Wii U Direct – Other News and Notes

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jason Nason

Nintendo will be releasig two updates to the Wii U which will alow software to launch faster and a quicker return to Wii U menu. The first update will happen in the spring with the second in the summer. VIRTUAL CONSOLE Nintendo is launching their Virtual Console for the Wii U and you’ll be able to play VC games on the Wii U Gamepad right after Nintendo releases their Spring update. Both NES and SNES games will in introduced on the service as well as the eventual additions of Game Boy Advance games.

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Bankrupt THQ has been Disolved and Sold

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jason Nason

Today, THQ was officially sold and auctioned off. The company’s assets have been divided and sold off, though the deal is pending approval. Here is a breakdown of who purchased what: • Sega agreed to purchase Relic • Koch Media agreed to purchase Volition and Metro • Crytek agreed to purchase Homefront • Take 2 agreed purchase Evolve and • Ubisoft agreed to purchase Montreal and South Park

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Wii U Direct – New Yoshi Game Coming

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jason Nason

Nintendo revealed that the company is working on a new game staring Yoshi for the Nintendo Wii U. This will be the first game to feature the dino as the main character since Yoshi’s Story for the Nintendo 64. That game was released back in 1998! If you’ve played that game it was pretty fun, though people either love it or hate it. I’m of the latter. Loved it and played it a lot on my N64. It’s also been released as a virtual console title for the Wii.

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LEGO City’s Latest Trailer Gives A Glimpse At The Open World

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Les Major

Many saw LEGO City as an open world family friendly GTA like game when it was first announced. Oddly enough I can’t help but think of similarities as I watch this latest trailer that gives a look at some of the games transportation. LEGO games have come a long way in a short time from LEGO Batman 2 having loose open world controls, to LEGO Lord of the Rings getting the formula down much better. Now it seems we’ll have much more to explore in this latest Wii U title.

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Wii U Direct – New Wonderful 101 Trailer

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jason Nason

Nintendo showed off a new video for Platinum Games’ upcoming project The Wonderful 101 at the Nintendo Direct on Wednesday. No further details of the game were released and there is still no firm release date, but the new gameplay footage ramps up the excitement for the quirky title. With one hundred unique characters in the game I think that Platinum and Nintendo would remiss not to capitalize on that an spin off other media opportunities when the game launches. If there is nothing planned in the way of anime or manga then some collectables would be a nice fit

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Wii U Direct – New Xenoblade Game Coming Soon

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jason Nason

Monolith Soft is working on a new title for the Nintendo Wii U and it looks like it’s going to be in the Xeno series of games, but what it is and when it will be released is still a mystery. Presumably it will be a direct followup to last year’s Xenoblade Chronicles for the Wii. Nintendo unveiled the teaser trailer at the latest Nintendo Direct and the game looks gorgeous. The game features the character design of Kunihiko Tanaka, music from Hiroyuki Sawano and comes from executive director Tetsuya Takahashi.

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Wii U Direct – Fire Emblem / Shin-Megami Tensei Crossover Planned

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jason Nason

Nintendo revealed a teaser trailer for an upcoming collaboration title being developed by Intelligent Systems Co. Ltd, Atlus and Nintendo. The game is a crossover between Atlus’ Shin-Megami Tensi series and Nintendo’s Fire Emblem series, though no other details were revealed. Will this be a strategy game? Perhaps this will be a fighting game in the same vein as Marvel vs. Capcom. Considering the roots of the Shin-Megami Tensi series as a dungeon crawler and rpg it’s likely to be a crossover story and an RPG, but a nice fighter would be welcome.

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Wii U Direct – Bayonetta 2 Development Progressing Well

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jason Nason

Nintendo showed off a new developement video for Platinum Games’ upcoming title Bayonetta 2 via Nintendo Direct on Wednesday morning. While Iwata couldn’t give much detail to the in development project, he stated that the project is developing well and then showed off a video from the developers. There will be more locations in the sequel that they couldn’t fit into the first game. Expanding on the essence of who Bayonetta is, the scale of the game is grander and bigger. They’ve upped the scale of the game so that it feels like you are fighting the end boss right

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Wii U Getting Virtual Console – 30th Anniversary Specials!

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Les Major

Coming this Spring, Wii U gamers will be able to download content from their own version of the virtual console including Nintendo and Super Nintendo titles. These games will be playable on screen as usual, and seperately on your GamePad controller. The service will have a limited selection to begin with, but will continue to add more as well as Game Boy Advance titles. There is also “special pricing” if you’re looking to upgrade your Wii virtual console titles you’ve transfered over to your Wii U. NES games will cost $1 for the upgrade and SNES titles, $1.50. There’s more!

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Mass Effect Invades Dead Space 3

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Joshua Rust

One of the benefits of big companies is the potential for cross promotion within their owned franchises. Dead Space and Mass Effect have joined up to bring you a set of N7 Armor to Dead Space 3. So what’s the catch? Nothing really, the only thing you need are: 1) Play Mass Effect 3 and have a save file 2) Purchase and play the full game for Dead Space 3 3) Unlock your awesome N7 Armor Electronic Arts and Visceral Games were nice enough to drop a trailer showing off the N7 Armor, so check it out! [youtube id=”Q7ounmt6FkQ” width=”600″

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FireFall Open Beta Weekend Starts Friday

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

Red 5 studios Free To Play first person shooter Firefall finished out its closed beta phase last year but has yet to go gold . The game is finally ready its January public beta weekend, which will run from10:00 am PDT on January 25th until 11:59pm PDT on January 27th 2013.  Players who take part in the open beta will received a free exclusive in-game decal for their participation. Firefall propels players 200 years into the future where a deadly asteroid crashes into moon after being caught in the lunar gravity well. After a 9 year dark age known as the Nine Year Winter

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Xbox Durango Production Diagrams Supposedly Leak Online

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

The rumored Xbox Durangomay have gotten its innards spilled with the supposed leak of an internal planning diagram of the console’s architecture. Not only does the document give us a look under the hood of Microsoft’s next generation console, revealing several secrets, but this latest leak jives with the rumor that Redmond has begun test fabrication of the system’s innards. Contained within the next Xbox will be a quadcore processor  based on AMD’s 1.6GHZ APU technology, 8GBs of DDR3 ram, an 800 MHZ graphics processor, support for N Networking, a Blu Ray Drive (although it is unknown if it will

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Resident Evil Revelations from 3DS Arriving on Consoles

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Jason Nason

Capcom confirmed today that Resident Evil Revelations is making the jump to home consoles in May. The game will be released at retail stores for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows PC and Nintendo Wii U across North America on May 21st and Europe on May 24th 2013. The title will also be made available for digital download on the same date on PS3 and PC. The PlayStation 3 game will retail for $49.99 and PC for $39.99. Details surrounding release date and pricing for digital versions for 360 and Wii U are expected to be announced at a later

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New Wii U Games Edition of Nintendo Direct Tomorrow

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Jason Nason

According to a tweet from Nintendo’s UK Twitter account Mr Iwata will reveal new games for Wii U in a new edition of Nintendo Direct on Wednesday. The special presentation will take place at 2pm GMT (about 9am EST). Like every new game announcement rumours are running wild as to what the announcement will be. People have been throwing around everything from a new F-Zero, Wave Race or Mario Kart game.

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