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In one way, the Nintendo Update “show” acts as a replacement for Nintendo Week. However, Nintendo Update is produced monthly whereas Nintendo Week could be seen each week… not to mention that Nintendo Week was more of an actual show.


ESRB updates (7/2/12)

Posted on 12 years ago by (@NE_Brian) in 3DS, DS, News, Wii | 0 comments

This week’s ESRB updates are as follows:

Transformers Prime: The Game (Wii/3DS/DS) – E10+
Just Dance Greatest Hits (Wii) – E10+
Unchained Blades (3DS) – T

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1 1 LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES XB360 WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
– 2 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN XB360 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
– 3 SPEC OPS: THE LINE XB360 2K GAMES TAKE 2
2 4 LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES PS3 WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
– 5 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN PS3 ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
3 6 LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES WII WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
– 7 LONDON 2012: THE OFFICIAL VIDEO GAME XB360 SEGA SEGA
4 8 FIFA 12 XB360 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
– 9 LONDON 2012: THE OFFICIAL VIDEO GAME PS3 SEGA SEGA
– 10 SPEC OPS: THE LINE PS3 2K GAMES TAKE 2
– 11 THE RATCHET & CLANK TRILOGY: CLASSICS HD PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
5 12 TOM CLANCY’S GHOST RECON: FUTURE SOLDIER XB360 UBISOFT UBISOFT
29 13 THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM XB360 BETHESDA SOFTWORKS BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
– 14 METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION VITA KONAMI KONAMI
15 15 LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES DS WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
6 16 FIFA 12 PS3 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
7 17 MAX PAYNE 3 XB360 ROCKSTAR TAKE 2
8 18 BATTLEFIELD 3 XB360 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
– 19 HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED ANNIVERSARY XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
19 20 MOSHI MONSTERS: MOSHLING ZOO DS MIND CANDY MIND CANDY
14 21 MARIO & SONIC LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES WII SEGA SEGA
– 22 THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM PS3 BETHESDA SOFTWORKS BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
9 23 MAX PAYNE 3 PS3 ROCKSTAR TAKE 2
12 24 TOM CLANCY’S GHOST RECON: FUTURE SOLDIER PS3 UBISOFT UBISOFT
– 25 MASS EFFECT 3 XB360 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
25 26 FIFA STREET PS3 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
11 27 DIABLO III PC BLIZZARD ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
16 28 SUPER MARIO 3D LAND 3DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
26 29 SNIPER ELITE V2 XB360 505 GAMES 505 GAMES
28 30 LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES 3DS WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
20 31 MARIO KART 7 3DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
33 32 ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS XB360 UBISOFT UBISOFT
17 33 BATTLEFIELD 3 PS3 EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
– 34 THE WITCHER 2: ASSASSINS – ENHANCED ED. XB360 NAMCO BANDAI GAMES NAMCO BANDAI GAMES
34 35 FIFA STREET XB360 EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
37 36 SNIPER ELITE V2 PS3 505 GAMES 505 GAMES
23 37 MARIO KART WII WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
22 38 FORZA MOTORSPORT 4 XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
30 39 FOOTBALL MANAGER 2012 PC SEGA SEGA
24 40 MARIO & SONIC LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES 3DS SEGA SEGA

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1 1 LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES TRAVELLER’S TALES WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
– 2 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BEENOX ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
– 3 SPEC OPS: THE LINE YAGER DEVELOPMENT 2K GAMES TAKE 2
– 4 LONDON 2012: THE OFFICIAL VIDEO GAME SEGA STUDIOS AUSTRALIA SEGA SEGA
2 5 FIFA 12 EA CANADA EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
3 6 TOM CLANCY’S GHOST RECON: FUTURE SOLDIER UBISOFT (FRANCE) UBISOFT UBISOFT
8 7 THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM BETHESDA BETHESDA SOFTWORKS BETHESDA SOFTWORKS
4 8 MAX PAYNE 3 ROCKSTAR VANCOUVER ROCKSTAR TAKE 2
5 9 BATTLEFIELD 3 DIGITAL ILLUSIONS EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
– 10 METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION ARMATURE KONAMI KONAMI
– 11 THE RATCHET & CLANK TRILOGY: CLASSICS HD IDOL MINDS/INSOMNIAC SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
7 12 MARIO & SONIC LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES SEGA SEGA SEGA
9 13 SNIPER ELITE V2 REBELLION 505 GAMES 505 GAMES
10 14 FIFA STREET EA CANADA EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
36 15 MASS EFFECT 3 BIOWARE EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
12 16 BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY ROCKSTEADY STUDIOS WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
19 17 ASSASSIN’S CREED: REVELATIONS UBISOFT (MONTREAL) UBISOFT UBISOFT
17 18 CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS TREYARCH ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
6 19 LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
18 20 SKYLANDERS: SPYRO’S ADVENTURE TOYS FOR BOB SKYLANDERS ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
– 21 HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED ANNIVERSARY 343 INDUSTRIES MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
27 22 MOSHI MONSTERS: MOSHLING ZOO BLACK LANTERN MIND CANDY MIND CANDY
21 23 RAYMAN ORIGINS UBISOFT (FRANCE) UBISOFT UBISOFT
13 24 DIABLO III BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT BLIZZARD ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
22 25 SUPER MARIO 3D LAND NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
40 26 LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN TRAVELLER’S TALES DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
34 27 LEGO HARRY POTTER: YEARS 5-7 TRAVELLER’S TALES WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE
29 28 WWE ’12 YUKE’S THQ THQ
20 29 DRAGON’S DOGMA CAPCOM CAPCOM CAPCOM
28 30 MARIO KART 7 RETRO STUDIOS / NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
11 31 DIRT SHOWDOWN CODEMASTERS CODEMASTERS CODEMASTERS
26 32 GRAND THEFT AUTO EPISODES – LIBERTY CITY ROCKSTAR NORTH ROCKSTAR TAKE 2
– 33 KINGDOMS OF AMALUR: RECKONING 38 STUDIOS EA GAMES ELECTRONIC ARTS
39 34 CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3 INFINITY WARD/SLEDGEHAMMER ACTIVISION ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
14 35 GAME OF THRONES CYANIDE FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE KOCH MEDIA
15 36 TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 13 TIBURON ENTERTAINMENT EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
38 37 SNIPER: GHOST WARRIOR CITY INTERACTIVE PLATINUM CITY INTERACTIVE
35 38 SKATE 3 EA BLACK BOX EA SPORTS ELECTRONIC ARTS
37 39 FOOTBALL MANAGER 2012 SPORTS INTERACTIVE SEGA SEGA
– 40 THE WITCHER 2: ASSASSINS – ENHANCED ED. CD PROJEKT RED NAMCO BANDAI GAMES NAMCO BANDAI GAMES

Source: Chart-Track


How’s that for a trailer?! It’s 10 minutes long!


Content is light on the Nintendo Channel this week…

Videos

Nintendo 3DS XL Comparison
Nintendo Update 6/28


The last two games from Masahiro Sakurai, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Kid Icarus: Uprising, packed in a ton of content.

Brawl featured a full single-player mode, a number of multiplayer modes/options, an “Event” mode, trophies and stickers to collect, and lots more. Uprising offered a considerable amount as well with its gem crafting, tons of achievements to clear, local and online multiplayer, and AR functionality.

Sakurai’s next game is a brand new Smash Bros. entry for Wii U and 3DS. Although these two titles will likely be crammed with a great deal of things to see and do much like his previous projects, Sakurai doesn’t seem to be concerned about quantity this time around. Instead, he believes “a change of direction may be what’s needed.”

When Nintendo Power asked about the difficulties in making a new Smash Bros. considering the amount of content included in previous games, Sakurai said:

“It isn’t a matter of ‘if the next game has 50 characters, that’ll be enough.’ There is a certain charm to games that have huge casts of playable characters, but they tend to have issues with game balance and it becomes very difficult to fine-tune each character and have them all feel distinctive…. In terms of quantity, we’ve probably already reached the limit of what’s feasible. I think a change of direction may be what’s needed.”

You can read up on Sakurai’s other Smash Bros. comments with Nintendo Power here.


A new patent from AlphaDream, the developer behind the Mario & Luigi games, has come to light. Nintendo’s Akira Otani and Toshiharu Izuno and AlphaDream’s Akiko Sugimoto are listed as the inventors.

The company filed for the patent in Japan on December 21, 2010 and October 27, 2011 in the US. However, it was just published a couple of weeks ago.

We’ve included a summary of the patent below. You can also view some images that help to illustrate what it’s about.

– Humanoid character on the touch screen
– Platformer level on the top screen
– Lower screen shows character aspects, which are related to features of the level on the top screen
– Ex: Tree may have branches with an arm-like quality; move the arm by dragging it with a stylus on the bottom screen controls a tree branch
– This allows the player to progress
– Similar aspects detailed in the patent where a face appears in a cloud
– Face corresponds to the ace of the character on the touch screen
– Includes: circling the nose of the character causes the cloud on the top screen to change and fill in a gap
– Can make this happen by having the cloud move from another location, fade into view, become more solid, or move forward in 3D space with the 3DS’s stereoscopic feature
– Allows the player to progress as well

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01./00. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 (Pokemon Co.) {2012.06.23} (¥4.800) – 1.561.738 / NEW <80,17%>
02./02. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Wonderland 3D # (Square Enix) {2012.05.31} (¥5.490) – 58.228 / 721.174 (-12%)
03./01. [PSV] Persona 4 Golden (Atlus) {2012.06.14} (¥7.329) – 29.293 / 166.369 (-79%)
04./00. [PSP] Kenka Bancho Bros: Tokyo Battle Royale (Spike) {2012.06.21} (¥5.229) – 21.797 / NEW
05./04. [PS3] Tokyo Jungle (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2012.06.07} (¥4.980) – 18.715 / 165.013 (-48%)
06./00. [PS3] K-On! After School Live!! HD Ver. (Sega) {2012.06.21} (¥5.229) – 13.581 / NEW
07./08. [WII] Mario Party 9 (Nintendo) {2012.04.26} (¥5.800) – 13.339 / 447.126 (-17%)
08./07. [3DS] Mario Tennis Open (Nintendo) {2012.05.24} (¥4.800) – 13.036 / 198.047 (-27%)
09./06. [PS3] Dragon’s Dogma (Capcom) {2012.05.24} (¥7.990) – 9.162 / 446.410 (-49%)
10./03. [PS3] Lollipop Chainsaw # (Kadokawa Games) {2012.06.14} (¥7.980) – 7.898 / 61.246 (-85%)
11./10. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land # (Nintendo) {2011.11.03} (¥4.800) – 7.609 / 1.631.358 (-18%)
12./12. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.800) – 5.091 / 1.746.836 (-24%)
13./05. [PSP] Akiba’s Trip Plus (Acquire) {2012.06.14} (¥3.990) – 5.034 / 34.539 (-83%)
14./00. [360] Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor # (Capcom) {2012.06.21} (¥7.990) – 4.889 / NEW
15./00. [PSP] Arcana Famiglia: Vascello Phantasma no Majutsushi # (Comfort) {2012.06.21} (¥6.090) – 4.854 / NEW
16./16. [WII] Wii Sports Resort with Wii Remote Plus # (Nintendo) {2010.11.11} (¥5.800) – 4.287 / 965.713 (+8%)
17./14. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G # (Capcom) {2011.12.10} (¥5.800) – 4.269 / 1.481.643 (-23%)
18./13. [3DS] Fire Emblem: Awakening (Nintendo) {2012.04.19} (¥4.800) – 3.972 / 417.760 (-31%)
19./11. [PSV] Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Battle Destiny (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.06.07} (¥5.980) – 3.668 / 52.790 (-58%)
20./17. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Nintendo) {2012.03.01} (¥4.800) – 2.965 / 186.789 (-17%)



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