Nintendo’s YouTube channels have leaked out some (if not all) of the titles set to be featured during tomorrow’s North American Nintendo Direct.
The company’s 3DS channel lists three private videos, which are actually Fire Emblem: Awakening, LEGO City: Undercover – The Chase Begins, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Thumbnails of each trailer were located through a bit of detective work.
Over at the Nintendo Direct YouTube channel, the presentation in full is set to private. But thumbnails from this video were uncovered as well, showing Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Satoru Iwata dressed with a Luigi hat, and Reggie Fils-Aime.
Nothing was located in the Wii U channel, for those who may be wondering.
So keep those expectations in check. It doesn’t sound like we’ll be getting any major announcements like last time, though maybe there will still be a surprise or two. It’ll be interesting to see if Nintendo of Europe/Japan feature additional/different content. I can’t see the Japanese stream talking much about Animal Crossing or Fire Emblem, given that the two titles have been out for some time.
If you live in Europe (or Japan), you can purchase Tank! Tank! Tank! two different ways. The first is by purchasing the full game at retail. The other is by downloading a free base game from the Wii U eShop.
A Basic Pack comes with Monster Battle mode, Free-For-All mode, and Team Versus mode, each of which are set in the Urban Area stage. Gamers can try out the free version three times per day.
Below is a full listing of DLC with European prices. Buying one item unlocks the game, meaning there won’t be daily play limits in place.
- VERSUS / Industrial Complex (€1.99 / £1.59)
- VERSUS / Ruins (€1.99 / £1.59)
- VERSUS / Coastal Area (€1.99 / £1.59)
- VERSUS / Canyon (€1.99 / £1.59)
- VERSUS / Volcanic Area (€1.99 / £1.59)
- VERSUS / Lunar Base (€1.99 / £1.59)
- MY KONG (€1.99 / £1.59 until 28th February, €9.99 / £7.99 after that date)
- MONSTER BATTLE / Ruins (€3.99 / £3.19)
- MONSTER BATTLE / Industrial Complex (€3.99 / £3.19)
- STORY MISSION (€9.99 / £7.99)
Brownie Brown recently changed its name to 1-UP Studio and restructured. Seemingly as a result of these moves that occurred a couple of weeks ago, founder Shinichi Kameoka has left the company. He’s already gone on to form a new studio of his own known as “Brownies”.
View an official site for Brownies here. An update will land on the page on March 1.
This is rather concerning. SEGA and Gearbox showed a demo of Aliens: Colonial Marines last year, but the final product looks quite different… in a bad way. The video’s title appropriately asks: “What the hell happened to Aliens: Colonial Marines?”
Dragon Quest VII sold a whopping 827,922 in its first week in Japan. That figure is tremendous, but one other remake has it beat: 2010’s Dragon Quest VI with 906,458 copies sold. Other recent Dragon Quest remake sales include IV with 597,301 units and V with 643,764 units.
It should be noted that Dragon Quest VI was released on the DS when the install base consisted of over 25 million users. Currently, the 3DS total stands at less than half that number in Japan.
Urban Trial Freestyle has a slightly more concrete release date. As things stand now, the game will be released in Q1 2013. Look out for a final date in the near future.
Source: Tate Multimedia S.A PR
Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai believes games could do a better job at story telling. In fact, Sakurai told Famitsu that he feels they “are honestly irksome”.
He discussed his story thoughts to the magazine:
“As a player, as someone who’s been playing games for a long time, the stories that get told in video games are honestly irksome to me pretty often. For example, games that take forever to get through the intro and won’t let you start playing, or games that go through the trouble of being fully voiced and wind up having their tempo all messed up as a result. I just want to enjoy the game and I think I’m just intolerant of aspects that block that enjoyment. I can enjoy a story in any other form of media; I just want the game to let me play it already.”
The 90’s Arcade Racer publisher Nicalis posted a mock-up image of what the game will look like on Wii U to its Twitter account. Take a look below:
