What would EarthBound look like with 3D visuals? Designer Christopher Behr has come up with an answer of his own. Check out Behr’s work above – it’s quite impressive.
Puzzle & Dragons Z is off to a monstrous start in Japan. In its first week, the game sold well over 500,000 copies.
Puzzle & Dragons Z may have moved even more had GungHo Online Entertainment shipped additional product. Analyst David Gibson says that the title sold through 78% percent of its debut shipment – a very high figure.
Famitsu – #1 title was Puzzle & Dragons Z for 3DS which sold 535k but had 78% sell through which suggests extra inventory,company hoping 1m+
— David Gibson (@gibbogame) December 18, 2013
Update: Deal is dead on Amazon, but can be found for the same price on GameStop.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate has been seeing sales on Wii U as of late, but there haven’t been too many discounts for the 3DS version. That’s no longer the case! Amazon is selling Ultimate for $20 on 3DS. It’s currently back-ordered, but you can still place an order
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Like many Wii U games, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze supports off-TV play. But if you happen to be playing regularly – on TV that is – the controller will go dark. Retro implemented the functionality in order to “save battery.”
While we’re on the topic of controllers, Tropical Freeze will support a whole bunch of them. You can use the GamePad, Pro Controller, Wiimote and nunchuck combo, or Wiimote by itself (sideways).
Despite the vitriol online, this year’s VGX Awards appear to have been a big success on a technical level, with the show bringing more viewers for more time than they had every thought possible. Viacom’s Erik Flannigan said that the show “exceeded” their expectations, and that the average view time (32 minutes) was “way beyond our wildest dreams”.
Producer Casey Patterson chimed in, saying that they’re already talking about next year’s show:
“Yes, we would love to do this show again and those are the discussions we are having right now, and we’ll produce that show, that stream in the same way we produced this year’s which is to take the feedback of the gamers, good and bad.”
“The only thing we can do is assure gamers that we are listening. They can tell from the show we built this year that we like them talking to us. Good, bad, ugly, we want to them to continue to talk to us at the decibel that they have been.”
– VGX producer Casey Patterson
NES Remix was made by none other than indieszero. That’s the same company behind the Theatrhythm Final Fantasy and first two Game Center CX games.
indieszero has had a close relationship with Nintendo in the past. The two collaborated on titles such as Electroplankton, America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking, and most recently, Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre.
The footage above comes from the updated Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze site. You can check it out here.
Thanks to Tytygh for the tip.
