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Assassin’s Creed III’s Tyranny of King Washington DLC was dated earlier today, but not the Wii U version. The DLC should be coming to the console eventually.

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You guys have no idea how happy it makes me to be able to post about this game on our site! I found out about it just earlier today, emailed the developer about doing an interview, and got this wonderful little tidbit of information that brings utter joy to my heart. When asked whether or not the game could come to Wii U in the future, March the Slag (the game’s sole developer) said the following:

“Without making any promises, I think it will be likely that the game ends up on the Wii U. I have been in touch with a publisher that is interested in putting it on that console, and I’d be more than interested in seeing that happen!” – A Hat in Time developer Jonas Kærlev

That’s good enough for me! If you’ve yet to learn anything about this game, you should absolutely look into it. It’s an exploration platformer inspired by the likes of Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Banjo Kazooie, and Donkey Kong 64— but with a beautiful, somewhat Wind Waker-esque art style!

Full interview with Jonas about the game and platforming as a whole coming as soon as I get it done, which might be tonight. Or tomorrow. We’ll see.

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The next Puzzle Quest may have a theme featuring the Marvel franchise.

Superannuation, up to his usual sleuthing ways, has come across the domain name marvelpuzzlequest.com. This is official – Marvel registered the site itself.

We know that a new Puzzle Quest is in the works, and it’s coming this year. Might Marvel Puzzle Quest be that title?

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Ah yes, LovePlus: The game that so many people want to come to the west, but no one seems to want to admit it! Well, I don’t think there’s much hope in that regard, but at least Japanese audiences will be getting their dating-sim appetites whetted well into the future if teases from New LovePlus producer Akira Uchida and LovePlus artist Mino Taro are to be believed.

The two of them put up a teaser site with an image that apparently says they’re bringing two new heroines “to life” in early spring. No word on who those heroines are, what the game is about, or if it even is a game, but chances are we’ll be seeing a new entry in their fabled handheld series sooner than expected. We’ll keep you posted.

Via Siliconera

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Update: This has nothing to do with the ZombiU bundle listed on Best Buy Canada… rules out one possibility!

IGN editor Rich George is teasing some “interesting” news set to be revealed in the very near future. Whatever it is, we’ll find out about it tomorrow.

Unfortunately, George wouldn’t elaborate beyond his initial tweet.

He wrote:

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One thing that constantly amazes me is how much people say they dislike the Wii U without having played it, and then when I bring my console over and play it with them, they can’t stop talking about how much fun it is and how cool the second screen is. It really illustrates a stark contrast between U and the original Wii, which is that you can understand the Wii simply by seeing it: Everyone knows motion, after all. It’s intuitive, so when you watch someone turning a fake wheel to turn the wheel of a car in a game, or swinging a fake bat to swing a bat in a game, it just makes sense. With the Wii U that intuition isn’t as clear, and Ubisoft managing director Xavier Poix seems to think so too:

“The depth of what you can do with that console is really hard to get across unless you play with it. It’s different from the Wii, where seeing was believing. With the Wii U, people really need to experience it.” – Ubisoft managing director Xavier Poix

“The whole idea of the asymmetrical gameplay and using two screens to do two very different things is not simple to explain to people. ZombiU was designed to be a game for core players launching with a new Nintendo console. We should have communicated better in this respect to let people know what kind of experience to expect. It wasn’t obvious enough that there would be a new controller and new gameplay and a new skill set to develop.” – Ubisoft managing director Xavier Poix

Have any of you had a similar experience to this? Or do you think the Wii U just isn’t as inherently cool as the Wii was?

Via Gamespot