Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed screenshots show Wreck-It Ralph
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Some retailers charging more for multiplatform titles on Wii U in the UK
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A number of UK retailers are charging more for multiplatform titles on Wii U – mainly when it comes to product from Activision, THQ, Ubisoft.
GAME, Play.com, and Amazon are among the list of sites that are asking for at least £10 more for titles such as Assassin’s Creed III, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and 007 Legends. In one specific case, GAME is asking for an extra £18 over the Xbox 360 version with purchases of Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.
Zavvi is one of the few retailers keeping pricing similar between consoles. Most of the Wii U’s games that haven’t been out on other platforms for awhile are seeing prices similar to the Xbox 360 versions.
All of this may seem a bit alarming, but there’s no need to worry. IHS Screen Digest games analysis head Piers Harding-Rolls, told CVG, “you can understand why this is happening, and historically you do see this practice with games for new consoles”.
“The higher Wii U games prices are a function of several factors. One is the wholesale price of the games, which you would expect to be relatively higher than the platforms that have been on the market for quite some time. These prices are also driven by the fact that publishers want to protect the long-term positioning of their games, so with new consoles it can be higher. Another major factor is the retailers’ margin. The question is, where do they feel they can position the pricing of the Wii U games? It’s a new platform on the market, so retailers are looking at how much a premium they can price their games at. There are other cost factors. It may be more costly to produce these games, there may be bigger licensing costs to pay to Nintendo at this stage in the cycle.”
Wii U demo units making their way to GameStop
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Best Buy isn’t the only retailer to be receiving Wii U demo units. GameStop has started to receive its own stock as well. Not every outlet will have these yet, but it doesn’t hurt to check.
21 minutes of off-screen Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Wii U footage
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Assassin’s Creed III commercials
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Over an hour of 007 Legends footage
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Vigil: Wii U easy to develop for, Montreal team worked on Darksiders II
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Vigil Games lead designer Haydn Dalton says it’s easy to develop for Wii U – “surprisingly easy”, in fact.
Dalton told Game Zone:
“Technically, it’s one of the easier platforms to develop for. We had our core game up and running on it in a very short amount of time.”
Dalton added that the team didn’t encounter any “major problems” when asked if the porting process was difficult, “other than making sure we had a dedicated team to do it justice. For a new platform, it was surprisingly easy to port it to the Wii U.”
“Initially, the base code port was tackled by our internal tech team, but as Darksiders 2 started to ramp up heavily, we handed ownership over to a separate team at THQ Montreal. The Montreal team sent us regular updates and documentation about how they were going to implement the unique elements of the Wii U’s hardware.”
Dalton wrapped up with a final, indirect remark about Darksiders 2’s gameplay and visuals on Wii U, noting that they are a “step in a different direction.”
Wii U manufacturer Foxconn admits to child employment
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Electronics maker Foxconn, the manufacturer behind the Wii U, has admitted that it employed underage children in one of its Chinese factories amid recent allegations.
Reuters reports that Foxcon “had found some interns at a plant in Yantai, in northeastern Shandong province, were under the legal working age of 16.” Some teenagers were as young as 14. It’s unclear, however, just how many children were involved.
Foxcon said in a statement:
“We recognize that full responsibility for these violations rests with our company and we have apologized to each of the students for our role in this action… it is also a violation of Foxconn policy and immediate steps have been taken to return the interns in question to their educational institutions.”
Through an unnamed Yantai government official, China’s official Xinhua news agency claims that 56 underage interns will return to school. That would encompass 2.7% of Foxconn’s workforce, which employs 1.2 million employees in total.
You can’t use adjectives on Nintendo characters in Scribblenauts Unlimited
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There will be a limitation with the use of Nintendo characters in Scribblenauts Unlimited.
Bad news for those who were hoping to transform Mario into a zombie: adjectives won’t work on the plumber, or any other Nintendo characters for that matter.
That’s disappointing news, but fans will be pleased to hear that they will be be able to interact with objects, including Nintendo-themed ones. Players can summon karts, mushrooms, and more.
Developer 5th Cell and Warner Bros. Interactive are planning on “dozens” of characters and items from the Mario and Zelda series in Scribblenauts Unlimited.
