Notion Games and Ubisoft have settled on a name change for Super Ubi Land. Ubisoft asked Notion to change Super Ubie Land’s name due to the similarity of “Ubi” to “Ubie”.
The change is nothing major – the downloadable title will now be called “Super Ubie Land”.
Notion tweeted just a short while ago:
The great @notiongamesllcand @ubisoft debate is over! We have settled on the name #SuperUbieLand! Ubisoft has been a great help!
— Notion_Games (@NotionGamesLLC) May 16, 2013
“Super Ubie Land.” Same game, now with extra vitamin E. #superubieland #gamedev
— Notion_Games (@NotionGamesLLC) May 16, 2013
Nintendo announced the Metallic Red 3DS system for Japan last night. Also hidden among the news: the Cobalt Blue and Misty Pink color variations will be discounted. Nintendo has not said when the two products will halt production.
Tom Nook has been around ever since the first Animal Crossing game, but he’s not viewed as players’ favorite character in most instances.
Why is this so? Well, Tom Nook usually has players beginning their adventure by paying off a loan. A fairly significant one. And Nook makes sure to get those bells (the game’s currency) out of you in a somewhat pushy fashion.
At the end of the day, Nook is “very misunderstood”, according to Animal Crossing: New Leaf co-director Aya Kyogoku. Kyogoku said that Nook is “just passionate about his business.”
“We think he is very misunderstood. He’s just passionate about his business. He’s not like a loan shark. He doesn’t add a handling fee or anything like that. He can wait as long as it takes for you to pay back. He’s not as bad as other people might think he is.”
There’s been some concern that Nintendo has been cracking down on “Let’s Play” YouTube videos. The main issue? Users are sending in complaints regarding blocked videos.
Nintendo has since issued an official response to the situation. In a statement provided to GameFront, the company explained that some videos may now be accompanied by ads, but other than that, everything should be status quo.
As part of our on-going push to ensure Nintendo content is shared across social media channels in an appropriate and safe way, we became a YouTube partner and as such in February 2013 we registered our copyright content in the YouTube database. For most fan videos this will not result in any changes, however, for those videos featuring Nintendo-owned content, such as images or audio of a certain length, adverts will now appear at the beginning, next to or at the end of the clips. We continually want our fans to enjoy sharing Nintendo content on YouTube, and that is why, unlike other entertainment companies, we have chosen not to block people using our intellectual property.
For more information please visit http://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/faq.html
Later this year, Watch_Dogs will enter the same position as Assassin’s Creed when it launched in 2007. Watch_Dogs will just getting its feet wet on the market, but there are nevertheless high expectations.
Ubisoft is also banking on the IP becoming a hit, especially from a sales standpoint. EMEA executive director Alain Corre said during a financial call today that the title “can do probably as well or probably even better than Assassin’s Creed I”.
“Watch_Dogs can do probably as well or probably even better than AC1, in the target we’ve given we’ve taken quantity that are below AC1. So that’s the point.”
We haven’t seen a whole lot of CryEngine 3-supported games on Wii U. However, Precursor Games is taking advantage of the tech to create Shadow of the Eternals – a game that will come to the eShop in due time.
Running CryEngine 3 on the Wii U wasn’t difficult, according to Precursor. Responding to one fan during a Facebook Q&A, the company said that “it’s not hard at all. The CryEngine3 fully supports the Wii U”.
Now if only DICE and EA could say the same about the Frostbite engine…
