In an announcement covering the digital release of Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny on the PlayStation Network last week, Natsume CEO and president Hiro Maekawa left an interesting tease. The company will be highlighting “more digital titles” at E3 2013 next month.
Maekawa said:
“We’re excited to show the media the fruit of the past year’s promise to provide more digital titles at next month’s E3 Expo.”
Natsume has been giving the Virtual Console quite a bit of love as of late. Maybe we’ll be hearing about more of these classic releases?
Source: Natsume PR
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A new Iwata Asks has gone live for your reading pleasure. The discussion is all about NERD – formerly of Mobiclip fame. Mobiclip underwent the name change after being fully acquired by Nintendo.
You can find the full Iwata Asks here. It’s filled with lots of juicy tidbits.
Three Kirby games are due out this week on the North American Wii U eShop this week as Virtual Console downloads. What about next week?
Listings of Nintendo’s site confirms that two games for May 30: Spelunker and Ghosts ‘N Goblins. The latter was previously confirmed by Capcom, though at least we know that nothing has changed. Each title is priced at $4.99.
Groove Heaven isn’t just hitting the European 3DS eShop this week – it’s also launching in North America. Pricing is set at $3.99.
A.N.N.E has been fully funded on Kickstarter with nearly $90,000 raised, but with only two days remaining, the project is unlikely to hit its Wii U stretch goal of $140,000. Fortunately, developer Gamesbymo has guaranteed that A.N.N.E. will head to the eShop even if that target isn’t reached.
All versions will be made in due time, though the wait will be a bit longer if stretch goals aren’t met.
Gamesbymo wrote on Kickstarter:
“The consoles listed in the stretch goals will happen regardless of if we meet the stretch goals or not. But it will take longer than if we do meet the stretch goals. This could be a good opportunity for the wishful to pledge $15 and up and then when the game comes out on console later, it will be a good reason to explore Planet Gomi a second time!”
