Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS) – 9/9/9/9
Lumines: Electronic Symphony (PSV) – 8/8/7/9
Cho~ricchi! Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omisecchi (3DS) – 8/7/8/8
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster (360) – 8/8/7/8
Code of Princess (3DS) – 8/8/7/7
Lord of the Rings: War in the North (PS3/360) – 8/7/7/7
Nano Assault (3DS) – 7/7/6/8
Detective Conan: Prelude from the Past (DS/PSP) – 7/7/6/6
Seinarukana: The Spirit of Eternity Sword 2 Oriharukon no Nanomotoni (PSP) – 6/7/6/6
Gearbox Software community managed Chris Faylor strongly believes that the Wii U version of Aliens: Colonial Marines isn’t a port.
SEGA senior producer Matt Powers referred to it as “the Wii U port”. As soon as Faylor heard this, he ran over to Powers and said:
“I hate that word. The Wii U version is not a port. Remove it from your vocabulary.”
I suppose this bodes well for the Wii U version of Colonial Marines! Even if it is a port (don’t shoot me, Mr. Faylor!), it seems as though Gearbox really cares about their work on Nintendo’s console.
All you PAL gamers worried that we wouldn’t be seeing Tecmo Koei’s strategy spinoff of the Pokemon series can rest assured. We now have information from Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classification (they cover games too!) that suggests that the DS game will be released in Australia, with other PAL regions hopefully following suit.
Update: Sinobi writes that a trailer will be shown before the end of April. The characters below are mostly listed in pairs for a reason. Famitsu says groups of two will typically fight together.
After several weeks of teasing, Namco Bandai, SEGA, and Capcom’s 3DS crossover project has finally been revealed in Famitsu. From what I can gather, it’s titled Project Cross Zone and will be a simulation (strategy) RPG.
Here’s what the roster for each company looks like (tentative translation, will be cleaning this up soon!):
Capcom
Ryu & Ken Masters (Street Fighter 0)
X & Zero (Rockman)
Demitri and Dante (Darkstalkers and Devil May Cry)
Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine (Resident Evil)
SEGA
Ichiro Ogami and Sakura Shinguji (Sakura Wars)
Akira Yuki Chen and Pai Chan (Virtua Fighter)
Kurt Irving & Riera Maruserisu (Valkyria Chronicles)
Cyrille & Toma and Urara (Shining Force EXA & Space Channel 5)
Namco Bandai
Sanger Somvold (Super Robot Wars)
Jin and Ling Xiaoyu (Tekken)
Kos-Mos and T-elos (Xenosaga)
Yuri Lowell & Estellise (Tales of Vesperia)
Kite and Black Rose (.Hack)
Update: For the time being, we’ll use the temporary title, “Taiko no Tatsujin Chibi Dragon and the Mysterious Orb”.
According to the latest issue of Famitsu, there’s some sort of new Taiko no Tatsujin in the works for the 3DS. This is probably what that teaser site was all about.
I don’t have specifics on it yet, but I’m sure more details will surface soon. All I can tell you at this point is that it’s coming out in Japan on July 12 for 5,040 yen.
A lot of folks were banking on a Monster Hunter announcement from Capcom today. Fans were hoping that Monster Hunter Tri G would be confirmed for North America and Europe.
Sadly that didn’t pan out, and there are some fans out there who are concerned about the lack of announcements surrounding the franchise.
In response to this, Capcom’s Christian Svensson wrote on the Capcom-Unity forums:
“Alas, MH announcements tend to be made in Japan… as such, I have no news to share at this moment but you shouldn’t be worried.”
It makes sense for brand new Monster Hunter games to be announced in Japan before any other territory given its popularity in the region. Monster Hunter Tri G and Monster Hunter 4 were both revealed in Japan late last year. But for localization news, Capcom’s western branches would have to speak up and say something.
Maybe Svensson is alluding to some sort of Monster Hunter Tri G announcement at E3? I really don’t know since his quote is extremely vague. If there isn’t concrete news in the near future, I’d be very concerned about the status of that game in North America/Europe.
Goichi Suda probably isn’t making a Wii U game right now. That’s because he still doesn’t have a development kit.
As far as whether or not he’s looking to get ahold of one, Suda 51 said:
“It’s hard to say. Maybe, maybe not. It’s really depending on publishers. We are developers, so it’s up to a publisher.”
It feels like it was ages ago when Suda 51 first said he’d like to make No More Heroes for Nintendo’s next console. As we now know, that’s the Wii U. But without a dev kit, he won’t be able to make No More Heroes 3…
Downloadable content for Fire Emblem: Awakening will be available on the first day of launch in Japan. Nintendo has announced that players will be given the opportunity to add Marth to their game starting on April 19. Users can acquire Marth by completing a map.
This DLC will be free until May 31. From there on out, Marth will cost 300 yen.
Nielsen has conducted a new study to determine the most-anticipated titles on the Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. GameSpot reports that the rankings are “the result of the firm combining eight ‘key consumer metrics’ like awareness and purchase interest into a total rank, and then comparing it to scores for previously released games on the same platform.”
Titles announced before March 23 were eligible to appear on the list. Additionally, the games must be planned for launch between April and December.
You can find a listing of the most-anticipated Wii releases below. Head on over to our sister site for the PS3/360 rankings.
Madden NFL 13 – 96 percent
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two – 94 percent
Battleship – 86 percent
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes – 82 percent
The Amazing Spider-Man – 82 percent
Men in Black – 81 percent
The Last Story – 64 percent
Xenoblade Chronicles – 50 percent
