Amazon has a couple of new deals currently running that should be brought to your attention. The Fit Meter for Wii Fit U, normally available for $20, can be ordered
for just $10 (temporarily out of stock, but will ship soon). You can also pick up
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD for $41.40.
MonkeyPaw Games is removing BurgerTime World Tour from all digital store fronts – including WiiWare. Licensing agreements have expired, so MonkeyPaw is being forced to take the game down.
BurgerTime World Tour will now be available for the sale price of $4.99 until April 30. Once this day passes, the title will be gone for good.
Those who purchase BurgerTime World Tour prior to its removal will be able to access the game in the future.
Source: MonkeyPaw Games PR
Ken Lobb, now the creative director at Microsoft Studios, once played a prominent role at Nintendo and worked on several games. This includes Metroid Prime – a title that, at the time, stirred up some controversy for turning the franchise into a first-person adventure.
Lobb spoke about the initial fan resistance surrounding Metroid Prime as part of an interview with EDGE this month. He said:
The fight, in the pre-internet world, was that we were getting a lot of pressure from fans. Nowadays, you’d be buried under Twitter, NeoGAF — both of which I love, by the way — but those voices are even louder today than they were back then. It comes back to a lesson I learned a long time ago: always listen to your customer, but also understand that if you do focus testing what you’re going to hear is, “I want that thing you did last time, because that was awesome.” Every once in a while, you have to learn to not listen to that and go, “Actually, Metroid in firstperson we think could make more sense.” Great creatives are going to disrupt their earlier designs and make things that are new, or build completely new games or new genres.
CyberGadget will be releasing a “Handle Stand” for the Wii U GamePad in Japan next month. Essentially, it turns the controller into a wheel which can then be used for racing games. The package also comes with a more traditional wheel that has a slot for a Wii Remote.
The Cyber Handle Stand will be out sometime next month. Pricing is set at 4,298 yen.
Mario Golf: World Tour’s full roster has been published online, courtesy of Famitsu. You can find the lineup after the break.
Those who pre-order Mario Golf: World Tour from Nintendo UK’s online store can receive an extra bonus. A free Mario hat will be handed out with every early sale. You can place an order here.
Mario Kart 8 may offer 30 playable characters, based on the photo above. It seems to be the game’s character select screen.
Now… is that screen final? Could there be even more unlockable characters aside from the ones hidden by question marks?
Reviews for Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars have started to arrive. You can find a roundup of verdicts below.
Joystiq – 3 / 5
GamesRadar – 3 / 5
EGM – 7.5 / 10
Nintendo Life – 8 / 10
NintendoWorldReport – 6 / 10
Game Informer – 6 / 10
GameSpot – 5 / 10
