Category: News

New Nintendo eShop Releases: Nintendo DS Wii U 64 Edition!

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Nintendo 64 games have come to the Wii U! Or game, rather. N̶̶̶̵i̶̶n̶t̶e̶n̶d̶o̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶ ̶D̶̵S̶! N̶̶̵i̶n̶t̶e̶n̶d̶o̶ ̶D̶̵S̶ ̶t̶w̶o̶! Nintendo DS also! Super Mario 64 and Yoshi's Island DS are both now available on the Wii U Virtual Console. I never thought it could be true. Nintendo DOES listen! Now we just need some GameCube games on there and we're good to go.

Also new this week, HAL Laboratory puzzle platformer Boxboy! Head past the break to see the full list of this week's releases.

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Andrew J Amideo
[Source: Business Wire]

Dragon Quest Heroes II Announced

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Just over a month after its release in Japan, Square Enix has announced Dragon Quest Heroes II is currently being worked on. The first in the series has yet to see release in NA and EU territories, but will be coming later this year.
The traditional trio of Yuji Horii, Akira Toriyama, and Koichi Sugiyama have been confirmed for this title, and Omega Force is handling development.
Source: Gematsu

Quantum Break Delayed into 2016

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Remedy's Quantum Break was originally set to launch sometime in 2015, but the Microsoft published game has been delayed to 2016. Read on to find out what happened.
The official line starts off with a non-sequitur, “With so many Xbox One games launching this year, moving Quantum Break to 2016 extends our incredible portfolio into next year with a monster new IP", but reading further down the blog post on Remedy's site indicates that the game is receiving an added layer of polish and tweaking.
Source: Remedy

Upcoming Nintendo Indies

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Lots of indie love during the Nintendo Direct.

First off: Adventures of Pip, a puzzle platformer about a shape-shifting pixel. And it even has a skeleton queen. (May)

Octodad gets ported to the WiiU. No word on exclusive features. (Summer)

Mutant Mudds gets Super Challenge(ing), will be cross-buy between Wii U and 3DS (didn’t even knew Nintendo does this) and if you already own the previous version of the game, you get a loyalty discount. (June)

Don’t Starve also gets a port to the Wii U, offering exclusive gamepad features (Map and fast access to your inventory). Not sold? Then how about the fact, that every purchase gets a second copy that can be gifted to a friend? (May)

Other upcoming Wii U indies in one unformatted, uninformative and hard to read list:
forma.8, Dementium: Remastered, Affordable Space Adventures, Starwhal, Never Alone, Ninja Pizza Girl, Antipole DX, Life of Pixel, Badland: GOTY Edition, Slain!, Runbow, Back to Bed, Space Hulk, Race the Sun, Dooors, Dot Arcade, Swords & Soldiers 2, Lionel City Builder 3D: Rise of the Rails, Toto Temple Deluxe, The Bridge, Shutshimi, Nova-111, Windup Knight 2

Project Cars pushed back to mid-May

After being plagued by multiple hiccups in development, Bandai Namco and Slightly Mad Studios have yet again delayed Project Cars from its planned April release date to mid-May.

In a press release Slightly Mad Studios' head Ian Bell offered some comments on the delay.

“Despite our long heritage and pedigree in making critically-acclaimed racing games, Project Cars is by far the grandest and most intricately detailed of them all,” Slightly Mad Studios boss Ian Bell said in a press release. “Despite therefore the game being 99.9% complete, the remaining 0.1% attending to small issues and bugs has been tricky to anticipate. We’re absolutely dedicated to delivering a ground-breaking experience and by targeting mid-May fans can be assured that’s what they’ll receive.”

Bell continued, “Again, we want to thank our fans for their support and patience on this matter. There’s a high expectancy from racing fans around the world that Project Cars is going to be an exciting new contender in the simulation racing space and we firmly believe gamers deserve it to be in its most complete and polished state when they come to play it on day one.”

Bell goes on to discuss Slightly Mad's plans to offer “some free content” to all players as a mea culpa.

“This gift, that we’re sure is going to excite fans, will be available from day one and revealed shortly, Keep an eye on our website for more info.”

This is not the first time the game was delayed. Project Cars' initial release was planned for last November, but was then moved to March, and again to April.

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William Sierra
[Source: Gematsu]

PSA: Dragon Age: Inquisition Free Trial

Own an Xbox One and have a Live Gold membership?  Don't own BioWare's Dragon Age: Inquisition but have been dying to check it out?  You're in luck, because right now you can head over to the Xbox Store and download a free trial that will last until March 16th, which means you have almost a week to explore the world of Thedas.  If you're collecting Achievements, you'll be happy to know that they're enabled and you'll be able to keep them even if you don't purchase the game.  What have you got to lose?  Only yourself... in the vast world and deep story.
Source: Windows Central

Uncharted 4 isn’t coming out this year

Neil Druckmann just made a post over on PSBlog stating, definitively, that Uncharted 4 will come out next spring. He's aware that "the extra wait will be excruciating". While I don't have too much to add to the matter, I can't say that this surprised me at all. The timing isn't a coincidence either. The Order didn't exactly set the world on fire and with so many games coming out half-cocked last fall, it is safe to say that Naughty Dog isn't willing to leave anything to chance and are making their case for more time early (rather than waiting). Good for you Sony and Naughty Dog. The newest industry trend is the delay (j/k).

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Source: PSBlog