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Recently, Ubisoft Japan and 13 other companies held an event to introduce Japanese-based businessmen to French President François Hollande. Various booths were on display – including one from Ubisoft – which was decorated with Rabbids Land. Hollande didn’t have time to play the game, but he did get to see Assassin’s Creed III in action. He was also presented with a Wii U console along with copies of Just Dance 4, Rabbids Land, and Assassin’s Creed III as a gift.

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I picked up the new indie title Cloudberry Kingdom on Wii U this evening and was disheartened to see that the leaderboards were only functioning offline– meaning it only registered scores that were obtained on my Wii U system locally. After poking around Miiverse for a bit I learned from educated game owners that the leaderboards simply aren’t online-capable right now, but Pwnee Studios does plan on patching that in.

It’s unfortunate, for sure. I’m looking forward to being able to compare my scores with my friends soon.

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I’m not playing the console’s requiem, but we all know Wii U needs help.
Can Nintendo find it in their 3DS playbook?

Author: Austin

It was a curious thing when 3DS launched. Nintendo pushed to get the handheld out within their 2010 fiscal year for the sake of pleasing their impatient investors, and as a result, the stereoscopic system squeezed through the closing gates of time onto an open market in the middle of March with no system-selling games, unfinished firmware, and a beefy $250 pricetag. It was a mistake– a huge mistake, even– and one that Nintendo quickly learned from.

And then, in holiday 2012, it turned out that they didn’t learn from it. Although backed up by a slightly more reconcilable lineup of games, Nintendo’s follow-up to the Wii– the poorly named “Wii U”– seemed to saunter slowly through the extravagant launch gates with its face obscured by confusing a marketing strategy, before tripping on its own lack of feet and face-planting into the mud. It, much like 3DS, didn’t have any truly exciting pieces of software, its operating system was unfinished, and its price point largely unjustifiable due to those things. Perhaps in order to capitalize on the situation, Nintendo delayed all of their worthwhile launch window titles into the second half of 2013. Which certainly didn’t help matters.

Given all of the parallels between 3DS and Wii U, it’s only natural that we ask the question: Can Nintendo save Wii U using the same strategies that saved 3DS?

It’s not a simple question by any means, so let’s take a look at what’s there to consider.

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Gaist Crusher has been dated for Japan. The game will be available on December 5 for 4,990 yen. Capcom will also release a bundle for 5,990 yen containing the game, the special accessory we covered earlier today, and a Dark costume/gear.

Jim Gordon, the well-known police commissioner in the DC Comics, will be making an appearance in Batman: Arkham Origins.

Creative director Eric Holmes confirmed on Twitter that the character will be “encountered in the story”. Holmes hope to show him soon, but no exact date has been set.

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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Famitsu published a new feature on Super Sonico in Production, which contains a few new details. We’ve translated the information below.

– Players act as the idol girl’s producer
– Manage her schedule and communicate with her
– Live concerts, bikini modeling, and the challenge of doing so much work, you’ll have to keep yourself busy if you want to be successful
– Supervised by Nitroplus
– Georide will be in charge of song and music production
– A lot of the Georide staff joined because they are such huge fans of the series
– On various stages and in many costumes, your job is to get Sonico to dance and sing at live concerts
– Famous music as well as completely original songs
– Another aspect has Sonico wearing different outfits while you aim and take the best pictures in 2D and 3D
– Can save images to an SD card

Speaking with GameTrailers, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies producer Motohide Eshiro spoke about the series’ future. No need to worry, Ace Attorney fans – the series will likely continue sometime in the future.

Eshiro noted that he personally doesn’t want the franchise to end with Dual Destinies, and even though he isn’t sure where it will go next, “I highly doubt this will be the end of Ace Attorney and Phoenix Wright.”

He said:

“I can tell you that once it’s out there and once we see what people think, we’ll have a good idea on what direction to go in next. I personally love the Ace Attorney universe. I don’t want it to end, I don’t think it will end with this. Exactly what shape it will take remains to be seen. Can’t talk too much about that now, but I highly doubt this will be the end of Ace Attorney and Phoenix Wright.”

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Spin the Bottle may be updated to incorporate the GamePad’s front facing camera.

KnapNok Games intends to bring future updates to Spin the Bottle. One potential idea is to take advantage of the GamePad’s camera.

According to KnapNok Games’ Lau Krosgaard:

“Right now, we are exploring… hmm… so this is kind of not official yet, but let’s say it to the world! [Laughs] I think our next update would be themed around the camera. We don’t really use that in these minigames, we have ideas of how to use the camera in some weird ways. So that is actually going to be our next update.”

Krosgaard also spoke about a desire to incorporate community features:

“I would really love to make an update which is more like a community update. I would like ideas from our fans, so that is our long term goal. Let us see what we can do. One thing I would really love to include at some point is the option of making your own extra rules. While you play, you write down an extra rule and be like ‘That is rule of this game!’ But then, maybe make an option to share those rules between players in the Miiverse. That would be really crazy.”

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