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This year’s Star Fox Zero has been named as the Wii U’s most underrated game by legendary Nintendo developer Shigeru Miyamoto. I think personally Star Fox is a really fun game if you sit down and play it,” Miyamoto told Game Informer. I think, for example, an elementary school kid …
Read More »Nintendo takes down NES artbook Kickstarter campaign
Platform holder Nintendo has shut down a Kickstarter campaign, claiming it made an unauthorised use of Nintendo’s copyrights.” The campaign aimed at funding a NES artbook launched by specialist publisher Bitmap Books. The NES/Famicom: A Visual Compendium Kickstarter projectwas only 24 hours from ending – and had already successfully raised …
Read More »Opinion: How Nintendo (Almost) won E3
E3, as has become custom, is almost more about what wasn’t shown than what was. Where was Crackdown?” That was the first question I was asked by a fellow journalist shortly after Xbox’s press conference, followed swiftly by: "where was HoloLens for that matter?" PlayStation executives spent half their time …
Read More »UPDATED: Dragon’s Crown pulled from PSN amid NIS America and Atlus fall out
UPDATE: Dragon’s Crown will be returning to the PSN store. In a statement provided to MCV, NIS America said that the RPG title will be back on PlayStation’s online store shortly via publisher Atlus. Below is the firm’s full statement on the matter: "With regards to our previous statements on …
Read More »Miyamoto explains Nintendo NX E3 no-show
Nintendo’s famed designer Shigeru Miyamoto has shed some light on why its new console was not shown at E3 2016. Speaking to investors, Miyamoto said – as translated by Twitter user Cheesemeister3K (below) – that the firm was worried about giving away too much information early for fear of imitators. …
Read More »US government clarifies position on eSports visas after petition hits 100,000 signatures
After a petition linked to William "Leffen" Hjelte’s denial of a US P-1 visa hit 100,000 signatures, the US government has issued a statement on whether or not eSports players are considered athletes. Earlier in the year the Free Leffen campaign was started in an attempt to help secure Leffen, …
Read More »Three Tetris films coming up because story is too big for just one
The producer of the upcoming Tetris movie has explained why it is the first part in a trilogy. Speaking to film publication Empire, Larry Kasanoff said that the story they have in mind for the film is ‘so big’ that they need three films to cover it. In May, it …
Read More »Nintendo denies Paper Mario joke is Gamergate reference
A couple of references that have been interpreted as a call out to the Gamergate hate campaign are nothing of the sort, Nintendo has said. Two pieces of dialogue plucked from a demo of Wii U title Paper Mario: Color Splash were called out by harassment victim Zoe Quinn as …
Read More »Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival is a PlayStation exclusive for six months
The new version of Kick Off is only exclusive to PlayStation platforms for six months, it has been confirmed. The PlayStation exclusivity was announced back in October, but the six-month period was only confirmed yesterday toVideogamerby a spokesperson for the game. Publisher Maximum Games did not specify any release date …
Read More »The Last Guardian dev Fumito Ueda on maintaining a consistent vision for a decade
'I always take a point of reminding myself periodically: ‘What was the game I wanted to play?'' says creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus
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