Runbow heading to the North American Wii U eShop on August 27
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 5 Comments
Runbow is coming to the North American Wii U eShop on August 27, 13AM Games has announced. It will be available for $14.99, but if you downloaded the Nindies@Home demo, you’ll receive a $2.25 discount.
Runbow is also slated for the European eShop, but there’s no release date yet. When we hear any news on that front, we’ll be sure to bring it to you.
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Nintendo – more on franchise annualization, GamePad “the only real innovation in this console cycle”, 3DS talk, more
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, General Nintendo, News | 67 Comments
Over the past few days, Examiner has been putting up a bunch of quotes from Scott Moffitt, executive VP of sales at Nintendo of America. There are still comments from Moffitt to read up on, including topics that cover franchise annualization, the Wii U GamePad, the 3DS, and more. Head past the break for a roundup of his different remarks.
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Just Dance Yo-Kai Watch game revealed for Wii U
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 24 Comments
A new Just Dance game based on Level-5’s hit series Yo-Kai Watch is in development, according to this month’s issue of CoroCoro. The full title is Yo-Kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Version.
Ubisoft and Level-5 are co-developing the new project for Wii U. The game supports cooperative and competitive play with up to four people.
For the time being, a release date and price haven’t been determined.
Runbow adds a new round of crossover characters
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 15 Comments
A new round of crossover characters have been announced for the indie Wii U title Runbow. Gunvolt from Azure Striker Gunvolt, Teslamancer from Teslagrad, Clone from Stealth Inc, ARID from The Fall, Xeodrifter from Xeodrifter, Princess from Chariot, Max from Mutant Mudds, Drifter from Hyper Light Drifter, and Unity Chan (Unity Japan’s mascot character) will all be included.
Have a look at each of these characters in a new trailer:
Several guest characters had been previously announced for Runbow. Shovel Knight, Rusty (SteamWorld Dig), Juan and Tostada (Guacamelee), Swift Thornebrooke (Sportsball), Scram Kitty (Scram Kitty and his Buddy on Rails), and Bit.Trip’s CommanderVideo and CommandgirlVideo were revealed back in April.
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Nintendo, DeNA “currently making announcement plans” for debut mobile title
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 17 Comments
It shouldn’t be too long now before Nintendo and DeNA announce their first mobile title. In DeNA’s Q1 financial report, the company mentioned that it’s “currently making announcement plans”. This indicates that we’ll be hearing soon.
Nintendo’s first mobile game will arrive later this year. By March 2017, there should be roughly five titles available for smart devices.
Nintendo Download (8/13/15, Europe)
Posted on 9 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Virtual Console
Mega Man & Bass (GBA) – €6.99 / £6.29
3DS Demos
I Love My Dogs
eShop Sales
Wii U
Darksiders II – €12.49 / £9.99 until 27th August, regular price €49.99 / £39.99
Bombing Bastards – €4.99 / £4.49 until 20th August, regular price €6.99 / £5.99
Spot the Differences: Party! – €2.99 / £2.69 until 20th August, regular price €5.00 / £4.49
Citizens of Earth – Atlus, €3.99 / £3.35 until 20th August, regular price €11.99 / £9.99
3DS
Shin Megami Tensei IV – €9.99 / £8.99 until 20th August, regular price €19.99 / £17.99
Citizens of Earth – €3.99 / £3.35 until 20th August, regular price €11.99 / £9.99
Nano Assault EX – €7.49 / £6.35 until 3rd September, regular price €9.99 / £8.49)
Secrets of the Titanic 1912-2012 – €1.99 / £1.99 until until 3rd September, regular price €10.99 / £9.99
Hotel Transylvania – €4.99 / £4.99 until 3rd September, regular price €19.99 / £17.99
Doodle Jump Adventures – €4.99 / £4.99 until 3rd September, regular price €24.99 / £19.99
Excave II: Wizard of the Underworld – €5.00 / £4.50 until 20th August, regular price €10.00 / £8.99
Talking Phrasebook – 7 Languages – €2.99 / £2.69 until 20th August, regular price €4.99 / £4.49
Source: Nintendo PR
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[Famicompendium] Daigasso! Band Brothers P
Posted on 9 years ago by Patrick(@Patricklous) in 3DS, 3DS eShop, Famicompendium, Features | 4 Comments
It’s been a long time coming, but Nintendo Everything’s longest-running feature with the lowest number of updates is back and ready to cover a whole new platform of import games. I not so recently bought a Japanese New 3DS while overseas so now I can actually write about games that came out during this decade. And now six months later I’m finally taking some time out from managing my Girls Mode 3 store and decorating my home menu with badges of Waluigi in a train to review my favourite Japan-exclusive 3DS title I’ve played so far – Daigasso! Band Brothers P. This game mixes rhythm gameplay with the ability to create and share your own composition to create a unique experience that’s unlike anything else on the 3DS. There aren’t many other games that do such a great job of making players feel like they’re part of a band – and without a single plastic instrument, too!
[Let’s Talk] What are you playing? – August 2015
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Let's Talk | 23 Comments
Let’s Talk #18: What are you playing – August 2015
It’s the first Friday of a new month! That being said, what games are you playing at the moment?
I’m still busy with Mario Tennis from the 3DS Virtual Console. Things have been busy here, so I’ve been playing through it slowly. Based on what I remember from completing the game many years ago, I’m on the last part of the game (Mario Tour). It’s definitely a lot of fun. I did mention this last time, but I still feel like the actual tennis mechanics are very solid. The RPG-esque elements in the campaign add a nice touch as well!
Highlights from last week’s topic: Thoughts on the latest Smash Bros. update/DLC
ArsonDoctor
I haven’t had the chance to try out the new stages yet, but I did give tournament mode a whirl the other day, and while it’s great that we have an online mode like this finally, it could definitely use some improvements. There should be more customization with tournament rulesets, like a 1v1 mode and bracket mode. There should also be more standard public tournaments than there are now, I found it quite difficult to get into one at all, and the only open tournaments were all for fun. I also think there should have been an offline mode tourney function, since it’s been in previous games. All complaints aside, however, the tournament mode came out pretty well.
As for the mii costumes, I think it’s really cool that we’re getting a wider selection for costumes, although I totally understand the sentiment of dlc character hopes being dashed away (Megaman.EXE for smash!). I also believe that not every character can be suitable enough for their own place in the roster, and the mii costumes are a neat workaround for those characters to get their foot in the door. It’s also very possible that just because a character got a mii costume doesn’t mean it won’t come as a full fledged character, so who knows, maybe you K. Rool hopefuls will still get your wish?
Kogamo
As much as everyone’s going to talk about K. Rool, the real problem with the latest update is the tourney system. I was greatly looking forward to just a menu option for Tourney, but no. The tourney system is online-only and requires you to wait an upwards of 20 minutes before the match starts. This combined with the fact that you can lose the first match and have nothing to do within 2 minutes makes it a real problem. Alternately, you can use the Mario Kart 8 tournament system, which is a little nicer, but it certainly isn’t what I wanted from Smash.
Ugh… Now that that’s over. The new DLC makes me smile, especially the Lloyd and Black Knight costumes. And as much as I think K. Rool would make a great character, I don’t think he’d be even close to ready by now, so I think the costume could be a nice holdover for now if you choose to see it that way.
José Pedrero
I only own the 3DS version so I will only talk about its new content . I was so excited to know we were getting Hyrule Castle back and I already bought it and I love it :). I am mildly interested in the Mii Costumes. Ive already bought most of the character based ones. I don’t really find myself buying the animal inspired ones, though. I think Mii costumes are cool if you like messing around with them, taking quirky screenshots or whatever. I’m really looking forward for other series representation through them and I’m hoping more stages get released aswell (specially Saffron City)
A look at some of Splatoon’s upcoming weapons found via data mining
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Images, Wii U | 2 Comments
Following the release of Splatoon’s August update, Twitter user “NWPlayer123” data mined the files and managed to discover images of upcoming weapons. We’ve placed the images past the break to avoid spoilers.
Square Enix open to bringing Final Fantasy XIV to NX
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 78 Comments
Final Fantasy XIV may have a shot of coming to the NX. Director and producer Naoki Yoshida has said that he’s waiting to know when the console will be released, and the company would need to talk with Nintendo about the policies regarding cross-platform gameplay before a port can be considered. Note that negotiations with Nintendo have not yet been started.
