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Following Ubisoft’s Rayman Legends delay, members of the development team – including Rayman creator Michel Ancel – were seen holding signs and supposedly protesting the announcement.

As it turns out, this wasn’t what happened. There was no protest.

Rayman Legends lead game designer Emile Morel explained to EDGE how the whole situation turned into a misunderstanding:

“As for the protest about the delay, it actually never happened, it’s a funny story and in the end a big misunderstanding. A few days after the announcement of the delay, one morning two Rayman fans came by the studio with a funny banner to protest about the delay in a nice and humoristic way. We’re not used to have fans coming by the studio, so some members of the team took pictures with them to be nice and friendly. We spent some time talking with them and once they left I remember someone in the team asking: ‘Did we tell them not to put these pictures online?’ The answer was ‘no’ and two hours later these pictures were everywhere and people started to think that the whole team was protesting about the delay. In the end, no harm was done, and this gives us a funny story to tell!”

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A new update has gone live on Miiverse today. The changes are highlighted by the addition of tags.

You can find the full rundown below:

Miiverse Code of Conduct changed

– Addition: “Do Not Let Others Use Your Nintendo Network ID”.
– Information on Nintendo Network ID management was previously included in the Nintendo Network Agreement and Nintendo Network Privacy Policy, but now it can also be checked within Miiverse
– Changes and additions made to several other points

Tags

– Valid for the Wii U version and Web version
– Attach tags such as “Question” and “Impressions” to posts
– Any tags you attach yourself will be coloured blue (As before, posts made from games will have green tags.)
– Tags you can choose vary by community
– Filter posts by tags

Increased character limit for messages

– Wii U version only
– Changed to 200
– Post/comments limit was previously changed in June

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Disney has confirmed the first wave of Power Discs coming to Disney Infinity at launch. By using these items, players can gain access to special powers, classic Disney gadgets, themes and vehicles.

Here’s the full lineup:

Circular Discs

• Bolt’s Super Strength – Character that you’re playing with does 10% more damage
• Fix It Felix’s Repair Power – Character you’re playing with has 20% more health
• C.H.R.O.M.E’s Armor Shield – In-game character receives -10% less damage
• Pieces of Eight – In-game character gains 10% more loot

 Hexagonal Discs

• Mickey’s Car – Drive Mickey’s Jalopy in the Toy Box
• Cinderella’s Coach – Drive Cinderella’s Carriage in the Toy Box
• Kahn– Ride Kahn the Horse from “Mulan” in the Toy Box
• Stitch’s Blaster – In-game character gets Stitch’s blaster from “Lilo and Stitch”
• Carl Fredericksen’s Cane – In-game character gets Carl’s cane from “Up”
• Sugar Rush
  • King Candy’s Dessert Toppings Texture Set– Adds a “Sugar Rush” theme from “Wreck-it-Ralph” to Toy Box terrain objects
  • Sugar Rush Sky Skydome – Adds a “Sugar Rush” theme from “Wreck-it-Ralph” to the Toy Box sky
• Alice in Wonderland
  • Alice’s Wonderland Texture Set – Adds an “Alice in Wonderland” (animated film) theme to Toy Box terrain objects
  • Tulgey Wood Skydome – Adds an “Alice in Wonderland” (animated film) theme to Toy Box sky
• Finding Nemo
  • Marlin’s Reef Texture Set– Adds a “Finding Nemo” theme to the Toy Box terrain objects
  • Nemo’s Seascape Skydome – Adds a “Finding Nemo” theme to the Toy Box sky
• Tangled Lantern
  • Rapunzel’s Kingdom Texture Set – Adds a “Tangled” theme to Toy Box terrain objects
  • Rapunzel’s Birthday Sky Skydome – Adds a “Tangled” theme to the Toy Box sky

Rare Hexagonal Discs

• Dumbo the Flying Elephant – Adds the Dumbo ride from the Parks in the Toy Box
• Abu the Elephant – Adds the elephant version of Abu in the Toy Box
• Astro Blasters Space Cruiser – Adds the Astro Blaster vehicle from the Buzz Lightyear attraction in the Toy Box

Disney also shared the following details about the Power Discs:

– Circular Power Discs: access special power-ups for Play Sets and Toy Box modes
– Hexagonal Power Discs: unlock special gadgets, vehicles and themes for Toy Box mode
– Stack up to two Circular Power Discs or up to three Hexagonal Power Discs to optimize all the add-ons
– Three rare discs designed with a special lenticular design

Source: Disney Interactive PR

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Wii U owners will be able to experience The Wonderful 101 with two different voiceover options. Platinum Games has confirmed that the title will include English and Japanese voices on-disc. Additionally, The Wonderful 101 will sport both language subtitles, and the European release will include subtitle options for French, Italian, German, and Spanish.

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Shigeru Miyamoto tackled a trio of Pikmin topics in a new interview with Eurogamer. The first? Losing Pikmin when night falls:

“I would love to [save them], but it’s not possible with my skill. So I have given up. But there are some staff who actually accomplished [this]. Personally, I like challenging myself to beat my own score in the mission mode.”

Miyamoto has also once again commented on downloadable content for Pikmin 3. He moved away from recent comments in which he gave strong hints regarding new DLC, but did say that strong player feedback can lead to production of new elements such as additional missions:

“Nothing has been decided yet, but Pikmin 3 puts importance on the player replaying and re-challenging himself, an element that makes the game more and more fun as users play it many times. If we hear players’ desire to play more with add-on content, we would love to consider the possibilities.”

Last but not least, Miyamoto said the following about his involvement with Pikmin 3’s development:

“In this series, I am especially involved in deciding on the basic concept. Another role would be designing the characters, particularly making them appealing and their overall appearance.”

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Platinum Games has updated its Wonderful 101 blog with a third post. Today’s post is fully dedicated to the game’s battle system.

You can find the post here, and some screenshots above.

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Among the characters included in Batman: Arkham Origns is Anarky. While he isn’t lumped into the assassin’s group, he’s still very much an adversary of Anarky. Plus, he still maintains his anti-government views.

Creative director Eric Holmes said the following during a recent episode of PlayStation Blogcast:

“Ultimately, [Anarky] is an anti-corporate, anti-government… technically an anti-villain as well. He’s a guy who kind of does bad things but believes he’s doing the right thing.”

“He doesn’t like big corporations trying to control our lives or the government trying to tell us what to do. And he believes those institutions should get kicked out, and wants to take them down.”

“He’s planted a bunch of bombs in these institutions in Gotham, and Batman’s gotta go there and he defuses those bombs. And further on, in the Most Wanted campaign for him, Batman can hunt him down to where he’s headquartered and take him on.”

Holmes has some advice for those who aren’t too familiar with Anarky: don’t look into him too much. This way, some of Origins’ surprise can be kept when players experience the game.

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