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LEGO City: Undercover wasn’t always the game we know of today. Well before Nintendo stepped into the picture, developer TT Fusion was throwing around different ideas and prototypes. One such example includes SimCity.

Producer Loz Doyle commented on LEGO City’s SimCity-like start in an interview with MTV Multiplayer:

“Well no, for a few years beforehand we’d been talking to LEGO about doing a LEGO City game, and we didn’t really know what that game was going to be. We were sort of going down the road of it being a construction game, where it was more about building, like a ‘SimCity’ style game. We weren’t really sure what it was going to be, but we knew we wanted to make a game based on the LEGO City franchise from the beginning; it was definitely always about LEGO City. It was only really as we started to prototype it that it turned into a full, open world game.”

And regarding cut ideas for the game, Doyle said:

“Well in the game you have lots of different character abilities, so not only do you play as a policeman, but you go, as the title suggests, undercover, as different characters, such as a robber, a farmer, and a fireman. We had different gameplay for each one. For example, if there was a safe to crack in the game, you’d hold the Wii U GamePad up towards the screen, and you’d get an x-ray of the safe, and there would be cogs displayed on the screen that you could turn them until you cracked the safe. We had lots of different ideas for the different characters to use the GamePad, but in the end we decided to make it into a police device, because it was getting a bit confusing as to what it was. It was sort of an all-encompassing device that sort of did everything, but we felt that it was getting to be too much. So, we scaled that back to be purely a police communicator that gets given to you in the game. So when Chase goes to the police station for the first time, one of the other characters says, ‘here is your new police communicator.’ So you really feel tied into it.”

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Those who purchase a Wii U console from Best Buy will receive a $20 model. The offer applies to both models – the Basic Set and Deluxe Set.

Free shipping is available with all orders. More information can be found here (Deluxe Set) or here (Basic Set). For those wondering, the deal expires on Sunday.

Posted on 12 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in News, Podcast Stories, Wii U, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

The sequel to the acclaimed adventure game The Longest Journey might end up on platforms beyond just PC and Mobile devices, according to the game’s developer Red Thread Games. While Dreamfall Chapters will undoubtedly come out on PC and Mac first, “going forward”, Red Thread listed off Wii U, PS4, “Durango”, and even Ouya as possible platforms for appearances, assuming the game can reach at least a $1.75m fundraising goal.

Via Polygon

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Nintendo is preparing two Wii U updates for Wii U. The first, due next month, “adds new features and further improvements to the user experience”. It should specifically speed up load times between software.

The duration of Wii U’s load times has been a point of discussion since launch. One might be wondering: why weren’t these issues addressed before the console shipped?

Shigeru Miyamoto responded to this very question in a recent interview:

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Ubisoft has published yet another internal Q&A. This time around, creative director Jonathan Morin answered a bunch of questions about Watch Dogs.

The full Q&A is posted below.

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Some Wii U owners in Japan are having issues launching the eShop and are also unable to apply the latest firmware update. Instead, they’re receiving error code “105-3102”. This also means that it’s impossible to start up Dragon Quest X’s new Wii U beta at the moment.

The issues are caused a program inside the console, Nintendo says, which will soon receive a patch. Users can expect an update sometime this weekend.

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Assassin’s Creed IV is a long ways off, but Ubisoft has already started to advertise the game…

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Nintendo has yet to reveal the new additions/changes for Zelda: Wind Waker on Wii U, but the folks at “cubed3tv” have imagined a few possibilities – mainly in the controls department:

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