Video: “The Actors Behind Splinter Cell Blacklist” – Fan Expo Canada 2013
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The Wonderful 101 “Multiplayer Mode” and “Unite Morphs” videos
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Dragon Quest X “2nd Package” to be revealed at TGS 2013
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Square Enix is working on the first major expansion for Dragon Quest X known as “2nd Package”. We do know that it will be available at retail and as a download, and will offer new story elements, jobs, crafts, maps, systems, and more. A proper unveiling will take place at the Tokyo Game Show later this month.
New Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know! screenshots
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New Disney Infinity accessories releasing on November 26?
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New Disney Infinity accessories could be launching on November 26. Polygon discovered listings over at the Disney Store and Toys R Us for the $4.99 Disney Infinity Power Disc Pack – Series 2 (including a round and hexagonal disc) and $30.99 Frozen Toy Box pack, based on the upcoming animated film. The November 26 date, while plausible, hasn’t been confirmed at this time.
Square Enix’s TGS 2013 site now live
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Square Enix’s official TGS 2013 website is now live. The page confirms most of the games that we heard about previously, but with a couple of additions like Bravely Default: For the Sequel and Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure.
Square Enix will be hosting a number of live stage events for Dragon Quest X, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. A talk event with composers is also planned, featuring Kenji Ito, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Yoko Shimomura.
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U screenshot (9/3/13)
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Bethesda says it’s too late for Nintendo to convince third-parties to support Wii U, should have had companies involved earlier
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Not much seems to have changed in terms of Bethesda’s stance on Wii U. The publisher still has no plans to support the console, but Bethesda’s Peter Hines had even more to say about Nintendo on a recent episode of GameTrailers’ Bonus Round.
Hines feels that the Big N should have adopted Sony and Microsoft’s approach of reaching out to developers before launching a new console. Developers and publishers have often spoke about how they were able to shape the outcome of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One specs and hardware.
Hines’ words in full:
The time for convincing publishers and developers to support Wii U has long past. The box is out. You have to do what Sony and Microsoft have been doing with us for a long time and it’s not that every time we met with them we got all the answers we wanted. But they involved us very early on, and talking to folks like Bethesda and Gearbox, they say ‘here’s what we’re doing, here’s what we’re planning, here’s how we think it’s going to work’ to hear what we thought – from our tech guys and from an experience standpoint.
You have to spend an unbelievable amount of time upfront doing that. If you’re just going sort off deciding ‘we’re going to make a box and this is how it works and you should make games for it.’ Well, no. No is my answer, I’m going to focus on other ones that better support what it is we’re trying to do. So you’ve gotta spend more time trying to reach out to those folks before you even make the box, when you’re still designing and thinking about how it’s going to work
Europe’s 2013 top 20 half-year chart, top 10 publishers
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GamesMarkt’s latest issue contains a report on Europe’s best-selling games of 2013 in the first half of the year, courtesy of data collected by Media Control GfK International GmbH. Sales from a total of twenty countries including the UK, France, Spain, and Germany were taken into account.
Below are the results:
GamesMarkt also shared a listing of the top ten publishers based on software market share:
01. (=) Electronic Arts – 17,25% (-2,14%)
02. (?) Nintendo – 11,82% (+0,50%)
03. (?) Activision Blizzard – 11,51% (-1,79%)
04. (?) Sony CEE – 8,78% (+2,37%)
05. (?) Ubisoft – 8,54% (+0,67%)
06. (=) Take-Two Int. – 5,07% (+0,51%)
07. (?) Square Enix – 5,02% (k.v.m.)
08. (=) Namco Bandai – 4,22% (+0,60%)
09. (?) Microsoft – 4,11% (-0,18%)
10. (?) Warnet Interact. – 2,77% (k.vm.)
Kamiya willing to field tweets about potential Wonderful 101 sequel
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The Wonderful 101 director Hideki Kamiya has expressed on more than one occasion that he’d love to make a sequel to the Wii U game. Generally speaking, developers use cut ideas from the first title when creating a follow-up for a new IP, but in the case of The Wonderful 101, the team used up everything.
That’s where the fans come in. Hideki Kamiya is interested in fielding ideas and suggestions for super heroes to join the cast in a potential sequel.
Twitter is the best (and only) way to get in touch with Kamiya. You can tweet at him here.