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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 0 comments

Puyo Puyo will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Game Gear download on January 30 for 300 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Nintendo’s North American website for the Wii U VC Trial Campaign is now open. Access it here.

According to the page, the service’s seven trial games will be available for 30 cents each between the following dates:

Balloon Fight: 1/23 – 2/21
F-Zero: 2/20 – 3/2
Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream: 3/20 – 4/18
Kirby’s Adventure: 4/17 – 5/16
Super Metroid: 5/15 – 6/13
Yoshi: 6/12 – 7/11
Donkey Kong: 7/15 – 8/13

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii | 0 comments

Vigil posted a couple of art pieces on Facebook that may look familiar to Zelda fans. Take a look below:

Now let’s look at Zelda: Skyward Sword’s boxart:

The art definitely shares a few similarities!

Of the art, Vigil said on Facebook:

During the launch of Darksiders II for Wii U, we crafted tribute art around the Darksiders franchise as a tip of the hat to one of our favorite games.

We felt the community and fans of both Vigil and Darksiders should get to see these awesome pieces of work.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 0 comments

Capcom is continuing to highlight creatures from Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. The latest, Great Wroggi, is a Bird Wyvern in the game.

Great Wroggi screenshots and details are posted below, straight from Capcom-Unity.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

TOKYO, JAPAN — JANUARY 26, 2013 — Index Corporation (headquarters: Setagaya, Tokyo, CEO: Yoshimi Ogawa) has announced a collaboration with Nintendo Co., Ltd. on a new RPG for the recently launched game console, Wii U™. The collaboration was unveiled as part of the Nintendo Direct presentation on Wednesday. The title is a joint effort between the ATLUS brand and the Nintendo Fire Emblem series.

The ATLUS brand has released many popular titles including the Shin Megami Tensei series and Persona series. Recognizing the raving fan base of the Shin Megami Tensei series, and considering ATLUS brand’s commitment to high quality content and game development, the partnership is a natural fit for the two brands.

Currently, Index is earnestly proceeding with development, while Nintendo will deliver news out to the customers.

Prior to this announcement, Index had only developed and released games from its own brand, ATLUS, but this collaboration is intended to be a new step for multimedia expansion.

From this joint development, Index hopes to expand its own brand, as well as optimize the efficiency of its resource placement and increase revenue.

Source: Atlus PR

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Puddle will finally be coming out on the North American eShop next week. Developer Neko Entertainment has confirmed a January 31 release.

The wait for Puddle has been abnormally long in the US. Originally, the game launched on the European eShop for the Wii U’s launch.

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Posted on 12 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in News, Wii U, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

If you’re one of the folks waiting patiently for Zen Pinball 2, you shouldn’t have to wait much longer according to the game’s developer:

The game was supposed to come out back in December, and now the tentative release date is “January”. My guess is that it’s going to be early February though, because I don’t think they can finish it up, send it to Nintendo, get it approved, and get a release date before the end of the month. It just doesn’t seem like it’d happen!

Via Nintendo Life

Posted on 12 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in News, Wii U, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

It all sounds like technical mumbo jumbo at first– after all, why should you care about the refresh rate of a console?– but when you watch the following video you should notice a difference between the left and right images:

It’s not terribly striking, is it? I didn’t think so either, but the one on the right is using a visual refresh rate of 50Hz (standard for older PAL releases) as opposed to the NTSC standard of 60Hz. What does this mean? It means, essentially, that the European version literally runs slower (visuals and music included) than the other versions of the game because their televisions used to only refresh at a rate of 50 times per second. You notice in the video that the NTSC player gets much farther much faster than the PAL player– that’s due to the PAL version’s slowdown.

It also apparently makes the image slightly blurrier and more compressed looking… apparently. Someone should capture it in full HD so I can decide whether that is worth getting up in arms about or not!

Via Eurogamer

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii | 0 comments

The following Rock Band Music Store songs will be made available on January 29:

• Aerosmith – “Walk This Way”
• Aerosmith – “Sweet Emotion” – Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions available for 100 Wii Points
• Aerosmith – “Back in the Saddle”
• Aerosmith – “Dream On (Live)” – keyboard support, Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions available for 100 Wii Points
• Aerosmith – “Legendary Child”
• Aerosmith – “Lover Alot”

Each song can be purchased for 200 Wii Points.

Source: Harmonix PR