A few weeks ago, Nintendo started to post Fire Emblem: Awakening character art and details on its 3DS Facebook page. Thus far, content is available for Chrom, Frederick and Lisa. A rundown of each character is below, along with art.
Chrom
The prince of Ylisse and descendant of the Hero-King, Chrom leads a band of soldiers called Shepherds to defend the borders of his kingdom.
Frederick
Chrom’s lieutenant, Frederick. Frederick is a Ylissean knight who is sincere to a fault. He demands tremendous effort from the other Shepherds who fight alongside him to defend the borders of Ylisse.
Lissa
Chrom’s tomboyish little sister, Lissa, joins the Shepherds and fights alongside her brother to defend Ylisse from Plegian bandits.
Japan’s RPG series Tokyo Majin Gakuen started out on the original PlayStation, and eventually made its way to the DS and PSP. Its director, Shuuhou Imai, is now hard at work on projects for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS and smartphones.
Imai confirmed that the games are not tied in to the Tokyo Majin Gakuen franchise. They’re also brand new titles. Some of Imai’s releases will begin to arrive this year.
Physical and digital sales combined, the UK video games market is down from £1.934bn in 2011 to £1.598bn in 2012. The market experienced a 17.4 percent dip, according to the ERA.
There is in a small bright spot in the digital space. Sales of digital releases are up 7.7 percent in 2012, growing to £552.2m. Despite the fact that digital video game sales are experiencing a slow trend upwards, it is the most valuable entertainment sector in the UK.
It should be noted that most titles are still being sold in physical form, but digital games are making an impact. 65.4 per cent of the 2012 video games market was comprised of physical sales, compared to 2011’s 73.5 percent.
But even with support from digital, the overall market is slumping. Physical video games are at a lukewarm £1.05bn.
Those who pre-order Touch Detective: Funghi’s Big Breed will receive a couple of bonuses. All reserves come with a pouch and Funghi stickers. Photos of the two items are above.
007 Legends hit North American store shelves on December 11. European Wii U owners, however, are still waiting for its arrival.
Right now 007 is without an official, final European release date. When asked about the game’s launch, an Activision representative said it’s coming “later this year, TBC”.
This week’s GameStop deals are as follows:
Pilotwings 64 composer Dan Hess shared a completely random and interesting revelation in an interview with N64 Blog.
Hess told the site that while the team was making the new Pilotwings, one Nintendo executive – who came “with a briefcase chained to his arm” from Japan showed its in-progress work on Super Mario 64. The team took inspiration from the visit, which “served as motivation for us to make Pilotwings 64 as good as we possibly could.”
Hess said:
“One of my fondest memories is of a Nintendo executive flying from Japan, literally with a briefcase chained to his arm, to show our team they’re developing Super Mario 64 game. We were all blown away and it served as motivation for us to make Pilotwings 64 as good as we possibly could.”
Following the announcement of Pikmin 3 at last year’s E3, Shigeru Miyamoto said he wasn’t a huge fan of ditching the timer in Pikmin 2. He hinted that he was pushing for the mechanic’s return with the Wii U game.
In an interview with GamesMaster, Miyamoto once again stated that he wasn’t too big on the idea of removing the timed functionality.
When asked if the Pikmin 3 team had to make some important decisions about the direction of the series prior to development, Miyamoto said:
Activision had Pi Studios working on a game called “Sing Hero” at one point. This was the studio behind many of the Rock Band Wii games.
Not many details are known. However, points would be accumulated based on the number of fans players had.
Eventually, Activision made the decision to stop producing music games. Guitar Hero was abandoned, as was the new Sing Hero title.
LEGO has a brand new property in the works that will see the release of three video games throughout 2013.
According to Warner Bros., there are three different LEGO Legends of Chima projects in the works. Each will “provide an entirely unique and exciting adventure that builds to the next experience and complement the just announced LEGO Legends of Chima universe of products, which includes construction sets, vehicles, TV content and more.”
LEGO Legends of Chima is a fantasy adventure. The IP features different magical animal tribes and a story of good and evil, friendship and family.
