A new piece of important Fire Emblem: Awakening DLC is out today in North America.
Players can now purchase the “Future Past 1” map, which involves the rescue of Cynthia, Kjelle, Noire and Nah. The four characters have been trapped in a prison. The map does indeed depict the alternate future that has the adult characters’ living on, and along the way, you’ll encounter special conversation between the parents and kids.
You can purchase the “Future Past 1” map for $3. It is, however, possible to download the full three maps for $6.50. Maps 2 and 3 will be unlocked at a later date.
Atlus won’t be publishing Devil Survivor 2: Break Record in Japan this summer as initially expected.
Today, the company announced that the 3DS game has been delayed to autumn. It was originally scheduled to launch on July 11.
Atlus apologized for the delay in its announcement, but said that extra time will be used to improve the quality of Break Record.
Not one, but two high-profile Assassin’s Creed developers are gone from Ubisoft.
It was confirmed earlier this week that Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets had departed from the company, but official comments from Désilets imply that he was forcefully removed.
Assassin’s Creed producer and former THQ Montreal colleague Jean-François Boivin is also out from Ubisoft, Désilets confirmed via Twitter:
Thinking of my good friend and producer @jfboivin who also got fired yesterday. I’m sharing your support with him…
— Patrice Desilets (@PatriceDez) May 8, 2013
Boivin’s initial run with Ubisoft began in 2005, and eventually took over as production manager and associate producer on Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed 2 and Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. Boivin moved on to THQ Montreal in 2010.
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D is, in many ways, identical to the original Wii version. However, one small element that the 3DS release lacks is idle animations.
Some of you may remember that Donkey Kong pulled out a DS if you left him alone for a small period of time. You won’t be seeing that in the 3DS game, unfortunately. It’s not a big omission, but you have to wonder why it was removed.
15 EA games are going to skip Wii U due to its lack of support for Frostbite 3
Madden is out the door, FIFA is up in the air, and now we’re hearing that a total of 15 games are set to skip out on Wii U due to the console’s poor testing when put up against EA’s ‘Frostbite 2’ and (consequently) ‘Frostbite 3’ engines. We don’t know for sure which games will be skipping the console, but it’s a safe bet that Battlefield, Mass Effect, and some of the studio’s Star Wars titles won’t be hitting Nintendo’s home console when they come to PS4 and the next generation Xbox.
So when it comes down to it, much like with Wii, Wii U owners may just have to give up on multiplatform support. We’ll certainly have good third party games (it’ll be much cheaper to developer for Wii U than PS4, after all) and great indie titles, but when it comes to these big-budget action games, we seem to be missing out on pretty much everything! Which may not be much of a loss given that most of us bought a Wii U for Nintendo first party titles and other games like that anyway.
