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1.- A fresh batch of Beyond Good & Evil 2 screenshots have leaked onto the web. The game was due to be developed for the current generations of consoles, but Ubisoft recently suggested that they were considering moving Beyond Good & Evil 2 to the next generation of home consoles. Let’s hope they decide to bring it to Wii U.

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• The Paul Gale Network, which is renowned for posting rather obscure rumours, claimsthat the game Retro Studio’s is working on for Wii U is a Star Fox and Metroid collaboration. We already know that Retro Studios are possibly working on a Star Fox titlefor Wii U, although this idea sounds a little too far-fetched. All will be revealed at E3 which takes place in just a few weeks.
• Some folk at Retro Studios wanted to develop a new ip that involved 3rd person sci-fi action with intense aerial combat.
• Others apparently were leaning towards taking the Star Fox helm.
• Nintendo sees Retro Studios as a very competent developer and worked with them in creating the hybrid title of Star Fox – Metroid: Fusion Saga.
• The title has multiple gameplay mechanics and needed a wide staff of talent to incorporate the many ideas.
• The story begins as you control Fox McCloud and the Star Fox team on deep space mission in your Arwing, flying through a Meteos-like stage. As you enter a light speed warp, there’s a collision with an orange ship (Samus’) and the game continues with you now plummeting to a planet as Samus in her craft. You’re in mild control of her ship, using the Wii U controller to look around and touch screen press the lit up buttons to prepare for impact (while the TV stays locked on what you see out of the cockpit). You’re now on land, as a “yet again” stripped down Samus Aran with the most basic of weapon abilities, in first person perspective, traversing through this unknown planet.
• The game switches off between intense Arwing space and planetary battles as Fox makes his way to the planet that Samus crashed on and a Metroid Prime-like experience of gameplay as Samus on this planet, gradually uncovering its mysteries, leveling up, etc.
• The Star Fox stages represent what the series is best known for, including the chatter and coming to the aid of the rest of your team, all range mode battles, and on rails stages.
• The Metroid part of the game puts you alone, void of human or any talking character contact, and like the Prime series, sees you gaining upgrades, battling bosses, and in this case, repairing your ship.
• The game is said to be epic in size, scope, ambition.
• The pacing has been perfected to not interrupt what the feeling is behind either franchise, since Star Fox is more often known for being acceptable to have short sessions with and Metroid rather the opposite. You can opt to continue playing either just Samus’ part or Fox’s part without crossing over for much of the main game (or play it as it’s scripted back and forth), but will eventually have to complete both, as the characters will ultimately meet up.
• There will be later parts in the game where you do get to control Samus’ ship and fly it Star Fox style.
• Likewise, Fox McCloud will be controllable by foot (both the above and this bullet point represent a period in the game after the two sides meet up) and be played via 3rd person perspective. Think of Jet Force Gemini with Fox’s known agility as he’s portrayed to having in the Smash Bros. series. (Fox will move more like Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden and less like he did in Star Fox Adventures).
• Though a tentative title, the idea behind the story of “Fusion Saga” is both a play on the fact that the two series are fusing together into one game and of course, a storyline behind Andross using Metroids to enhance himself, his army, etc.
• Star Fox – Metroid: Fusion Saga is wholly a satisfying adventure game as Samus, an equally electrifying aerial combat game as Fox, and something that delivers an exciting, special change that fans will love.
• In consideration was the Star Fox portion having 4 player co-op online, but instead the game will have leaderboards for time and percent complete for all parts of the game and multiplayer will be simply versus mode based.

2.- An exciting new patent has emerged which was filed by Nintendo back in October. The patent depicts a player extracting and moving an object from the TV using the Wii Remote and transferring the virtual object to the Wii U controller. An example that Nintendo used is that the player is under attack from a UFO so the player uses the Wii Remote to help move a character from their television screen to the safety of the Wii U tablet.


GoNintendo has collected together a fine batch of rumours and facts that have been posted online recently regarding Wii U. Some of the information gathered is legitimate, while other bits could be seen as pure speculation. Hopefully the majority of our questions relating to the system will be answered by Nintendo during E3, or shortly after.
(RUMOUR) Insider claims that Wii U name is unlikely to change
(RUMOUR) Insider has seen something “green and white” relating to Wii U
(FACT) Peter Moore quote: “Its online capabilities are really extensive, too, so we’ll be able to differentiate ourselves from the competition more easily with our sports lineup.”
(FACT) Sega Australia employee’s linkedin profile: “Developing downloadable licensed & original IP for… Wii U”
(FACT) “GameStop is already prepared to help launch the first of these new consoles – Nintendo’s Wii U. As it’s poised to be the first new machine of the gate, the Wii U will mark the beginning of the new hardware cycle, and GameStop has already devised its launch strategy to take advantage of the eventual spike in hardware sales.”
(RUMOUR) Nintendo’s Wii U trademark issue in England most likely cleared up
(RUMOUR) “Seems indy studio Empty Clip Studios (Groovin’ Blocks) and their RapidFire Engine (multiport) are on Wii U.”
(FACT) “From the profile of a TT Fusion (LEGO City) Art progammer: ‘This is going to be the exclusive launch title for the brand new Wii-U and Wii-2!’ … Also, 34 [artists] working on LEGO City”

There was talk that the name of the Wii U might be changed, but new rumours suggest that this is “unlikely” to happen. Of course, this amounts to little more than “maybe it will change, and maybe it won’t”, which isn’t very helpful, but it is good time to speculate though, so: do you think the name will change?

A new selection of rumours describe the operating system for the Wii U as “huge” and “never seen before on a normal home system”. The specifics of what that means aren’t clear, but supposedly Nintendo has reserved at least 512MB of RAM for the operating system alone. And to clarify, that is a lot for the operating system on its lonesome. It’s re-iterated that:


…it’s pretty sure that it will remain the biggest software layer seen on this kind of platform

And also points out that some of the memory usage from the operating system may be trimmed, providing developers with more they can use within their games. Of course, for the time being, it’s all rumours.

3.- Nintendo of Europe has announced they will be holding a Yoshi Hunt for Mario Tennis Open in the UK. The hunt will involve tracking down QR codes that will unlock different-colored, playable Yoshi characters in Mario Tennis Open. The hunt will begin on the 25th of May with the Black Yoshi QR code. You can click here to read the specific details to participate.

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Mister Gaga