Update: Amazon has price-matched the Assassin’s Creed price.
Original: This week’s GameStop ad has gone live. There are a couple of notable deals this week – mainly Splinter Cell: Blacklist for $20 and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag for $30.
All of the deals for this week can be found in the circular below.
One new game has been confirmed for the Japanese 3DS Virtual Console. Legend of Kage (Famicom) will be out on January 22. Pricing is set at 500 yen.
D3Publisher and WayForward have released a new patch for Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW! on 3DS. A notice on the eShop states that the update improves stability and implements fixes.
Two new Virtual Console games are on track for the Japanese Wii U eShop next week. Romancing Saga 2 (Super Famicom) and Double Dragon (Famicom) will be out on January 22. Pricing is set at 800 yen and 500 yen respectively.
Splinter Cell is a series that has had its ups and downs, with the latter coming primarily more recently for the franchise. Splinter Cell: Blacklist wasn’t the most well-received game in the world and it didn’t meet sales expectations, so Ubisoft might be thinking a bit about where to go with the games going forward:
– Splinter Cell animation director Kristjan Zadziuk
Via OXM
Popular games retailer GameStop says that this past 2013 holiday season at their stores was notably better than 2012’s holiday season, with a 9.3% overall increase in revenue. Here are the full details:
– 9.3% increase in revenue overall
– Hardware revenue doubled
– Pre-owned game sales up 7%
– Digital revenue up 14.9%
– Mobile sales increased by 23.8%
Puyo Puyo Tetris will support cross online play, the latest issue of Famitsu confirms. Players on Wii U will be able to play 3DS owners and vise versa. Famitsu also reveals that Puyo Puyo Tetris contains a replay saving feature and a Lesson Mode.
