MasterAbbott caught up with Tak Fujii Producer of his soon to be released 3DS title Frogger 3D at this years E3 Expo 2011. Everyone’s favourite little green frog is back with some really cool remake. Fujii go through all the new features and also some old school updates that he’s throw in into the game.
Frogger is defintely a classic and to see it in 3D form will be exciting and nostalgic, albeit a little frightening. Â Frogs are already creepy and having their nasty, little buggy eyes popping out at you even more is insane. Â Luckily, the Frogger is a little cuter than most ribbiters.
What do you think? Will you be investing into the the hip, new Frog?
Normally in the U.S., Monday is the day you check to see what is new in the Nintendo e-shop on the Wii & DSi (and as of last week the 3DS). That date is now looking to change starting this Thursday. Last week, 3DS owners received a whole shop launch to themselves, consisting of the new Virtual Console with a few Game Boy Classics, a free 3D Excitebike, as well as the standard DSi library and a handful of 3DS E3 trailers. Most users were readily looking forward to what today would bring to the service after such an eventful launch, but Nintendo want us to wait just a few more days to see what new content they have up their sleeves.
So what changed? Here is the official statement from Nintendo:
Starting June 16, the Nintendo Download will include information about the newest additions to the Nintendo eShop, including new 3D games, 3D Classics (select classic video games re-mastered in 3D), Virtual Console versions of games from the Game Boy and Game Boy Color systems, and hundreds of games originally offered via the Nintendo DSiWare service. What’s more, this modified weekly update will be posted Thursdays instead of Mondays, giving fans a heads-up on the latest offerings just in time for the weekend.
I think a few days certainly won’t kill anyone. I can say though that I am waiting with a Nintendo point card for more content to be added to the 3DS e-shop, so the sooner we see what new goodies await, the better. The DSiWare/WiiWare users out there should also breathe a sigh of relief as Nintendo have ensured that support will continue on both systems, but with the new “Thursday” release.
If you thought that paying for Dead Rising 2: Off the Record was a bit too expensive for the same type of title that you already paid for once then the following news may help a little bit of that wallet pain your suffering. Eurogamer reports that Dead Rising 2: Off the Record will only cost $40 instead of your standard $60 amount. This makes the fact that the game is more or less a reskinning of Dead Rising 2 with some new features a bit less painful.
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record will be released some time later this year on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Jason Leigh went on to say that there are “new environment, weapons, combo weapons, new clothing, food items, vehicles, bosses and a new story.” I had a bit of time to play a section of the game and I can see that it will definitely be a fun and relatively new experience. Though not everyone is going to be as easy as a sell as I am.
In a bit of depressing news today, the Nintendo 3DS has reached a million handheld sales this past week in Japan. This means it took thirteen weeks for the Nintendo 3DS to take and reach this benchmark, while the DS only took four weeks and the DS Lite and DSi only took eight weeks.
Andriasang pointed out this fact and also pulled in a statement from Nintendo’s head Satoru Iwata. Iwata stated that the handheld isn’t doing as well as the company would like and they are planning to make a big push this summer in sales.
Nintendo announced officially that they had sold 3.61 million 3DS units at the end of March, though the very slow install base in their home country is probably disappointing for the company to say the least. Though with Ocarina of Time 3D coming out in a week and a few other big name titles being released soon, one can expect sales to hopefully make a jump in the coming weeks.
Motorstorm: Apocalypse may have been released in the rest of the world at this point but Sony’s home nation hasn’t seen any sign of a new release date for the title which was placed on indefinite delay after the natural disasters which struck Japan earlier this year.
It seems that any fans of the game in Japan will never be able to play the title though, without importing it at least. Because today Sony Japan officially announced that they will be canceling the release of Motorstorm: Apocalypse in Japan. This news is a bit of a surprise as the title was practically on the delivery truck to stores the day that the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami occurred. No actual reason was given for the cancellation but it is easy to guess as to why it occurred, especially after hearing that Disaster Report 4 has been canceled as well.
Bleach: Soul Resurrección may not be coming out for a few months still but that doesn’t mean that websites like Gamestop aren’t already placing up product pages for the titles to help lure in early pre-orders. Now these product pages actually are a bit more helpful than usual because this time it leaked a bit of extra information.
Apparently NIS America will be bundling a voucher that will allow anyone who purchases Bleach: Soul Resurrección to download three episodes of Bleach for free. The exact information for this voucher is still unknown, and whether or not these product pages are to be believed is still up in the air. We’ve contacted NIS America to shed some light on this reveal.
It looks like the backing for Vocaloids to begin showing up more and more in the United States is growing as VIZ media announced that they have officially acquired the license rights to everything that is Hatsune Miku in North America. Unfortunately beyond announcing that they now own the rights to Hatsune Miku VIZ did not elaborate as to what this means for her fans.
The press release that contained this information reminded fans that VIZ will be attending the Licensing International Expo next week and so will Hatsune Miku in the form of her products and other things. What this will mean down the road for the popular Vocaloid has yet to be seen, but with her concert appearance in the United States at the Anime Expo soon; Hatsune Miku may just establish at least some small foothold in the US shortly.
Cave is set to release Deathsmiles on to the iOS devices. Deathsmiles was side scrolling shoot em up featuring a crazy amounts of bullets on screen. Also what makes it stand out was it’s cast of young girl whiches and crazy enemies.
There was no release date given or price for the release but it will be out there this ultras for a worlwide release. If you want to find out more on Deathsmiles then you can watch the trailer below.
Out of everything shown off at Microsoft’s pre-E3 conference it is easy to say that one of the weakest presentations was Fable: The Journey. The title looked quite plain and basically had the look of an on-rails shooter that would simply have players using their hands as guns in this case. Apparently our view wasn’t the minority and even Peter Molyneux admits that the demonstration had problems.
In a video found by Official Xbox Magazine we see Peter Molyneux has admitted to the mistake and stated “I made a horrendous mistake on the press demo by taking out the navigation allowing players to move.” He goes on to say “I’ll just state on record now that Fable: The Journey is definitely not on rails.” A number of journalists then signed a wall to attest to his statement. It is good to see that Molyneux took quick notice to gamers’ collective “meh” when the demo was played.
In an effort to push gamers to buy a product from their store, many companies have begun to pay extra money to developers for exclusive content. It appears that Batman: Arkham City won’t avoid this pre-order scramble as Best Buy has leaked that there will be a playable Robin in a certain segment of Batman: Arkham City.
Apparently when you pre-order Batman: Arkham City from Best Buy you will receive a code to download the Best Buy exclusive Robin character to use in two challenge maps. These maps sound similar to the PlayStation 3 exclusive maps that allowed players to play as the Joker. We have contacted Warner Brothers Interactive to see what they say about this possible information leak, meaning this could still be untrue at the moment. Though if it is true, will it just be Batman in Robin’s outfit or a smaller actual unique looking character? Time will tell.
