AND…WE’RE BACK!
At ButtonMash we’re hungry for brand-spanking new games and May is set to be an exciting month with the release of a clutch of high profile and intriguing games which are set to leave us with a month of sore thumbs.
Ubisoft have given us, the wonderful public, a Q&A with Creative Director of katana-wielding Wii game Red Steel 2, Jason Vandenberghe to give us a little insight to the game before its general release on 26 March.
Take a look below for all the details on the anticipated sequel to the Wii launch title.
My relationship with Sonic The Hedgehog has been a turbulent one. Back in the (very) early 90′s, Sonic was my 2D platformer of choice – I loved the speed, the colourful environments and huge levels presented in each game. The games since then have disappointed me greatly – Sonic Unleashed’s nighttime levels were probably the greatest example of how to wreck a great series.
Wonder what our favourite action-RPG looked like during its infancy in Miyamoto’s notebooks? Well Nintendo has given us a good look, courtesy of president Satoru Iwata.
The historic sketches below include a world map, some pixel sketches and even a design outline. Amazingly, Iwata tells us that Miyamoto and Tezuka – the original LoZ designers – drew this all in one sitting.
Today, Nintendo and Netflix announced that the latter’s film streaming service will be hitting the Wii this Spring. Like the Xbox predecessor before it, the service will be free for existing Netflix subscribers (which typically costs around $8.99 a month).
Strangely, the service will need a separate Netflix instant-streaming disc for the Wii console and cannot be installed to system or SD storage and runs “like a game” rather than sitting within its own separate Wii channel, which kinda sucks. Hardware limitation, maybe?
According to the official press release, when the instant-streaming disc is inserted into a Wii, an “array of movie and TV choices will be displayed right on their TV screen”, organised into categories based on members’ personal preferences and will include genres, new arrivals and members’ individual instant Queues.
Update: It appears that some analysts do not share Nintendo’s optimism of the new service.
According to the Japanese newspaper, Asashi Shimbun, the latest Legend of Zelda sequel is slated to go on sale before the end of 2010 following an interview the paper had with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata about the company’s current performance and future roadmap.
