Nintendo Launches Smartphone Game Pictonico! With WarioWare DNA
Pictonico! brings the WarioWare instant-action formula to mobile devices, with Intelligent Systems returning as developer and a new twist using smartphone photo faces as game material.
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Nintendo has released Pictonico!, a free smartphone game that turns photos of faces into instant mini-games. Developed by Intelligent Systems, the studio behind WarioWare, the app offers three free trial games and paid packs totaling 80 games. The game continues Nintendo's history of face-based play from titles like Face Shooting and Utsusu WarioWare.
Pictonico! is available now on the App Store and Google Play as a free download. The app uses photos stored on the user's smartphone, processing faces into simple mini-games that play out in seconds. Intelligent Systems, the developer of the WarioWare series since the Game Boy Advance, handled development.
The three free trial games include Chew, Lollipop, and Pinball. Players can purchase Game Pack Vol. 1 for 800 yen to add 50 games, and Game Pack Vol. 2 for 600 yen to add 30 games, for a total of 80 games. The game draws on Nintendo's history of face-based play, including the 3DS title Face Shooting and the DSi game Utsusu WarioWare from 2008.
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