One Piece: Romance Dawn – North American launch trailer
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Nintendo Minute: Mario Kart 64
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Newegg selling Zelda: Wind Waker HD Wii U bundle with The Wonderful 101 and Ninja Gaiden for $270 on eBay
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Newegg is offering one heck of a deal on eBay.
For $269.99, you can receive The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD Wii U bundle, The Wonderful 101, and Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge. You’ll be saving $80 with a purchase.
You can place an order for the bundle here.
Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians details
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Over on Kickstarter, Playdek shared several new details for Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians. A roundup of the latest information can be found below.
- State of game: Got a good story basis; building the battle system right now
- High or low fantasy? Playdek are fans of high-fantasy, but exact level of fantasy not final yet and still being decided
- How many classes in the final game? So far six classes and six professions revealed; leaving it open for Yasumi Matsuno’s design in full game
- Leaning toward visual character customization using equipment
- Undecided on permadeath so far; will decide later
- Game will include a mix of rendered and in-game cutscenes
- First user-end tool being created is the map editor; leaving option for other user tools open; will figure it out later
- Matsuno is reviewing fan suggestions and design ideas for the game
New Call of Duty: Ghosts title update in the works for Wii U
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Treyarch is working on a new title update for Call of Duty: Ghosts on Wii U. Although we don’t have any details about the patch (including an ETA), we do at least know it’s coming.
Treyarch’s “A_Trey_U” confirmed on Twitter yesterday:
Also working on a new patch. No ETA yet, but I'll update once we know.
— A_Trey_U (@A_Trey_U) January 30, 2014
NES Open Tournament Golf hitting the European Wii U Virtual Console next week
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According to a listing on Nintendo of Europe’s site, NES Open Tournament Golf will be launching on the European Wii U eShop next week. The game will be available as a Virtual Console download starting on February 6. Pricing is set at €4.99 / £4.49.
Sony confirms acquisition of Japanese factory producing Wii U’s eDRAM
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Sony has officially announced its acquisition of a Japanese factory operated by Renesas Electronics, the plant which produces Wii U’s embedded DRAM. Going forward, the factory will be known as the Yamagata Technology Center under Sony Semiconductor Corp.
Renesas will need to transfer its Tsuruoka assets to Sony by March 31. Sony Semiconductor Corp. will still produce some semiconductors (which may include Wii U’s eDRAM chip) “for a certain period of time,” but will eventually move manufacturing to its Naka plant or completely cease production.
Iwata on Nintendo’s poor financial performance, “should abandon old assumptions about our businesses”, M&A possible, more
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Nikkei has published another interview with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, this time in English. Iwata spoke about Nintendo’s poor financial performance as of late, those who are concerned about the company’s business operations going forward, and more.
Iwata also mentioned the need to “abandon old assumptions about our businesses”. This includes M&As (mergers and acquisitions), he said.
Head past the break for Iwata’s comments in full.
