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Soraya Saga recently retweeted Nintendo’s Japanese E3 Nintendo Direct message. For those who are unaware, Saga is Tetsuya Takahashi’s wife – one of the leading staffers on “X”.

The last time Saga retweeted Nintendo Direct news, “X” made its first appearance – that was at the end of the January presentation. Could the anticipated Wii U game be appearing on the upcoming broadcast?

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Aside from Ubisoft, you could say that Warner Bros. has been the Wii U’s biggest supporter. The company came out with Batman: Arkham City and Scribblenauts Unlimited at launch, and has other significant titles on the way such as Batman: Arkham Origins, Scribblenauts Unmasked, and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. Plus, Warner Bros. also recently released Injustice: Gods Among Us and LEGO Batman 2 for the console.

One Warner Bros. game that won’t be hitting Wii U is “Dying Light” from Dead Island developer Techland. It was announced for both current-gen and next-gen consoles yesterday, but it has since been confirmed that there are no plans for a Wii U version.

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Perhaps due to the negative reception of the Xbox One, Wii U sales have seen a huge sales increase on Amazon UK.

Prior to Microsoft’s announcement, the Wii U was slumping at the 390th position. It has since climbed to the 40th position with an 875 percent increase.

Are the boost in Wii U sales related to the Xbox One? I’m not ready to draw any conclusions, but the significant increase is certainly interesting.

Thanks to KIDNINTENDO for the tip.

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Activision made the next-generation version of Call of Duty: Ghosts official this week when the game was unveiled at Microsoft’s Xbox One announcement event. Infinity Ward later confirmed Ghosts for the PlayStation 4 as well. That leaves Wii U as the only console without a confirmation that the shooter is on the way.

We had hoped that Activision may have something new to share about Ghosts for Wii U now that next-gen versions are out in the open. Sadly, that’s not the case. When asked about any news of a Wii U version, the company told us that it doesn’t have “anything more to announce about Ghosts at this time.”

I still have a feeling that Ghosts will be on Wii U, but the fact that we can’t get a straight answer is maddening.

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Neko Entertainment has a new game lined up for the Wii U and 3DS: The Mysterious Cities of Gold.

Perhaps that name sounds familiar to some of you. The project is based on the same French/Japanese animated series that originally aired in the 1980s.

Only a few details about the game are known at present. Players will be able to switch between the heroes Esteban, Zia and Tao, and areas will be shown from a top-down perspective.

The Mysterious Cities of Gold will be available this fall.

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Earlier today, EA announced the next entry in the Need for Speed franchise – Need for Speed: Rivals. Unfortunately, there are no plans to bring the game to the Wii U at this time.

Ghost Games’ founder and Rivals producer Marcus Nilsson told Eurogamer that “Frostbite is not really set up for Wii U.” EA confirmed in its announcement that the racer is being built on the Frostbite 3 engine.

“Yeah, Frostbite is not really set up for Wii U. I don’t have all the information, so it wouldn’t be right for me to speak about it. Frostbite 3 is a really capable engine, it’s scalable and it gives us a big advantage on the next generation to support the Xbox One and the PS4, but it’s not being developed on the Wii U.”

A shame that we won’t be seeing this one on Wii U. You could argue that Most Wanted was best on Nintendo’s system last year out of all console versions, so it would have been nice to see how Rivals turned out.

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SEGA released a new teaser image for Sonic Lost World on its Facebook page today. In addition to the photo above, the following message was posted:

“Six will rise from the Lost World. Are they friends or foes? Find out on May 29th.”

Sonic Lost World should also be covered heavily on the next Nintendo Direct.

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Nintendo’s next Nintendo Direct, planned for E3 time, has been set. The presentation will be streamed on June 11 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET.

A tweet from Nintendo confirms:

A press release from Nintendo says that the Direct “will provide updates about future Wii U games”.

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