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Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U title Star Fox Zero will work hard to ensure that it is accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Development boss Shigeru Miyamoto told Time that the game will allow players to be invincible, the idea being that this will increase its appeal to kids. …
Read More »Digital Pokemon boardgame announced for smartphones
We already know that Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon are on the way in this, the 20th anniversary year of Pokemon. But another title has now also been confirmed. It’s called Pokemon Co-Master, Wired reports, and is a free-to-play digital boardgame in development for smartphones and tablets. The project is …
Read More »The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD was the best-selling individual game last week in the UK
The Wii U actually had a No.1 game in the UK. Every week on this very website, we publish the ‘All-Formats Charts’. This week, Far Cry Primal was No.1. That included physical sales of the game on PS4 and Xbox One. However, if you only count individual consoles, Zelda: Twilight …
Read More »PS4 and Far Cry top February NPD rankings; Fire Emblem blossoms
February marked another sales victory for Sony’s PlayStation 4 in the US. VentureBeat reports that the result means that PS4 has outsold Xbox One for 12 of the last 14 months in the region, with Sony saying: We continued to see strong year-over-year sales growth for PS4 hardware and software …
Read More »Lionhead Studios to close, Fable Legends cancelled
Microsoft has announced that famous UK Fable developer Lionhead Studios is likely to close. The platform holder announced this in a post on Xbox Wire, which also stated that development of Fable Legends has been terminated. Furthermore, Xbox has revealed that Denmark-based Press Play Studios is also set to close, …
Read More »£250m being invested into Nintendo’s Universal Studios attraction
The planned Nintendo expansion to the Universal Studios theme park in Japan will boast a budget to rival other big-named projects, it has been claimed. The Telegraph reports that the Japanese press are reporting that some 250m is being invested into the project after details were finalised last week. This …
Read More »Project Guard gets a Star Fox makeover and is out next month
Shigeru Miyamoto’s Wii U game Project Guard will launch next month, only with a new name. Star Fox Guard is a co-operative security guard sim. One player controls a gun using the Wii U gamepad, while everyone else looks at the TV screen that shows multiple security camera screens. The …
Read More »Monster Hunter X is coming to Europe as Monster Hunter Generations
The next Monster Hunter will reach 3DS this summer, Nintendo has announced. Monster Hunter Generations is, according to the company, ‘the most customisable Monster Hunter experience to date’. The title went by the name Monster Hunter X in Japan. Monster Hunter is one of the most popular game franchises in …
Read More »Nintendo tries again to pitch Metroid Prime: Federation Force
Metroid Prime: Federation Force is perhaps the most ill-received Nintendo game of all time, but the company is having another stab at selling it to you. The games last year became the figurehead of what was a very hostile reaction to Nintendo’s pretty threadbare E3 showing. This was acknowledged by …
Read More »New 3DS gets SNES downloads and special edition console
Nintendo has confirmed the long-awaited arrival of SNES games on the 3DS Virtual Console. There’s a catch though – the downloads will only be available to those with the latest generation New 3DS and New 3DS XL. There’s no cross-buy support, either, so even if you’ve already purchased the games …
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