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In the past, Nintendo has had quite a bit of control over the pricing of indie titles on its digital stores. With Wii U, the situation has changed significantly.

Frozenbyte marketing manager Mikael Haveri says developers can choose their own pricing when it comes to indie games on the Wii U eShop:

“That’s what we love about the new eShop. We have the power to price our products as we please, with just some basic guidelines from the big guys. The step to this is purely from Nintendos’s side and they clearly see that [their] previous installments have not been up to par. We can set our own pricing and actually continuing on that by setting our own sales whenever we want. It is very close to what Apple and Steam are doing at the moment, and very indie friendly.”

Another encouraging piece of news concerns patching. According to Haveri, there aren’t any “basic payments for each patch”. That allows the studio to “update our game almost as much as we want.”

“They have pushed away all of the old methods that have been established before. Simply put they’ve told us that there are no basic payments for each patch (which were pretty high on most platforms) and that we can update our game almost as much as we want. For indie developers this is huge.”

You can find additional commentary from Haveri here.

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Nintendo sure cut things close, didn’t they? There was some doubt that the Wii U’s update wouldn’t be prepared for launch, but the download was finally made available a short while ago.

You’ll want to get this update as soon as you receive your Wii U tonight or tomorrow. It adds a whole slew of functionality. Without it, your console will be pretty bare bones!

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It’s been known for some time that the Wii U Internet browser will offer support for tabs. This is the first time that a Nintendo system will be making use of the functionality.

There is a bit of a limit that users should keep in mind. The browser supports up to six tabs in total.

This may seem like a small amount for some, but it’s certainly better than no tabs at all, right?

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The SNES Donkey Kong Country games have magically disappeared from the North American Wii Shop Channel.

Europe will be receiving the same treatment, as the titles will be taken down on November 25. But in North America, there was absolutely no warning given about the removal of the Donkey Kong Country games.

And no, we still have no clue why Nintendo has decided to do this.

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Rayman Legends isn’t the only Ubisoft Wii U game to be receiving a demo on the eShop. According to one of the game’s developers, a demo for ZombiU will be on the store as well.

It’s currently unknown when a demo will be made available. Sooner rather than later, hopefully.

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Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward has a pretty significant bug. It’s so significant that, if encountered, your game could crash and save data may be corrupted.

On the bright side, publisher Aksys Games is looking into the situation. There’s no word on when a fix would be prepared, but hopefully something can be pushed out to players soon.

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