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The Wonderful 101 reviews have started to hit the net. And of course, fans are bugging director Hideki Kamiya about some of the scores the game has received over the past day or so.

Kamiya, however, isn’t big on review scores. He doesn’t care what The Wonderful 101’s Metacritic average is. He doesn’t care if one site gave the game a so-so score. Instead of relying on scores, Kamiya thinks you should rely on your own intuition and thoughts about the game (that demo sure comes in handy!).

You can find Kamiya’s tweets below (warning: one expletive).

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It took awhile, but Activision finally confirmed Call of Duty: Ghosts for Wii U last month. The game marks the series’ second entry to launch on Nintendo’s newest home console.

In a recent interview with Joystiq, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg spoke about the decision to bring Call of Duty: Ghosts to Wii U.

Hirshberg explained that Activision is looking to help Nintendo be successful – the same approach taken with other platforms – which in turn boosts the publisher’s business. He added, “We generally try to be wherever our gamers want to play.”

Hirshberg’s comments in full:

“The driving force behind us bringing Ghosts to the Wii U is the same as every other platform, it’s just we want to do everything we can to make the first-party successful. Obviously if they’re successful, that’s good for our business, that’s been our strategy in the past, we’ve been a very kind of platform agnostic company. We generally try to be wherever our gamers want to play. So we thought if our content can help the Wii U and Nintendo gain some momentum, then we wanted to do that.

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Don’t expect big sales from The Wonderful 101 when the game launches in Japan in a few days.

According to Japanese retail blog Sinobo, Nintendo will ship a measly 30,000 copies of the game. For a new, exclusive, and Nintendo-published release, that’s pretty darn low.

You can definitely say that Nintendo is playing it safe with The Wonderful 101’s initial shipment. If nothing else, the game should see a high sell-through rate.

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The latest Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:

Wii U

1. Pikmin 3 – Nintendo
2. New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
3. Nintendo Land – Nintendo
4. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
5. LEGO City: Undercover – Nintendo
6. ZombiU – Ubisoft
7. Sports Connection – Ubisoft
8. Batman: Arkham City – Armored Edition – Warner Bros. Interactive
9. Game & Wario – Nintendo
10. Rabbids Land

3DS

1. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
2. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Nintendo
3. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team – Nintendo
4. LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins – Nintendo
5. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
6. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
7. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity – Nintendo
8. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D – Nintendo
9. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo
10. LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes – Warner Bros. Interactive

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A full-blown Batcave is coming to Batman: Arkham Origins. While Asylum did introduce a small Batcave-like area of its own, this will be the first time that players will be able to explore the secret headquarters in all of its glory.

GamesTM offers up the following information in its latest issue:

Hanging like blackened teeth from the roof of the cave’s mouth, the sea of bats angrily disperses as the Batwing roars through the interior waterfall of Batman’s clandestine headquarters. The Batcave is a much larger expanse than the miniature proxy installed beneath Arkham Asylum in the first game. Iconic vehicles stand like trophies on raised platforms, his wardrobe emerges from the thick metallic walkways – enabling player’s to switch bonus costumes between missions – and every inch drips with canny references placed for the eagle-eyed – which, aside from a glimpse of a newspaper cutting of the Red Hood spotted in Gotham, proves GamesTM certainly is not. But it also serves as a practical base for Batman to upgrade equipment and polish abilities. The most notable addition being Challenge Maps, a separate feature of previous entries , now accessible from the Batcave.

You can find a few new Batman: Arkham Origins in the gallery above.

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The Wonderful 101 has seen a visual upgrade since it was initially shown to the public. Whereas some of the original shots featured some rather poor character models and textures, various aspects of the game have seen a noticeable improvement since then. Check out the comparisons above to see how The Wonderful 101 has changed since its reveal.

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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