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Update: Summerwill’s tweets have been removed, so we’ve added in a screencap of his more-recent comments instead.

This hasn’t been a good month for the Wii U in terns of EA news.

A few weeks ago, DICE’s Frostbite technical director Johan Andersson said that Frostbite 3 has never been running on Wii U while Frostbite 2 tests were “not too surprising”. EA ended up announcing Frostbite Go for mobile platforms just a couple of days ago.

And just recently, EA confirmed that it isn’t working on any Wii U games. When asked why the publisher isn’t bringing FIFA to the console this year, a spokesperson pointed to poor sales of last year’s release.

Unfortunately, things haven’t stopped there. EA Sports senior software engineer Bob Summerwill has pretty much trashed the Wii U on Twitter, calling it “crap” and “Less powerful than an Xbox 360.” The console’s online store and GamePad were also criticized. And that was only one tweet.

Here’s the full roundup of Summerwill’s quotes:

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Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures may not be the only new Pac-Man game in the works. Yesterday, Namco Bandai registered trademarks for “Pac-Man Dash!” and “Pac-Man Monsters”. What exactly these trademarks are related to are currently unclear, but I’m sure we’ll find out in due time.

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Fire Emblem: Awakening’s “Summer Scramble” DLC is out now in Europe. As you may remember, Nintendo censored a moment of one CG scene for the North American release.

In Europe, Nintendo kept the scene in tact. It’s exactly the same as it was in the original Japanese version – there’s no censor whatsoever.

I wonder what makes North American so “special”…

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Nintendo and SEGA announced two new Sonic games today. Sonic Lost World and Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games both made their debuts during the Nintendo Direct.

But that’s not all. A third, mysterious game is in development as well, according to a press release sent by SEGA. We don’t know anything about it – will it be for both the Wii U and 3DS? Just one platform? And when will it be revealed?

Stay tuned!

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Considering that a new Nintendo Direct is less than a month away, today’s presentation wasn’t too shabby. But really, it’s the next broadcast that everyone will be paying attention to.

Satoru Iwata temporarily took over the Nintendo of America Twitter account to re-re-confirm (I’m making that up!) that Smash Bros., 3D Mario, and Mario Kart will be featured on the next Nintendo Direct. Other Wii U titles will be shown, too.

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Disney has registered a whole slew of domain names that point to a new racer of some sort. These include DisneySpeedster.com, DisneySpeedsters.com DisneyKart.com, DisneyRacers.com, DisneyKartRacing.com, DisneyKarting.net, DisneyRacing.com.

Interestingly, there’s a Twitter account already registered for “Disney Speedsters”. It’s unclear if it’s official, but the account is following a trio of other Disney Twitter handles.

Hey, maybe Disney is cooking something up for E3. You never know!

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