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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

Disney Interactive has pulled back the curtain on the next development in the Disney Infinity series. Today, the company revealed “Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes”.

Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes will star Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, and more well-known characters from the Marvel universe. The game will launch this fall.

Details include:

– Note: to clarify, Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes acts as a new “2.0 Edition”
– All Disney Infinity figures from the original version will be compatible
– This applies to Power Discs as well
– All Toy Boxes from Disney Infinity 1.0 are compatible with 2.0
– Disney Infinity base is also compatible
– New Starter Pack comes with Avengers Play Set piece, 3 Marvel characters, 2 interactive game pieces
– Coming to Wii U, PS3, 360, PS4, and Xbox One
– New massive environment: Marvel Manhattan
– This is four times larger than The Incredibles Play Set
– Character locomotion, special skills and combat, attributes and skill trees
– Hover mode, forward flight
– Combat being added into both of these
– Super jump feature for The Hulk, Captain America
– Hulk has a wall crawl ability
– More characters have this ability as well
– Combat will be true to the characters
– Brawler character: Thor and Captain America
– Can upgrade Captain America’s shield ability
– Range character: Hawkeye
– The Hulk is incredibly strong, doesn’t take as much damage
– Hulk has a rage mode
– Level cap being raised to 20
– Can upgrade health, other stats
– Structured play in the Toy Box mode
– Toy Discs bring the structured play
– Usability being worked on; players can go into the Toy Box and use it in a variety of ways
– Won’t be as complicated to use this time around
– City brush: put in roads, buildings, lamp posts, etc.
– Brushes for race tracks, dungeons, castles, treehouses, etc.
– Builders: drop them inside the world, they’ll start building things automatically for you
– Can edit anything the builders create
– New interiors feature
– Home: reflects your progress as you play the game (trophies, etc.)
– Express your personality and progress in here
– Unlock tower defense, dungeon crawler Toy Box games with the new Toy Box game discs included with the Starter Pack
– These offer about 3-4 hours of gameplay
– 80 new Power Discs
– Discs are coming in 2 different waves
– Discs include assist characters, costume changes, new vehicles

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This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:

1. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment – 145,029 / NEW
2. [3DS] Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call – 80,523 / NEW
3. [3DS] Youkai Watch – 43,136 / NEW
4. [3DS] Mario Party: Island Tour – 15,654 / 320,489
5. [PS3] Dai-3-ji Super Robot Taisen Z: Jigoku-hen – 12,240 / 186,396
6. [WIU] NES Remix 1+2 – 11,079 / NEW
7. [PSV] BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma – 10,709 / NEW
8. [PSV] Dai-3-ji Super Robot Taisen Z: Jigoku-hen – 8,678 / 154,669
9. [3DS] Ace Attorney 123: Wright Selection – 6,473 / 33,398
10. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – 6,444 / 204,498
11. [3DS] Kirby Triple Deluxe – 6,326 / 559,903
12. [3DS] Pokemon X/Y – 6,001 / 4,040,630
13. [3DS] Style Savvy: Trendsetters – 5,926 / 18,241
14. [PS3] Sengoku Musou 4 – 5,392 / 218,011
15. [PS4] Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – 4,858 / 36,185
16. [PS3] Monster Hunter Frontier GG – 4,689 / NEW
17. [3DS] MapleStory: The Girl’s Fate – 4,203 / NEW
18. [PS3] Harem Tengoku da to Omottara Yandere Jigoku Datta – 4,101 / NEW
19. [PS3] Muv-Luv Photon flowers – 4,090 / NEW
20. [WIU] Just Dance Wii U – 4,000 / 33,934

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Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 24 Comments

The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

3DS LL – 27,914
Vita – 22,394
PS4 – 12,712
PS3 – 6,726
3DS – 6,073
Wii U – 5,710
PSP – 1,957
Vita TV – 1,548
Xbox 360 – 242

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

Vita – 17,905
PS4 – 14,396
3DS LL – 14,023
PS3 – 6,468
3DS – 5,920
Wii U – 5,204
PSP – 2,094
Vita TV – 1,133
Xbox 360 – 240

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REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–One month from today, Mario Kart 8 will be driving players wild with anti-gravity racing action. To get people revved up for the Wii U game, Nintendo released a new Nintendo Direct video that announced some additional news nuggets, including a Mario Kart 8 Wii U bundle, a free downloadable game offer for Wii U owners who buy Mario Kart 8, details about online features, cool new characters and devastating new items.

“Everyone loves Mario Kart,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “It’s a franchise that brings people together for fun at a family gathering, a frenzied race against friends or just an afternoon break at the office. The numerous new features of Mario Kart 8 make this the most ambitious version yet, and one that will have players of all skill levels racing for the checkered flag.”

To view the Nintendo Direct in its entirety, visit http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct. Some of the new information announced today included:

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Today’s screenshot details a new item, the Super Leaf. Sakurai explains:

With the Super Leaf, any fighter can have ears and a tail. You can also float in the air by pressing the jump button. We’re still figuring out whether you’ll be able to attack with the tail…

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