Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians now features a lower 3DS stretch goal on Kickstarter. “We want nothing more than to give you what you want so we have moved the PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS closer to the top,” Playdek wrote on the campaign’s page.
The 3DS goal has been reduced from $2.8 million to $1.5 million. It’s still a rather high amount, but at the rate Unsung Story’s Kickstarter is going, hitting that mark is entirely possible.
You can donate to Unsung Story’s Kickstarter campaign here.
Activision has announced Cut the Rope: Triple Treat, a compilation containing all three games from ZeptoLab’s well-known series.
Cut the Rope: Triple Treat comes with the original Cut the Rope mobile version, Cut the Rope: Experiments and Cut the Rope: Time Travel. The games will feature over 650 levels in total for more than 50 hours of gameplay, precise touch controls, online leaderboards, in-game achievements, stereoscopic 3D visuals during gameplay and cheerfully animated Om Nom Stories.
Cut the Rope: Triple Treat launches in early 2014.
Source: Activision PR
A couple of weeks ago, Namco Bandai provided a look at the One Piece: Romance Dawn Limited Edition over on Twitter. View the image below:
Here's a sneak peek of the One Piece: Romance Dawn Limited Ed for 3DS – Available Feb 11th! http://t.co/rhY4Xi9EQV | pic.twitter.com/J9ZdnYJk0Q
— NAMCO BANDAI America (@namcogames) January 9, 2014
If interested, you can pre-order the One Piece: Romance Dawn Limited Edition here.
Toyo Keizai has published a listing of the most powerful companies in Japan. Of course, a few video game corporations made the cut.
Below are the video game companies included in the list:
126th – Namco Bandai – Last year’s position: 442nd
157th – Broccoli – Last year’s position: not ranked
173rd – Nihon Falcom – Last year’s position: 215th
292nd – Sony – Last year’s position: 163rd
318th – Capcom – Last year’s position: 701st
363rd – Sega – Last year’s position: 133rd
363rd – Marvelous AQL – Last year’s position: not ranked
390th – Tecmo Koei – Last year’s position: 451st
567th – Konami – Last year’s position: 355th
1647th – Nintendo – Last year’s position: 219th
Each company is graded on growth, profitability, safety and scale. All parameters are rated between 500 and 1,000, and the sum of the four scores determines the overall ranking.
Cavelight Entertainment has become an official Wii U developer, and could bring “Velocity Stream” to the eShop. At the moment, Cavelight isn’t in possession of any dev kits, so a Wii U release would likely arrive after the PC version.
Velocity Stream is an asymmetric racing game. While it may seem like a traditional racer, the “paver” mixes things up. One player controls the paver, which can create endless streams of energy for the other participants to race on. The track’s angle, width, and obstacles can all be modified.
Check out the video above to see Velocity Stream in action.
Now that Pokemon Bank has relaunched in Japan, fans are anticipating the app’s launch in overseas countries. Nintendo of Europe – similar to Nintendo of America – doesn’t have a specific release date to announce, but did share another update on Twitter a short while ago.
Nintendo once again apologized for Pokemon Bank’s delay as well as the time it took to provide the latest news about its availability. With Pokemon Bank and Poke Transporter’s relaunch in Asian territories, Nintendo says it will “be closely monitoring player’s experiences as we prepare for the European release.”
The tweets in full:
Hi Pokémon fans, sorry it's taken until now before we could give you an update on Pokémon Bank (1/4)
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) January 22, 2014
Pokémon Bank & Poké Transporter services have now resumed operation in various Asian territories incl. Japan (2/4)
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) January 22, 2014
We'll be closely monitoring players' experiences as we prepare for the European release (3/4)
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) January 22, 2014
Once again we want to apologise for the delay, and thank you for your patience and your interest (4/4)
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) January 22, 2014
This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:
1. [3DS] Kirby Triple Deluxe – 81,069 / 295,276
2. [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons Z – 48,788 / 1,265,209
3. [3DS] Pokemon X/Y – 23,600 / 3,893,725
4. [3DS] Youkai Watch – 19,039 / 327,985
5. [3DS] Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – 17,897 / 341,398
6. [3DS] Sentouchuu Densetsu no Shinobi to Survival Battle – 17,057 / 241,926
7. [PS3] Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster – 14,026 / 255,759
8. [3DS] Monster HUnter 4 – 13,297 / 3,192,848
9. [PSV] Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster – 12,805 / 207,212
10. [WIU] Super Mario 3D World – 10,500 / 463,020
11. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 8,491 / 3,649,813
12. [PS3] GTA V – 7,381 / 682,216
13. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2014 – 5,834 / 296,844
14. [PS3] Shin Gundam Musou – 5,507 / 207,036
15. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 – 5,401 / 2,263,720
16. [PSV] Shin Gundam Musou – 5,352 – 103,234
17. [3DS] Tomodachi Collection – 5,334 / 1,651,030
18. [PS3] Gran Turismo 6 – 5,081 / 302,433
19. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy – 5,062 / 226,026
20. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 – 4,817 / 2,236,013
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
3DS LL – 32,393
Vita – 24,755
3DS – 15,045
PS3 – 13,243
Wii U – 11,443
PSP – 4,024
Vita TV – 2,208
Xbox 360 – 273
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
3DS LL – 40,038
Vita – 29,494
3DS – 20,116
PS3 – 14,845
Wii U – 14,020
PSP – 4,758
Vita TV – 2,522
Xbox 360 – 281
