Level 5 president, Akihiro Hino, has announced that his critically acclaimed team of developers are working on titles for both the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 3.

Whilst no information has been revealed thus far on either of the unannounced titles by Level 5, further information is more than likely to follow in the coming months, so say tuned.

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Legendary games designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, has confirmed that Nintendo are currently working on new hardware though as expected he didn’t reveal whether this is a portable device or a fully fledged home console.

Shigeru Miyamoto recently attended the 13th Annual Japan Media Arts Festival and informed the audience that Nintendo is hard at work on a new games console and its also developing a new unannounced Wii MotionPlus title.

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Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, has revealed that the Nintendo Gamecube had hidden 3D capability’s build into the hardware that were never utilized.

“To tell you the truth, GameCube is secretly designed to load graphical circuits which display graphics for right and left eyes respectively, for a future possibility of realizing 3D gaming experience. So actually we have had interest on this technology, but I have some doubt about everyone needing glasses to play.”

- Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata

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British gaming publication, NGamer, is claiming that Sega’s speedy mascot Sonic The Hedgehog is appearing in Nintendo’s highly anticipated Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Although the Nintendo publication is renowned for its sense of humour, it was one of the first gaming publications to announce that Nintendo was bringing Zelda: Twilight Princess across to the Nintendo Wii.

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Yoshio Sakamoto, Metroid’s co-creator, has spoken openly to Japanese gaming publication Famitsu regarding the next iteration of the Metroid franchise on the Nintendo Wii, Metroid: Other M.

“This time we’re strongly depicting the human side of Samus through such things as movies. She’s a strong woman, but she also has a fragile side. We want to make a game whose charms can be felt from the story areas and these human touches as well. It’s an action game, but it’s capable of having a clear emotional side. This Metroid is being developed with the aim of the ideal form of the old Metroid.”

- Metroid co-creator, Yoshio Sakamoto

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Sega have officially announced that its highly anticipated Project Needlemouse is in fact Sonic 4 – Episode 1.

The company announced that the new 2D Sonic title will be available for download via WiiWare during the summer and will also be available for download on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.

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According to online gaming publication, VideoGamer, a number of top development studios are working on software for a “new Nintendo platform.”

Apparently the gaming publication was contacted by an employee at a major international publisher with the following information:

“Just heard a rumour that you may be interested in: Nintendo are going to announce a new platform at GDC. Some devs have already started work on it.”

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told investors at a recent quarterly Q&A session that the successor to the Nintendo Wii needs ‘something new‘ beyond HD.

“If asked if making the Wii compatible with high definition – just making it compatible with high resolution – will get players throughout the world to buy it, I would of course say: ‘Do you think it would sell with just that? It needs something new.’”

Of course he wouldn’t give any clues away, saying “If there were no rival makers in the world, I’d could give examples of the things that we are considering. However, for competitive reasons, I cannot give specifics today on the what or when of the things we’re considering.”

- Satoru Iwata

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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has admitted in an episode of Iwata Asks that the Zelda development process is traditionally ”an exercise in suffering”.

Satoru Iwata however is quick to point out that there’s one Zelda game which they’ve created that was “made in a completely different style and atmosphere, and had a major influence on those that followed.”

“I remember that we made Link’s Awakening in a really peculiar frame of mind. We began in the free spirit of an afterschool club, so the contents are quite unrestrained. If you look at it, you can tell,” he said, noting that they threw in characters who looked like Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Kirby without thinking.

“It was for the Game Boy, so we thought, ‘Oh, it’ll be fine,’” Tezuka said. “We moved along at quite a good speed in a relatively freewheeling manner. Maybe that’s why we had so much fun making it. It was like we were making a parody of Zelda.”

“I thought it was a tradition for working on a Zelda title for it to turn into a kind of exercise in suffering,” Iwata countered.

“I remember it was fun working on it, and when it was over, I remember us talking to each other about how fun it was,” Tezuka said.

“It wasn’t until Link’s Awakening that the Zelda titles started having a proper plot.” This came from an unlikely source – Tezuka’s fascination with David Lynch’s surreal TV series, Twin Peaks.

Tezuka decided that, like Twin Peaks, the game should focus on a singular location, and feature “suspicious” characters.

“After that, in Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask, all kinds of suspicious characters appeared. I didn’t tell them to do it that way, but personally, I did find it considerably appealing,” he said.

“I’m certain it was a breakthrough element in the series,” Aonuma said. “If we had proceeded from A Link to the Past straight to Ocarina of Time without Link’s Awakening in between, Ocarina would have been different.”

- Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata and Nintendo general manager Takashi Tezuka

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Sickr originally started as a project at university, and has grown far beyond my initial expectations, thanks to you. After some careful deliberation I’ve finally decided the time is right to change the name.

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