Somewhat surprisingly, one aspect of Watch_Dogs was inspired by Pac-Man.
Creative director Jonathan Morin told Japanese publication 4Gamer that the game’s NPCs took a note from the ghosts in Namco Bandai’s classic game.
He explained:
“For example the NPCs of Watch_Dogs have the movement pattern of the ghosts appeared in Pac-man. In the algorithm of the ghosts, when there’s only one of them, the movement is simple. But if you increase them to two or three it suddenly becomes complex.”
Ubisoft today announced plans to increase the scope of its Quebec studio by 500 jobs, increasing the division’s total staff count to more than 3,500. If all goes well, all new employees will be brought in by 2020.
Ubisoft Quebec’s expansion will be a $373-million investment. The studio is expected to be working on new console and mobile titles in the future.
Chimpuzzle Pro is a new game from indie developer CW-Games. The “jungle-Tetris”, containing 20 original levels, is expected to hit the Wii U eShop in February.
A little more footage from the Wii U update. Showing skipping and speeding through videos (L/R buttons), PDF compatibility in the browser, trying more loading (retail game, app, downloadable game).
Nintendo has shared the full patch notes of additions/improvements made with the Wii U’s latest update, version 4.0.0. The big highlights are being able to display Wii content on the GamePad, addition of the Friend List icon to the Wii U Menu, updates to Wii U Chat and the Internet browser, and more.
Here’s the full rundown:
There unfortunately wasn’t a whole lot that I could show here. The big part of the update is off-TV play for Wii games, though I can’t get direct feed of that.
You can get a look at a few tiny changes to the eShop/Miiverse, and the new screenshot feature which allows you to post to social networks. I also did a very short entering/exiting a VC game to show the loading time.
Update: A quick overview of new features:
-USB Keyboard
-Wii Off TV Play (still requires Wiimotes)
-Surround Sound support for Wii games (Dolby Pro Logic II)
-Access Friend’s List from Wii U menu directly
-Upload screens taken when pausing the game directly to blogs and forums using the browser.
-Option to receive automatically downloaded software from Nintendo.
-Wii U Chat via headset connected to the Game Pad
-View PDFs on the Browser.
A new Wii U update is now available for download. It should be up around the world – North America, Europe, and Japan.
It seems like the update is a rather large download (648 MB), so we’re not quite sure what it does just yet. We’ll keep this post up-to-date with details.
