The official Japanese website for The Wonderful 101 is up and running – you can find it here. It already has several screenshots, art, and a few new details:

– Earth was attack by aliens (the ‘Geathjerks’) 40 years prior to the game’s opening
– The Centinel Program was set up by the UN to fight the Geathjerks
– Our heroes belong to that program
– One Hero is located in each of the 100 field branches of the Centinel program around the world
– Use the sword morph to open locks
– Hand morph opens doors
– Bridge morph lets you cross gaps
– 5 player multiplayer
– No online multiplayer

NeoGAF’s “StreetsAhead” has also gone to the trouble of translating a brand new blog post from director Hideki Kamiya. That’s posted after the break.

“Two Tribes Classics” coming to the Wii U eShop

Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

A couple of months ago, Two Tribes hinted at its intent to bring older games to the Wii U eShop. The studio has now confirmed that Toki Tori, RUSH, and EDGE will, in fact, come to the digital store as “Two Tribes Classics”.

Things are completely set in stone just yet, but it sounds like the games will be “identical to the PC versions”. Each would support features like off-TV play and would be set at a cheap price.

Two Tribes wrote on Twitter earlier today:

Perhaps it's time to talk a bit about Toki Tori, RUSH and EDGE hitting Wii U as 'Two Tribes Classics'.
— Two Tribes (@TwoTribesGames) July 25, 2013

How would you feel if we launched our Two Tribes Classics identical to the PC versions, with off-TV play supported for say… 2€?
— Two Tribes (@TwoTribesGames) July 25, 2013

@RayWillmott working on it as we speak.
— Two Tribes (@TwoTribesGames) July 25, 2013

@RayWillmott well, like we said, it's the PC version with little extras. So it's rather easy.
— Two Tribes (@TwoTribesGames) July 25, 2013

Nintendo Download (7/25/13, North America)

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This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Wii U VC

Kid Icarus – $4.99

3DS download

Chain Blaster – $6.99
Picross e2 – $5.99

3DS demo

Chain Blaster

3DS retail

Angler’s Club: Ultimate Bass Fishing 3D – $29.95

DSiWare

Cute Witch! Runner – $1.99 / 200 points

Source: Nintendo PR

Sakurai says new Smash Bros. won’t have a story mode or cutscenes, 3DS version will feature “separate mode from the standard versus play”

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In previous interviews, Masahiro Sakurai has said that the new Smash Bros. game will not include “a similar story mode” to Brawl. Of course, Sakurai was referring to the Subspace Emissary.

Now it would seem that there won’t be any sort of story mode, based on a new translation from Famitsu.

Sakurai reiterated in a new bi-weekly column this week his disappointment in seeing players upload the Subspace Emissary’s cutscenes online, which ruined the surprise in one sense. This time around, the team has concentrated on making videos for the new characters. For these clips, they’re making them so that it may be beneficial to share them with others.

“Unfortunately, the movie scenes we worked hard to create were uploaded onto the internet. You can only truly wow a player the first time he sees [a cutscene]. I felt if players saw the cutscenes outside of the game, they would no longer serve as rewards for playing the game, so I’ve decided against having them.”

Later in the column, Sakurai did mention one new, mysterious addition for the 3DS version, which will “act as a separate mode from the standard versus play.”

And Sakurai reconfirmed a couple of previous details: the Wii U and 3DS versions will include different stages, and there will be customization elements. Customization will impact character performance and this data can be exchanged between the two versions.

Source