Nintendo Download (Europe, 10/16/14)
Posted on 10 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U
Lone Survivor: The Director’s Cut – €11.99 / £9.99 / CHF16.80
Hyrule Warriors™: Master Quest Pack (DLC) – €6.99 / £6.29 / CHF9.80
PAC-MAN and the Ghostly Adventures 2 – €34.99 / £24.99 / CHF38.90
Wii U VC
Donkey Kong Country™ (SNES) – €7.99 / £5.49 / CHF11.20
3DS
PAC-MAN and the Ghostly Adventures 2 – €34.99 / £24.99 / CHF38.90
Survivor – Heroes – €34.99 / £27.79 / CHF42.39
Winx Cub: Saving Alfea – €29.99 / £24.99 / CHF38.90
3DS VC
Adventures of Lolo™ (NES) – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60
Donkey Kong™ Land (GB) – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60
3DS Themes
Spinner Mario – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Spinner Bowser – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Spinner Peach – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Spinner Rosalina – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Special offers
Donkey Kong™ Country Tropical Freeze – €33.49 / £26.79 / CHF43.00 until 06/11/2014 for users who downloaded Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2™: Diddy’s Kong Quest™ or Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble™ from Nintendo eShop on the same Wii U.
Donkey Kong™ Country Returns 3D – €26.79 / £23.44 / CHF34.70 until 06/11/2014 for users who downloaded Donkey Kong™ Land, Donkey Kong™ Land 2 or Donkey Kong™ Land III from Nintendo eShop on the same Nintendo 3DS with a Nintendo Network ID.
SteamWorld Dig (Wii U/3DS) – €5.99 / £4.49 / CHF6.99 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €8.99 / £6.99 / CHF 10.99
Squids Odyssey (Wii U/3DS) – €5.99 / £4.99 / CHF7.99 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €12.99 / £9.99 / CHF15.99
TNT Racers – Nitro Machines Edition – €3.99 / £3.49 / CHF5.99 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €7.99 / £6.99 / CHF11.99
Gravity Badgers – €2.49 / £2.49 / CHF3.50 until 30/10/14. Regular price is €4.99 / £4.99 / CHF7.00
Trine 2: Director’s Cut – €8.49 / £6.99 / CHF9.99 until 03/11/2014. Regular price is €16.99 / £13.99 / CHF19.99
4 Elements – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.40 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Azada – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.40 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Hidden Expedition® Titanic – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Luxor – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.40 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Mystery Case Files Dire Grove – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Mystery Case Files Ravenhearst® – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Mystery Case Files Return to Ravenhearst – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Secret Mysteries in London – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.40 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars – €19.99 / £17.99 / CHF28.00 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €29.99 / £24.99 / CHF38.90
Snow Moto Racing 3D – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.39 until 27/11/2014. Regular price is €7.99 / £7.19 / CHF11.19
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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U screenshots (10/13/14)
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Screenshots, Wii U | 10 Comments
Today’s Smash Bros. screenshots from Masahiro Sakurai give us a new look at the Wii U game. Sakurai decided to show off two Mega Man trophies in the game, which you can find below.
[Weekly Screen] Paper Monsters Recut #2 – Space Pterodactyls (It doesn’t need to make sense)
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Screenshots, Weekly Screenshot, Wii U eShop | 0 comments
This week’s exclusive indie-game screenshot from upcoming Wii U platformer Paper Monsters Recut shows off something that, according to the laws of physics as discovered by Newton, Einstein, and their comrades, shouldn’t exist! This is a video game though, so that doesn’t matter too much. I’ll let our friend at Mobot Studios explain what you’re seeing above, because they’re actually working on the game:
Paper Monsters Recut is our take on a classic 2D platformer, but our new space levels change the gameplay up a bit with a cool jetpack and laser bolt powerup, for epic space battles! You’ll also face different enemies in space from the ones you’ll find in Paperland, such as the flying Pterry and the mini Twirkle shown here.
The other thing we wanted to highlight with this screenshot was how the GamePad is used (which you can see in the lower right hand corner). Different powerups work differently, and the gamepad will always display the current powerup’s controls for quick reference based on what type of level you’re playing. Of course if you are in Off-TV play on the GamePad you can always reference this by hitting pause, but we think it’s pretty handy to have it at a glance.
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Just a Chat – Smash Bros. Wii U date, Captain Toad, and more
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Just a Chat, Videos | 8 Comments
Austin and I talk about some of the more notable pieces of Nintendo news from the past week. There’s some chatter about the Smash Bros. Wii U date, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, and plenty more.
One of these days we’ll record Just a Chat when I’m not dead tired!
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate has a Mega Man crossover, Tetsuya Nomura weapons/armor
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Update: Clarification about Nomura’s involvement. An image has now been released, and his weapons/armor aren’t directly tied to Final Fantasy. Still neat in any case!
We’ve summoned up an all-new collaboration with renowned Square Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura for #MH4U! pic.twitter.com/1y7s70tsNy
— Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter) October 11, 2014
Capcom hasn’t stopped announcing crossovers for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, believe it or not. Two new ones were announced during a panel at New York Comic-Con today.
First, players will be able to use Mega Man as a Palico. He uses a Rush Hammer and makes the classic Mega Man death sound when he retreats. A special Mega Man Guild Card is planned as well.
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate also features a Tetsuya Nomura Collection of weapons and armor. The gear is inspired by Final Fantasy summons, and can be used with the Final Fantasy-inspired Palico.
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Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire scans and details – PokeNav features
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Another two Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire scans have surfaced from this month’s CoroCoro. One of the main highlights is the new PokeNav, which is known as the “MultiNavi”.
MultiNavi provides four settings: MapNavi, TVNavi, PlayNavi, and DexNavi. PlayNavi includes features like Pokemon Amie and the GTS while DexNavi helps you find Pokemon in the wild and register them in your Pokedex.
In Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, players will be able to sneak up on Pokemon. Pokemon encountered in the overworld can also be registered in the Pokedex.
Factor 5 had a Star Wars trilogy compilation finished for Wii, but was cancelled
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii | 16 Comments
During the latest Nintendo Voice Chat episode, IGN spoke with Julian Eggebrecht, who was the president of the now-defunct development studio Factor 5. Eggebrecht revealed details about a cancelled Star Wars trilogy compilation for Wii – titled Rogue Leaders – that was actually finished.
Here’s what was shared:
– Factor 5 was originally working on a trilogy compilation for the first Xbox
– This would have contained Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, and Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
– Factor 5 was interested in Wii given the advances of motion tech thanks to Wii MotionPlus
– The team tried resurrecting its cancelled Star Wars trilogy from the first Xbox
– Making the game work on a modern console was only a matter of tweaking the already-existing systems in the half-finished game
“…we had our old trilogy project, which we had fifty percent done, which was basically putting Rogue Leader and Rebel Strike with new content, [along] with fixing some of the mistakes, redoing completely the cameras, and everything.”
– Factor 5 wanted the game to work with the GameCube controller and a few Wii peripherals
– The team “wanted to support every single control that you could imagine.”
– During flight sequences, you could have the Mario Kart wheel control your X-Wing together with the balance board to control the pedals
– There was space combat, speeder bike racing levels, third-person action sequences, and even lightsaber battles making the most of the Wii Motion Plus’ 1:1 controls
– New graphics engine allowed for 60 FPS with a high visual fidelity
“Believe me, if you ever saw it running on the Wii at 60 [fps], it is by far – and I think I’m not overstating that – the technically most impressive thing you would ever see on [Wii].”
– Wii trilogy was finished, but the project was shut down
– The cancellation was because of the financial crisis of 2008 and the fact that the team had taken it upon themselves to self-fund the project in order to claim a larger “piece of the pie” once it was distributed
– Two potential publishers also went bankrupt and LucasArts was having “their own financial woes”
– IGN says multiple companies stepped in to help out with publishing, but financial hardship, legal snafus, and budgetary restrictions ultimately led to the project’s final cancellation.
– Eggebrecht loves the Wii U, but its unpredictable trajectory and licensing troubles make it unlikely
“Maybe sooner or later a hardware spot will be hit again, and we certainly would love to talk to Disney about it. And of course, with J.J.’s [Abrams] comeback to kind of the traditional trilogy feel, I think there’s going to be a lot of commotion around that. I just don’t know if we will be a part of it or not.”
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New version of Youkai Watch 2 announced
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This month’s issue of CoroCoro reveals that a new version of Youkai Watch 2 is in the works. Level-5 will release Youkai Watch 2: Star Performer in Japan on December 13. Pricing is set at 4,968 yen.
The new version of Youkai Watch 2 will new Youkai and quests as well as an anime episode that connects to the upcoming movie. Players will be able to transfer data from the original games (Ganso/Honke). Additionally, extras are planned like medals for the retail launch.
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Videos: Every Japanese 3DS theme
Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments
3DS themes have now arrived in Japan, and Nintendo has uploaded videos showing off every single one. We’ve only posted a single video above, but you can find another 46 over on Nintendo’s Japanese YouTube page.
