Well this is a great start to the week! Not much news today but VERY important stuff got announced. A promise release date window has been announced for Monster Hunter Stories for 3DS (#1. excited for that one), a new Final Fantasy XV add some cool off-roading (#3), and Nintendo announced the SNES Classic, coming September 29th (#7).
1- Monster Hunter Stories coming to 3DS in Europe on September 8th (Fall for US) (Source: Nintendo Life, Thomas Whitehead)
2- The Seven Deadly Sins Gets PS4 Action Game (Source: Anime News Network, credit to NeoGAF user, Laplasakos)
3- New Final Fantasy XV Path Up, Adds Free Off-Road Driving (Source: NeoGAF user Koozek)
4- Ubisoft unveils HiTMeteoR (Android) (Source: NeoGAF user Shiggy)
Discover tracks you never heard elsewhere before!
You want to be the first to discover the freshest emerging artists? In HiTMeteoR, you’ll be a hits ‘Seeker’ for an E.T.-dog, RWAF. He and his friends are always looking for more music to party, so they called YOU to help them!
In HiTMeteoR, the songs appear as meteors. You can listen to them all and offer hearts to your favorite ones to earn experience, unlock features and help young artists.
5- Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 (Source: gamecriticsawards, credit to NeoGAF user BY2K)
6- New Nintendo 2DS Xl – Hardware Review Thread
7- SNES Classic coming this September, with a never-before-released game. STAR FOX 2!!!!! (Source: Polygon, Allegra Frank)
21 games. 2 controller. $80 USD… TOTALLY preordering it.
Update- Kotaku We aren’t providing specific numbers, but we will produce significantly more units of Super NES Classic Edition than we did of NES Classic Edition
8- FINAL FANTASY XV – Episode Ignis Official Teaser Trailer
9- The Full Story Behind Star Fox 2, Nintendo’s Most Famous Collection (Source: Nintendo Life Damien McFerran)
This year will see the launch of another entry in Nintendo’s long-running space battle series, Star Fox. It’s an indication of how popular the franchise is with fans that last year’s relatively detail-free E3 announcement was one of the biggest stories of the entire event, and while Nintendo is doing a commendable job of keeping its cards close to its chest about this all-new Wii U instalment, that has done little to dampen the enthusiasm of dedicated followers of Fox McCloud.
With this new entry looming on the horizon like a massive space dreadnought, we thought it would be the ideal time to take a look back at perhaps the most famous unreleased game in Nintendo’s history – Star Fox 2. Following the success of the 1993 SNES original it was almost inevitable that a sequel of some kind would follow, and the second title – seen by many as the 16-bit system’s swansong – was heavily promoted in the gaming press prior to its eventual cancellation.
10- Honor of Kings, Tencent’s mobile MOBA, made $876M in 3 months, coming West, gets DC (Source: NeoGAF user Nirolak)
Financial times article (if you’re a subscriber)
11- Nintendo Switch Versus PS4: An Updated Japanese Sales Comparison (Source: Kotaku Brian Ashcraft)
12- Retroblox console now called Polymega, they announced support of Neo Geo CD (Source: NeoGAF user Hellraizah)
For those who don’t know, Retroblox/Polymega is supposed to be a modular retro console with the capacity of playing PS1, TurboGrafx-CD, Sega CD and now Neo Geo CD out of the box.
There’s also the capacity, with additional modules, to play Super NES/Super Famicom, Genesis/32X, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine and NES/Famicom games, directly from the original cartridges.
Supposed to have the possibility to transfer games to a SD card, stream to Twitch and stuff like that.
