This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Nobunaga no Yabou: Souzou (PS3) – 10/9/9/8 (PS3) – 10/9/9/8
Puzzle & Dragons Z (3DS) – 9/9/9/9
Need for Speed: Rivals (PS3) – 9/8/9/9
Need for Speed: Rivals (360) – 9/8/9/9
Hometown Story (3DS) – 8/7/7/8
Kobito Dukan: Kobito no Fushigi Jikken Set (3DS) – 8/8/7/6
One new game has been confirmed for the Japanese 3DS Virtual Console. Yoshi (Game Boy) will be out on December 11. Pricing is set at 400 yen.
Two new Virtual Console games are on track for the Japanese Wii U eShop next week. Ice Hockey (Famicom) and Final Fantasy II (Famicom) will be out on December 11. Pricing is set at 500 yen each.
AMZY has shared a few new details about Phosphorescent Lanze, which is hitting the Japanese 3DS eShop this week. A roundup of the latest information is posted below.
– Set in another post-apocalyptic world
– Countries as we know them no longer exist
– The collapse of humanity’s biggest hope, the World Union, saw to that end
– Security forces have been created and mobilized to try to regain that which was lost
– Play as Eins
– Eins is a cyborg soldier with the power to transform between jet and human form
– Can switch anytime between forms to suit the situation
– Seren is the operator if the Ains
– Seren is formerly a student of the sciences
– Ratail: main opposing mech-lady for the enemy country/security forces
Actor Danny Wells, who played Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show back in the 80s, has passed away. Wells died last Thursday at age 72. As a bit of an interesting tidbit, Wells’ actual name is Jack Westelman.
Activision has already released a trilogy of games for the Angry Birds franchise. Now the publisher seems to be doing the same with Cut the Rope.
Although Activision hasn’t made an official announcement just yet, a rating appeared on the OFLC earlier today for “Cut the Rope Trilogy”. Exient Entertainment is developing the compilation – the same studio behind Angry Birds Trilogy on 3DS and the recently-released Angry Birds Star Wars.
A new press release sent out by Spike TV reconfirms Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime’s appearance at VGX 2013 this weekend. He’ll be “presenting a new look at an upcoming Wii U game.”
Is that a reference to an already-announced Wii U game? Or something brand new? The announcement doesn’t say, though the wording sort of points to the former.
VGX 2013 will air this Saturday at 6 PM ET / 3 PM PT.
Source: Spike TV PR
