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Nintendo has begun rolling out Nintendo DS and Nintendo 64 titles on the Wii U Virtual Console, with the company announcing new arrivals throughout the month of April. The news was announced during the firm’s Nintendo Direct event this week. Starting today, Super Mario 64 and Yoshi’s Island DS will …

Nintendo’s DIY Mario level creation title Mario Maker will launch this September on Wii U. The firm announced the release window this week as part of its latest Nintendo Direct event. The game was unveiled at E3 2014, and allows Wii U owners to create and edit their own 2D …

Amiibo-based Wii U app Amiibo Tap: Nintendo’s Greatest Bits will launch later this spring, Nintendo has announced. Company president and CEO Satoru Iwata revealed the upcoming free download on this week’s Nintendo Direct presentation. The game will allow players to tap their amiibo action figures onto their Wii U GamePads …

Mobile games firm DeNA wants its partnership with Nintendo to rake in more than $25m a month, the firm’s CEO has said. The two companies recently agreed a major deal to collaborate onbringing Nintendo’s IP to mobile devices. Speaking toReuters, Isao Moriyasu said though DeNA has yet to discuss specific …

Bandai Namco Games has changed its name, again, and will now be known as Bandai Namco Entertainment. Why the change? European president and COO Naoki Katashima details the changes. Why the new name? Our future vision and business of the Group has more to do with providing Entertainment, rather than …

This week was a busy period for the Japanese games market, with every single entry in the Top 10 for the region being a new release. From Software and Sony’s new hardcore RPG Bloodborne went straight to No.1 in Japan, shifting 150,245 units according to market data from Famitsu. This …

A game that adjusts its difficulty according to the stress being experienced by its player is now available on Steam Early Access. Nevermind failed in its first attempt at getting Kickstarted last year but just scraped past its funding goal on its second attempt. However, developer Flying Mollusk has admitted …

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Japanese post-processing effects tool powering Sony’s latest blockbuster

Internal development of cult classic Demon’s Souls was going severely wrong before lead designer Hidetaka Miyazaki took control of the project, it has been revealed. Demon’s Souls wasn’t doing well,” he told The Guardian. The project had problems and the team had been unable to create a compelling prototype. But …