A number of visual novels have made their way to the 3DS eShop in Japan – namely Harvest December. Now, it would seem that some of these releases will be localized for the west.
Circle Entertainment wrote on Twitter earlier today that the company has been in contact with potential translators, and if all works out, we’ll begin seeing them in English “soon.”
The good news is we received some contacts from translator, if everything are fine we can expecting Decemeber Series (ENG version) soon.
— CIRCLE Ent. (@CIRCLE_Ent) April 1, 2014
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a big fan of April Fools. That’s one of the many reasons why we shy away from posting related content each year.
That said, one attempted April Fools’ joke did spiral a bit out of control earlier today, and developed into a more mainstream piece of news worth covering.
Essentially, a few tweets were posted on EA’s official Frostbite Engine Twitter account earlier today, which completed backfired. They are as follows:
Lorne Lannning and the folks over at Oddworld Inhabitants have generally been pretty positive on the Wii U since announcing the Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty and Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD would be coming to the console, and today they’ve spoken with VentureBeat about Nintendo’s struggling system further, saying that despite a small install base it’s still well worth supporting:
“We’re self-publishing. With Sony that’s a breeze. With Steam it’s a breeze. With Microsoft it’s not a breeze. With Nintendo, something’s going to happen there shortly,” said Lanning. “Even on the Wii U, though, how many people did buy it? It’s kind of how we looked at Vita in the Christmas of 2012.
“We did Stranger HD on Vita, and the publishers were kind of snubbing Vita at the time, because there wasn’t enough installed base to move their dial. We said, yeah, but that small base is pretty passionate. They invested and they want good experiences that are designed to maximize that control scheme. Why don’t we spend a little more time and attention – because we’re small and we can – and a result we took number two in the US and number one in Europe that Christmas on Vita.
“So far we’ve had zero on Nintendo. We’ve had zero brand visibility on Nintendo since day one. We never built for Nintendo. Today, we’re looking at it and we say, ‘We’ll get over to Wii U.’ As a business model it might not completely make sense, but we want to get to work on Nintendo, get to self-publishing on Nintendo. Everything’s a new store. Everything’s more shelf space. We’re trying to get the brand across that as widely as possible.”
Venturebeat via IGN
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate – Deluxe Edition is out today – in North America that is. Wondering how much space the game requires? You’ll need to reserve about 2,842 MB on the Wii U or an external hard drive.
The OFLC has rated what is likely another upcoming Game Boy Advance release on the GBA Wii U Virtual Console. Earlier today, “Namco Museum” was added to the Australian classification database. I imagine we’ll be seeing this one on the eShop sometime in the future.
Although it’s not huge savings, Amazon does have Zelda: Wind Waker HD available at a small discount.
You can purchase the Wii U title for $41.41. That amounts to about $9 in savings. Since this is a Zelda game we’re talking about, that’s not too terrible of a deal.
