Nintendo plans to ship the Metallic Red Japanese 3DS system in Japan this month. To be clear, this is the older 3DS system, not the 3DS XL model.
The Metallic Red 3DS system will be available on June 13. Pricing is set at 15,000 yen.
Arc System Works is renowned for its BlazBlue and Guilty Gear fighting games. But on the Japanese 3DS eShop, the company released something completely different: Korokesu.
Korokesu is an action-puzzle game with dice-rolling elements. Here’s everything we know about it:
– Push, pull, and spin the dice around
– Need to delete the dice by getting similar faces on the dice to touch each other
– Two modes: Trial and Puzzle
– Trial: get the highest possible score by deleting the surrounding dice in the span of 3 minutes
– Get a higher score by chaining them together for combos
– When you delete dice, it takes a short while for them to completely disappear
– If you can manage to get another dice to fit in before they disappear, it activates the chain effect
– This deletes more dice and increases your score
– Puzzle: stages and dice positions are already set and your goal is to delete them
– 50 different stages included in Puzzle mode
– Game has a high score board and achievements that can be acquired by meeting certain conditions in the game
– Unconventional story
– Takes place in a galaxy far away
– The people of the planet Saikorogashi (Saikoro is dice, Korogashi is roll in Japanese) spent their days happily rolling dice
– One day, they decided to hold a contest to see who the best dice roller on the planet is
– Prince decided to participate as well
– Prince’s expression makes it hard to know what he’s thinking about, but he seems to be more excited than usual regarding the upcoming tournament
– King shows intense feelings and secret supports the anxious prince
– 500 yen
Capcom USA senior vice-president Christian Svensson commented further on the decision to release Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies in the west as a digital download only.
One fan expressed some concern about limiting the game to the eShop. By releasing the title digitally, the thought was that its visibility and sales would be limited.
Svensson isn’t too concerned. He wrote on the Capcom-Unity boards in response:
Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter has provided his NPD hardware estimates for the month of April 2013.
Based on retail checks, Pachter tells CNET that Wii U sales are down to 55,000 units – a 19 percent decrease compared to March. Pachter also says that Wii sales stand at 75,000 units.
Other NPD estimates include 205,000 units for the Xbox 360, 185,000 units for the 3DS (up 46 percent year-over-year), 165,000 units for the PlayStation 3, and 30,000 units for the PlayStation Vita (down 57 percent year-over-year).
We’ll know if Pachter’s estimates were correct when the NPD report goes live this Thursday.
Natsume’s Twitter account confirms that Harvest Moon will be hitting the North American 3DS eShop this week as a Virtual Console download. It will be available on Thursday.
It’s the announcement you’ve all been waiting for!Harvest Moon GBC will be available Thursday, May 16th on the US 3DS eShop.
— Natsume Inc. (@Natsume_Inc) May 14, 2013
Other Nintendo digital downloads scheduled for release this week include Super Metroid (Wii U VC), Super Mario Bros. 2 (Wii U VC), and The Starship Damrey.
Goodbye Galaxy Games, the developer behind the DSiWare titles Flipper, Mace Mathician, and Color Commando, is hard at work in its first 3DS eShop game. Circle Entertainment will publish the project, which goes by the name “Tappingo”. Designer Hugo Smits told Nintendo Life that Tappingo is “a real puzzle game” similar to that of Picross.
Future games from Goodbye Galaxy will likely remain on the 3DS. Smits’ love for handhelds means Wii U releases aren’t being considered currently.
That being said, Smits does have positive thoughts when it comes to the Wii U:
From an indie perspective it looks really good. Unity support will really make it easier. I think Nintendo made some really smart moves there.
From a gamer perspective; I’m not really sold yet on the system. I’m still waiting for that one special game that will keep me hooked for weeks.
For now, I cannot wait to enjoy Donkey Kong on my 3DS XL!
As for development; I don’t think it will happen, I just love the handhelds and I’m probably going to stick with 3DS development. And honestly I think this is a good thing. With Wii U really opening up for indies with Unity, I expect a lot of indie projects going there.
So I think it’s good that a few studios will keep putting out quality and exclusive 3DS content for gamers to enjoy.
A portion of a Eurogamer article seems to confirm that WWE 2K14 won’t be heading to the Wii U.
2K Sports told the site that the wrestling game will be launching on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but “the game will again skip Wii U” – just like WWE ’13.
Eurogamer’s Wii U comment comes after the PS3/360 remark, so it’s not entirely clear if 2K Sports made an exact confirmation about the status of WWE 2K14 for Nintendo’s console (and we’re waiting for Take-Two/2K to come out and provide an official statement). Still, it’s not looking good, folks.
Ubisoft has confirmed that the same Rayman Legends pre-order bonuses available to UK consumers through GAME will also be made available in North America. You’ll get an exclusive character skin by reserving the title at GameStop.
You can find images of the exclusive skins and new screenshots from Rayman Legends’ “20,000 Lums under the Sea” World above. We’re including the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 skins as well to satisfy your curiosity.
Source: Ubisoft PR
