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Pre-orders for the Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire Dual Pack have gone live following Nintendo’s announcement earlier today. You can reserve the bundle on either Amazon or Best Buy. The Dual Pack is exclusive to these two retailers.

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Glow Games Studio has revealed a new title for Wii U known as “Dungeons & Robots”. You’ll find a few images below as well as the first round of details.

– Randomly generated environments
– Full control and modularity over the robot
– Different customization options
– Different dangers in dungeons
– Mages, Orcs, and Demons roam the floors
– Other creatures and traps as well
– Robots are called “Ajax”
– Need to search for artifacts in dungeons
– These increase your abilities such as health, energy, speed, damage, and defense
– Ajax have Element and Melee resistance attributes including Health and Energy Regeneration properties
– Use the GamePad to manipulate Armor, Equipment, Gems, Weapons
– Each has its own attribute system valuing Defense, Type, Boosted Stats, and Gem Slots
– Different Armor classes for your robot
– Equip 1 armor piece to a single area
– Each armor piece also has its own slot for equipping Gems
– Equipment items are broken down into groups labeled Disposables, Fountains and Turrets
– Disposable Items include usable objects like Energy Traps, Mines, or a Teleporter
– Fountains: static objects a player sets down in areas to provide support options within a certain range
– Fountains award Health and Energy
– Can also place turrets to attack enemies within range
– Items and Equipment are managed by an character’s attribute of Equipment Slots, and are specific to the character in use
– These determine how many items one player can take into Dungeons within their inventory
– Characters can’t exceed 4 slots
– Equipment Slots can be earned by leveling up to special milestones
– Single-player, co-op, and player versus player modes
– Co-op supports up to 4 players
– Each player can gain experience and loot in co-op
– PVP will support 4v4 battles
– Could even support 10v10 or a separate 10v10 game mode with larger maps
– Game may also feature a survival arena mode
– Targeted for Q1 2015
– More games set in the same universe planned

Check out the source link below for an interview with Glow Games Studio, which contains even more details.

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Nintendo briefly touched on the composers for Smash Bros. Wii U during the game’s presentation last week. Thanks to an update on the game’s website, we get a proper look at the full lineup.

First, here’s a listing of composers who worked on both versions of the new Smash Bros. games:

The following composers also specifically worked on Smash Bros. for Wii U:

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Shigeru Miyamoto attended the Tokyo International Film Festival this past weekend to debut his new Pikmin shorts. At the event, Reuters caught up with Miyamoto to discuss a number of topics.

Here’s a quick overview as to what was shared:

– Miyamoto had balked for years at requests to make films with Nintendo characters
– He warmed to the possibilities of filmmaking given technological advances

Miyamoto noting that he has no plans to shift from games to the movie business….

“I haven’t moved over. But as computer graphics have gotten better, I started to feel that it’s something that I could get involved with. Making films in the past was something that was made with a completely different skill set but now I feel that it’s rather similar.”

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Curve Studios will be bringing The Swapper to the Wii U eShop in about a week. If you plan on downloading the game, make sure you have 390MB of free space available!

The Swapper will be available in North America and Europe next Thursday.

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Diancie will be available at GameStop locations from October 27 to November 16.

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Yep – Europe gets to keep the blue cover!

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