Tetris Ultimate is launching in North America on November 11, Ubisoft has announced. The game will be available for $29.99 at retail, but the eShop version will only cost $19.99.
Tetris Ultimate for Nintendo 3DS offers six ways to play Tetris, in addition to “a new single-player Challenge mode that will test the skills and determination of the most die-hard Tetris champions.”
Fans can expect the following game modes from the title:
• Battle Ultimate – Be the last person playing after using crazy power-ups! Go on the offensive with Carousel and make your opponent’s Matrix shift to the left after each move, or trigger Let it Rain and dump blocks on top of them. Buzz Saw helps you advance by clearing away a number of your lines, especially useful when you’re in a spot of trouble.
• Marathon – Complete level 15 and rack up as many points as you can.
• Endless – Keep clearing lines until your stamina runs out!
• Ultra – Race to score as many points possible before time runs out in this three-minute challenge.
• Sprint – Clear 40 lines as quickly as you can.
• Battle – Go head-to-head to knock out 1-4 challengers.
• Challenge – With four mode variants, be prepared for a variety of challenges that will put any player’s determination to the test:
o Master – The Tetriminos drop instantly and appear at the bottom.
o Rotation Lock – The orientations of the Tetriminos are random and you cannot rotate them.
o Escalation – As the game levels up, you’ll have to clear more lines.
o Invisible – The Tetriminos become invisible as they drop to the bottom.
Check out the gallery below for some screenshots of Tetris Ultimate.
Source: Ubisoft PR
Nintendo promised a web-based eShop ages ago. But for whatever reason, it has yet to materialize. Perhaps something is on the horizon though…
A few folks over on NeoGAF have managed to detect a live page for the web eShop. You can view it right here. While it’s clearly still a work in progress (and likely not meant to be accessed by the common user), it seems that there’s actually some functionality in place.
We’re hearing some reports that automatic downloading is working for Wii U, believe it or not. Users can enter a redeemable code on this page.
When will Nintendo officially launch the web eShop? That is unknown at present. But at the very least, it still appears to be development… and hopefully we’ll see it officially go live soon!
The latest Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Wii U
1. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo
2. Skylanders Trapteam – Activision Blizzard
3. Hyrule Warriors – Nintendo
4. Nintendoland – Nintendo
5. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
6. Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo
7. New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
8. Wii Party U – Nintendo
9. Disney Infinity 2.0 – Disney Interactive
10. Sonic: Lost World – Nintendo
3DS
1. Super Smash Bros. – Nintendo
2. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
3. Fantasy Life – Nintendo
4. Frozen: Olaf’s Quest – 1st Playable
5. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
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.
