'Star Fox' is coming to the Wii U — theverge.com

Nintendo is bringing back one of its most beloved franchises. Today the company announced that a Wii U version of the classic sci-fi dogfighting series Star Fox is in the works. It will be the first original game in the series since 2006's Star Fox Command for the Nintendo DS, and will utilize the Wii U Gamepad's motion control capabilities, letting you fire weapons and pull off tricks like barrel rolls using gestures. Development is being led by iconic Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the likes of The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. The new Star Fox is still very early in development, however, with no release timeframe revealed as of yet. "Originally, we weren't targeting E3 for the announcement of Star Fox," Miyamoto told Polygon. "But in developing it, we really came to like and [we] wanted to motivate ourselves to complete the game as quickly as possible."

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