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Vigil Games lead designer Haydn Dalton says it’s easy to develop for Wii U – “surprisingly easy”, in fact.

Dalton told Game Zone:

“Technically, it’s one of the easier platforms to develop for. We had our core game up and running on it in a very short amount of time.”

Dalton added that the team didn’t encounter any “major problems” when asked if the porting process was difficult, “other than making sure we had a dedicated team to do it justice. For a new platform, it was surprisingly easy to port it to the Wii U.”

“Initially, the base code port was tackled by our internal tech team, but as Darksiders 2 started to ramp up heavily, we handed ownership over to a separate team at THQ Montreal. The Montreal team sent us regular updates and documentation about how they were going to implement the unique elements of the Wii U’s hardware.”

Dalton wrapped up with a final, indirect remark about Darksiders 2’s gameplay and visuals on Wii U, noting that they are a “step in a different direction.”

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Electronics maker Foxconn, the manufacturer behind the Wii U, has admitted that it employed underage children in one of its Chinese factories amid recent allegations.

Reuters reports that Foxcon “had found some interns at a plant in Yantai, in northeastern Shandong province, were under the legal working age of 16.” Some teenagers were as young as 14. It’s unclear, however, just how many children were involved.

Foxcon said in a statement:

“We recognize that full responsibility for these violations rests with our company and we have apologized to each of the students for our role in this action… it is also a violation of Foxconn policy and immediate steps have been taken to return the interns in question to their educational institutions.”

Through an unnamed Yantai government official, China’s official Xinhua news agency claims that 56 underage interns will return to school. That would encompass 2.7% of Foxconn’s workforce, which employs 1.2 million employees in total.

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There will be a limitation with the use of Nintendo characters in Scribblenauts Unlimited.

Bad news for those who were hoping to transform Mario into a zombie: adjectives won’t work on the plumber, or any other Nintendo characters for that matter.

That’s disappointing news, but fans will be pleased to hear that they will be be able to interact with objects, including Nintendo-themed ones. Players can summon karts, mushrooms, and more.

Developer 5th Cell and Warner Bros. Interactive are planning on “dozens” of characters and items from the Mario and Zelda series in Scribblenauts Unlimited.

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Yes, there will be Nintendo characters in Scribblenauts Unlimited.

Warner Bros. just annouced that Mario and Zelda characters will be joining the game on Wii U. Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Link, Zelda, Epona, and Goron have all been confirmed.

The first image of the Nintendo characters is above. Read on below for the announcement.

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When Call of Duty: Black Ops II launches next month, Activision’s Call of Duty Elite service won’t be supported. The company reconfirmed that it is “evaluating options”, but nothing will be ready this year.

According to an Activision representative:

“We are currently evaluating options for Call of Duty Elite to support Nintendo’s Wii U game system, however Call of Duty Elite for Call of Duty: Black Ops II will not support this platform when the game launches on November 13th.”

Maybe things will change with next year’s Call of Duty release?

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Sorry, Pikmin fans. You’ll have to wait a little bit longer to play the next entry in the series.

The latest Iwata Asks officially confirms that Pikmin 3 is scheduled for Spring 2013.

There’s a little note buried inside the interview:

“Pikmin: The first game in the Pikmin series, released for the Nintendo GameCube system in October 2001. Pikmin 3 is scheduled for release for the Wii U console in the spring of 2013.”

Pikmin 3 was never a launch title for Wii U, but it has been planned for the launch window. So you should be playing it before March or so.

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