(News)- Sonic Lost World will launch on Wii U and 3DS on October 22nd. Both versions will be compatible with each other to increase the functionality of the co-op mode.
- Rayman Legends will have "throwback levels", in that you can play select levels from Rayman Origins with the enhanced graphical style of Legends. The Wii U version will also have a unique Mario costume for Rayman and a Luigi costume for Globox. Rayman Legends launches on multiple platforms on September 3rd.
- Art Academy Sketchpad, a Wii U eShop exclusive, was finally given a release date of August 9th. The app will have a Miiverse community.
- Nintendo will be posting Pikmin 3 user-made screenshots to Facebook and will ask for people to add captions to them, and they'll post their favorites.
- Mario & Luigi: Dream Team had many functions that were explained, such as Badges, Challenges, Equipment, and leveling up. Hint Boxes give you hints on how to beat an enemy if you lose to said enemy.
- Pokémon Rumble U was teased. Coming to Wii U eShop on August 29th. All five current generations of Pokémon will be included, and an enhanced Befriend system is present. 4-player co-op is in the game. 18 purchasable Pokémon figurines will be available at GameStop locations when the game launches; each figurine uses the Wii U GamePad's NFC sensor to bring in Pokémon with unique moves. Some of the figurines include Pikachu, Genesect, Deoxys, Eevee, Victini, and more. The figurines are not required for play.
- An incredibly rare Famicom game will be available for the 3DS eShop soon. It was a bullet hell game released in 1992. I don't know how to spell its title, but it's something Japanese. The NES version of Donkey Kong comes out August 15th for the 3DS, and Tecmo Bowl comes out this Fall. Wario Land 3 is coming August 29th. Super Mario Bros. 3 hits Wii U and 3DS Virtual Console by the end of the year.
- The features of the August 5th 3DS system update was explained. StreetPass now works in conjunction with Nintendo Zone hotspots, allowing 3DS users to get StreetPasses even when they're not around the other person or even at the location at the same time. Special items for Animal Crossing: New Leaf will be available through Nintendo Zone locations between August and late September. A Pumpkin Pie is the first item, available on August 11th.
- Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy was announced for Nintendo 3DS. It launches sometime in 2014.
- Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney was confirmed for a North American release in 2014. The announcement was joined with a small teaser trailer. The Phoenix Wright portion of the game seems to function on the same graphical engine as AA5, and the anime-esque cutscenes from Professor Layton are present.
- Info on The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds was given. Iwata hinted that a sort of Dark Triforce will be present in the game. The two worlds don't seem to be called Light and Dark, but "The World Link Lives In" and "The Other World". The drawing ability Link has is how players travel between the two worlds. ALBW takes place a long time after A Link to the Past. This means that a brand-new incarnation of Link is introduced. The game comes out in November 2013.
- A trailer for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD was shown, showing off the enhanced graphics. Iwata mentioned that the original game's actually engine was barely tampered with, allowing for a familiar but new experience. The Triforce Shard hunt will now be easier. The Shards are obtained within the treasure chest, skipping the treasure chart portion entirely. The Wind's Requiem will be easier to use. WWHD launches in October.
- Screenshots for Luigi in Super Smash Bros. 4 were shown off.
- An Animal Crossing: New Leaf Miiverse community is now available.
- Animal Crossing Plaza is an Animal Crossing version of Wara-Wara Plaza. Importing images from ACNL is possible. They can be organized in albums and uploaded to Miiverse. QR codes can be used and traded between the community. The service will only be available from now until the end of 2014.
(News)Four new games have appeared on Club Nintendo, each being worth 150 Coins. No big blockbuster titles are in this lineup, however; the closest one would be Mario Golf. - Mario Golf (3DS VC [GBC])
- Brain Age Express: Sudoku (3DS [DSiWare])
- Wario's Woods (Wii VC [NES])
- NES Play Action Football (Wii VC [NES])
Also recently available is a new Pikmin tote bag for 400 Coins.
(News)
An exclusive trailer has surfaced out of the Summer of Sonic celebration this year for the Wii U/3DS title, Sonic Lost World. This is the first time we've seen extensive gameplay where a SEGA representative isn't taking his/her time with the game for demoing purposes, so it shows off how the game really plays. The Eagle Color Power is also shown. The trailer is posted below. Sonic Lost World launches October 13th, 2013 for Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.
(News)
Publishers of the Shin Megami Tensei, Etrian Oddessy, and Dragon's Crown series, ATLUS, has been hit with financial troubles as its parent company, Index Corp., filled for bankruptcy recently. However, they're not going down without a fight, as companies are looking to buy them out as their properties are incredibly successful. One of the companies to bid on Index Corp. recently was SEGA, and this is getting a pretty decent amount of attention; this had been a rumor for a while but was just recently confirmed. The bids on the company started at a whopping $200 million and said bids end at the end of August, meaning Index Corp. will have to chose which company to join by the end of the month. It'll be interesting to see where the SMT series lands, as Nintendo had recently announced a crossover with their Fire Emblem franchise. ATLUS going to SEGA wouldn't hinder the plans of said game, but other companies might have other ideas.
(News)
Those who bought the Season Pass for BioShock Infinite and were starting to worry whether or not they had wasted their money, you can rest easy now, because Ken Levine has announced that DLC for BioShock Infinite is in the works. In fact, the first piece of downloadable content is already out today (on PC, at least). It's essentially a free-for-all challenge mode in which you have access to every ability, weapon, and powerup in the game, are given parameters for a mission, and are told to go nuts.
"So I thought, maybe we can do something where we give the player the opportunity to just play with the full toolset, and all of the powers and upgrades and everything, and create far more challenging gameplay for them. So with that in mind, we gathered up the people really specialized in combat on Infinite and essentially told them the gloves were off, you guys can make whatever you want."
-Ken Levine (featured in Polygon)
The next two DLC packs are story-driven, and are something I'm particularly excited about. They're meant to shed some light on the overall story of BioShock by sending you underwater; that's right, you're goin' to Rapture. Burial at Sea is a two-parter DLC setup that sends Booker to Rapture when it was in its prime way before even the events of BioShock 2's multiplayer. The second part of the Burial at Sea DLC will still, of course, be in Rapture, but this time, you'll take the reigns of Elizabeth.
“We decided we wanted to shift things around a little bit for the third one, so the player character in the third DLC, you get to play Elizabeth and the gameplay is quite different as her. She’s not the tank that Booker is. And you’ll see how all the stories come together.”
-Ken Levine (featured in Polygon)
The challenge mode DLC, Clash in the Clouds, is out now on PC for $5, and the PS3 and 360 versions are supposed to launch within the next day for $5 and 400 MSP, respectively. Date and price were not given yet for the Burial at Sea two-parter. Trailers for the DLC packs are embedded below.
(BioShock Infinite is on Steam, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Check retailers for pricing.)
(News)
Nintendo of America have announced that the all-black model of the 3DS XL will be coming overseas on August 11th, which just so happens to be the same day that Mario & Luigi: Dream Team comes out in the US. Perhaps this is their way of apologizing to us for not getting us that snazzy Year of Luigi XL model. The model was rumored to be coming to America after Cartoon Network aired an advert for the aforementioned Mario & Luigi game that featured the black system and leaked clippings of Toys 'R' Us promotional magazines had a deal on it for said console for $20-$30 off. Turns out the rumors held true.
(News)
The 2008 Wii entry in the Super Smash Bros. series, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, gathered hype for its massive story mode, seen as a crossover featuring all the game's characters. However, Sakurai wasn't exactly happy that the cutscenes in said story mode were leaked to YouTube before the game's launch, so in the next Super Smash Bros. installment for Wii U and 3DS, he's nixing the story mode altogether.
"Unfortunately, the movie scenes we worked hard to create were uploaded onto the internet. You can only truly wow a player the first time he sees [a cutscene]. I felt if players saw the cutscenes outside of the game, they would no longer serve as rewards for playing the game, so I've decided against having them."
-Masahiro Sakurai (featured in Weekly Famitzu; translated by Kotaku)
Instead of having a story mode that consists of hard-to-make cutscenes that Sakurai now deems as a waste of development time, he plans on having one intro cutscene per character. While I was hoping for a sequel-type deal to the Subspace Emmisary in SSB4, I'm keeping in mind that Super Smash Bros. Melee got along just fine without any sort of in-depth story mode, so the next entry in the Smash Bros. series should be fun nonetheless. It's also worthy noting that Sakurai didn't say how long the character intros were; perhaps they could be entire fleshed-out videos? Sakurai also pointed out that the 3DS version will have some sort of exclusive feature alongside the regular VS mode in his featured article. It'll be interesting to see what the final product looks like as Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. for 3DS hits in 2014.
(News)
Ubisoft's Rayman Legends was meant to hit Wii U exclusively late last year, but was delayed when the higher-ups decided to port the game to Xbox 360 and PS3 as well to land more sales. A few months back, it was announced that the game would also be getting a PS Vita port, and now they've added yet another platform to the mix: Rayman Legends will launch on PC on September 3rd along with all the other versions. People who preorder this version will get a free copy of Rayman Origins, the game's prequel.
(News) In 2011, the original creator of the hit football simulation series, Madden, Robert Antonick, sued the publisher Electronic Arts. While EA holds rights to the Madden franchise, they supposedly had been using the same core coding for the entries in the series between 1990 and 1996 after Antonick had left the company without getting his permission to use his programming. The court ended up ruling the case in Antonick's favor, landing him $11 million. So what's he gonna do with the money? Sue 'em again, of course! Antonick will now be filing a second lawsuit against EA, this time for the Madden games up to now since 1996. It'll be interesting to see how this one plays out.
(News)If you're planning on stocking up your Wii U eShop account with money soon, now's your time to do it. Nintendo is giving out an extra $5 of eShop credit to those who add $50-$99.99 to their account, and an extra $10 for adding $100. This deal is only applicable to the Wii U eShop and the funds must be in by July 28th (this coming Sunday). The codes will be given on August 2nd. Funds added from eShop credit cards also count towards the promotion. Click here to see the official informational site regarding the deal.
|
RSS Feed