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4A Games chief technical officer Oles Shishkovtsov made headlines this week due to a comment made about the Wii U’s CPU. Shishkovtsov said that its tech is “horrible” and “slow”.

Now THQ’s Huw Beynon has clarified the situation. Beynon acts as a representative of 4A Games and the Metro franchise.

Speaking about Shishkovtsov’s remarks, Beynon said:

Nintendo Download (11/22/12, North America)

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, DSiWare, News, Wii Shop Channel, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:
Nintendo eShop
Crashmo™ – Embrace the laws of gravity with a whole new kind of action-puzzle play in this exciting sequel to the critically acclaimed Pushmo™ game. New gravity mechanics and gadgets like floating blocks, doors and move switches await players ready for a challenge. (For Nintendo 3DS™)
Zelda II™: The Adventure of Link™ – Link™ returns to Hyrule on a quest to find the Triforce of Courage and awaken Zelda™ from an endless sleep. Learn magic spells, talk to people in towns to get clues, collect items to increase your power and explore seven palaces where the underlings of the evil Ganon await you. (For Nintendo 3DS)

Full list of UK Wii U launch titles

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Just a little more than a week before its launch, Nintendo has confirmed the full list of Wii U launch titles in the UK.

There are slightly less titles to choose from compared to the North American launch, Nintendo itself will only have New Super Mario Bros. U and Nintendo Land on hand next week.

The full list is as follows:

*Publisher*	*Title*
505 Games	Funky Barn
Activision	Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
	Skylanders Giants™
	TRANSFORMERS PRIME™
Disney	DISNEY EPIC MICKEY 2. THE POWER OF TWO
Electronic Arts	EA SPORTS™ FIFA 13
Electronic Arts	Mass Effect™ 3 Special Edition
NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe	Ben 10: Omniverse™
	Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade
	TANK! TANK! TANK!™
	TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT™2 Wii U Edition
Nintendo	Nintendo Land
Nintendo	New Super Mario Bros. U
SEGA	Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed™
Tecmo Koei	Warriors Orochi®3 Hyper
THQ	Darksiders®2
Ubisoft	Assassin’s Creed ® III
	Just Dance®4
	Rabbids ® Land
	Sports Connection™
	Your Shape®: Fitness Evolved 2013
	ZombiU™
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment	Batman: Arkham City™ Armoured Edition
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment	Game Party™ Champions

Source: Nintendo PR

BlayzBloo: Clone Phantasma teaser site open

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Arc System Works opened a teaser site for BlayzBloo: Clone Phantasma. Take a look at the page here.

There’s nothing to see yet aside from a bit of artwork, but look forward to updates in the near future.

YouTube app now available for Wii U

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YouTube has now joined Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, and Netflix with its own dedicated app for Wii U.

Getting it to work at the moment is slightly tricky. You’ll first need to delete the pre-installed app on your console. After that, you’ll have to head on over to the eShop and request a re-download.

Once the download is finished, install the app. It should launch following this process.

DICE dev suggests Wii U CPU could hurt console’s lifecycle

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A team member from 4A Games, the developer behind Metro: Last Light, recently made a comment about the Wii U’s CPU, noting how it’s “horrible” and “slow”.

DICE lead designer Gustav Halling has apparently heard similar things about the CPU. Halling talked about it a bit on Twitter and suggested that its performance could lead to a shorter lifecycle.

This is also what I been hearing within the industry, to bad since it will shorten its life a lot when new gen. starts. m.kotaku.com/5962354/the-wi…
— Gustav Halling (@gustavhalling) November 21, 2012

@jayleemin GPU and ram is nice to have shaders/textures loaded. Physics and gameplay run on CPU mostly so player count is affected etc.
— Gustav Halling (@gustavhalling) November 21, 2012

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Wii homebrew works on Wii U

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Podcast Stories, Wii, Wii U | 0 comments

Nintendo crammed the Wii’s OS into the Wii U. So it makes sense that homebrew would still work on the new console. Numerous users have reported that it functions successfully on Wii U, mainly through a Super Smash Bros. Brawl workaround.

Also worth noting, homebrew content doesn’t affect Wii to Wii U transfers. The process shouldn’t encounter any issues, but, of course, all homebrew items will remain on the original Wii.