Disney Infinity 2.0 – Spider-Man Play Set trailer
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Big Red Button explains how the Sonic Boom games tie in with the TV show
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Sonic Boom is more than a game. In addition to the Wii U and 3DS titles, SEGA is also planning a TV show and even a line of toys.
Big Red Button CEO Bob Rafei recently explained to Siliconera how the games tie into the TV show. He told the site:
“The whole point of the Sonic Boom approach is to have a consistent brand and a consistent approach for the transmedia play. The transmedia play is the toy series, the games 3DS and Wii U, and the TV shows. From a character approach, from a writing approach they are the same characters living in the same universe. This world that has a backstory with the ancients and the main villain which we will introduce at E3, that is where the TV show also lives in. In terms of how they relate to each other, the villain starts to process and introduces the TV show.”
“The TV show is a situational comedy. They have a different format for the medium. They have, I think it is, 52 different eleven minute episodes where the world has to reset because when it’s played in syndication you don’t know which order they will be played in.”
“[Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric] is a classic adventure storyline which has a beginning where something is the inciting incident that sets them on their adventure and they progressively go through the world and the stakes are raised until they defeat the villain at the end. That kind of format is very difficult to tell in an eleven minute episode especially when the priorities are the humor. For us, it was gameplay, character mechanics, and then narrative. For them it was narrative as primary, the jokes as primary and secondary is action.”
Zelda, Midna playable in Hyrule Warriors
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Information leaking out of this week’s Famitsu confirms new playable characters for Hyrule Warriors. Princess Zelda will be included on the roster, as will Midna from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Zelda appears to come equipped with a sword made with magic, and a bow can come into play as well. Meanwhile, Midna fights by using her hair and summoning the wolf of a shadow produced by magic.
Famitsu also touches on other things such as how King Dodongo and Lizalfos are in Hyrule Warriors. There’s also multiplayer with one person playing on the GamePad while the other plays on the TV.
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Ubisoft’s mystery Wii U title is mainly for “families and friends”
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Just to follow up on our last post, we have a tiny bit of additional information about the title Ubisoft is holding back on for Wii U. CEO Yves Guillemot, speaking with Geoff Keighly for Spike’s E3 All Access Show, said it’s mainly targeted more towards “families and friends.”
He stated:
“What we have this year is two games. We have as you said Watch Dogs but we also have Just Dance. And we have another one we didn’t speak about yet. It will come. Just for Wii U… but it’s more for families, families and friends.”
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Ubisoft on its declining Wii U support, has a game done but frozen for the console, more
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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has spoken about the company’s declining support for Wii U as part of an interview with Polygon. You’ll find his comments below.
“We did adapt the number of products to the level of quantities that the machine did. So we will have Just Dance again which is well suited for the machine. We’ll have Watch Dogs. We have another couple of products that we are waiting to launch, specifically we have one game that we wait for the machine to be more mass market to launch.”
“We don’t have a number. We need the sales to increase so it becomes more and more mass market then we will have the volume that will justify massive marketing and TV marketing.”
“I hope so. We have a game that has been done for six months. It’s on the shelf, waiting for more families to have the console.”
“I think it (ZombiU) was so adapted to the Wii U so (bringing it to another platform) would be difficult to do. Maybe it will come to other platforms, but not as a full game. It was really developed for that type of machine.”
“Nintendo is really coming up with fantastic games,” he said. “They could, with the right price and very good games, help the machine start selling.”
“It could never come out. It could come out on another format… ”
“I think we have to wait for Smash Bros. to come. Smash Bros has always been a big, big property for Nintendo and for gamers. And we all know that there are lots of Nintendo fans that are waiting for big games to come. We know they are coming. We don’t know if they will still be there. I think when I speak with the fans that come to E3 90 percent of them are crazy Nintendo fans. They really love Nintendo and the games they do.”
On another note, Guillemot officially confirmed that Watch Dogs is coming to Wii U in November.
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Lots of Just Dance 2015 footage
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Just Dance 2015 coming to Wii U
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Ubisoft does have something planned for Wii U after all. During its E3 presser – currently ongoing – the company announced the latest Just Dance game, Just Dance 2015. The game will be released this October.
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LEGO Batman 3 gameplay sneak peak
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Activision’s E3 2014 lineup
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Activision has made its E3 2014 lineup official. In total, the publisher will have three games on hand: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Destiny, and Skylanders Trap Team.
The latter two titles will be playable at Activision’s booth, located in the South Hall (booth #1647).
Overviews of each game can be found below.
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UK software sales (Week ending 6/7) – Wii U/3DS charts
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Wii U
- Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo
- Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo
- Sports Connection – Ubisoft
- Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze – Nintendo
- New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
- New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
- Wii Party U – Nintendo
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker – Nintendo
- The LEGO Movie Videogame – Warner Bros. Interactive
- Rayman Legends – Ubisoft
3DS
- Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
- Pokémon Y – Nintendo
- Pokémon X – Nintendo
- Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
- Mario Golf: World Tour – Nintendo
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
- Kirby: Triple Deluxe – Nintendo
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 -Nintendo
- The LEGO Movie Videogame – Warner Bros. Interactive
- The Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds
Source: Chart-Track
