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Most gamers expected Activision to come out with a new entry in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sub-series this year. That was the plan initially, though things turned out differently in the end.

Speaking with Game Informer, executive producer Mark Rubin said Infinity Ward started out with this year’s Call of Duty game as Modern Warfare 4. After determining that the story arc was complete following Modern Warfare 3, however, the project eventually morphed into Ghosts.

According to Rubin:

“People felt really strongly that they liked the way you as a player can connect to the world you know day-to-day. So the idea of staying modern became a key point. Let’s not do ‘Space Guns on Jupiter.’ Let’s do real weapons that we know in a world we’re familiar with. And then it became, do we do Modern Warfare 4? And that was the game for a little while. Because we said, we’ll stay modern, we’ll do Modern Warfare 4! But then it was like, well, we kind of finished the story in Modern Warfare 3. That arc is done.”

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Nintendo has issued an official response to this month’s NPD report. The statement contains many of the same sales that we covered in a post we covered a short while ago, but we also have lifetime sales figures for a few 3DS games.

In any case, here’s Nintendo’s response in full:

Fueled by a strong start for Mario & Luigi^™: Dream Team and the continued strength of games such as Animal Crossing^™: New Leaf and Luigi’s Mansion^™: Dark Moon, Nintendo 3DS^™ finished August as the best-selling video game system in the U.S. for the fourth consecutive month. More than 6.47 million units of Nintendo 3DS software have been sold so far in 2013, an increase of nearly 30 percent over the same time frame last year.

Other highlights for August include:

• Mario & Luigi: Dream Team for Nintendo 3DS launched on Aug. 11 and sold nearly 190,000 combined physical and digital units.
• Pikmin^™ 3 for Wii U^™ launched on Aug. 4 and sold more than 115,000 combined physical and digital units.
• New Super Luigi U^™ for Wii U launched in stores on Aug. 25, after two months as a digital-only download, and has now sold nearly 120,000 combined units.
• So far in 2013, nine Nintendo 3DS games have sold at least 250,000 combined physical and digital units. These include:

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Nintendo has prevailed in a case initiated by Creative Kingdoms, Nintendo has announced.

Creative Kingdoms originally filed its International Trade Commission complaint in 2011. The company declared that Nintendo infringed on its MagiQuest wands technology through the Wii remote controller.

However, the commission has ruled in favor of Nintendo, determining that the Wii – as well as the Wii U – do not violate any patents. The commission also found that Creative Kingdoms’ patents are invalid.

Richard Medway, Nintendo of America’s deputy general counsel, said of the ruling:

“We are pleased with the commission’s determination. Nintendo’s track record demonstrates that we vigorously defend patent lawsuits when we believe we have not infringed another party’s patent. Nintendo continues to develop unique and innovative products while respecting the intellectual property rights of others.”

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US sales results for three Nintendo releases in the month of August are in. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team came out on top with 190,000 copies sold (physical and digital), followed by New Super Luigi U at 120,000 units (physical and digital) and Pikmin 3 at 115,000 units.

6.47 million 3DS games have been sold thus far this year. That’s up close to 30 percent year-over-year.

Here’s a listing of 3DS games that have sold at least 250,000 combined copies in 2013 as of now:

Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (863,000)
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (739,000)
New Super Mario Bros. 2 (406,000 in 2013, 1.85 million total)
Fire Emblem Awakening (390,000)
Mario Kart 7 (352,000 in 2013, 2.84 million total)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (298,000)
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (268,000)
Super Mario 3D Land (265,000 in 2013, 2.86 million total)
LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins (264,000)

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NPD Group has released a listing of the top ten best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of August. The results can be found below.

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Nintendo has announced one more title playable at the Eurogamer Expo this month: Mario Kart 8. The game was not included in the company’s original lineup.

Eurogamer Expo 2013 takes place in the UK between September 26 and September 29.

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Zelda games have never put story ahead of gameplay. Sure, the plot is important – and was more prominent in Skyward Sword than ever before – but no Zelda has ever placed a huge emphasis on the sequence of events.

But what if Nintendo did actually attempt to focus on the story? How’d that go down? According to Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma, it wouldn’t be so easy:

“(I feel) like that would be a game that’s really hard to develop, if you have a story first, you’re kind of tied to that story, and locked into it, and you have to alter gameplay to make sure that the story progresses in a certain way. …that doesn’t really mean that the gameplay itself will be fun. I know that there are many games that were created to fit an existing story, and I don’t know that there are that many that have been very successful at it.”

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