Check out the full video below.
New North American Switch commercial
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Nintendo has uploaded a new commercial for the Switch, showcasing a number of games coming out in the fall. The commercial includes footage of Pokkén Tournament DX, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and FIFA 18. Watch below.
Play Nintendo Show episode 28 – “Back to School Madness w/ Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle”
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The latest episode of the Play Nintendo Show has gone live. In the new video, Andrew and Izzy take a look at Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and more. Watch it below.
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle launching January 18th 2018 in Japan
Posted on 6 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in News, Switch | 4 Comments
Are you aware of the fact that Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle isn’t actually out in Japan yet? The much-lauded game has been available in the West for a couple of weeks now, but hasn’t hit Nintendo’s home turf yet. We’ve known for a while now that Nintendo are publishing the game themselves in Japan, and that it would be released sometime next year, but in the recent Nintendo Direct, a concrete date has finally been revealed. Turns out that Japanese fans won’t have to endure too much of 2018 without Mario + Rabbids as the game is launching on January 18th.
