This week’s UK software sales are as follows:
Individual Formats
All Formats
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U
Lone Survivor: The Director’s Cut – €11.99 / £9.99 / CHF16.80
Hyrule Warriors™: Master Quest Pack (DLC) – €6.99 / £6.29 / CHF9.80
PAC-MAN and the Ghostly Adventures 2 – €34.99 / £24.99 / CHF38.90
Wii U VC
Donkey Kong Country™ (SNES) – €7.99 / £5.49 / CHF11.20
3DS
PAC-MAN and the Ghostly Adventures 2 – €34.99 / £24.99 / CHF38.90
Survivor – Heroes – €34.99 / £27.79 / CHF42.39
Winx Cub: Saving Alfea – €29.99 / £24.99 / CHF38.90
3DS VC
Adventures of Lolo™ (NES) – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60
Donkey Kong™ Land (GB) – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60
3DS Themes
Spinner Mario – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Spinner Bowser – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Spinner Peach – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Spinner Rosalina – €1.99 / £1.79 / CHF2.80
Special offers
Donkey Kong™ Country Tropical Freeze – €33.49 / £26.79 / CHF43.00 until 06/11/2014 for users who downloaded Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2™: Diddy’s Kong Quest™ or Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble™ from Nintendo eShop on the same Wii U.
Donkey Kong™ Country Returns 3D – €26.79 / £23.44 / CHF34.70 until 06/11/2014 for users who downloaded Donkey Kong™ Land, Donkey Kong™ Land 2 or Donkey Kong™ Land III from Nintendo eShop on the same Nintendo 3DS with a Nintendo Network ID.
SteamWorld Dig (Wii U/3DS) – €5.99 / £4.49 / CHF6.99 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €8.99 / £6.99 / CHF 10.99
Squids Odyssey (Wii U/3DS) – €5.99 / £4.99 / CHF7.99 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €12.99 / £9.99 / CHF15.99
TNT Racers – Nitro Machines Edition – €3.99 / £3.49 / CHF5.99 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €7.99 / £6.99 / CHF11.99
Gravity Badgers – €2.49 / £2.49 / CHF3.50 until 30/10/14. Regular price is €4.99 / £4.99 / CHF7.00
Trine 2: Director’s Cut – €8.49 / £6.99 / CHF9.99 until 03/11/2014. Regular price is €16.99 / £13.99 / CHF19.99
4 Elements – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.40 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Azada – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.40 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Hidden Expedition® Titanic – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Luxor – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.40 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Mystery Case Files Dire Grove – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Mystery Case Files Ravenhearst® – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Mystery Case Files Return to Ravenhearst – €3.99 / £3.59 / CHF5.60 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Secret Mysteries in London – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.40 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €11.99 / £10.79 / CHF16.80
Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars – €19.99 / £17.99 / CHF28.00 until 30/10/2014. Regular price is €29.99 / £24.99 / CHF38.90
Snow Moto Racing 3D – €5.99 / £5.39 / CHF8.39 until 27/11/2014. Regular price is €7.99 / £7.19 / CHF11.19
Today’s Smash Bros. screenshots from Masahiro Sakurai give us a new look at the Wii U game. Sakurai decided to show off two Mega Man trophies in the game, which you can find below.
Online reviews for Bayonetta 2 are just now starting to go live. For a roundup of the early verdicts, check out the roundup below.
GameSpot – 10 / 10
IGN – 9.5 / 10
Eurogamer – 9 / 10
Joystiq – 5 / 5
DigitalSpy – 4 / 5
Polygon – 7.5 / 10
Nintendo Life – 9 / 10
NintendoWorldReport – 9 / 10
VideoGamer – 9 / 10
GamesBeat – 87 / 100
GamesRadar – 4 / 5
Destructoid – 10 / 10
CVG – 9 / 10
USGamer – 4.5 / 5
Kotaku – “Yes”
Shacknews – 8 / 10
This week’s exclusive indie-game screenshot from upcoming Wii U platformer Paper Monsters Recut shows off something that, according to the laws of physics as discovered by Newton, Einstein, and their comrades, shouldn’t exist! This is a video game though, so that doesn’t matter too much. I’ll let our friend at Mobot Studios explain what you’re seeing above, because they’re actually working on the game:
Paper Monsters Recut is our take on a classic 2D platformer, but our new space levels change the gameplay up a bit with a cool jetpack and laser bolt powerup, for epic space battles! You’ll also face different enemies in space from the ones you’ll find in Paperland, such as the flying Pterry and the mini Twirkle shown here.
The other thing we wanted to highlight with this screenshot was how the GamePad is used (which you can see in the lower right hand corner). Different powerups work differently, and the gamepad will always display the current powerup’s controls for quick reference based on what type of level you’re playing. Of course if you are in Off-TV play on the GamePad you can always reference this by hitting pause, but we think it’s pretty handy to have it at a glance.
It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart! Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Final Fantasy XV, Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, Persona 5, and Tales of Zestiria are the new top five.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between September 25 and October 1.
Over the past few days, we’ve covered most of what Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai had to say about the new Wii U and 3DS games in his bi-weekly Famitsu column. One of the few other topics Sakurai discussed was the naming of the two titles.
Sakurai addresses what could be a question some fans have: “Does the word ‘for’ in the title contain the meaning of Smash Bros. 4?” While it doesn’t seem like the naming was intentional, it just so happens that “for” can also be thought of as “4”.
“This time the name of the system was used as a subtitle in order to avoid confusion among consumers,” Sakurai commented. “However, for both systems ‘Smash Bros. for’ is included in the title, so isn’t that nice?”
Elsewhere in his Famitsu column, Sakurai talked about how characters are chosen for the Smash Bros. roster and why some of the clones made it into the Wii U and 3DS games.
