Just as a reminder, be aware that Donkey Kong has arrived on the Wii U eShop as a Virtual Console download on the cheap. It’s available for a measly $0.30 / €0.30 / £0.30. The cost will rise to the regular NES price point ($5) after August 13. Donkey Kong is the final title included in the Wii U Virtual Trial Campaign.
Astrogun founder Xander Davis made waves when he blasted the Wii U last year. Since then, he changed his tune and has high praise for Nintendo’s indie approach.
Davis’ new interest in the Wii U has resulted in his company becoming an official developer for the system. Better yet, Project CIDER has been confirmed for the eShop.
Davis told Nintendo Life:
“The kid in me is so thrilled to be making a game for a major Nintendo console that I dug up all my Nintendo Powers from 1988 onward and have been pouring over them for inspiration. It’s a good feeling, and I think that’s already making its way into the game design. I’m fulltime developing Project CIDER now, and the next few months are especially going to be very intense with a lot of rapid development. It’s a very exciting time.”
You can find out more about Project CIDER through the official website here.
Martian Manhunter was announced as the fifth character DLC for Injustice: Gods Among Us at Evo 2013 yesterday. When will players be able to get their hands on the new piece of content? The wait won’t be long, as Warner Bros. has said that Martian Manhunter will be releasing “in the coming weeks.”
Source: Warner Bros. Interactive PR
You can forget about F1 2013 coming to the Wii U.
Writing on Twitter, Codemasters creative director Steve Hood said that F1 2013 would “have to be a very different game just to run on the Wii U”. That means if you want any sort of F1 action, you’ll need to settle for F1 Race Stars Powered Up Edition.
Hood’s tweet read:
@Shaki12345 Unfortunately it'd have to be a very different game just to run on the Wii U
— Steve Hood (@T4RG4) July 9, 2013
The latest Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Wii U
1. Nintendo Land – Nintendo
2. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
3. LEGO City: Undercover – Nintendo
4. Game & Wario – Nintendo
5. Injustice: Gods Among Us – Warner Bros. Interactive
6. Batman: Arkham City – Armored Edition – Warner Bros. Interactive
7. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate – Capcom
8. Sports Connection – Ubisoft
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Activision Blizzard
10. ZombiU – Ubisoft
3DS
1. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
2. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team – Nintendo
3. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Nintendo
4. LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins – Nintendo
5. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D – Nintendo
6. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
7. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
8. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity – Nintendo
9. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo
10. Project X Zone – Namco Bandai
Source: Chart-Track
Zordix AB has prepared on a patch for Aqua Moto Racing 3D in order to address a number of bugs and improve stability.
Here’s the official overview from the game’s developer:
We are releasing a patch for our newly released game Aqua Moto Racing 3d. This is a small patch which attempts to fix some smaller issues with the save system and some stability issues we have noticed after the games release.
We have also noticed that on certain memory cards the game have problems with writing Street Pass times to it after a race. This might make your game sound stutter, for some almost nothing, for others a bit more. We recommend that if you do have this problem and feel it ruins your game experience you turn Street Pass functionality off, this will correct the problem instantly. The Street Pass functionality can be turned off from within the game in the settings.
The Aqua Moto Racing 3D patch is out now.
Source: Zordix AB PR
Nintendo is celebrating its 30th anniversary of the Famicom today. The system launched in Japan on July 15, 1983.
You could say that Nintendo has been in the console gaming business for a very, very long time. And company president Satoru Iwata only sees a bright future ahead.
Speaking with Japanese newspaper Nikkei Shinbun, Iwata said:
“Coming from thirty years in the home console business, I don’t think we’re suffering.”
Ubisoft has countless franchises at its disposal – Assassin’s Creed, Rayman, and Splinter Cell are just a few.
Watch_Dogs is one such IP that the publisher hopes can become a franchise of its own. That’s the approach Ubisoft took before giving it the green light.
Speaking with [a]list, Ubisoft’s senior vice president of sales and marketing Tony Key said that the company “won’t even start if we don’t think we can build a franchise out of it.” The comment came in response to [a]list asking if Ubisoft wants Watch_Dogs to be the foundation of a big franchise.
Absolutely. That’s what all our games are about; we won’t even start if we don’t think we can build a franchise out of it. There’s no more fire and forget – it’s too expensive.
We feel like we’re in a really good place with Watch_Dogs, but until we’re the biggest game of the year we’re not going to be satisfied.
Last year we cleaned up at E3 because we were pretty much the only next-gen game around. Watch_Dogs for us is really a franchise because we’re tapping into something people really care about, never more than when the NSA PRISM scandal broke.
The Soul Saga Kickstarter has come to an end, but it was most definitely a success for developer Disastercake.
A total of $192,222 was raised over the span of a month. Disastercake’s original goal was just $60,000.
Thanks to the huge support given to Soul Saga, the game managed to reach most of its stretch goals on Kickstarter. Soul Saga will indeed come to PlayStation 4, PS Vita, and Wii U. It will also feature elements such as voice acting.
You can find out more on Soul Saga here.
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U retail
The Smurfs 2 – €39.99 / £31.99
3DS VC
Shantae – €4.99 / £4.49
Spelunker – €3.99 / £3.59
3DS download
Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale – €7.99 / £7.19
Robot Rescue – €2.99 / £2.69
3DS demo
The Denpa Men 2: Beyond the Waves
DSiWare
Fashion Tycoon – €4.99 / £4.49 / 500 points
Rabi Lady 2 – €1.99 / £1.79 / 200 points
Special offers
Puddle – €4.99, was €9.99 (£4.49, was £8.99) – from 18/7/13 until 01/8/2013
Fractured Soul – €4.99, was €7.99 (£4.49, was £7.19) – from 18/7/13 until 01/8/2013
Permanent price drop
Virtue’s Last Reward – €24.99, was €40.00 (£19.99, was £30.00)
Source: Nintendo PR
