Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon – Polterpup ScareScraper footage
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Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag gameplay premiere
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YouTube app for Wii launches in Japan
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Back in November, a YouTube app released for Wii (and Wii U). The same tool has now been made available in Japan. Starting today, Wii owners in Japan can download the tool for free from the Wii Shop Channel.
Assassin’s Creed creator says first game is the “purest one”
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Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets enjoys the series’ first entry the most. He may be a bit biased as the IP’s maker, but Désilets believes that the original Assassin’s Creed “is the purest one”.
He told EDGE:
“I like the first Assassin’s Creed because it’s the purest one. There’s a bunch of stories that you can have, but it’s all in your head. You have to create your own adventures. Whereas in Assassin’s Creed II, we created the adventures for you and you’re following them. For me, the first one is an amazing toy. The second one is the real game with rules and missions and it’s really precise. But personally I like the poetry of the first one. It’s pure.”
Most would probably say that the first Assassin’s Creed is their least-favorite in the franchise. Different strokes for different folks, right?
More Nintendo maintenance taking place over the next two days
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Another round of Nintendo maintenance (“extended” this time, not “emergency”!) will be taking place on all of Nintendo’s platforms over the next few days.
The bulk of the downtime is happening today. Each one of Nintendo’s online shops will be down between 12 PM and 6 PM PT. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, and Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2 will be affected at different parts of the day as well.
Tomorrow’s maintenance is much lighter – only Pokemon Black/White 1/2 will see downtime.
The full schedule is posted below.
Nintendo on abolishing indie dev office space requirement, devs setting own prices, easy updates, inexpensive dev kits, WiiWare threshold, more
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Dan Adelman is quickly becoming a prominent figure at Nintendo. The business development manager joined the company in 2005, and has pretty much been the man in charge – behind the scenes – for Nintendo’s indie involvement and digital offerings.
Gamasutra sat down with Adelman for a chat covering various indie and eShop topics. He confirmed the removal of Nintendo’s indie developer office space requirement and WiiWare threshold for all digital platforms. Adelman also talked about how indies set their own prices, can easily update their games, puchase a dev kit for “about the price of a high-end PC”, and more.
Head past the break for all of Adelman’s comments.
“Boomba!” coming to the 3DS eShop in April
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UK indie developer RadiationBurn Ltd. plans to bring “Boomba!” to the 3DS eShop next month. Versions for iOS, Windows 8 and Windows Phone, Kindle, Blackberry, Andoid, PC and Mac are also in the works.
“Boomba!” is described as a “turn based physics shooter featuring 50+ teams of unique characters”. You can take on the role of punks, rockers, emos, soldiers, cops and others.
The new eShop title will include campaign and multiplayer modes and various weapons such as chainsaw missiles, boxing glove bazookas and metal anvils. The game’s various weapons and your own shooting accuracy will ultimately determine who prevails.
Source: RadiationBurn Ltd. PR
UK software sales (Week ending 3/23) – Wii U/3DS-specific charts
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The latest Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Wii U
1. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate – Capcom
2. Nintendo Land – Nintendo
3. ZombiU – Ubisoft
4. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
5. Need for Speed: Most Wanted – EA
6. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed – SEGA
7. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct – Activision
8. Darksiders II – THQ
9. Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth – Ubisoft
10. Sports Connection – Ubisoft
3DS
1. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate – Capcom
2. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
3. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
4. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo
5. Paper Mario: Sticker Star – Nintendo
6. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed – SEGA
7. Sonic Generations – SEGA
8. Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask – Nintendo
9. Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games – SEGA
10. New Style Boutique – Nintendo
Source: Chart-Track
Ecco the Dolphin creator turns to Kickstarter for spiritual sequel
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Two decades after the launch of Ecco the Dolphin, creator Ed Annunziata is turning to Kickstarter to help fund a spiritual sequel.
Big Blue is a “next generation, underwater, action/adventure game by the original Ecco the Dolphin team.” It’ll offer exploration elements, quests, action puzzle solving, and “collection and spawning of life forms”. You’ll be able to control any creature in the game as well as multiple creatures at the same time, and you can count on being able to aquascape and populate your own sea, breed and multiply creatures, and more.
Annunziata hopes to fund $665,000 by April 29. Intitially, Big Blue will head to Mac, Windows, and iOS and Android platforms. But Annunziata also writes on Kickstarter:
“Once we are done with the first version of the game I will convince Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to embrace the game. We want the Big Blue everywhere.”
You can find more information about Big Blue here.
Team Ninja being restructured
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Team Ninja is, in one way, no more. Parent company Tecmo Koei has announced a restructure for the studio today, essentially splitting it in two. Team Ninja will now be reorganized into two “Ichigaya Development” divisions.
Ichigaya Development Group 1 will be led by Yosuke Hayashi, who has been the boss of Team Ninja for the past several years. Managing director Keisuke Kikuchi will be put in charge of Ichigaya Development Group 2.
Team Ninja may not have been what it used to be as of late, but it has been around for close to two decades. The reorganization news is a bit saddening – even though the studio will still be around in some form.
