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Nintendo has announced its lineup for Gamescom 2013. Several games will be playable across the Wii U and 3DS platforms at the expo later this month.

Here’s the full lineup:

Wii U

Pikmin 3
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
Sonic Lost World
Wii Party U
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Super Mario 3D World
Wii Karaoke U by Joysound
Mario Kart 8

3DS

Pokemon X/Y
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

Gamescom 2013 will take place between August 22 and August 25.

Source: Nintendo PR

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Platinum Games has updated its Wonderful 101 blog with a tenth post. You can find it here. Today’s update covers Unite Morphs.

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And so it appears that Nintendo is sticking to the Japanese boxart for Zelda: Wind Waker HD’s European release.

Let’s take a look at the cover:

And here’s the Japanese boxart:

That leaves North America as the odd man out. For the US cover, Nintendo went with a golden hue:

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Speaking in Famitsu this week, Platinum Games’ Hideki Kamiya discussed just how big a project The Wonderful 101 is. Not only does the game possess Platinum’s largest team, but it also went through the longest development cycle.

Kamiya, at one point, also commented on the volume of The Wonderful 101. He’s not usually a fan of saying how much content there is until players reach the end, but he did confirm that the title has “more volume” than Bayonetta.

Kamiya stated:

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Nintendo started selling Wii U consoles at a loss when the system launched late last year. Unfortunately for the company, nothing has changed. A Nintendo representative has confirmed that Wii U is still being sold at a loss. That’s one of a few reasons as to why Nintendo is likely tentative to bring about a price drop.

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One more tidbit from today’s Nintendo Direct to go over. In Japan, Wii Fit U is slated for October 31. The title will be out in December overseas.

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Zelda: Wind Waker HD will offer a number of improvements to the original GameCube title. As revealed by Eiji Aonuma through a Miiverse message, the ship will now always be full of wind, which allows players to move in any direction without using the Wind Waker to change the wind’s direction. This is in addition to the Swift Sail for faster travel.

Wind Waker HD will also include a “nautical chart” – displayed on the GamePad – during sailing segments. Aonuma noted how it “works like a car nav”, making it “much easier to travel to the small islands and salvage points scattered around the great sea.”

You can find Aonuma’s full message below:

Hello, members of the Zelda Community! This is Eiji Aonuma of Nintendo. It’s great to be posting here again.

In the Nintendo Direct video that aired today, we announced new information on the soon to be released The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD. I would like to take this opportunity to talk about things that we weren’t able to include in the announcement.

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