Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 12 Comments

The Humble Nindie Bundle offer has now come to an end. All in all, it did quite well.

Just before the bundle offer ended and the main page refreshed, I noticed that nearly 82,500 digital packages were sold. Additionally, the average price paid came in at $9.18. Based on that information, the Humble Nindie Bundle should have generated somewhere around $750,000.

Nintendo of America’s Damon Baker was the top contributor with $500. PlayEveryWare came in second with $225, followed by Choice Provisions at $200.

You could say that this initiative was a success, so hopefully we’ll see more Humble Nindie Bundles in the future.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

ZeNfA Productions announced today that the new patch for ZaciSa’s Last Stand is due out this Thursday in North America. The update will bring the game up to version 1.2.

ZaciSa’s Last Stand’s latest patch adds a whole bunch of content and makes a number of changes. The full outline is posted below, along with a trailer.

• 60 FPS Gameplay and other major game improvements.
• 4 Brand New Maps
  • PING 1.5+ – Indie Cross-over Map featuring PING 1.5+
  • BLOK DROP U – Indie Cross-over Map featuring BLOK DROP U
  • GAF – Fun extra map. Be sure to upgrade to GAF GOLD!
  • Pollux System – Defend your outpost station orbiting the Pollux Star. Watch out for those solar flares!
• New Game Mode: Insanity Mode
  • Focusing the game on speed and the chaos it brings,the mode starts out with faster enemies and more enemies to keep up with. Designed with chaos in mind, each level features a random Special Event that can either help you or harm you. This Special Event can help you, such as enemies for that level having reduced health or enemies giving you double the money or score points. Or, this can possibly sink you with enemies moving at much faster speeds or the dreaded Double or Triple Enemy Spawns to overwhelm you. How lucky are you?
• Online Leaderboards
  • All maps will now have Online Leaderboards for each of the following Modes: Hard, Insanity & Endurance.
  • Can you crack the top 100?
• Top Five Average!
  • Another new Online Leaderboard feature is the Top Five Average! This new ranked feature will take your top 5 Online Scores in each of the eligible modes (Hard, Insanity & Endurance), combine them and average them to get your new score. This combined score will be ranked among others in each of the modes mentioned. Allowing for a new way to face off against your friends and strangers across the world!
• Miiverse Posting
  • Want to show off your brand new score on any of the maps? Use the new Mivierse Post button to post to Miiverse! Will automatically attack a screenshot of your game’s map last second before total destruction to show off your strategy.
• New Weapon Bot: Tesla Coil Bot
  • Brand new high level bot that zaps at enemies quickly and forms chains to reach enemies well beyond its range. As you increase its chain ability, this will become a very powerful new weapon to unleash on your enemies.
• 2 New Enemies
  • Not to be outdone, the enemy has some brand new tricks up it’s sleeves. These brand new enemies are featured later in the game to help ensure their universal dominance.
  • Spe’d Bug: A fast little ship that does little damage but is capable at moving fast and is a pro at cutting through your defenses like butter.
  • The Destroyer 2.0: The mothership. Even though it’s very slow, its capable of doing a lot of damage to your bases. Better watch out, as it will spawn brand new enemies to distract you.
• 5X Game Speed
  • Want to watch each level fly by? Well, now you can. This will allow you to reach higher levels even quicker then before. Due to the chaos in Insanity Mode, 5X Game Speed is omitted however.
• GulAtiCa Bank Loans
  • Need a little extra pick-me-up? GulAtiCa’s Services are here to help! For a small service charge of course. Take out a new loan to help fight off those nasty evildoers. While a loan is active, rewarded money & score from enemies is reduced until the loan is paid off. Once the loan is paid off automatically or manually in advance, things will return to normal. Better pay off that loan before gameover though!
• Other various game improvements and changes.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment

The ESRB rating for Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town has been updated with an additional platform.
Unsurprisingly, that system is Wii U.

Natsume has a whole bunch of GBA games lined up for the Wii U Virtual Console, and Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town should be one of them. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this was one of the Virtual Console titles in North America this week.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures has been rated in Australia. Given similar ratings in the past, this should be a sign of an eventual Virtual Console release. Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures originally hit the SNES (and SEGA Genesis), so it should wind up on the Wii U eShop.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, Videos, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Image & Form put out another Q&A video on its YouTube channel today. Once again, we get to hear all about SteamWorld Heist. The studio commented on its E3 plans, the game’s story, development team, and more. View the Q&A video below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 3 Comments

Pencil Test Studios prepared another Armikrog trailer today. You can watch it below.

We don’t know when Armikrog is coming to Wii U, but it’s now confirmed for August 18 on PC, Mac, and Linux. Hopefully the eShop version won’t be too far behind!

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop | 11 Comments

The Wii U is getting another blockworld game at some point in the future, as developer Noowanda has confirmed plans to bring “Discovery” to the eShop.

Just like in Minecraft, Discovery allows players to explore a giant world – one of which that is made of blocks and can be me modified. It’s possible to create a house, villages, cities, constructions or dig deep under the earth.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 2 Comments

Art Academy: Home Studio has a built-in time lapse function. You can see it in action through the video below.

Head past the break for another couple of videos!

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Pencil Test Studios shared a new trailer for Armikrog today that shows a bunch of new footage. While the pre-order aspect doesn’t apply to Wii U, we do have a rather extensive look at the game. Check it out below.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Wii U eShop | 1 Comment

Now that Tic Toc Games has wrapped up development on Adventures of Pip, fans of the game are starting to wonder what the studio might work on next. Two possibilities exist: the studio could either develop something like a sequel to that title, or create something entirely new. Tic Toc Games definitely appears to be open to either option.

When asked by Hardcore Gamer if Tic Toc Games has an idea already planned for a new game, CEO Shereef Morse said:

Oh, we have so many. Honestly we have a lot of IP we want to explore next, and we’ve actually been a little gridlocked here as to what to green-light next, because we’re so focused on getting Pip out. And you know, we have all these great ideas in incubation, but for now we’re 100% Pip. We’re really just making sure that all goes smoothly. But after that, one of the things we talk about is “Is there an evolution to Pip?”, and the next version of Pip, you know. Maybe a sequel? But then we have all these other cool characters we want to bring onto consoles as well, and we really just have to decide what to go after next. But right now we just want to make sure this one’s done right and 100%.

Adventures of Pip just launched on the North American Wii U eShop last Thursday. There are plans to have it arrive in Europe as well, but a date has not been determined just yet.

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