Numerous UK retailers are reporting Wii U sell-outs at their shops a week before the console hits the territory.

Pre-orders have been high, which doesn’t leave much inventory for remaining stock. MCV writes that “some retailers have told us their already taken orders against future Wii U shipments.”

HMV may be the one bright spot in terms of available inventory. The retailer apparently obtained some extra stock for its midnight launch.

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We have a slightly better idea as to when the ZombiU demo will be available. One of the game’s developer has confirmed that the download will be hitting the Wii U eShop before December 15.

Let’s hope the Rayman Legends demo will also be out by then…

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Another round of upcoming digital downloads have been rated and priced. The full listing can be found below, and more details are at the included links.

November 29

Invasion of the Alien Blobs! (DSiWare) – $1.99 / 200 points
Bloons TD 4 (DSiWare) – $4.99 / 500 points

December 6

Crystal Adventure (DSiWare) – $1.99 / 200 points
Christmas Wonderland 2 (DSiWare) – $7.99 / 800 points
Murder on the Titanic (3DS Download) – $7.99

3DS

1. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
2. Animal Crossing
3. Fire Emblem
4. Ace Attorney 5
5. Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion

Wii

1. Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
2. LEGO The Lord of thE Rings
3. Wreck-It Ralph
4. Young Justice: Legacy
5. Karaoke Joysound

Wii U

1. New Super Mario Bros. U
2. Pikmin 3
3. Nintendo Land
4. Rayman Legends
5. ZombiU

Keep in mind that this list was compiled and published before certain games came out. Expect the results to change next month.

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Eurocom, the developer of Dead Space: Extraction and the most-recent 007 games, has significantly reduced the size of its team. Over 200 staffers had been employed by the company, but only 50 will remain.

The company said in a statement:

“Eurocom are undertaking a restructuring which I regret to say has meant we’ve made the majority of our workforce redundant today. This includes many very experienced, talented and highly skilled employees, and we’d like to thank them all for your hard work and efforts. We’ve fought to try and save as many jobs as possible, but the steep decline in demand for console games, culminating in a number of console projects falling through in the last week, left us with no option. Eurocom has retained a core staff of just under 50 employees and will be focusing mainly on mobile opportunities moving forward.”

ThisIsDerbyshire.co.uk writes that Eurocom is suffering from cash-flow problems. The site says the studio is working hard to preserve the final 42 jobs.

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A few issues have plagued the Wii U launch. Users have encountered freezing problems, for instance, and one user even manged to gain access to a Miiverse mock menu.

Although it hasn’t been smooth sailing for Nintendo, EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich says the Wii U was successful. Divnich is also not at all concerned that the console will perform well on the market throughout the holiday season.

“The Nintendo Wii-U launch was a success. There were issues. Issues that are common among hardware launches and Nintendo should address them over time. Nintendo will have a successful holiday season, as they always do. I have no concerns about the Wii-U’s success through the holidays.”

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