Ubisoft announced today that it will develop and publish games based on Hasbro brands. Monopoly, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Risk, Battleship, and Cranium are among the IPs Ubisoft will bring to current-gen and next-gen consoles.

Hasbro senior vice president and general manager of digital gaming and corporate development Mark Blecher said:

“We look forward to collaborating with Ubisoft to offer consumers innovative new ways to experience their favorite gaming brands. Ubisoft’s leadership and expertise in the console gaming space will help support Hasbro’s strategy of bringing consumers engaging play experiences with our brands across multiple platforms.”

Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Ubisoft, added:

“Hasbro makes games that we all know and love, and we’re thrilled to be able to work with them to create video game experiences based on some of their most popular brands.”

Source: Ubisoft PR

Squids Odyssey was officially announced for the Wii U eShop during today’s Nintendo Direct. The Game Bakers has now sent out a press release also confirming a 3DS version and a fall launch.

Look for the PR below.

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Along with Zelda: Wind Waker HD, series producer Eiji Aonuma spoke about Zelda: A Link Between Worlds in a Miiverse post. Aonuma discussed the two worlds and kingdoms in the game as well as the item shop that will have more importance than ever before.

Look for Aonuma’s full message below.

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Bit Boy!! Arcade will be available towards the end of September, it has been confirmed. European pricing will be set at €7.99. A price for North America hasn’t been confirmed just yet.

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Zelda: Wind Waker HD will offer a number of improvements to the original GameCube title. As revealed by Eiji Aonuma through a Miiverse message, the ship will now always be full of wind, which allows players to move in any direction without using the Wind Waker to change the wind’s direction. This is in addition to the Swift Sail for faster travel.

Wind Waker HD will also include a “nautical chart” – displayed on the GamePad – during sailing segments. Aonuma noted how it “works like a car nav”, making it “much easier to travel to the small islands and salvage points scattered around the great sea.”

You can find Aonuma’s full message below:

Hello, members of the Zelda Community! This is Eiji Aonuma of Nintendo. It’s great to be posting here again.

In the Nintendo Direct video that aired today, we announced new information on the soon to be released The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD. I would like to take this opportunity to talk about things that we weren’t able to include in the announcement.

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Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against HackYourConsole.com, it was announced today. This is yet another step in the company’s battle against piracy.

HackYourConsole sells unauthorized Nintendo titles as well as devices/services that circumvent security implemented in Wii and DS systems. The person in charge of the site additionally modifies Wii consoles to allow the play of illegal software for a certain fee.

HackYourConsole also intended to distribute 3DS Gateway cards (which act similarly to R4 devices) to more easily pave the way for illegally downloaded games. Nintendo noted in its announcement, “Game copying devices, such as the R4, severely undermine the sales of video games created by thousands of developers.”

You can find the full press release below.

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This week’s Japanese eShop update is as follows:

3DS

Downloadable Titles
Simple DL Series Vol. 15 The Mahjong – 500 yen
3D The Super Shinobi II (3D Shinobi III) – 600 yen
Denpa Ningen no RPG 3 – 1,000 yen
Maru G?kaku! Hisho Kentei – 2,800 yen
Kemono-den Sentai Ky?ry?ja Game de Gaburincho (retail title) – 4,980 yen
Nekketsu K?ha Kunio-kun SP Rant? Ky?s?kyoku (retail title) 4,500 yen
One Piece Romance Dawn B?ken no Yoake (retail title) – 5,980 yen
Conception II: Nanahoshi no Michibiki to Mazuru no Akumu DEMO – FREE
Hulu – FREE (with monthly fee)

Virtual Console
Ike Ike! Nekketsu Hockey-bu: Subette Koronde Dairant? (Famicom) – 500 yen
Binary Land (Famicom) – 500 yen

Wii U

Downloadable Titles
Ry? ga Gotoku 1&2 HD for Wii U (Yakuza 1&2 HD, retail title) – 4,700 yen

Virtual Console
Kamaitachi no Yoru (Super Famicom) – 800 yen

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