An estimate from Cowen & Company’s Doug Creutz indicates that Animal Crossing: New Leaf sold roughly 500,000 copies in the US last month. The 3DS game, along with The Last of Us, are said to be the only two new releases that sold over 100,000 units in June.
We should get a better idea as to how Animal Crossing performed when the official NPD data arrives this Thursday.
NIS America has announced that Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan will be hitting Europe on August 30. The 3DS game previously hit the states in February. Atlus handled publishing duties in North America and Japan.
Source: NISA PR
Nintendo has opened the official European Pikmin 3 site. You can find it right here. Visitors can watch a trailer, view the latest screenshots, read up on gameplay details, and more.
Warner Bros. has announced The LEGO Movie Videogame, set to launch alongside “The LEGO Movie” in 2014. A release is planned on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii U, PC, 3DS, and PS Vita.
In a scenario drawn from the film, The LEGO Movie Videogame puts LEGO kids into the role of Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. Players guide him as he is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
Players can collect and use various LEGO instruction pages to create construction sets. You’ll also be able to “harness the awesome power of the Master Builders to virtually build extraordinary LEGO creations along the way.” TT Games wil be adding in over 90 playable characters and 15 levels.
Source: Warner Bros. PR
Bethesda has once again commented on Wii U, reconfirming it has no games in development for the platform.
Speaking with MCV, Bethesda marketing VP Pete Hines said that “a number of factors” would be involved for the Wii U to become more attractive. Hines noted that the situation “depends on the games that we are making and how we think it aligns with that console, and how the hardware aligns with the other stuff we are making.”
For now, Bethesda has nothing coming to Wii U, and Hines isn’t sure whether things will change in the future. “We will see”, he said.
“It’s a number of factors. The truth is, it’s not something that we are currently developing for. I don’t know whether that changes down the road or not. It depends on the games that we are making and how we think it aligns with that console, and how the hardware aligns with the other stuff we are making. We will see.”
