Mega Man series sales reach 30 million units
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As of September 2013, the Mega Man series has sold 30 million copies. All games in the series – 131 in total – are accounted for in that figure.
Total sales of the Mega Man franchise have climbed by one million units since 2011.
Mega Man is Capcom’s third best-selling franchise, only surpassed by Street Fighter and Resident Evil.
Wii Karaoke U song goes uncensored
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There’s at least one song in Wii Karaoke U that has gone uncensored. Afroman’s Colt 45, which uses some… “colorful” language, can be experienced as it was originally created.
If you’re reaaaally interested in checking this out further, you can find an uncensored screenshot after the break.
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Details from SEGA’s latest financial results
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SEGA’s latest financial results are in. You can find a full breakdown of the company’s results below, which were quite favorable.
– Net sales: 162.21 billion yen ($1.65 billion)
– This is an 18.8 percent jump year-on-year
– Operating income: 12.4 billion yen
– This is a 57.1 percent increase
– Net income up 192.9 percent to 11.35 billion yen
– SEGA Sammy’s video game business saw “generally solid” sales of packaged titles
– Year-over-year increase in the total number of units moved to 3.23 million copies worldwide
– Total War: Rome 2 sold 800,000 copies in the U.S. and Europe since launch
– Sales of digital titles for PC, mobile phones and smartphones “remained favorable”
– Video game sector reported sales of 44.1 billion yen during the fiscal half-year
– This is a 23.5 increase over the same period in 2012
– Operating income: 1.12 billion yen
– In the same period a year ago, the division suffered an operating loss of 780 million yen
– SEGA Sammy has officially completed its $140 million acquisition of the bankrupt Index Corporation
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Capcom turning overseas offices into marketing/operation hubs
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Capcom has six different subsidiary offices scattered across North America and Europe. Soon, each will see a change in focus from distribution to marketing and operations. Analyst David Gibson relayed the news from Capcom on Twitter earlier today, writing:
Capcom planning to turn overseas operations from distribution to marketing and operations, especially EU and USA
— David Gibson (@gibbogame) November 1, 2013
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Image: Happy Halloween from Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s Isabelle
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Thanks to AAA for the tip.
Upcoming GT.TV episode to feature Nintendo
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GameTrailers TV has a tradition of featuring Nintendo for an entire episode on an annual basis. It looks we can expect something similar this year as well.
On Twitter, Geoff Keighley confirmed that Nintendo will be highlighted on GT.TV in the future. Reggie Fils-Aime and Bill Trinen are both a part of the episode.
Keighley’s tweet is as follows:
Fun day filming GTTV up at @nintendo with Reggie and @trintran. Lots of goodies coming soon for Nintendo fans.
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) November 1, 2013
No word yet on when the episode will air, but it should be sometime within the next few weeks.
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Fan-made video: Nintendo/Star Wars mashup
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Monster Hunter series director says he wants to bring energy back to the Japanese market
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The following comes from an interview with Japanese gaming weekly ‘Famitsu’:
“To be honest, I don’t feel the current Japanese game market has a lot of energy to it, and I want to get that energy back. I think the only way to do that is to keep making fun games and keep energizing and exciting the gamers.
“Lately I’ve been running into overseas gamers at MH4 events and stuff, people with these MH t-shirts who go all the way to Japan for these things. I love seeing that, and I wonder if we can expand on that. It’s hard enough to launch a game in Japan alone, but for games like Pokemon that become worldwide hits, that energizes Japanese games across the board. I think there are qualities to Japanese games that only Japanese people can come up with, and I think it’d be great if we could expand on how we bring those strengths to the international arena.”
– Director of the Monster Hunter series, Kaname Fujioka
Fujioka talked about much more in the interview, as transcribed by Polygon. Check it out here.
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FAA is relaxing electronics guidelines on planes; you can now play 3DS during takeoff and landing
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As long as your device can’t transmit or receive wireless signals like texts or phone-calls, the FAA is soon to let you play with it during the takeoff and landing portions of any particular airplane flight. This means 3DS and Vita, phones and tablets (if ‘Airplane Mode’ is turned on), etc etc can all be used to calm your nerves or supplement the visceral experience of being forced into the air above earth at 400 miles an hour starting “soon”, according to the FAA.
Why the change of heart? It turns out that devices that aren’t transmitting or receiving things wirelessly can’t interfere with most planes’ computer systems.
