A few years ago, Hudson was working on Bonk: Brink of Extinction for WiiWare, XBLA and PSN. The game was sadly cancelled even though it was pretty much done.
While Bonk: Brink of Extinction won’t ever see the light of day, YouTube user “Bonk Brink” has uploaded gameplay online. The footage, obtained through an “anonymous source,” can be found above.
SEGA reported its latest financial results today, which includes sales for Sonic Lost World. The game ended up selling 710,000 units on both Wii U and 3DS. That’s a worldwide figure – North America, Europe, and Japan.
For the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, SEGA’s profit dipped by 8.2 percent to 30.7 million yen ($302 million). The company said that traditional game sales are slowing quickly whereas digital games for PC and mobile remain strong.
The Pokemon Company announced Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire earlier this week through a teaser trailer. Sadly, it didn’t show much – not even a single in-game shot.
On the bright side, it won’t be long at all before we see actual gameplay. Japanese children variety show Pokémon Get?TV is confirmed to be showing first footage from Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire this weekend.
The show will start on Sunday at 7:30 AM in Japan. That’s 6:30 PM ET / 3:30 PM PT on Saturday in the states. Of course, we’ll have the footage up on the site once it goes live.
In a recent interview with business website Sankei Biz, Hirokazu Hamamura has come out saying that Nintendo should not abandon their support for the Wii U. Hamamura explains:
The Wii U is in a slump, but has not yet reached the stage of giving up.
[Nintendo] has no choice but continuing to release popular software.
Hamamura is quite a notable figure in the Japanese game industry. He was editor in chief for Famitsu magazine for a number of years as well as the president of Enterbrain among other things.
It was confirmed by developer Fuzzy Wuzzy Games that Armillo has been delayed due to submission complications within the eShop. To make up for this, they are offering an introductory price of $5.99 in the first 3 weeks after launch and anticipate that they will be able to make an announcement regarding a global release soon.
The full press statement read:
Good news, our game is finished and we’re extremely excited to release it as soon as possible!
However, with Armillo being our first Nintendo eShop game, the submission process is taking longer than we originally anticipated. What this means is that we’ll miss our anticipated release date of May 12th. While we hate to delay, we expect to be able to make a formal announcement of the global launch date in coordination with Nintendo very soon.
Your patience will not go unrewarded, though! We’re happy to announce that Armillo will launch at the introductory price of $5.99 for the first 3 weeks of release! After the first 3 weeks, the game will return to the standard $7.99 price that we originally planned. This is our way of thanking our early supporters for buying the game early, and our way of apologizing for all of the delays.
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