Nintendo have decided to lift the lid on the fifth generation of Pokémon, titled Pokémon Black and Pokémon White.
Whilst Nintendo haven’t released any screenshots of the recently revealed title, a reader of Japanese magazine CoroCoro has thankfully decided to leak the magazine screens onto the internet for all to see.
Popular US gaming retailer Gamestop has the next Legend of Zelda title for the Nintendo Wii listed for release, November 1st 2010.
Whilst this date can only be described as speculation at present, Nintendo have continuously stated that they’re aiming to release the highly anticipated title at the end of the year.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has commended Capcom for its lavish graphical style on Monster Hunter 3.
Iwata claims that Monster Hunter Tri has put an immense amount of pressure on the Zelda team to create a new Zelda title that looks equally as good, or better, utilizing the Wii’s graphical capability’s.
“Nintendo’s staff have been galvanised by Capcom. I can tell they feel like you did what they hadn’t yet,” he said to Tri’s director, Kaname Fujioka, and producer, Ryozo Tsujimoto.
“Looking at the graphics objectively, I feel like the game’s visuals are one of the representative examples of what can ultimately be done with Wii. I think it has placed the Zelda team under a considerable amount of pressure,” he added, speaking in the latest edition of the Iwata Asks interview series.
“What did you think when you first tried out Wii? For example, I imagine the first thing you thought with regard to visuals was that you might not be able to do much,” Iwata asked.
“Yes. To be honest,” Fujioka responded. “Graphics aren’t really Wii’s best point…” Nevertheless, the game makers stressed the importance of visuals, and said that it was always Capcom’s aim to make the title stand out.
“I think good graphics are an incredibly attractive aspect of games,” Fujioka said. “Even before people play a game, they are aware of its general appearance.”
Tsujimoto added: “The first project planning document that we wrote said, ‘Let’s make the best graphics ever seen on the Wii console.’”
Internet giant Google has announced a collaboration with Nintendo to produce a new game in which players compete to generate the most search engine results for the Nintendo Wii.
The game which has been titled Ando Kensaku is due to release in Japan, April 29th. The game is played by correctly guessing the most popular web search terms, and the word with the most hits wins.
A new report from Ibis Capital has shown that the Nintendo Wii took an impressive 47 per cent of the global home console market in 2009.
The report also revealed that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 took a fairly-sizeable 35% chunk of the worldwide home console market in 2009, whilst Sony’s PlayStation 3 only managed to take 18% of the market during 2009.
Olivier Demangel, a professional graphic designer, has created his own stunning concept art for Nintendo’s forthcoming 3DS.
Sony says it can succeed where the Wii has ‘failed’ by bringing together both hardcore gamers and causal gamers with PlayStation Move, something Nintendo hasn’t been able to do according to the ever-arrogant Sony.
“Hard-core gamers have looked down their nose at motion gaming: it’s not particularly satisfying for them because it’s not terribly precise or challenging, it’s more social.”
“We’ll have games that the whole family can play that are very social, but we’ll also be able to do hard-core gamer games via a motion device that has never been done before. It’s too early to say what the killer app or signature game is but we’ll continue through the spring and late summer before we make a decision on which game is the poster child or the best one to move the Move.”
- Sony’s head of marketing, Peter Dille
Nintendo have issued a cease and desist letter to the developers behind the popular Pokémon online mulitplayer game, Pokénet.
The Pokémon MMO game was work in progress, but that didn’t stop 7,000 players logging in just before the project developers received their cease and desist letter from Nintendo.
‘Pokenet’ players were able to catch, evolve and finally trade Pokémon across two in game regions called Kanto and Johto, with more expected to arrive at a later date. Completely free to play the developers were losing money on hosting the servers – never the less Nintendo clearly saw this as a threat to their IP and crushed it quicker than Pikachu hopes of freedom.
According to early leaks originating from Japan, Nintendo forthcoming 3D handheld will feature a 3.4 inch Sharp Parallax Barrier Display Screen which includes a modest 480 x 854 pixel display.
Unlike the 3D displays you’ll find in modern 3D HDTVs requiring the viewer to wear active or passive glasses, Sharp’s display uses a parallax barrier system to create a sense of depth by using a series of vertical slits in an ordinary LCD to direct light to the right and left eyes. The panel offers a 500nit brightness, 1,000:1 contrast, and is available with or without a touchscreen.
- Engadget
Nintendo have released another magical trailer for Super Mario Galaxy 2 which is slated for release in North America, May 23rd and Europe, June 11th.
The freshly revealed trailer shows off a whole host of new levels to explore and plenty of exciting features. The trailer also reveals a cute yellow Yoshi and what appears to be a dashing new ability for Mario.
