Take a look at a new gameplay trailer for ZombiU featuring the Buckingham Palace area in the game.
We also have the official North American and European boxart for the game. They both look pretty bad, especially the Euro version.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
New game announced from GameFreak
A new game from the makers of Pokemon is heading to Japan’s eShop next week, in the form of a crazy rhythm platformer called HarmoKnight.
It’s the first non-Pokemon game to be released by Game Freak since Drill Dozer in 2005, and it looks awesome.
Check out the first footage of the game below.
Layton’s final adventure announced for 3DS
A new Professor Layton game has been announced for Nintendo 3DS, and it will be the last game to star the series’ hero, Hershel Layton.
The new game called Professor Layton & the Remains of an Advanced Civilisation, was announced during the recent Japanese Nintendo Direct. The story will take place a year after the previous game, and involves the discovery of a girl preserved in time.
The first 3DS entry, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, will be released in Europe on 26th October, and North America on 28th October. The newly announced game will release in Japan next year.
Japan gets a beautiful pink 3DS XL
Revealed during Japan’s 3DS focused Nintendo Direct this morning was a brand new colour for the 3DS XL. Pink x White follows the same 2 colour theme as the previous red and blue versions, this time having a pastel white outer shell, and a white inside.
The console will release alongside Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode Yokubari Sengen! in Japan on September 27th.
Look out for confirmation on a European and North American release soon.
Nintendo dominating sales charts in Japan
With the top 10 biggest selling games in Japan last week all belonging on Nintendo consoles, its safe to say Nintendo has Japan covered.
New Super Mario Bros 2 topped the list, with Pokemon Black/White 2 in second place, and the rest were all Wii/DS/3DS games. NSMB2 is now close to hitting the 1 million mark, and Pokemon B/W2 has already sold 2.6 million copies in Japan.
Nintendo has topped the hardware charts as well, with the 3DS being the biggest selling system by far. Over 107,000 3DS’s were sold last week, beating the rival PSVita by a staggering 10:1.
Reggie to host Wii U event in NYC
On September 13, Nintendo will hold a press event in New York, where they will showcase the Wii U. It’ll be an all-day event, hosted by NOA president Reggie Fils-Aime, and will showcase ”how the Wii U will change the future of gaming and entertainment.”
Though no specific details of the event have been provided, it is expected that Nintendo will use this event to finally announce the launch details for the Wii U, including the release date and price.
Similar events were held for the 3DS and Wii a few months before their launches.
Nintendo of Europe have confirmed that they will not be holding an event, so expect the event in NYC to provide launch information for all territories, not just North America.
Black Ops 2 all but confirmed for Wii U
It’s one of the worst kept secrets surrounding the Wii U – Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 is heading to the system. And yet for reasons unknown, Nintendo has yet to formally announce it’s existence.
In an interview at E3 one of the game’s developers was unsure whether it had been announced for Wii U not, and even Official Nintendo Magazine ran an article on the still unconfirmed game.
Now, a QA tester at Treyarch has his work on Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 for Wii U listed on his Linkedin profile:
“QA tester for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Duties include QA testing on PS3 and Wii U, multiplayer testing while collaborating with team, ad hoc testing, and regression. Bug writing, research, and documentation are performed with each issue that is found.”
All thats left now is for Nintendo to announce the game is launching alongside the Wii U later this year, and for everyone to act suprised.
ZombiU Gamescon trailer
High prices for digital downloads
Nintendo of Europe have revealed the cost for eShop games on 3DS, and it looks like there’s a high price to pay for the convenience of digital downloads.
New Super Mario Bros. 2, the first major retail game to be offered as a download, will set you back £39.99. That’s over £10 more than you’d pay for a boxed version on Amazon.com.
New Art Academy will cost less at £29.99, but still £10 more than at retail, and FreakyForms Deluxe will cost £24.99, £5 more than on Amazon.
So other than the convenience of downloading a game rather than going to the shop or ordering online, how can you justify spending that much more? Well, Nintendo are offering double the amount of stars for your Club Nintendo account, it that’s any incentive.
WiiU facing manufacturing issues in Europe?
The Wii U could launch as late as December in Europe, according to a source at CVG.
The delay is supposedly due to manufacturing issues caused by the Wii U’s feature-packed new GamePad controller.
The console is reportedly still on track for a November release in USA, in time for Thanksgiving, and the release date for Europe was apparently planned for around the same time.
But the manufacturing troubles have now caused Nintendo to aim for an early December release in Europe, hampering their plans for a worldwide release for the system.
There has been no official word from Nintendo on the matter, so all this is rumoured for now.
Source: CVG