{"id":82223,"date":"2019-02-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/rumour_that_star_fox_racing_game_rumour_is_doing_another_lap"},"modified":"2019-02-13T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T15:00:00","slug":"rumour-that-star-fox-racing-game-rumour-is-doing-another-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/rumour-that-star-fox-racing-game-rumour-is-doing-another-lap\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: That Star Fox Racing Game Rumour Is Doing Another Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/313e8175d9b4c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/313e8175d9b4c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/rumour_that_star_fox_racing_game_rumour_is_doing_another_lap\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hAEumOOar6k?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Okay, now we&#8217;re straying into familiar territory. With tonight&#8217;s Nintendo Direct getting everyone&#8217;s pulse racing, it seems the old rumour about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/rumour_retro_studios_is_working_on_a_secret_star_fox_grand_prix_title_for_switch\"><strong>Star Fox<\/strong> racing game<\/a> from Retro Studios is doing the rounds once more.<\/p>\n<p>According to a post from GameFAQs user <a href=\"https:\/\/gamefaqs.gamespot.com\/boards\/234547-super-smash-bros-ultimate\/77476995\/917372919\">Vergeben<\/a>, the long-rumoured <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/rumour_fresh_details_of_star_fox_grand_prix_suggest_its_not_like_f-zero_at_all_thanks_very_much\">Star Fox: Grand Prix<\/a><\/strong> will finally be revealed this evening. He&#8217;s got form with <strong>Smash Bros.<\/strong> character information and his original claims for the barrel-rolling racer were backed up by other websites; we, too, heard things on the grapevine.<\/p>\n<p>From Vergeben&#8217;s post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From what I hear you won\u2019t be waiting too long for it to release as I am hearing spring &amp; there is even a beta scheduled to happen soon after its announcement tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That last line sounds interesting &#8211; Nintendo is hardly famous for its pre-release betas, although the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong> Testfires and Global Testpunches for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/arms\">ARMS<\/a><\/strong> arguably set precedent, especially if the company is looking to push a theoretical online component. With Retro now taking on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/metroid_prime_4\">Metroid Prime 4<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/metroid_prime_4_development_scrapped_will_be_restarted_alongside_retro_studios\">development duties<\/a>, perhaps the company was simply too busy with this until just recently.<em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think this holds any water? With the rumour mill in full swing, can tonight&#8217;s Direct possibly please everyone? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hAEumOOar6k?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Okay, now we&#8217;re straying into familiar territory. With tonight&#8217;s Nintendo Direct getting everyone&#8217;s pulse racing, it seems the old rumour about a Star Fox racing game from Retro Studios is doing the rounds once more. According to a post from GameFAQs user Vergeben, the long-rumoured Star Fox: Grand Prix will finally be revealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}