Wii U Tour Gives Chicago Residents Hands-On Time with the Hottest Nintendo Games
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Second-Screen Gaming Takes Center Stage
–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Nintendo:
WHAT:
Nintendo is bringing its Wii U console to Navy Pier in Chicago as part of a six-city tour to give people a chance to experience second-screen gaming for themselves. The tour is free and open to the public, and will include hands-on time with a wide selection of Wii U games, including Pikmin™3, The Wonderful 101™, The Legend of Zelda™: The Wind Waker™HD, Nintendo Land™, New Super Mario Bros.™U, LEGO®City Undercover, Resident Evil Revelations from Capcom and Injustice: Gods Among Us from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. (Playable games may vary by location.)
Visitors will be able to play all these Wii U games in a comfortable, living room setting surrounded by backdrops of some of Nintendo’s most beloved characters. Visitors can even pose for pictures with props from various Nintendo franchises and Tweet photos of the event with a unique hashtag to receive a special gift while supplies last.
Angry Birds Trilogy out for Wii U and Wii in August
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Angry Birds Trilogy will be heading to Wii U and Wii on August 13, Rovio has confirmed. It previously launched for the 3DS, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 last September.
Three Angry Birds games are included in the Angry Birds Trilogy: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, and Angry Birds Rio.
NoA says its hardware is best fit for its software, Wii U has the edge with second-screen experiences, Wind Waker a good GamePad showcase
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Nintendo is both a hardware manufacture and software producer. Some say that the Big N should simply drop the hardware-side of things, but Nintendo of America senior director of corporate communications Charlie Scibetta says that the company’s titles are best suited on its own consoles because its “hardware is the best way to bring software to life.”
“Nintendo systems come to life the best when the hardware and software work in perfect harmony. That’s why we’re still in the hardware business, because we think our hardware is the best way to bring software to life.”
“It’s tuned perfectly for that. When Mario bounces from mushroom to mushroom, it feels so responsive because the software has been tuned especially for that hardware.”
Activision wants Nintendo to be successful when it comes to Wii U
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Activision wants Nintendo to do well. Speaking with GamesIndustry, Activision Publishing boss Eric Hirshberg said that the company has “a vested interest in making them successful.”
Hirshberg’s comments came in response to a question about Activision’s support in light of struggling Wii U sales.
He responded:
“I don’t think we’re slower to move (on new platforms); we’re a very choiceful company. We’re very choiceful in the number of titles we make. We scrutinize opportunities very carefully, and when we go into them we go big. And I think that’s been part of the formula for our success. We were there with a lot support for the Wii U at launch with a Call of Duty game, with a Skylanders game and with several other titles. We want to see Nintendo be successful and we want to do anything we can to help them be successful. Obviously the Wii U is struggling – that’s not a secret, I don’t think there’s any other way to read the narrative right now – but they’re a really good company and they’ve got some incredible IP that has yet to come, that they honed for that platform. We have a vested interest in making them successful.”
Video: Conan O’Brien checks out Mario Kart 8, meets Charles Martinet
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Nintendo stuff is towards the end of the video. There’s also a bit at the beginning of Conan with the Bayonetta 2 cosplayer.
Disney Infinity “Toy Box World Creation” video
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F1 Race Stars Powered Up Edition not releasing on European eShop this week
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Despite what was listed in the official European Nintendo Downloads press release, F1 Race Stars Powered Up Edition will not be releasing on the Wii U eShop this week. Codemasters, the game’s official developer and publisher, confirmed the news. The company hopes to ”confirm timings for F1 Race Stars very shortly”.
Pikmin 3 introduction video
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Miiverse character limit rises to 200
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When the Wii U launched, Miiverse users could only write messages up to 100 characters in length. That limit has been increased with a new update to the social network today. Going forward, all Miiverse members can create notes that are up to 200 characters long.
Sakurai says Villager was scrapped from Brawl, talks about choosing Smash Bros. character
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Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai revealed an interesting nugget about the Animal Crossing Villager in his Famitsu column posted this week.
According to Sakurai, the character was previously considered for Brawl. However, he was removed “in the planning stages because he wasn’t suited for battle.”
“A lot of people understood Mega Man, but they kept asking me ‘Why did you go for the villager and the Wii Fit trainer?’, Neither of them are fighting characters, certainly. In fact, we had previously removed the villager from Super Smash Bros. Brawl in the planning stages because he wasn’t suited for battle.”
