Update 2: Bumped to the front page. Nintendo of America has confirmed a presentation as well for 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET. You’ll be able to watch it here.
Update: Aaaaand Nintendo’s Japanese Twitter account has confirmed a presentation as well. News regarding the company’s first-party lineup and services will be detailed. The official Japanese page calls this one a “Wii U Direct: Nintendo Games” broadcast.
A new, dedicated Wii U Nintendo Direct is imminent. Satoru Iwata will be hosting a presentation tomorrow to announce new games for the platform. Maybe we’ll hear about something from Capcom?
Thus far, the Nintendo Direct has only been confirmed for Europe. The broadcast will take place at 2 PM GMT tomorrow.
Nintendo of America/Japan may follow up with announcements of their own. If and/or when that happens, we’ll be sure to update this post.
We’ll just call this game Resident Evil: Revelations… it’ll easier to distinguish it from the 3DS version.
Resident Evil: Revelations is indeed coming to consoles. After weeks of speculation, Capcom has confirmed the title for Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC. The new version launches on May 21 in North America and May 24 in Europe. Digital versions of Revelations’ HD port are planned.
Capcom is bringing extra content to the new version of Revelations. In addition to HD visuals, it will feature “a terrifying new enemy, extra difficulty mode and improvements to Raid Mode such as new weapons, skill sets and the opportunity to play as Hunk and other characters from the series.”
Revelations will cost $49.99 / €49.99 on consoles. The PC version will be available for $39.99 / €39.99.
Source: Capcom PR
Atlus will be bringing an Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan demo to the 3DS eShop next month. Owners of the handheld will be able to grab the download from the store starting on February 7.
In the demo, gamers will encounter the opening gameplay areas featured in the full title, including the introduction, initial mini-dungeon (Old Forest Mine), first skyship area (Windy Plains), and areas of the first main dungeon (Lush Woodlands). Sidequests in the main dungeon will be available, as will the complete set of equipment, skills, and classes from full title. Various facilities in town are included in the demo, such as Guild Card exchanges via QR code and select QR gifts.
All progress made in the demo can be transferred over to the retail release.
Source: Atlus PR
LEGO City: Undercover is a big game. It features a large overworld that is probably bigger than the one included in LEGO Batman 2.
According to executive producer Loz Doyle, it will take players ten minutes just to drive a loop around Undercover’s city. The world is also made up of side roads, a ground level city, and more.
“It would take 10 minutes just to drive a loop of the city. That doesn’t even include exploring all the side roads and other regions. Not only is there the ground level city to explore but you can also get up on the rooftops where there is a whole load of additional gameplay.”
Famitsu recently conducted a poll to find out which systems its readers are most interested in purchasing this year. 75.6% of the participants were male while 24.4% were female.
Below are the results:
- PS Vita – 64.0%
- 3DS – 48.2%
- Wii U – 33.8%
- PS3 – 25.2%
- PC – 14.4%
- Xbox 360 – 10.6%
- Smartphone – 10.0%
- PSP – 9.6%
- Wii – 9.0%
- iPad – 7.0%
- DSi/DSiLL – 5.2%
- iPhone – 5.0%
- iPod Touch – 4.0%
- Other – 2.4%
Capcom appears to have some sort of new Wii U game announcement on the way.
During a Monster Hunter Tri stream event yesterday, community manager Brett Elston teased incoming game-related news for the platform. Elston didn’t offer much in the way of hints, but did note that it may “not be too much of a surprise if you’ve been paying attention to the Internet”.
“… we should have more Wii U news in general very soon… for games. I’ll just tease that out there. Might not be too much of a surprise if you’ve been paying attention to the Internet, but probably very soon you’ll hear something else about a game for said platform.”
So what could it be? Well, there’s one significant, unannounced Capcom that has been talked about quite a bit as of late: Resident Evil: Revelations Unveiled Edition. While we’re not sure if the title is coming to Wii U, a port would certainly make sense and could fit in with ONM’s February teaser for a “stunning new game”.
Thanks to Jake for the tip.
Nintendo and Konami are teaming up for the release of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate in Europe. The Big N will be handling sales, marketing, and distribution of the new 3DS title throughout the continent as well as in Australia. Konami will remain as the game’s publisher.
Laurent Fischer, Managing Director, Marketing, PR & Distributor Markets at Nintendo of Europe, said:
“There is a rich history of Castlevania games launching on Nintendo consoles dating back to the original Castlevania game which launched on the NES in the 80s. We are really proud to be partnering with Konami once again to bring the latest instalment in the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow franchise to Nintendo 3DS.”
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate hits Europe on March 8.
Source: Nintendo PR
