Super Smash Bros. Female Villager Confirmed and more!

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't made as much Super Smash Bros. news as I'd like, but here I have a new chunk of news for you to see below!

Female Villager

Firstmost, and debatably the biggest news released in the past week or so was the Female Villager from animal crossing. We had already seen the male villager in action, which is usually the games main logo, but many people began wondering if a female version would be playable. Well,now it has been confirmed! Additionally, another form of both the female and male villager will be available, which would make since because that in animal crossing you can change around your look. The female villager will not be a different character, which is a bit of a disappointment, but instead another form, like wireframe mac. The question is, would these be considered a 'form' that you could select from, or the default you have to be if there is another villager out there. For example, when you played Brawl, if someone had already selected Kirby you had to go as a different colored Kirby, like yellow. So, if someone else has selected male villager red, does that mean you have to choose one of the females or the yellow villager? Or will there be 4 different colors of each of the variations of villagers? It seems doubtful. Either way, I know many Animal Crossing fans and female Super Smash Players are happy about the news. Until more news is released, check out the Gamexplain video below to learn more about the news!

Information from: http://nintendonews.com/2014/05/girl-villager-super-smash-bros-3ds-wii-u/ 

Diary entry for Animal Crossing 5/16

Animal Crossing New Leaf

5/16

Dear Diary,

Today was so much fun in my town Snikey. It was just a normal day up until the night. I slept late and stayed inside all day. But then Raymond arrived from Las Vegas. 

First, since it was late, we headed over to Club LOL. We danced to the music  until we finally got tired of jumping. K.K. Slider is the best! 

After that we continued the party around town, but since it was so late we could only keep the party going in the mail shop. But boy did we get that party started!

After that we finally got tired of the boring main island and headed over to the tropics! Thankfully Raymond picked up the tab.

Finally (after much trolling) I convinced Raymond to get in the boat. So then we sailed across the ocean listening to some fine tunes by Kapp'n. 

After hearing more than one sour note from Kap, we arrived at the island. Unfortunately,it wasn't as smooth as we hoped when we got there. We had a pretty big disagreement with some brat that was the daughter of the island front desk worker. Trade a banana for 2 bells? NO WAY! 

After that we headed outside and tried to catch some bugs, although we didn't have the greatest aim...

After a day of few catches (because I cut down all the trees) we headed out on a tour. 

We didn't do well on the fishing tour, but we did amazing on the bug catching and balloon shooting tour.

After a long and tiresome night we decided to head back to the mainland with another song by Kapp'n. Needless to say that sure woke us up.

After much debate we decided to go to Las Vegas, which was Raymond's home town. The train took a while to arrive, but it was well worth it. 

After that we didn't do much, but I HAD to check out Las Vegas' own coffee shop. I love that little shop, and especially the guy who runs it. Unlike all of the other citizens in Animal Crossing, this owl had a nice, deep voice. He some how convinced me to spend 400 bells on coffee cups.

After Raymond finally got me off my coffee addiction, we went to some shops around town that were still open since he was on a 3 hour time difference.

Like all good things, the night finally came to an end and I took the last train home to Snikey, leaving Raymond to finally get some rest.

Finally I dragged myself back into my house, but then crashed in front of the TV.

Rising Fist cards revealed!

We have some new news on the cards in rising fist! First off, we finally got a picture of the Rising Fist Packs! The art design includes a Hawlucha, M Heracross, M Lucario, and Tyrantrum (YES!).


Aside from the pack art (which does look pretty cool), lots of cards have just been officially announced! Below are the EX Pokemon and their translations!

Hawlucha-EX - Fighting - HP130

Basic Pokemon

Ability: Retribution
If this Pokemon is your Active Pokemon and is damaged by an opponent's attack, put 2 damage counters on the Attacking Pokemon.

[F][C][C] Moonsault Stomp: 60+ damage. This attack does 40 more damage if there is a Stadium in play.

When a Pokemon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Weakness: Psychic (x2)
Resistance: none
                                                             Retreat: 2




Lucario-EX - Fighting - HP180
Basic Pokemon

[F] Scud Jab: 30 damage. This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Resistance.
[F][F] Screw Blow: 60 damage. You may draw cards from your deck until you have 6 cards in your hand.
[F][F][F] Somersault High: 100 damage.

When a Pokemon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Weakness: Psychic (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 2





M Lucario-EX - Fighting - HP220
Mega Evolution - Evolves from Lucario-EX

When 1 of your Pokemon becomes a Mega Evolution, your turn ends.

[F][F][F] Rising Fist: 140 damage. Discard 1 Energy attached to your opponent's Active Pokemon.

When a Pokemon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Weakness: Psychic (x2)
                                                             Resistance: none
                                                             Retreat: 2






To start off, I think that Hawlucha-EX looks extremly epic, but just isn't that powerful. Its only attack does a mere 60 damage (+40 if there's a stadium) for three energy, which pretty much sucks. And it's ability is the same as Bouffalant, so that was a bit of a downer too. Although, I'll cut it some slack since it is the promo for the Lucario box. As for Lucario-EX I found him fairly interesting because that he had three attacks. We haven't seen that in years, so to see them bringing it back is pretty cool. It's attacks are fairly good- nothing ground shattering to the TCG as we know it, but at least it can attack good without having to be mega-evolved. Speaking of M Lucario, I think it is fairly good, but not as good as M Charizard X and Y. Sure this guys better than M Blastoise and M Venusaur, but since it's non-mega version seemed so good I was expecting a little bit more. Plus he was one of my favorites. But he may become even better because of the below supporters/stadiums/energy.

Strong Energy - Special Energy

This card can only be attached to a [F] Pokemon. As long as it's attached to a [F] Pokemon it provides 1 [F] Energy. Attacks from the Pokemon this card is attached to do 20 more damage to your opponent's Active Pokemon. Discard this card if the Pokemon this card is attached to is no longer [F].







Fighting Stadium - Trainer
Stadium

The attacks of each player's Active [F] Pokemon do 20 more damage to Active Pokemon-EX (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

This card stays in play when you play it. Discard this card if another Stadium card comes into play. If another card with the same name is in play, you can’t play this card.





Korrina - Trainer

Supporter

Search your deck for 1 [F] Pokemon and 1 Item card, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterwards.

You may play only 1 Supporter card during your turn (before your attack).








These cards, which aren't great on their own, work together perfectly. You can attach the 'Strong Energy' to M Lucario, put 'Fighting Stadium' into play, and M Lucario's attack does 220 for three energy! And, if you add in a muscle band and do even more, especially if they do end up coming out with a M Ampharos, which would be weak to fighting! And of course if you need a trainer card or more energy you can play Korrina, which is basically a Skyla and Energy Search combined, even though it can only search for fighting energy! Put all of this together and you could have a pretty sick fighting deck.

Overall I think that this news is very promising and I hope we continue getting good cards for the next set. Until then, you can see my last post where I talked about the Rising Fist set announcement and the new Lucario box that will be coming out soon! Also, I have included Pancham and Pangoro, which aren't that good so I decided not to discuss them thoroughly but are still cool, of course (#Avoidinghatercommentsfrompancamlovers).


Pancham - Fighting - HP60
Basic Pokemon

[C] Rowdy Evolution: If you have a [D] Pokemon on your Bench, search your deck for a Pokemon that evolves from this Pokemon and place it on top of this Pokemon. (This counts as evolving that Pokemon.) Shuffle your deck afterwards.
[F][C][C] Moxie: 30 damage.

Weakness: Psychic (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 1







Pangoro - Fighting - HP100
Stage 1 - Evolves from Pancham

Ability: Skin of the Leader
While this Pokemon is your Active Pokemon, its maximum HP is increased by 20 for each of your Benched Pokemon.

[F][F][C] Crazy Knuckle: 80+ damage. If this Pokemon is affected by a Special Condition, this attack does 40 more damage.

Weakness: Psychic (x2)
Resistance: none
Retreat: 3







Thanks to PokeBeach for the translations! Information from: ‘Rising Fist’ Officially Announced, Several Cards Revealed!

Rising Fist Set Announcement!

We have a lot of new news on the next set of X and Y. As you know, Flashing Fire was just released, but of Pokemon's already advertising their next set. The set, called Rising Fist, obviously has a fighting theme to it, and will be released June 14th. In Japan and August in Japan.



The crazy thing about that release date is that it's three days before worlds! Obviously this set will come out with some good cards that many players will want to use but it would be extremely hard to get the cards and put them into their deck while knowing how to use them well all in THREE DAYS! The question now is while the people with the most experience with their deck win, or the ones who have teched in these new cards? I guess we'll have to wait and see. Also on June 14 in Japan they are releasing a Lucario box.

This because will include a holo Hawlucha-EX, 8 booster packs from Rising Fist, 10 fighting energy, two brand new special energy called 'Power Energy' with a Shauna and Tierno. Additionally, this box will include a players guide and storage box as seen above which is pretty cool. This will be selling for 1480 yen, which is around the same as $15, the same price as our tins. But this is worth way more than tins. Tins have one promo and 4 packs random sets. This thing has a Hawlucha-EX, several cool promos, a guide, a storage box, and 8 packs from the same pack, which our tins don't have. I hope they don't increase the price in America, because I want this. It gives out as many packs as a pre-release for half the price! The packs alone would be worth $40! This is INSANE! Also, Lucario sleeves, which we don't have a picture of, will be released in Japan for 362 yen, around $4.

   

What really caught my attention was the new 'Strong Energy'. This is the first time that we've seen a special energy that isn't a colorless by default since HGSS, and even then they weren't common. This obviously appears to be a fighting by default, although what it will be remains a mystery because of the tiny size it is in the picture. My guess is that it will be something fighting related, like that all attacks would do 10 extra damage or something similar. Also, this set is obviously based around fighting, and the last around fire. Could this mean that we have a set based around a Mega Evolution? And since this set had a special fighting energy, could all of the sets have a special energy around their base type? Just a thought, but it would be awesome if it were trure.

Information from: June’s XY3 Set Announced: ‘Rising Fist’ + ‘Mega Lucario Box’

Mario Skylander?

With the Wii U being a flop, Nintendo has been in a bad financial situation. So, they have been doing everything they can to get their sales up. But this was unexpected, which I suppose should be expected if Sakurai had anything to do with. They debuted Skylanders-like figurines at their latest financial meeting. These figures don't work exactly the same way though. Unlike Skylanders and Disney Infinity, these figures don't have their own game. Instead they'll interact with lots of Nintendo games, while saving all of the data that they have collected to the figure.

One of the best parts of these figurines in my opinion is that they will work both on the Wii U and 3DS. Obviously these figures will use the built in RFID reader, but the 3DS doesn't have one, and Nintendo must be regretting that now. Instead they will have to include a new piece of hardware that you could wirelessly communicate with the 3DS that has a RFID reader, like the Portal of Power from Skylanders. 

But there are still many questions about this new hardware. Most notably would be how it will work in games. I think that they would at least have the following figures:

• Kirby
• Luigi 
• Mario (confirmed)
• Yoshi
• Donkey Kong

The reason I say these are because that they are the franchises biggest names and are all platformers that have similar characteristics. I think that these figures would only be able to used in their own games, but then could all come together in Super Smash Bros., since this includes all of those characters and the game will be coming out on both the 3DS and Wii U. Or, it could be a Mario only thing and have Luigi, Mario, Peach, Bowser, Koopa, DK, DK jr., Koopa, Waluigi, Wario, ect. and could all come together in Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. How ever this ends up being used, Mario will probably be used to communicate between New Super Mario Bros. 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii U, Super Mario 3D World, and Super Mario 3D Land. But that 's all just a guess. How exactly it will work no one really knows because that Nintendo has revealed very little and has only advertised Mario, although it is believed more may be revealed at E3 2014.

Thanks for reading, and as usual check back here for more info on these figurines! Until then you can check out the GameXplain discussion the new figures and Nintendo's financial state overall.

Information from: http://www.wired.com/2014/05/nintendo-nfc-figurines/

Hey everyone! This is my new news page! From here you can see the latest news for video games! Although I try to keep my blog as up to date as possible, that's pretty much impossible to completely do with full fledged posts. So, instead, I am adding this page. This page links off to lots of different news topics (created by me), but it will only have a little blurb about the news, and will have several videos, text, and links that are created by other news sources. I hope you like this new feature and will use it to get your absolute latest news. Also, if you wish to be a writer and help out the site, click here and get a VG Shack all access pass! Anyway, make sure to check out the news topics below! 

Main Site:

http://vgshacknews.blogspot.com/

Super Mario Bros.:

http://vgshacknews.blogspot.com/p/super-mario-bros.html

Mario Sports/Mario Kart:
http://vgshacknews.blogspot.com/p/mario-sports.html

Metroid:

http://vgshacknews.blogspot.com/p/metroid.html

Legend of Zelda

http://vgshacknews.blogspot.com/p/zelda.html

Kirby:
http://vgshacknews.blogspot.com/p/kirby.html

Pokemon:

http://vgshacknews.blogspot.com/p/pokemon.html

Other Nintendo News:
http://vgshacknews.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

Minecraft: 

http://vgshacknews.blogspot.com/p/minecraft.html

PC Games:

http://vgshacknews.blogspot.com/p/pc-games.html

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Footage!

Hey Pokemon fans! In my last post I was telling you that Pokemon TV would be releasing footage on Saturday of the new game. Well, now it's here! In the YouTube video, you can see the cinematic scenes shown in the teaser trailer!

  

  Now, this trailer didn't reveal much, but from it is obvious that they will be using the X and Y engine with the much improved graphics, which is nice. We can't tell much more, except there does appear to be a lot of water. It looks as if Kyoger can summon a snow/rain storm and Groundon can summon a meteor and a bunch of fire from the sky, but that's it. They didn't even give us any sound effects from the game!!! But we still have a while until the game is released, so stay tuned for more! Until then make sure to check out my first post on this game, because there is lots of info and speculation in it!

 

By the way you can check out the Pokemon T.V. live stream below filmed by Pokebeach to see it as it happened.

 Information from: First ‘Omega Ruby’ and ‘Alpha Sapphire’ Footage Revealed on ‘Pokemon Get TV!’ and PokeBeach’s Live Steam of Pokemon Get TV’s ‘Omega Ruby’ and ‘Alpha Sapphire’ Footage!