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Bandai Namco’s lineup for the 2014 Tokyo Game Show is in. It’s as follows:

Console Games

Ace Combat Infinity (PS3) – trailer
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (PS Vita) – trailer
Dragon Ball Xenoverse (PS4, XBO, 360, PS3) – playable, trailer
Godzilla (PS3) – playable, trailer
Gundam Breaker 2 (PS3, PS Vita) – playable, trailer
Haikyuu!! Tsunagu! Itadaki no Keshiki!! (3DS) – trailer
Hanayamata: Yosakoi Live! (PS Vita) – playable, trailer
The Irregular at Magic High School: Out of Order (PS Vita) – playable, trailer
M3 The Dark Metal: Mission Memento Mori (PS Vita) – trailer
Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation (PS3) – trailer
The Seven Deadly Sins: Unjust Sin (3DS) – trailer
Soulcalibur: Lost Swords (PS3) – trailer
Super Hero Generation (PS3, PS Vita) – trailer
Tales of the World: Reve Unitia (3DS) – playable, trailer
Tales of Zestiria (PS3) – playable, trailer
And more…

Family Area Console Games

Aikatsu! 365-hi no Idol Days (3DS) – playable, trailer
Disc Wars: Avengers Ultimate Heroes (3DS) – trailer
Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 2 (3DS0 – playable, trailer
Fujiko F. Fujio Characters: Daishuugou! SF Dotabata Party (Wii U, 3DS) – playale, trailer
Happiness Charge Precure! Kawarun Collection (3DS) – playable, trailer
Majin Bone: Jikan to Kuukan no Majin (3DS) – playable, trailer
Nazotoki Battle Tore! Densetsu no Makyuu o Fukkatsu Saseyo! (3DS) – playable, trailer
One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X (3DS) – playable, trailer
Guruguru Tamagocchi! (3DS) – playable, trailer
Tenkai Knight: Brave Battle (3DS) – playable, trailer
And more…

You can find Bandai Namco’s TGS site here. There will be live streams throughout the show.

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At one point, Nintendo “talked about the possibility” of featuring Mario as the main player character in Splatoon. That’s according to Shigeru Miyamoto, who revealed the information to EDGE this month.

Miyamoto told the magazine:

“There were heated debates over who the main player character should be. Whether it should be Mario, or a squid. When we talked about the possibility of it being Mario, of course we could think of the advantages: anybody would be willing to touch it as soon as we announced that we had the new Mario game. But at the same time, we had some worries. If it were Mario, we wouldn’t be able to create any new IP.”

Splatoon was first announced at this year’s E3. It’s a brand new third-person shooter of sorts from Nintendo and includes completely unique characters.

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Eiji Aonuma, producer of Zelda Wii U, shared extensive comments to EDGE this month about the game’s open world without giving too much away.

EDGE started out by asking Aonuma about the challenges of adapting a linear design to a world that can be freely explored. He said in response:

In the original Legend of Zelda, there was no clear way to lead the main character to his goal. It was something that we entrusted to the players to find by themselves. As the game later expanded into a franchise, the structure of the game worlds became more and more complex – especially with the introduction of 3D – making it necessary for us to point the player in the right direction. Consequently, progression in the games became more linear.

To recreate a similar experience to the original, we have to give the game world a simple structure that players can understand intuitively. In doing so, it’s very important that we make every aspect of the world feel real and physically connected, so that it’s doesn’t look fake.

We can achieve this thanks to the hardware features of Wii U, but to truly get a deep understanding of the game world, we also need a real map that depicts the world as it is. The GamePad is very effective for displaying this, and thus also [for] providing players with a constant hint on where to head to. I think we can safely say that the innovations in this new game are only possible thanks to the Wii U hardware.

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Since launch, Mario Kart 8 players could only increase their online VR points to 9,999. However, with today’s update, it looks like the limit has been lifted. The image above shows one player who has already reached the five-figure zone.

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Lots of details about Fatal Frame: The Black Haired Shrine Maiden have emerged from this week’s issue of Famitsu. You can find all of today’s information rounded up below.

Yuuri Kozukata

– Goes to the mountain to search for the owner of the shop, Hisoka Kurosawa
– Voiced by Risa Tawata

Miu Hinasaki

– Girl searching for her missing mother
– Her mother vanished when she was a child
– She’s never known the love of parents and feels empty
– Heads to the mountain believing her mother is there
– Voiced by Maaya Uchida

Ren Hojo

– Failure of an author
– Has known Yuuri for ages
– Whimsical and is scolded by his assistant for it
– He hears of a custom involving burial photos, and goes to the mountain to research for his new book. Voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Hisoka Kurosawa

– Owner of the shop
– Uses kagemi skills to search for lost things
– Goes to the mountain to look for a missing girl and vanishes
– Voiced by Atsuko Tanaka

Rui Kagamiya

– Ren’s assistant
– She respects him, calling him sensei, and as well as helping him out she thinks of him as family
– Voiced by Maaya Sakamoto

Locations

– Explore 3 main locations at the start
– These include forest and buildings around the mountain

Mikomori Onsen

– An abandoned old, big house known as a famous ghost spot where lots of ghosts are

Kurosawa Antiques

– Also a cafe
– Yuuri lives and works here
– People come here to request lost things be found, or have their fortunes told by Hisoka

Shirazu no Mori

– A forest in the mountain
– Ever since it became famous as a suicide spot, there’s been a big fence around it, which people sneak in through
– There are also rumors of a murderer hiding inside

Gameplay

– Plays out a bit like mission mode
– Choose your mission and then you unlock new missions
– You can replay missions as much as you’d like
– Once you complete the chapter goals, you get the next chapter
– Your goal is to find people
– Each person has different reasons for going to the mountain and getting there, so you’ll have to gather as much info about them as you can
– You can use something that’s like a “scent” of a person from things like a hair, their documents etc.
– That aids your “kagemi”
– Then you use your clues to search for them
– If you chase the memories of them you’ll find them, so you have to follow their past footsteps
– When you find them and “bring them back” from their spiriting away, it’s mission complete, but you’ll have to watch out for the ghosts lurking
– You can also use your “ghost sight” to find hints from ghosts
– Looks kind of like hidden ghosts in other games
– Gameplay on the TV
– Map on the GamePad
– The touch system for picking up items is back
– Ghost hands are also back

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One Piece: Unlimited World Red players can get their hands on the latest downloadable content. The free Dino Master Quest is out now, as is the Takoyaki Pack.

Overviews of each can be found below. Screenshots are posted above.

Dino Master Quest

• Free Quest
• Luffy and his nakama take on a ferocious horde of T-Rexes. The rewards are up there!

Takoyaki Pack

• Santa Chopper costume: Luffy’s doctor will melt all his opponents’ hearts with this cute outfit.
• Luffy Swimsuit costume: despite the fact that he can’t swim, the soon-to-become Pirate King loves to dress-up to go to the beach!
• Sanji Casual shirt: the cook finally takes off his classy suit to destroy his enemies in the most off-the-cuff way.
• Takoyaki Party – Let’s catch the Skull Knight and Kraken with the strengthened Fishing Rod! If the player combines the “Sweet sap” or “Legendary Wheat” with a takoyaki, he will create a “Legendary Takoyaki” in the restaurant!

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