Post Tagged with: "miyamoto"

New Zelda Title Coming to 3DS, Majora’s Mask Remake Being “Considered” As Well

Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma has said in an interview that there is a new 3DS Zelda in the works.

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E3 2011: Pikmin Skips the Wii – Announced for the Wii U

Last year Miyamoto acknowledged a Pikmin game in development for the Wii. This year he announced Pikmin shifted to the Wii U.

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Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary Party at Nintendo World Recap

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary Celebration at the Nintendo World Store in New York City. I came to the event expecting a mid sized celebration …

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Super Mario Bros. Speed Runner Fails In Front Of Miyamoto

Nintendo held a grand event at the Nintendo World Store in NYC yesterday to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Super Mario Bros. The games creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, happened to be …

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Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary Original Glitches (Video)

To celebrate Mario’s 25th anniversary, Nintendo of Japan created a compilation video to celebrate Super Mario Bros. greatest glitches.

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New Japanese Kirby’s Epic Yarn Trailer Will Melt Your Heart

While I can’t speak or read Japanese, the universal message of this new trailer released by Nintendo of Japan is clear: Kirby is cute…sickingly so.

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Don’t Worry, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto Is Wealthier Than We Thought

We reported on some information yesterday that lead us all to believe that Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of some of the most iconic characters in gaming history, was an average at best paid employee within the Nintendo Corporation. Well, the information we sourced couldn’t have been further from the truth …

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Why Nintendo “Won” E3 2010

My job, obviously, is to argue that Nintendo “won” E3 2010. Not only have Nintendo conquered the minds of the casual market, but they appear to have won back the minds of the hardcore market, too. How have they managed this? Well, they did so by putting on the best E3 press conference that I’ve seen in many years.

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Miyamoto: 3D Isn’t Everything

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has been quoted by Nintendo Power recently, saying that not everything needs to be 3D in the games industry. The creator of Mario and Zelda, two franchises that have had success in both dimensions, says: “I don’t think everything needs to be 3D, or that just because we’re seeing more 2D games [...]

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Miyamoto: Wiimote is a “continuous evolution”

Speaking about the Wii Remote recently, Miyamoto called it a “continuous evolution” and mentioned technological advancements and videogaming.

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Miyamoto Joins Three of His Video Game Creations in a Legendary Animated Short

Shigeru Miyamoto teams up with a trio of video game characters he created in an impressive short illustrated and animated by Newgrounds user, Awkward-Squid. The concept behind the flash animation, titled “Legend of Miyamoto”, involves Mario, Link, and Donkey Kong helping their video game father make his way through their world. Squid says that the [...]

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Nintendo UK’s Payday: Wii Music Ships November 14

CVG reports that the release date of the uber-casual Wii Music has been confirmed at November 14. This follows the US release date of October 20 by almost a month, so nothing new there. Not that it even matters, as the ‘casual’ market in the UK is huge and Wii Music will make more money [...]

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Miyamoto Talks Tradition: Mario Game In Works

In a recent interview with the UK based Telegraph, Miyamoto stated that there are teams working on new Mario, Zelda, and Pikmin projects. “They are all working on more Mario, Zelda and Pikmin projects … And they all work in close proximity to me, so I can keep a good eye on them.” Not exactly [...]

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In Defense of Wii Music

If you’ve been keeping up with Ripten’s E3 coverage, you may have come across the majority opinion on Wii Music… Range: no rhythm, no tone, weren’t following each other, didn’t know if you were on pace Chad: mass mayhem Andrew: wasn’t working, sounded like a mess, all over the place, sort of hitting the buttons [...]

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Miyamoto’s “Health Pack” Realized: The Evolution of Wii Fit

Takao Sawano, who works at Nintendo with Shigeru Miyamoto, gave a great lecture on how Wii Fit came to be– it turns out it was “in the center of Miyamoto’s brain as a concept even before the console was released.”

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