3DS seeing sellouts in the UK
Posted on 13 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 0 comments
The 3DS is becoming a hot commodity in the UK as we head in to Christmas. MVC is reporting that the Metallic Red hardware is sold out, and other color variations are heading in that direction as well.
GAME Group’s category manager for Nintendo Iain Johnson said the following regarding 3DS sales for the rest of 2011:
“We have high expectations for the final few weeks before Christmas.”
First Shifting World screenshots
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Shifting World officially announced
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Coming to the Nintendo 3DS™ System in 2012!
TORRANCE, Calif. —December 6, 2011—Acclaimed video game publisher Aksys Games is proud to announce their partnership with video game developer Fishing Cactus in order to bring you the puzzle platformer Shifting World. Based on the award winning Shift series originally by Armor Games which has been played by over 16 million players on the web, the Nintendo 3DS version will be the first of the series to hit consoles and introduces an all-new art direction, level editor, 3D functionality, and a level generator of awesomeness that works by taking pictures of DataMatrix bar codes with the 3DS camera.
G4 Poll: Zelda vs. Skyrim – How Do You Feel About Gaming Face-Offs?
Posted on 13 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in Features, General Nintendo | 1 Comment
Update: Voting is now over either which way. Zelda ended up coming out on top at the last second with 51% to 49%. Good job.
Sorry guys, I’m just making up the post of the day to talk about something sort of weird, but oddly intriguing. You see, I’ve fairly recently begun going on reddit, and through the thousands of upvotes and (now) failing college grades, I noticed that the wonderful folk on r/Zelda were rallying incredibly strongly for the prevalence of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword in G4’s “2011 Gaming Deathmatch”. Basically the idea is that everyone will vote in head to head matches of video games, and the winners of each round will continue to move up until the final face off. Well, needless to say, G4 seems to have had it in for Skyward Sword since the beginning of the voting period.
In the first round they pitted Nintendo’s finely crafted adventure against Uncharted 3, and while no one thought it would ever beat such a monster of a PS3 game, r/Zelda rallied like crazy behind it (I heard the folks on ZeldaDungeon got behind it too) and they managed to take down Nathan Drake’s fantastically crafted action adventure title with a final tally of 53-47. Pretty cool, right? Well, in the second round it easily defeated NBA2KGeneric, but the third round had it fighting the critically acclaimed Arkham City. Another great game, another fight no one thought Skyward Sword could win, but once again it narrowly escaped defeat with a final score of 51-49. So why am I telling you this?
Well, now it’s up against the monstrously huge open world fantasy title, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and while- once again- everyone thought it would lose horribly to such a big game, the current score stands at 51-49 in favor of Zelda. Don’t get excited, because it’s shifting back and forth more often than a tennis match, but the sheer fact that it’s essentially equal to such a fantastically made game is a testament to the strength of Nintendo’s fanbase. Now, I’m not tellin you this because I want you to go vote for Zelda and make “us” win or whatever. If you wanna go vote for Skyrim or forgo voting entirely, I don’t care at all. The thing is that on r/Zelda, people are going nuts over defeating Skyrim, and consequently the Skyrim community is going nuts over beating Skyward Sword. People are making multiple accounts on both sides I’m sure, there’s posts about this very battle across the internet, and in general fans of both games are freaking the hell out over beating their now-rival. It’s sort of silly to me, but I figured I’d bring the discussion to you.
How do you feel about these game-offs that people do? Do you think they’re accurate representations of what’s best? Would you ever vote in them?
Personally, I did vote for Zelda and I definitely hope it wins, but ultimately I don’t want to go overboard worrying about it. More than anything, I just want to “show” G4 for their blatant bias against Nintendo games. Also you can vote here if you want.
Monster Hunter Tri G StreetPass screenshots
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November’s best-selling games in Japan
Posted on 13 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, DS, News, Wii | 0 comments
The information below comes from Famitsu data taken between October 31 and November 27…
01. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land – 542,842 / NEW
02. [PSP] Hatsune Miku -Project DIVA- Extend – 234,627 / NEW
03. [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Subtitled) – 227,219
04. [Wii] The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword – 194,894 / NEW
05. [PSP] Final Fantasy Type-0 – 172,756 / 676,144
06. [PS3] Battlefield 3 – 157,484 / NEW
07. [PS3] Sengoku Basara 3 Utage – 138,610 / NEW
08. [PS3] Uncharted 3 – 153,363 / NEW
09. [NDS] One Piece: Gigant Battle 2 – 134,943 / NEW
10. [PSP] Ore no Shikabane o Koete Yuke – 114,548 / NEW
Ubisoft making “AAA MMORPG”, could be for Wii U
Posted on 13 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments
Ubisoft Quebec is currently looking for new staffers to join a team that is working on a “new AAA MMORPG” title. The studio has previously developed Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands for Wii, TMNT for DS, and a few other games. The Quebec team has provided assistance on the last couple of Assassin’s Creed titles as well.
Here’s the interesting bit for Nintendo fans: it’s possible that the project is in the works for Wii U.
Ubisoft’s Emile Gauthier tweeted the following a few hours ago:
“Ubisoft Quebec is working on a NEW AAA MMORPG Game and we need people to fill these very strategic positions http://lnkd.in/hPMFDf”
If you follow that link, you’ll see that there are a couple of job postings for a AAA Wii U game. The listings were added in today. Could this be the MMORPG Gauthier was referring to?
A look at Monster Hunter Tri G’s demo (off-screen)
Posted on 13 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments
Of course, this is footage of the in-store demo. The eShop demo release date has yet to be announced.
