Hyrule Warriors’ Adventure Mode has online connectivity
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Hyrule Warriors does not have traditional online multiplayer. Yet despite the fact that there isn’t a way to take down hoards of enemies with a buddy over the Internet, the game will in fact make use of some online elements.
It turns out that the game’s Adventure Mode is where online connectivity comes into play – all through functionality called “Network Link”. Producer Yosuke Hayashi explained to Game Informer this month how the feature works:
“The Adventure Mode features a ‘Network Link’ feature. This allows you to add a ‘Link’ to your maps whose level is based on other users’ play data. If you come to this Link’s aid and fight alongside him, you’ll get access to special bonuses.”
Hyrule Warriors’ “Adventure Mode” was properly unveiled during last night’s Nintendo Direct. This has players venturing through a recreated version of The Legend of Zelda’s overworld map, with each block on the grid representing a stage with its own conditions that need to be cleared in Hyrule Warriors’ world. New weapons and playable can be unlocked as you progress.
More: Hyrule Warriors, interview, Koei Tecmo, Omega Force, Team Ninja, top, Yosuke Hayashi
Steel Diver: Sub Wars version 3.0 out now
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The 3.0 update for Steel Diver: Sub Wars is now available. This version of the game adds a bunch of new additions – they’re all outlined in the patch notes below.
Mario Kart 8 Mercedes-Benz DLC hitting Japan on August 27, trailer
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Japanese Mega Man 7, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, Final Fight Wii U VC trailers
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Soon Shine footage
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XtremeSports not hitting the North American 3DS VC this week after all
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WayForward’s XtremeSports will not be available on the North American 3DS Virtual Console as originally planned. It’s coming to Europe this Thursday, but gamers in the US will need to wait a few more weeks.
WayForward wrote on Twitter:
#XtremeSports is set to release on 8.7.14 for EU! Just 2 more days! The North American release is a few weeks later! pic.twitter.com/iueWP33EOd
— WayForward (@WayForward) August 5, 2014
@PulsemanNeoHero Small hiccup, we're waiting for more info from @NintendoAmerica regarding our new release date for #XtremeSports
— WayForward (@WayForward) August 5, 2014
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Shovel Knight sold 180,000 copies in its first month
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Yacht Club Games shared a comprehensive breakdown of Shovel Knight’s sales in a new blog post.
In its first week, the indie title managed to sell 75,000 copies (taking out Kickstarter pre-sales). Yacht Club said, “It blew our 2x-4x pre-sale expectation out of the water”.
There are a few reasons we think our preorder prediction ended up being such a conservative estimate. One is…we were a Kickstarter! That’s not quite the same thing as a preorder. People could only attain the preorder for a limited time, so the stats aren’t 100% aligned with what a preorder would do. We think due to the PC nature of Kickstarter, we saw a higher amount of sales on Nintendo’s platform when the game actually got released. Nintendo users are more inclined to buy the game day one rather than through a preorder on Kickstarter. Finally, the preorder prediction isn’t a set in stone statistic, but more like a guideline for what to expect. We had done a lot of promotion and marketing at conventions and on media sites to prove ourselves over the course of the year, and we think people responded to it in kind! Nintendo also did an amazing job supporting us through their store placement and own marketing channels.
More: indie, sales, Shovel Knight, top, Yacht Club Games
More Shut The Box footage
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Nintendo’s Matt Ryan teases surprises for Bayonetta 1, only “a little bit” shown of Captain Toad thus far
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There is plenty of news to come for both Bayonetta and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, based on new teases from Nintendo of Canada’s Matt Ryan.
First, on the topic of Bayonetta 1, Ryan mentioned that there are “some other surprises” that haven’t been revealed.
Ryan told Nintendo Enthusiast:
Activision approved Gun 2, but Neversoft put its resources into Tony Hawk instead
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Activision gave Neversoft the go-ahead to create a sequel to Gun, but the studio was forced to drop the project due to a lack of manpower. Former president Joel Jewitt told Game Informer this month that it would have been impossible for the studio to take on Gun 2 in addition to another skateboarding title.
He said:
“(Neversoft) had a bunch of guys that fought really hard over on the Activision side and we got the sequel approved, and then we more or less had to make the call over here that we couldn’t do it for business reasons. We just didn’t have the manpower to make [Gun 2] and another skateboarding game. We had to take our engine to the next level, because we were [moving to] the Xbox 360. We had to put everybody back on the [Tony] Hawk franchises.”
The first and only Gun game launched in 2005. It ended up on several platforms, including the GameCube.
