Photos from Nintendo’s E3 2012 developer roundtable
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Tank! Tank! Tank! fact sheet
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The ultimate multiplayer experience for the Wii U!
TANK! TANK! TANK! is an over-the-top battle party game where players will feel the thrill of driving and shooting with
tanks. With support for up to 4 players, family and friends can battle giant monsters or compete in Free-for-All and
Team Versus modes. An exciting story mission mode allows you to level up your tanks while battling a variety of giant
enemies. Wii U specific features make TANK! TANK! TANK! the best battle party game for the whole family!
Assassin’s Creed III Wii U-specific footage
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Not much to say here… it looks like the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC versions!
Skylanders: Giants confirmed for Wii U
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Activision has zero games officially announced for Wii U. That’s sort of mind-blowing.
On the bright side, Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg did confirm to Spike TV earlier today that Skylanders Giants is coming to the platform. Other titles weren’t announced beyond this. So we still don’t know if Call of Duty: Black Ops II or any of the company’s other games will be coming to the Wii U in the future.
If you view the video above (skip to 2:30), you can listen to Hirshberg express some excitement over Wii U and dodged some questions about the console’s online functionality.
Download the New Super Mario Bros. 2 trailer from the eShop
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North American 3DS owners can download today’s E3 2012 trailer of New Super Mario Bros. 2 from the eShop. There are also streaming videos for LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, Heroes of Ruin, and Transformers Prime.
On the Wii U side of things, you can view videos of the following:
Nintendo Direct: June 3, 2012
Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition
Just Dance 4
Scribblenauts Unlimited
ZombiU
Rayman Legends
Assassin’s Creed III
Tank! Tank! Tank!
Trine 2: Director’s Cut
ZombiU fact sheet
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London is falling! Are YOU prepared? It is 2012 and the Last Blight is upon us…It was foretold.
For the second time in history, a great plague has enveloped London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as hundreds upon thousands of the unprepared die or are infected by a sickness worse than death…
You are still breathing, for now. But how long will you survive in the labyrinth of London streets and underground – abandoned by the outside world, surrounded by the Infected. The horrifying remains of humanity ravaged by the foul disease shuffle through the streets, waiting to prey on your living flesh at every turn!
Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition fact sheet
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RELEASE DATE: Holiday 2012
PUBLISHER: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
DEVELOPER: WB Games Montréal
RATING: RP (Teen expected)
GENRE: Third-Person Action Adventure
PLATFORM: Wii U™PRODUCT OVERVIEW:
Developed by WB Games Montreal, Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition is the enhanced version of the award-winning blockbuster videogame created by Rocksteady Studios. The Wii U version delivers the same impactful story and gameplay as the original title, this time with enhanced gameplay mechanics and features made possible with the Wii U and the new controller.
All of Nintendo Land’s mini-games, in logo form
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These are all of the mini-games in Nintendo Land. We know of half so far. You can start guessing about the other ones!
Trine 2: Director’s Cut fact sheet
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Developer: Frozenbyte
Publisher: Frozenbyte
Genre: Action Platformer
Platforms: Wii U™
Release Date: Wii U launch
Age Rating: TBD
Pricing: TBATrine 2: Director’s Cut, exclusively for the Wii U, features the critically acclaimed original Trine 2 game, a number of enhancements and gameplay polish, alongside a new game mode called “Magic Mayhem”, designed exclusively for the Wii U.
Nintendo roundtable Q&A summary
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Update: Event is now over!
Nintendo has moved passed the game talk and onto the Q&A portion of its E3 2012 roundtable. A summary of the information shared at the event can be found below.
On Nintendo Land distribution:
“In North America, Wii Sports was a pack-in. In Japan, it was not. Even though it’s the same concept, it doesn’t necessarily mean the same result. Honestly, I don’t know what will happen.”
On Nintendo monitoring questionable content beyond spoilers for Miiverse:
“We will be aggressively pursuing the realization of such a place. Yes, absolutely. We want Miiverse to be a place where people are not scared or threatened.”
On whether or not Nintendo believes that the Wii U audience is the same group as the Wii audience:
Nintendo is targeting a wide audience for Wii U, “but I want to make the important addition that we are powering up with the Wii U. There’s sort of this attitude that Nintendo is targeting more casual consumers, but actually we’re more interested in making games for people who really love games.”
– Nintendo wants third-parties to feel excited about making games for Wii U as well
On the difficulty of adding a second GamePad for Wii U:
“Taking the same image and displaying it on three different screens does significantly affect the performance.”
“Personally, you need to draw a fine line between the performance and the cost and being able to create the experiences that you want to create.”
“To be quite frank, if you start trying to push too much performance, it results in more expensive components which ultimately raises the cost of the hardware.”
“That being said, the fun and enjoyment you get out of those games isn’t only based on how the images look on those screens.”
– Nintendo is pleased with the experiences the GamePad can deliver even if the overall specs of the console may not be as powerful as other hardware
Nintendo on VC/WiiWare transfers to Wii U
“We are readying the system to be able to transfer saves and everything you’ve bought.”
How Nintendo has enough ideas for so many Mario games
– Different teams work on different core ideas for each game
“When we’re creating a sidescrolling Mario game for a specific system, we try to highlight the particular unique characteristics of that system.”
New Super Mario Bros. 2/U
– No plans to have the games connect with each other
