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Nintendo’s IPs are fairly well-represented in Tekken Tag Tournament 2: Wii U Edition. There are various costumes from the Mario, Zelda, Star Fox, and Metroid franchises.

In case you were wondering though, there won’t be any Kirby costumes. Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada confirmed the news, but also teased that more costumes will be shown in the near future.

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San Francisco, CA – September 19, 2012 – Unity Technologies (http://unity3d.com/), provider of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools, announced that it has entered into a worldwide license agreement with Nintendo to provide a version of Unity which supports deployment to the Wii U™ to Nintendo and third-party developers as well as Unity’s 1.2 million registered developers.

This extensive agreement will provide Nintendo the right to distribute the Unity development platform to its in-house, external, and third party licensee developers providing the large number ofartists, designers, and engineers intimately familiar with Nintendo gaming systems direct access to Unity’s powerful engine and highly efficient tools that have been specifically designed to enable developers immense creative freedom.

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Amazon’s position on selling Nintendo hardware in the US has been well-documented. It boils down to the fact that the retailer wasn’t selling the 3DS and wasn’t offering the 3DS XL for a long while either. Amazon’s US division also has nothing to do with the sale of Wii U hardware.

Unsurprisingly, Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime isn’t willing to discuss the relationship between the two companies.

He only told Kotaku the following:

“We don’t talk about our specific business practices with individual retailers, and so you’re not going to get any more information from me specific to Amazon or any of our different retail partners. What I can tell you is they are selling software, and [there] are resellers that are on the site selling hardware as well, but you’re right: Amazon as a direct sale company currently does not sell Nintendo hardware.”

Reggie was pressed further, and was asked if there are plans to change the situation. Again though, he wouldn’t comment.

Amazon was additionally asked for some perspective on the situation, but thus far the company hasn’t replied.

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Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing will be available alongside the launch of Wii U, SEGA has confirmed.

The console itself is due out in just a couple of months. European consumers can grab the hardware on November 30.

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Wow, talk about high praise! It’s understandable that a developer exclusive to a platform (at least for the time being) would sing some sort of praise for the console they’re developing on, but rarely do you hear such kind words. This comes from ZombiU creative director Jean-Phillipe Caro…

“We never wanted to reinvent any genre but the fact that is when we decided to change from Killer Freaks to ZombiU we had to rethink what we were going to do. What we have done is talk about old games, old movies, comics – what we like in life about zombies. You have a galaxy of zombie games, movies, comics – the genre is almost dead. People are saying always: the zombie genre is dead. We are not reinventing, we are recycling. What we wanted to do is not a revolution of the survival horror game but what we like is the survival aspect while the horror is part of the zombie thing.”

“I think we are making something fresh with the most innovative console. The Wii U is the most innovate system for the moment on Earth. We didn’t have to make a big innovation on our side – it was all here on the system so that was easier for us.”

I gotta admit, these guys at Ubisoft have really won me over in the last couple of days! Looks like it’s time to lay down my preorder.

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Remember Keiji Inafune’s ninja/zombie title, Yaiba? As it turns out, the game is a new Ninja Gaiden spin-off.

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is being made by Comcept, Team Ninja and Spark Unlimited. It involves action, ninja, and mecha elements. Z’s main character, “Yaiba”, is trying to track down Ryu Hayabusa.

Inafune told Tecmo Koei’s TGS conference attendees that he’s very interested in creating this title and hopes to use Ninja Gaiden Z as an example that the Japanese industry is alive and well despite what he said a few years ago.

Inafune didn’t say when Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z can be expected. Specific platforms haven’t been confirmed, but it will release on consoles.

So why are we mentioning the game here? Well, it sounds like the Wii U could be considered as one of the project’s platforms. Seeing as how Team Ninja and Tecmo Koei have a fairly strong relationship, I’d be surprised if this one didn’t end up on the system.

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