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Forget NX and smartphone games – the product that might just come to define Nintendo’s 2016 is a 3DS title. Yo-kai Watch is a monster of a Japanese phenomenon. Created by Level-5 (the company responsible for the Professor Layton series), the last Yo-kai Watch movie attracted more viewers in its …
Read More »Ubisoft Fun House: ‘VR is the new Wii’
Accessibility of motion controls could outweigh high price of entry for headsets, suggests Eagle Flight director Olivieri Palmieri
Read More »Pokken Tournament puts up $100,000 for Pokemon fighters
The Pokemon Company has put $100,000 behind an eSports circuit for 3-D fighter Pokken Tournament due out on March 18. The Pokken Tournament Championship Series will offer events for players to compete at throughout the year, including the upcoming CEO and EVO Championship events in North America. Competitors will be …
Read More »OPINION: Invincible mode in Star Fox Zero? Great, bring it on
Developer Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that upcoming Wii U shooter Star Fox Zero will include the option for players to pilot an invincible Arwing. The idea, Miyamoto explained, is to give less experienced, and typically younger players, an easier in-road into the game. The traditional play modes will remain for …
Read More »Star Fox Zero adds invincible mode for youngsters
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 »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 »Next console Zelda will be ‘something new’
Nintendo’s in-development console Zelda title will reinvent the series in much the same way Ocarina of Time did. That’s according to series producer Eiji Aonuma, who has told Famitsu – as reported by Kotaku – that development is ticking along nicely. The game has really taken shape, and things have …
Read More »Nintendo is closing down Mario Kart TV
A website that hosts game clips uploaded by Mario Kart 8 players is being shut down by Nintendo next month. The decision won’t affect content uploaded to YouTube, and in-game sharing will continue to be possible. The Mario Kart TV website, which lets you watch highlight videos posted from Mario …
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 …
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