Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – off-screen 3-3 Frantic Fields footage
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Cut the Rope: Triple Treat screenshots
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EA source on Wii U: “Nintendo was dead to us very quickly”
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When Nintendo unveiled Wii U during E3 2012, EA was one of the first publishers to pledge support for the console. Following the system’s actual launch, however, it didn’t take long for the relationship to sour.
EA put out a trio of games for Wii U’s launch – two sports titles and a port of a slightly old game in Mass Effect 3 – and then called it a day. You can attribute EA’s abandonment to a few things: poor sales of its own games, poor sales of the Wii U, and more.
One EA source speaking with CVG says that the Wii U also “became a kids IP platform and we don’t really make games for kids.” “Nintendo was dead to us very quickly,” the unnamed person said.
“Nintendo was dead to us very quickly. It became a kids IP platform and we don’t really make games for kids. That was pretty true across the other labels too. Even the Mass Effect title on Wii U, which was a solid effort, could never do big business, and EA like Activision is only focused on games that can be big franchises”.
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Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians reduces 3DS stretch goal on Kickstarter
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Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians now features a lower 3DS stretch goal on Kickstarter. “We want nothing more than to give you what you want so we have moved the PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS closer to the top,” Playdek wrote on the campaign’s page.
The 3DS goal has been reduced from $2.8 million to $1.5 million. It’s still a rather high amount, but at the rate Unsung Story’s Kickstarter is going, hitting that mark is entirely possible.
You can donate to Unsung Story’s Kickstarter campaign here.
Cut the Rope: Triple Treat heading to 3DS
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Activision has announced Cut the Rope: Triple Treat, a compilation containing all three games from ZeptoLab’s well-known series.
Cut the Rope: Triple Treat comes with the original Cut the Rope mobile version, Cut the Rope: Experiments and Cut the Rope: Time Travel. The games will feature over 650 levels in total for more than 50 hours of gameplay, precise touch controls, online leaderboards, in-game achievements, stereoscopic 3D visuals during gameplay and cheerfully animated Om Nom Stories.
Cut the Rope: Triple Treat launches in early 2014.
Source: Activision PR
A look at the One Piece: Romance Dawn Limited Edition
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A couple of weeks ago, Namco Bandai provided a look at the One Piece: Romance Dawn Limited Edition over on Twitter. View the image below:
Here's a sneak peek of the One Piece: Romance Dawn Limited Ed for 3DS – Available Feb 11th! http://t.co/rhY4Xi9EQV | pic.twitter.com/J9ZdnYJk0Q
— NAMCO BANDAI America (@namcogames) January 9, 2014
If interested, you can pre-order the One Piece: Romance Dawn Limited Edition here.
GameStop ad (1/22 – 1/28)
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This week’s GameStop ad has gone live. Splinter Cell: Blacklist remains at $20 thanks to its recent price drop, and Young Justice: Legacy is on sale for $10.
Below is GameStop’s circular in full for the week of January 22:
F1 Race Stars Powered Up Edition footage
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Toyo Keizai names the most powerful Japanese companies, video game corporations make the list
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Toyo Keizai has published a listing of the most powerful companies in Japan. Of course, a few video game corporations made the cut.
Below are the video game companies included in the list:
126th – Namco Bandai – Last year’s position: 442nd
157th – Broccoli – Last year’s position: not ranked
173rd – Nihon Falcom – Last year’s position: 215th
292nd – Sony – Last year’s position: 163rd
318th – Capcom – Last year’s position: 701st
363rd – Sega – Last year’s position: 133rd
363rd – Marvelous AQL – Last year’s position: not ranked
390th – Tecmo Koei – Last year’s position: 451st
567th – Konami – Last year’s position: 355th
1647th – Nintendo – Last year’s position: 219th
Each company is graded on growth, profitability, safety and scale. All parameters are rated between 500 and 1,000, and the sum of the four scores determines the overall ranking.
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Cavelight Entertainment becomes official Wii U dev, Velocity Stream targeted for the eShop
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Cavelight Entertainment has become an official Wii U developer, and could bring “Velocity Stream” to the eShop. At the moment, Cavelight isn’t in possession of any dev kits, so a Wii U release would likely arrive after the PC version.
Velocity Stream is an asymmetric racing game. While it may seem like a traditional racer, the “paver” mixes things up. One player controls the paver, which can create endless streams of energy for the other participants to race on. The track’s angle, width, and obstacles can all be modified.
Check out the video above to see Velocity Stream in action.
