Today, Frogmind published a nature documentary trailer for Badland: Game of the Year Edition. View it below.

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New Super Mario Bros. could be coming to the Wii U Virtual Console soon. A rating for the game popped up on the ESRB, which usually signals that a release is on the horizon. It wouldn’t be too surprising to see New Super Mario Bros. on the eShop this Thursday, though we’ll have to wait for the latest Nintendo Download report to see what’s heading to the VC.

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Game Informer has detailed two new Toy Box games for Disney Infinity 3.0: Speedway and Toy Box Takeover. Information about each can be found below. Be sure to check out Game Informer’s full articles in the source links!

Speedway

– Avalanche wanted to improve driving
– Speedway: racing-focused Toy Box game
– Like Mario Kart, but with Disney Infinity’s deep roster of characters, vehicles, and tracks
– Sumo Digital working on racing aspects
– Sumo Digital’s involvement began when Disney Interactive John Vignocchi ran into Sumo’s Sean Millard at GDC and professed his appreciation for Sonic & Sega All-Stars racing
– Sumo tweaked the driving controls to tighten them up and make them feel more consistent with a quality kart racer
– The team is “aiming for it be as much fun and as pick-up-and-play as Mario Kart”
– Tweaks/changes are implemented throughout Disney Infinity 3.0, not just Speedway
– Race in Frozen, Wreck-it Ralph, and a few Star Wars track
– One track is set inside of the Monsters, Inc. door factory
– Millard had to be convinced of its inclusion, as he wasn’t sure how well it could work
– The track has thousands of hanging doors from the original film framing the racing action and creating plenty of rails the cars can jump on and slide along
– Speedway Toy Box will be sold as a separate, stand-alone game on a disc sometime after the release of Disney Infinity 3.0
– Will need the initial 3.0 starter set to play

Toy Box Takeover

– Previously called Villain Takeover
– Takes inspiration from top-down dungeon crawlers like Diablo
– Trying to learn from the mistakes with Disney Infinity 2.0’s Escape from the Kyln Toy Box game
– Take on more enemies
– Battle continuously without interruption
– In Toy Box Takeover, The Incredibles’ Syndrome gets his hands on an Infinity Wand, the tool players use to create their own worlds
– Syndrome starts pulling together worlds and iconic villains that span Infinity’s myriad franchises, including Star Wars, Pixar, and modern and classic Disney
– New enemy variants specifically for Takeover
– Need to stay clear of The Void
– The Void: an unstoppable, slow-moving force that creeps up behind you, destroying everything in its path – including enemies
– Sidekicks can help you
– Sidekicks have been dramatically overhauled from the previous games
– They help you fight or act as support
– Upgrade sidekick stats and equipment in and outside of Takeover

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Badland: Game of the Year Edition is hitting the Wii U eShop towards the end of June, Frogmind has confirmed.

For those who haven’t heard about Badland previously, it’s a side-scrolling action-adventure game with physics-based gameplay. Players tale on the role of a flying creature called Clony, who will need to escape various traps, puzzles, and obstacles in a forest.

Badland was originally released on smart devices. This new version “builds on the original game’s strengths with completely redesigned controls” and “redesigned gameplay expands that of the original by offering full left/right/up/down control over the game’s characters.” Frogmind is including over 15 hours and 100 levels of single-player story content, 100 co-op levels, and 27 multiplayer deathmatch stages for up-to-four-person local multiplayer.

Some screenshots from Badland: Game of the Year Edition are posted below.

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Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains has now launched in North America. It can be purchased via the eShop for $39.99. Check out the game’s final trailer below.

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Nintendo shared Splatoon’s first North American commercial last week, and now the company has uploaded a second. That one is included below.

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Ronimo Games released the eighth “Daily Duel” video for Swords & Soldiers II. In today’s video, the battle is two Berserkers and three Spearthrowers versus one Naga, three Axethrowers and one Necromancer. Check it out below.

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Slides from Ubisoft’s latest financial presentation reveal charts based on two sets of data. The company shared a listing of the top 20 grossing franchises at retail of the last ten years and top ten grossing retail games of 2014. Both charts are posted below.

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Image & Form has shared a new community Q&A video for SteamWorld Heist. The studio’s Brjann Sigurgeirsson and Julius Guldbog commented on topics such as DLC, upgrades, and procedural levels. You can check out the full video below.

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Japanese website 4Gamer put up a new video today with footage from Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX. You can watch about 13 minutes from the game below.

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