Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 4 Comments

New information about Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was revealed during Microsoft’s Gamescom 2015 media briefing. Creator Koji Igarashi took to the stage to provide a first look at a new character.

At the moment, the new character (pictured above) does not have a name. We know that he’s a demon hunter, and he fought the demons that first come to Earth during an attack that occurred ten years before the game begins. Igarashi confirmed that he’s a dual-sword wielding hero. Additionally, the character uses Japanese ofuda spells to fight enemies.

More: Armature Studio, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Inti Creates, top

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 10 Comments

Update: We now have a first look at the costume. See this post.

Back in June, it was revealed that Splatoon would be getting a costume based on the Ika Musume (Squid Girl) manga. It’s finally been confirmed that the new outfit will be added in Japan following this week’s big update.

According to leaks from the latest issue of Famitsu, there are three components to the Ika Musume costume in Splatoon: hood, dress/sleeveless, and shoes. It sounds like there will be a male equivalent as well.

It’s still unknown if Nintendo will be adding the Ika Musume costume here in the west. We should be finding out pretty soon at least!

Source

More: Splatoon, top

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 10 Comments

Freedom Planet was originally going to land on the Wii U eShop today. The game suffered a delay, but it sounds like it was a very minor one as it’s now rescheduled for release next week.

Developer Stevie DiDuro announced on Twitter that Freedom Planet is coming to Wii U on August 13. That’s next Thursday, so the title was only pushed back a few days.

Source

More: Freedom Planet, GalaxyTrail, indie, top

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii | 13 Comments

Chris Pranger, who works at Nintendo Treehouse, appeared on the latest episode of the Part-Time Gamer podcast. Pranger shared a few interesting details about his position his position as well as working at the company as a whole.

You’ll find a summary of information from the podcast below. For the full discussion, visit this link.

– Nintendo’s media policy has recently changed regarding employees being more open about talking about their work but not spoilers or anything
– He is the voice of the first level boss in Star Fox Zero; also working on the game
– Talks about NOA using employees as voiceovers for fun and cheap work
– Nintendo has a game library where employees can check out games for all systems in order to be well-versed in gaming; this is how he played Bioshock Infinite
– Sakurai kills himself for his games; he is very sensitive to fan feedback
– Localization costs a ton of money and often the vocal minority of fans who want a game localized isn’t a large enough consumer base to justify the localization costs
– The original Xenoblade is an example he gives of this
– Nintendo of Europe ate the cost on that project

Source, Via

More: Chris Pranger, interview, top

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 10 Comments

Last week, rumors surfaced about GameStop potentially holding an amiibo pre-order event on August 8. This has now been confirmed.

Those who stop by GameStop on Saturday will have the opportunity to reserve a new 3-pack. R.O.B., Mr. Game & Watch, and Duck Hunt are being included in the bundle.

GameStop will be opening its doors at 9 AM. Consumers will need to put down a $5 minimum, and there’s a limit in place of one per customer.

Source

More: Amiibo, GameStop, pre-order, top

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Typoman is coming to Wii U on September 16, publisher Headup Games has announced. This date applies to all major territories. You’ll be able to purchase the game via the eShop.

Source

More: Brainseed Factory, Headup Games, indie, top, Typoman

Posted on 9 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U Download

Beatbuddy – €8.99/£8.09

Sanatory Hallways – €9.99/£8.99

Wii U Virtual Console

Star Fox Command (Nintendo DS) – €9.99/£8.99

Donkey Kong Jungle Climber (Nintendo DS) – €9.99/£8.99

3DS Demos

Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden Demo

3DS DLC

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley: Crop Set 1 – €0.99/£0.89

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley: Crop Set 2 – Free

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley: New NPC – Male – €1.49/£1.39

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley: New NPC – Female – €1.49/£1.39

Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley: New Outfit Set 3 – Free

eShop Sales

Wii U

Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones – €6.99 / £5.99 / CHF 7.00 until 27/08/2015. Regular price €13.99 / £12.99 / CHF 14.00

Angry Bunnies: Colossal Carrot Crusade – €3.14 / £2.69 / CHF 3.79 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €6.99 / £5.99 / CHF 8.45

Cake Ninja 3: The Legend Continues – €3.69 / £3.33 / CHF 5.20 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF 6.99

Color Zen – €2.24 / £2.24 / CHF 2.99 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €2.99 / £2.99 / CHF 3.99

Color Zen Kids – €2.24 / £2.24 / CHF 2.99 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €2.99 / £2.99 / CHF 3.99

My Style Studio: Hair Salon – €3.74 / £3.35 / CHF 5.24 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF 6.99

My Style Studio: Notebook – €2.39 / £2.15 / CHF 3.35 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €2.99 / £2.69 / CHF 4.20

99Seconds – €1.49 / £1.34 / CHF 2.10 until 03/09/2015. Regular price €2.49 / £2.29 / CHF 3.50

Darts Up – €1.49 / £1.34 / CHF 2.10 until 03/09/2015. Regular price €2.49 / £2.29 / CHF 3.50

Rock ‘N Racing Off Road – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF 5.60 until 03/09/2015. Regular price €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF 8.40

High Strangeness – €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF 7.00 until 09/08/2015. Regular price €9.99 / £8.99 / CHF 14.00

3DS

Brunch Panic – €2.99 / £2.49 / CHF 3.50 until 27/08/2015. Regular price €3.99 / £3.39 / CHF 4.70

KAMI –  €1.99 / £1.59 / CHF 2.40 until 27/08/2015. Regular price €2.99 / £2.39 / CHF 3.50

Sweet Memories Blackjack – €2.99 / £2.39 / CHF 3.50  until 27/08/2015. Regular price €3.99 / £3.19 / CHF 4.70

Angry Bunnies – €4.49 / £3.99 / CHF 5.99 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €6.49 / £5.99 / CHF 8.99

Bubble Pop World – €3.74 / £3.35 / CHF 5.24 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €4.99 / £4.49/ CHF 6.99

Color Zen – €2.54 / £2.54 / CHF 3.39 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €2.99 / £2.99 / CHF 3.99

Color Zen Kids – €2.24 / £2.24 / CHF 2.99 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €2.99 / £2.99 / CHF 3.99

Fishdom H2O: Hidden Odyssey – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF 5.59 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF 6.99

My Style Studio: Hair Salon – €3.74 / £3.35 / CHF 5.24 until 05/09/2015. Regular price €4.99 / £4.49 / CHF 6.99

Darts Up 3D – €0.99 / £0.89 / CHF 1.40 until 03/09/2015. Regular price €2.99 / £ 2.69 / CHF 4.20

Dress To Play: Cute Witches! – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF 2.80 until 03/09/2015. Regular price €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF 5.60

Football Up Online – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF 2.80 until 03/09/2015. Regular price €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF 5.60

TOYS VS MONSTERS – €1.99 / £1.99 / CHF 2.45 until 03/09/2015. Regular price €3.99 / £3.99 / CHF 4.99

Hello Kitty & Sanrio Friends 3D Racing – €19.99 / £14.99 / CHF 25.95  until 03/09/2015. Regular price €39.99 / £29.99 / CHF 51.90

Source: Nintendo PR

More: Europe, Nintendo Download, top, Virtual Console

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Interviews | 3 Comments

Damon Baker is Nintendo of America’s Senior Marketing Manager of Publisher and Developer Relations. He’s also the new face of the company’s indie efforts.

Over the past few months, Baker has led the way on a couple of surprising and interesting eShop programs from Nintendo. The Humble Nindie Bundle was made available in late May, and just a few weeks later, Nintendo introduced Nindies@Home. Along with providing Wii U owners with the opportunity to try out new indie titles well before their release during E3 week, Nindies@Home had the added bonus of giving those who downloaded the demos a 15 percent discount when the full games launch.

We recently had a chat with Damon Baker to go more in depth regarding Nindies@Home. Our discussion included talk about how the idea came to be, the challenges of bringing it to fruition, and the possibility of seeing it again in the future. Head past the break to read our full interview.

Read More

More: Damon Baker, highlight, Nindies@Home, top

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Developer Musings | 1 Comment

As part of its E3 2015 plans, Nintendo launched Nindies@Home in June. This was a special one-week promotional period in which Wii U owners were given the opportunity to download and play demos from upcoming indie titles. For gamers who couldn’t make it to E3, it allowed them to experience some of the excitement of being at the expo.

We reached out to five developers who were involved with Nindies@Home to share some thoughts about participating in the program. Below you’ll find some musings from 13AM Games (Runbow), Brainseed Factory (Typoman), MixedBag Games (forma.8), Ripstone (Extreme Exorcism), and Wales Interactive (Soul Axiom). What was it like for these studios to participate in Nintendo’s newest eShop initiative? How was it getting the demos up in time for E3? How do they feel about the program as a whole? These were just some of the topics the developers we reached out to touched upon, and each team shared some very interesting insight about the process of being included in Nindies@Home. Continue on below for their thoughts.

Read More

More: highlight, Nindies@Home, top

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Let's Talk | 23 Comments

Let’s Talk #17: Thoughts on the latest Smash Bros. update/DLC

Nintendo gave Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS a whole bunch of content last night. While there weren’t any new characters, we do have access to a number of new things.

Both versions of Smash Bros. added two classic levels: Hyrule Castle and Peach’s Castle. Several new Mii Fighter outfits came out as well.

On Wii U, Nintendo finally launched the game’s Tournament Mode. Uploading replays to YouTube is also now possible.

The latest Smash Bros. content has only been out for about a day, but I still wanted to have this week’s discussion focused on what’s new in both games. Have you been able to give the new stages a whirl? What are your thoughts on the Tournament modes? I’m also curious: how many of you are actually interested in the Mii Fighter costumes? Sound off in the comments below!

Highlights from last week’s topic: Most anticipated Wii U games

Guymelef
My most anticipated announced games for Wii U would be (in no particular order):

Xenoblade Chronicles X
Lego Dimensions
Guitar Hero Live
Star Fox
Shin Megami Tensei X FE
Fatal Frame
Devil’s Third
Zelda U

For 3DS (I know it’s not part of the survey, but just to include): Fire Emblem Fates and Monster Hunter X

while I’m interested in Yoshi’s Wooly World and Mario Maker, they’re not on top of my list.

Killey

Fatal Frame V, Rodea: The Sky Soldier and Star Fox Zero are the games I’m looking forward to, I’lI probably add Devil’s Third and that’s it for this year. Zelda and SMT x FF so far for 2016

David Arkema
The wii u games I looking forward the most are

Skylanders superchargers, because I love the amiibo support, this will ve my first skylanders game and the gameplay looks really fun.

Devil’s third, because I need an action game next to bayonetta and singlepalyer gameplay looks amazing and what you can do the online multiplayer looks funny like hell, but may need some patches.

Xenoblade chronicles x, because I loved the first one the wii and I love wandering in a massive openworld with gorgeous enemies and you can ride in a mechsuit.

Pokken Tournament, because I need a (wii u) pokemon game that isn’t a mainstream pokemon game (fire red/emerald/y) and I really love fighting game, especially street fighter and ssb. graphical it looks amazing, but the cast (playable characters) needs to be expanded.

superphillip32

Super Mario Maker – As someone who really enjoys level design and wants to go into the field of game design after graduating college, Super Mario Maker’s creation tools seem like a godsend to me. I will get to make levels with what looks like to be a very easy and intuitive interface, practice my skills and creativity with designing levels, and get inspiration from other creators while enjoying playing the levels as well.

Yoshi’s Woolly World – It pained me to see the North American release date of Yoshi’s Woolly World be so far away in comparison to the European, Oceania, and Japanese launches. The game looks like what many have been wanting from the Yoshi series since Yoshi’s Island. Throw in some awesome looking levels, hidden goodies, and a reported challenge, and I can’t wait to be able to play this game.

Star Fox Zero – I’ve waited a long time for a new Star Fox game that I really enjoy. I did love Assault, and of course I greatly was enamored with 64. Command was okay, but now we have another traditional Star Fox game to look forward to. I trust Nintendo and Platinum Games to create a compelling and engaging campaign to blow me and other players away.

More: highlight, top