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Nintendo Direct Mini Reveals Wii U and Nintendo 3DS Updates

REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– At long last, Super NES classic EarthBound is now available as a Virtual Console game in the Nintendo eShop for Wii U for $9.99. Nintendo announced its availability during today’s Nintendo Direct Mini video. Nintendo also revealed that Nintendo Zone locations will be getting StreetPass enhancements to let players connect with one another, and reminded people about this weekend’s Pikmin 3 demo program at select GameStop and EB Games stores.

“Not only do Wii U owners have a big lineup of great games on the way like Pikmin 3 and The Wonderful 101, but they also have access to Virtual Console classics like EarthBound,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “If you haven’t already, this is a great time to jump into the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U experience.”

To view the Nintendo Direct Mini in its entirety, visit http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct.

Information in today’s Nintendo Direct Mini included:

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The Rayman Legends development team found great joy in working with Wii U. Michel Ancel recently told gamereactor.es that “the main excitement that we had for that particular game was working on the Wii U, working with Nintendo.” And so when the higher-ups at Ubisoft decided to delay the game for additional versions, an opportunity was taken to add even more content.

Ancel said:

When the Wii U version was finished could have said ‘stop the Wii U version and only develop content for Xbox 360 and PS3. But the message was ‘we will continue to Wii U, adding content to Wii U’, and the main excitement that we had for that particular game was working on the Wii U, working with Nintendo. Work with development kits, discovering the Wii U… so we went with that positive energy to the end.

Also also commented on the Wii U in general and spoke about how the system’s messaging isn’t easy for everyone to pick up on:

The thing with the Wii U is that is not easy for the mass market to understand what’s cool inside of it.
I see it at home, when people say ‘look, we have that console, it has a touch screen (which looks like a big smartphone or a tablet)’ … and people don’t directly connect all these things as a system and see the fun… it takes time… That is the risk when you innovate: perhaps people are not as fast as you.

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This month’s GamesTM review scores are as follows:

Pikmin 3 – 9
Company of Heroes 2 – 8
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros. – 8
Dust 514 – 5
Marvel Heroes – 4
Gunpoint – 8
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons – 8
New Super Luigi U – 7
Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler – 8
State of Decay – 7
The Swapper – 9
Sorcery! – 8
Game & Wario – 6

Thanks to joclo for the tip.

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A member of the SSMB forums has come across new screenshots from Sonic Lost World showing a brand new casino-themed area. You can find the images in the gallery above.

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Last week it was revealed that Nintendo would be attending GDC Europe for the first time. The company’s two panels for the event have now been confirmed as well.

The first is the “Nintendo Wii U Application Development with HTML and JavaScript” panel, which “will introduce a new way of rapidly developing Wii U applications that takes full advantage of unique Wii U features while reducing development times significantly.” The other, titled “Unity, Wii U and You”, will delve into Nintendo’s partnership with Unity for Wii U.

You can find more details about the panels here and here.

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D3Publisher is releasing Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW! and Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby In 8-Bit Land in North America. Thankfully, a separate company has picked up on the games’ European distribution.

It was announced today that Namco Bandai will be publishing the new Adventure Time and Regular Show titles across Europe (and Australasia). A release is planned for the fall.

Namco Bandai Games Europe senior vice-president Oliver Comte said:

“We are very excited to extend our partnership with Turner CN Enterprises, via our sister company D3Publisher, with two exciting titles based on the famous Cartoon Network animated shows, Adventure Time and Regular Show. Following the success of these two TV shows, we are delighted to bring truly authentic video game experiences to Europe and Australasia that will please fans of all ages.”

Source: Namco Bandai PR