The Zelda: Symphony of the Goddess tour may be coming to a city near you. More concerts are lined up starting next Saturday and lasting through mid-September.
Below are the full lineup of dates:
Mar 16, 2013 7:30 PM Portland OR Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
May 23, 2013 6:30 PM London UK Hammersmith Apollo
May 25, 2013 8:00 PM Paris FR Le Palais des Congrès
May 28, 2013 8:00 PM Berlin DE Tempodrom
Jun 06, 2013 8:00 PM Atlanta GA Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center
Jun 10, 2013 8:00 PM San Francisco CA Davies Symphony Hall
Jun 12, 2013 8:30 PM Los Angeles CA The Greek Theatre
Jun 14, 2013 8:00 PM Montréal QC Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
Jun 29, 2013 8:00 PM Austin TX Long Center
Sep 07, 2013 7:30 PM Toronto ON Sony Performing Arts Centre
Sep 12, 2013 8:00 PM Seattle WA Benaroya Hall
Warner Bros. is planning on releasing a brand new Batman: Arkham game this year. Rumors have suggested that Rocksteady Studios, the developer behind the series’ first two titles, isn’t making the game. Instead, Warner Bros. Montreal may be handling the project.
Might an announcement be on the way? The official Batman: Arkham Asylum page has been deleted, and the Arkham City page has been renamed to “Batman Arkham” – maybe hinting at an upcoming announcement.
Level-5 brought almost all of Guild01’s games over to the North American and European 3DS eShops. The company likely has similar plans for Guild02. Trademarks for Bugs vs. Tanks! and The Starship Damrey have both been filed in the US.
Guild02 does have a third game: Monsters Come Out on Friday. There doesn’t appear to be a trademark for the title in the US, so this one could be staying in Japan.
Care to save a bit of cash on Animal Crossing: New Leaf? Then your best option is to reserve the game from Amazon
. Although not substantial, the retailer has taken $5 off New Leaf’s pre-orders. You’re guaranteed to have the game for $34.99 by placing down an order now.
Two other deals from Amazon include:
Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion
– $17.98, save $12
Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights
– $11.75, save over $18
LEGO City: Undercover wasn’t always the game we know of today. Well before Nintendo stepped into the picture, developer TT Fusion was throwing around different ideas and prototypes. One such example includes SimCity.
Producer Loz Doyle commented on LEGO City’s SimCity-like start in an interview with MTV Multiplayer:
“Well no, for a few years beforehand we’d been talking to LEGO about doing a LEGO City game, and we didn’t really know what that game was going to be. We were sort of going down the road of it being a construction game, where it was more about building, like a ‘SimCity’ style game. We weren’t really sure what it was going to be, but we knew we wanted to make a game based on the LEGO City franchise from the beginning; it was definitely always about LEGO City. It was only really as we started to prototype it that it turned into a full, open world game.”
And regarding cut ideas for the game, Doyle said:
“Well in the game you have lots of different character abilities, so not only do you play as a policeman, but you go, as the title suggests, undercover, as different characters, such as a robber, a farmer, and a fireman. We had different gameplay for each one. For example, if there was a safe to crack in the game, you’d hold the Wii U GamePad up towards the screen, and you’d get an x-ray of the safe, and there would be cogs displayed on the screen that you could turn them until you cracked the safe. We had lots of different ideas for the different characters to use the GamePad, but in the end we decided to make it into a police device, because it was getting a bit confusing as to what it was. It was sort of an all-encompassing device that sort of did everything, but we felt that it was getting to be too much. So, we scaled that back to be purely a police communicator that gets given to you in the game. So when Chase goes to the police station for the first time, one of the other characters says, ‘here is your new police communicator.’ So you really feel tied into it.”
Are you a part of the 3DS Ambassador program? Then you may wish to head to the eShop for a Wrecking Crew update. The new version was made available earlier today as part of Wrecking Crew’s official launch on the store.
Note that the update isn’t included in the official list. You’ll need to search for it manually by visiting the “Your Downloads” section of the eShop.
Applying the update doesn’t bring along any massive changes. However, it does introduce proper save states.
