UK software sales (Week ending 10/10/15)
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 2 Comments
Zelda: Tri Force Heroes has a special costume that can only be obtained through local multiplayer
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 23 Comments
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes features over 30 costumes that can be accessed through normal play. But there’s one that is only obtained by teaming up with friends locally.
When playing local multiplayer (including Download Play), you’ll receive an item called the “proof of friendship”. You’ll get one “proof” per friend’s system. A currently unspecified amount is needed in order to obtain the special costume.
Speaking with Japanese website 4Gamer, Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma and Tri Force Heroes director Hiromasa Shikata explained that the team thought they should make a reward for those people for play locally. Head past the break for our translation of the interview excerpt.
Update: Footage – Shin Megami Tensei IV Final debut trailer
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 2 Comments
Update: First look at battles in the game:
Atlus debuted the first Shin Megami Tensei IV Final trailer during a live stream event today. Watch it below.
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Tezuka on Mario’s success, hopes he’ll remain Nintendo’s leading character, more
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 16 Comments
Last month’s issue of GamesMaster contains an interview with well-known Nintendo developer Takashi Tezuka. There were a few interesting topics that we wanted to highlight.
First, here’s what Tezuka said when asked about why Mario resonates so well with people and the key to his longtime success:
“Personally, I think that even before people come to like Mario as a character, it’s the gameplay of Super Mario that really resonates with them. We created Super Mario Bros paying close attention to intuitive feelings – things that anyone in the world can relate to – which users feel through the gameplay; running is fun, jumping high is something you want to do, falling is scary and spikes hurt you if you touch them, etc.
I think it all started with how the gameplay resonated with players. From there it’s been how we’ve continued to make Mario games for so long, and all the work we have put into making sure that Mario is never used in an inappropriate way, that has allowed him to slowly become such a well-loved character.”
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Splatoon – European Splatfest #6 taking place next weekend
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 10 Comments
Europe’s sixth Splatfest in Splatoon is now confirmed for next weekend, though it may look familiar to some. The topic is cats vs. dogs, which was actually the very first Splatfest in North America.
Europe’s new Splatfest will begin at 7 PM in Europe / 6 PM in the UK on October 17. It will last for a full day.
Here’s the official news straight from Nintendo of Europe’s Twitter account:
Splatfest news! At 19:00 CEST on 17th October the battle between Dogs and Cats will commence! pic.twitter.com/zl7ldMm46V
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) October 10, 2015
Pokemon Go news coming very soon
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 4 Comments
Pokemon Go was announced last month. We saw a trailer and received some information, but we don’t really know how the game will play. That should be changing very soon though. Niantic representative Evan Dexter told Slate a couple of weeks ago that more information would be shared in “mid-October”. It’s October 10 today, so an update shouldn’t be too far off.
Dexter said:
“We’re not quite ready to talk in more depth about Pokémon GO than what was revealed in the announcement press release and assets. Come mid-October we’ll be able to start going into more depth about our plans for the game, and about our plans for real world gaming overall.”
Pokemon Go is a new smartphone game coming from The Pokemon Company, Niantic, and Nintendo. It makes use of “real location information to encourage players to search far and wide in the real world to discover Pokemon.” The title is arriving sometime in 2016.
Thanks to Jake for the tip.
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First half hour of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water’s English build
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 19 Comments
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water will be out in two weeks, and Dennis has been playing the final English build. We’ve captured the first half hour of the game below.
[Review] The Legend of Legacy
Posted on 9 years ago by Dennis Gagliardotto(@LyonHart_) in 3DS, Reviews | 15 Comments
System: 3DS
Release date: October 13, 2015
Developer: FuRyu
Publisher Atlus
Author: Dennis
At first glance, The Legend of Legacy seems to be an amalgam of things – and it is. Legends are brought together to bring you this title in the form of Final Fantasy XIII composer Masashi Hamauzu, Chrono Trigger writer Masato Kato, SaGa illustrators and designers Tomomi Kobayashi and Kyoji Koizumi, with the inclusion of many other former developers from Square and Level-5. You can feel the influence and inspiration of The Legend of Legacy exude from all of these creators, allowing the game to thrive and revel in it artistically.
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LEGO Marvel’s Avengers NYCC 2015 trailer shows Captain America, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World content
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At the New York Comic-Con today, a new trailer was shown for LEGO Marvel’s Avengers. That’s posted below.
In the video, we’re able to see key cinematic moments from The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron. It’s also revealed that the game features content based on other Marvel Studios films, including Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Rumor: Nintendo giving out system bans to Splatoon hackers
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Rumors, Wii U | 13 Comments
Last week, we reported on a serious issue pertaining to Splatoon. You can read our original post here for the full story, but essentially, some players were using an exploit to play as Octolings which would corrupt other users’ save data.
Rumor has it that Nintendo has since followed up on the situation. Supposedly, such hackers who had obtained access to content like unreleased character models/weapons have been banned at the system level.