SAN FRANCISCO – August 27, 2009 – Today, Ubisoft announces the development of Monster 4×4: Stunt Racer for the Wii(TM) system from Nintendo. Monster 4×4: Stunt Racer puts Wii-lovers back into the driver’s seat for a whole new race. Gamers of all ages will enjoy even bigger wheels, faster trucks and crazier stunts which made Monster 4X4: World Circuit the second highest selling driving game on the Wii ever.

Whether you’re grinding through inner-city construction sites, crunching out-of-town canyons, or scraping through exclusive wall-driving features, players will be able to perform vertical stunts and find shortcuts as they take on their friends and family in 4-player split-screen modes.

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Super Famicom:
-Taikou Risshiden (Koei, Sep 1st)
-Ganbare Goemon 3: Shishijyuurokubei no Karakuri Manji Katame (Konami)
-Bahamut Lagoon (Square Enix)

Mega Drive:
-Earthworm Jim 2 (Interplay, Sep 1st)

Virtual Console Arcade:
-Xevious (Namco Bandai, Sep 1st)
-Rygar (Tecmo)

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– Hiroki Touchi doing voice overs
– Superior instructor at the Knight Academy
– He’s Asbel’s instructor, Asbel admires him
– Frank/moderate attitude
– “Throwing blade knight”
– Can do attacks/skills of different variety
– Has a lot of offensive power

Pascal

– Kana Ueda doing voice overs
– Very smart engineer
– Doesn’t convey her feelings well
– Her cane/staff has a gun in it
– Can use magic

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Update: Added in the Japanese boxart as well.

This game will be launching on November 26 in Japan.

Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny (PSP) – 23,000 (33%)
Dream C Club (360) – 23,000 (60%)
Super Robot Gakuen (DS) – 22,000 (39%)
Nanashi no Game Me (DS) – 7,900 (19%)
Shiranai Mama dewa Son wo Suru: Mono ya Okane no Shikumi DS (DS) – 6,100 (10%)
Ninja Katsugeki: Tenchu San Portable (PSP) – 5,000 (20%)
Hakuouki: Zuisouroku (PS2) – SE 4,000 (51%)
Memories Off 6: Next Relation (PS2) – 3,100 (54%)
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (PS3) – 3,100 (25%)
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (360) – 2,900 (35%)
Hakuouki Portable (PSP) – SE 2,800 (44%), LE 2,100 (45%)
Gendai Daisenryaku: Isshoku Sokuhatsu – Gunji Balance Houkai (PS2) – 1,400 (23%)
Gendai Daisenryaku: Isshoku Sokuhatsu – Gunji Balance Houkai (PSP) – 1,100 (13%)
Grand Theft Auto IV (PlayStation 3 the Best) – 980 (14%)
Memories Off 6, Double Pack (360) – 660 (48%)
Juujigen Rippoutai Cipher Portable (PSP) – 660 (22%)
Memories Off 6: Next Relation (360) – LE 610 (23%)

WiiWare

Mr. Driller W (Namco Bandai) – 800 points
Texas Hold’em Poker (Gameloft) – 600 points

DSiWare

Oscar in Toyland (Virtual Playground) – 800 points

It looks as though at least one new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game is heading to the DS, courtesy of Ubisoft, even though there is a small amount of confusion involved. Much of the uncertainty stems from a possible relation between a game reveal in Nintendo Power and a rating over at the OFLC.

According to the listing from the OFLC, one of the possible Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games is Turtles in Time: Reshelled, which has been rated for the DSi. Meanwhile, the latest edition of Nintendo Power has shed light on TMNT: Arcade Attack, also for the DS, but it may not be for the DSi. The question is, are these actually the same titles? It seems odd that both would be discovered in a similar time frame and may differ only in their names. Or is Ubisoft simply working on two different Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles titles? Either way, I’m sure we’ll find out what’s happening for sure in due time. For now though, you can check out the first details on Arcade Attack below.

– 2 players can participate
– Throw enemies at the screen
– New and old baddies
– Shredder and Baxter Stockman in the game

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Media Create has published the latest hardware sales figures from Japan. The results are below.

DSi – 59,578
PSP – 27,187
Wii – 26,972
Xbox 360 – 8,979
DS Lite – 5,735
PS2 – 3,295
PS3 – 2,052

For comparison’s sake, here are the numbers from the week of August 11th (last week).

DSi – 87,936
Wii – 47,732
PSP – 39,882
Xbox 360 – 9,162
DS Lite – 7,921
PS3 – 5,944
PS2 – 4,907

Slowly but surely, more games are beginning to support the online capabilities of the Wii. Because of this, the developers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up understood that including Wi-Fi connectivity in their title would be important. Here’s what two developers of the game had to say in a developer diary regarding the online functionality in the game.

“Online I would say is everything to this title…Having online extends the replay value of the game infinitely. You can just play people everywhere.” – John Teymoorian, Assistant Producer

“The online is a big deal for fighting game fans…A lot more games on the Wii are suddenly becoming online and we know this was going to be very important for the fans” – Matt Leunig, Associate Producer