Is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U coming to Europe on November 21? Apparently so! An official ad was spotted on French website Puissance Nintendo along with the aforementioned release date.

While Nintendo has yet to officially confirm launch plans for Smash Bros. Wii U, November 21 is certainly plausible. It wouldn’t be surprising if the game were to launch in North America on the same day as well.

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Image & Form announces SteamWorld Heist

Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News, Wii U eShop | 4 Comments

Image & Form has finally unveiled the next entry in the SteamWorld series. Today, the company announced “SteamWorld Heist”.

Here’s an official “elevator pitch” from Image & Form:

SteamWorld Heist is a game about space adventures and survival. Recruit a team of ragtag robots to explore and scavenge the remains of a destroyed world. Board enemy ships and command your crew in a unique variety of turn-based combat.
Taking place some time after SteamWorld Dig, a cataclysmic event has shattered the planet and forced its population into steam-driven spaceships. It’s a robot-eat-robot world out there, and water is desperately hard to come by. Heisting other ships and bases – bad guys fortunately, the lot of them – is their only way to remain in operation.

“Heist isn’t a sequel to SteamWorld Dig,” Image & Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson said of SteamWorld’s Heist announcement. “It’s set in the same world and the cowbots are still the heroes. But a lot has happened to SteamWorld since then, and we want to make a game that is radically different. Partly because we really wanted to make a turn-based strategy game, but also because it felt like a clever move. The obvious follow-up would’ve been Dig 2; we wanted to surprise instead.”

SteamWorld Heist will be available in spring 2015. Check out a teaser trailer above.

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First FAST Racing Neo screenshot

Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Screenshots, Wii U eShop | 17 Comments

Shin’en has finally shared the first screenshot from FAST Racing Neo. Check it out below:

1st screenshot from "FAST Racing Neo" – our upcoming Wii U futuristic racer. More to come next week. pic.twitter.com/jVDApxk22r
— Shin'en Multimedia (@ShinenGames) September 16, 2014

Despite being announced nearly a year ago, this is the first piece of media we’re seeing from the game. It looks quite nice!

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Super Smash Bros for 3DS ships over 1 million copies in first week

Posted on 10 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in 3DS, News | 21 Comments

Nintendo announced today that Super Smash Bros. for 3DS is now the 4th game in the 3DS library to ship over a million units in its first week in Japan, after Monster Hunter 4, Pokemon X/Y and Youkai Watch 2. This number includes digital copies and though the wording in the PR report was a little ambiguous as to units sold/shipped, we can assume the number of units sold was quite close to this figure.

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Super Smash Bros. for 3DS screenshot + Announcement (09/16/14)

Posted on 10 years ago by Jarop(@gamrah) in 3DS, News, Screenshots | 2 Comments

Sakurai eases up on the feature talk today and instead opts for a helpful gameplay tip for players:

With the release of the 3DS version in Japan, Sakurai also took some time to clarify how screenshots will be handled going forward:

Announcement: Originally, the pic of the day was only supposed to continue for about two months, but I’ve ended up posting pictures until even today. The 3DS version has already been released in Japan, so I would like to talk about how future posts will be handled.
First, I will not talk about hidden features until the game is released overseas. On the other hand, I definitely will talk about them after the game is released abroad.
In addition, I am planning to continue making posts at least until the Wii U version is released. I haven’t decided if I’ll go by the Japanese version release or the release of versions abroad, but the point is that I’ll continue posting for a little bit longer.
Pic of the day won’t focus on introducing new information anymore in the near future, but I hope to entertain you with interesting and funny photos like I originally intended to. Thanks.

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Mario & Luigi: Dream Team screenshot sharing disabled on Miiverse in light of glitch

Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 1 Comment

Last night, a significant glitch was found within Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. This basically allowed users to share images outside of the game on Miiverse.

In light of the exploit, Nintendo has now gone ahead and disabled all screenshot sharing on the Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Miiverse community. If/when the functionality will return is unknown at present.

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