The Wii U and 3DS weren’t a part of the Pro Pinball: Timeshock! Kickstarter campaign, but the game’s developer was still hoping to make versions for both platforms. Now that the project has officially secured funding, Nintendo releases should be much more possible. The Kickstarter reached the £40,000 goal earlier today with eight days remaining.

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A look at the Patricia Wagon officer costume in Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

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Shantae: Half-Genie Hero will allow players to customize the game’s belly-dancing protagonist in a number of ways, including the use of costumes. One such outfit was revealed today: Patricia Wagon’s officer garb from Mighty Switch Force.

WayForward’s Matt Bozon shared a first image of Shantae in the new costume today:

COSTUME REVEALED! Who's dares to impersonate an officer in Shantae: Half-Genie Hero!? http://t.co/Q5tZQfBvMy pic.twitter.com/TOoSznxRYv
— Matt Bozon (@MrBozon) September 5, 2013

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CommanderVideo to be playable in 1001 Spikes

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1001 Spikes will feature a tie-in from another indie series. On Twitter, the official Bit.Trip account confirmed that CommanderVideo will be playable in the upcoming title.

The message in full reads:

CommanderVideo is going to be a playable character in 1,001 Spikes! Need proof? Check out this video: http://t.co/ICM9x2Q15h
— CommanderVideo (@BitTrip) September 5, 2013

You can find multiplayer footage of 1001 Spikes above, including a look at CommanderVideo.

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Percy’s Predicament in lotcheck, should be out this month for $4.99

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Wii U owners should have another eShop game to look forward to this month. Emily Rogers, who has rather good relations with indie developers, wrote on Twitter a short while ago that Percy’s Predicament is in lotcheck after being submitted to Nintendo. If all goes well, it’ll be out this month for $4.99.

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Armillo could have been without its platforming stages, Fuzzy Wuzzy talks about visual changes

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Armillo’s initial prototypes and designs were quite different than the final product.

First, when it comes to gameplay, developer Fuzzy Wuzzy Games wrote on Twitter that the platforming stages were “actually almost cut.”

The platformer stages in Armillo was actually almost cut. It went through different prototypes and feedback stages until the current design.
— Fuzzy Wuzzy Games (@FuzzyWuzzyGames) September 5, 2013

Fuzzy Wuzzy also commented on some of the visual ideas the team originally had in mind:

Visually, it changed a lot. It went from voxel-like 2D style to regular art style to 8bit/NES palette, then to the current electric style.
— Fuzzy Wuzzy Games (@FuzzyWuzzyGames) September 5, 2013

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Video: Keiji Inafune’s full PAX Prime 2013 panel, including Mighty No. 9 reveal

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Say goodbye to the Rayman Legends Challenges App

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Rayman Legends Challenges App was Ubisoft’s way to tide over Wii U fans who had been waiting patiently for the full game. When it launched, the company said that the service would be shutting down once the full game arrived.

That day has now come, and the Rayman Legends Challenges App is a thing of the past. As of yesterday, it went out of service. Challenges are still a thing in the full Rayman Legends experience though, so you can still get in your daily dose of entertainment.

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Sword ‘N’ Board confirmed for Wii U

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Sword ‘N’ Board

Sword ‘N’ Board, a new “puzzle oriented adventure RPG” that just secured funding on Kickstarter, will be coming to Wii U. Creator Robert Busey shared the news in an update last week, in which he wrote:

So, after a few weeks of going through things, getting access to a Wii U Dev kit, and Scirra the creator of the Engine that Sword ‘N’ Board is built in announcing a Wii U exporter I decided to contact Dan Adelman at Nintendo at the urging of Antonio Garcia, and see what all was involved in becoming a Wii U dev.
As it turns out It’s incredibly simple as Nintendo is really making it incredibly easy to become a Wii U developer!
So it is official! Sword ‘N’ Board will be coming to the Wii U!
I’ve been a Nintendo fan my entire life, and this is incredibly exciting and a dream come true, to have a game on a Nintendo platform!

You can find a bunch of details about Snow ‘N’ Board over at the official Kickstarter page.

Inafune says Mighty No. 9 would win in a fight against Mega Man, both franchises can co-exist

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Mighty No. 9 and Mega Man are two similar characters. Both are robots. Both are from creator Keiji Inafune. Who’d he pick in a fight?

That would be Mighty No. 9, as he explained to Kotaku:

“Unfortunately Mega Man is an older robot and uses the older parts. A little bit too old school. I don’t know if he would be able to compete with the newer, shinier version of Beck.”

Continuing on the topic of similarity, Mighty No. 9 and Mega Man offer comparable gameplay elements, but Inafune feels both franchises can co-exist.

“Yeah. If the question is just, ‘Can they exist as two different franchises at the same time?’ then my answer is yes, of course. Capcom should be doing things with the Mega Man franchise just like we are with this original game.”

“Ultimately, it would be great for the fans because then they would be able to play even double the content that they otherwise could,” he continued. “So, in this perspective, yes, please, let both games exist.”

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