Square Enix has released the first Dragon Quest Anniversary Collection trailer on Youtube. Sadly I’m unable to embed the video but you can watch it here. Dragon Quest Anniversary Collection will be released in Japan on September 15th and will come with an exclusive trailer for the highly anticipated Dragon Quest X for Wii.
Apparently Nintendo has already put the ten free NES games for the Nintendo 3DS. All you need to do to claim your ten free NES games is scroll to your ‘Settings/Other” and then click “Titles You’ve Downloaded”. The ten free NES games will be included in that list. Let me know in the comments if it has worked for you!
Yesterday I posted that Nintendo Ambassador Certificate was available to download. It turns out that whilst Nintendo America announced the certificate it isn’t actually available to download until tomorrow. Apologies to those that were frantically searching for the video yesterday evening. Be sure to download the certificate and your free NES games tomorrow!
Nintendo America has announced it’s put up a Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Certificate. The certificate is a video which allows Ambassadors to receive updates regarding the Ambassador Program. By tapping the ‘receive’ button in the video you’ll automatically be updated with all the information you need about the Ambassador Program.
The Ambassador Certificate is a downloadable video available to Ambassadors.
By tapping the receive button on the Touch Screen when viewing this video, Ambassadors will receive updates regarding the Ambassador Program, such as when new titles are available to download. As soon as details for the 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console titles are available, we will send an update to those who have opted in using the Ambassador Certificate.
Ambassadors will be able to download 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console titles for free before the end of the year.
Edit: The Ambassador Certificate will be available to download tomorrow.
Nintendo of America has also announced the ten free Nintendo Ambassador NES games. The ten games are exactly the same as the ones Japan are getting and presumably the UK and Europe. The ten free NES games will be free to download from September 1st.
- Super Mario Bros.™
- Donkey Kong Jr.™
- Balloon Fight™
- Ice Climber™
- The Legend of Zelda™
- Metroid™
- NES Open Tournament Golf
- Wrecking Crew
- Zelda II – The Adventure of Link
- Yoshi
Legendary games designer Shigeru Miyamoto has hinted that the company are busy preparing a Wii Fit game for Wii U. Whilst it’s something Miyamoto was unable to go into detail about he did say that Nintendo is looking at different ways to do training exercises with Wii Fit using the Wii U controller
“I can’t really talk about it in detail, but we’re working on new ways to do training exercises with Wii Fit, like using the camera, you can place it against something and play while the game looks at your status.”
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata believes that Wii U will ultimately be better suited to hardcore gamers whilst admitting that Wii appealed to mainly causal gamers. Iwata hopes that Wii U with its HD graphics and expanded features will appeal to a wider demographic than the Wii.
“Shortly after the Wii console was released, people in the gaming media and game enthusiasts started recognising the Wii console as a casual machine aimed toward families, and placed game consoles by Microsoft and Sony in a very similar light with each other, saying these are machines aimed towards those who passionately play games,”
“It was a categorisation between games that were aimed towards core, and casual.”
“I certainly do not think that Wii was able to cater to every gamer’s needs, so that’s also something I wanted to resolve,” he said. “The general public’s impression that Nintendo was casual grew as time went by.”
“One of the key reasons that such things as the core and the casual exist today is that we decided not to adopt HD on the Wii console,” Miyamoto explained. “Of course, besides that there are things like issues with the controller and the challenges that it brings, network functionalities and many other things, but I think HD was the biggest factor that everyone was able to clearly understand the difference.”
“The barrier that separated the two genres [core and casual] was only something psychological, just an impression that people had about them. For example, The Legend of Zelda games were something geared towards the toughest audience, and it has been so from the beginning,” he said.
“So it’s not like at Nintendo we don’t have it in us.”
Nintendo Europe has announced that it’s also releasing the limited edition pre-order bundle for the latest instalment in The Legend of Zelda franchise, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which is coming to Europe on 18th November.
A special limited edition bundle is available to fans who pre-order the software and features a copy of the game, a CD featuring selected orchestral arrangements of iconic music spanning the history of the franchise and a rare golden Wii Remote Plus controller bearing the Hylian Crest.
Fans who purchase the game early at launch will receive a copy of the game and a copy of the music CD available in the limited edition bundle. You’ll need to be quick off the mark, as this game and CD ‘special’ edition’ is only available while stocks last.
Nintendo Japan has announced the full line up of NES games for Nintendo 3DS ambassadors. We already knew we were getting Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Ice Climber, Donkey Kong Jr. and Balloon Fight. Now Nintendo has announced the other five as Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Wrecking Crew, Yoshi, Metroid, and NES Open Tournament Golf.
Nintendo America has officially announced the release date for the fourth entry in the Professor Layton series. Professor Layton and the Last Spector begins a new trilogy that is a prequel to the original games, set three years before the events in Professor Layton and the Curious Village.
As a North American exclusive to the overall Professor Layton and the Last Specter package, a bonus role-playing game called Professor Layton’s London Life containing more than 100 hours of additional content will be available to players from the start of the game. The game launches October 17th.
