Information Update // Noticias Nuevas - Nintendo 3DS & PSVita

Information Update - Nintendo 3DS


1.- Disney has revealed the official European Wii box-art for Epic Mickey: The Power of Two. Epic Mickey 2 is due for release sometime later this year in North America and Europe, but developer Warren Spector wouldn’t be drawn on revealing an exact date for the game. We should hear plenty more about the game at this years E3 event which takes place in June.

More After the Break...

Ubisoft has uploaded a teaser trailer showing off Assassin’s Creed 3‘s new main protagonist, Ratohnhakéton, of Native American and English heritage. Adopting the name Connor, he becomes the new voice for justice in the ancient war between the Assassins and Templars. The game is due for release later this year on Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

Ubisoft has announced three collector’s editions for Assassin’s Creed 3 available exclusively in Europe for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC versions of the game. Hopefully we will see these when the Wii U version launches later in the year. Here’s the juicy details:


The Freedom Edition


The Freedom Edition includes the following:

• Assassin’s Creed III retail game
• A 24-cm high-quality figurine of Connor
• A steelbook case art drawn by awards-winning comic artist Alex Ross
• George Washington’s notebook revealing all the truth & secrets about the Assassins and the Templars during the American Revolution.
• One exclusive Lithograph
• 2 in-game Single Player Missions:
• Lost Mayan Ruins: Connor’s mission leads him in an old Mayan pyramid, full of mysteries and revelations. Players will be able to unlock Captain Kidd’s fabled cutlass, a deadly, brutal and beautiful piece of steel
• Ghost of War: The tide of the Revolution turns into the Templars favor. Defeat your enemies and unlock The Pontiac’s War Club, a powerful Native American weapon.
• 1 in-game Multiplayer Package:
• The Sharpshooter package: Unleash the Sharpshooter fury in multiplayer with 1 new character, the Sharpshooter, 1 Relic, 1 Emblem, 1 special Picture and the Title of “The Jester”.

The Join or Die Edition


The Join or Die Edition includes the following:

• Assassin’s Creed III retail game
• The medallion of the Assassins with its high-quality curd ladle
• George Washington’s notebook revealing all the truth & secrets about the Assassins and the Templars during the American Revolution.
• 1 in-game Single Player Mission:
• Ghost of War: The tide of the Revolution turns into the Templars favor. Defeat your enemies and unlock The Pontiac’s War Club, a powerful Native American weapon.
• 1 in-game Multiplayer Package:
• The Sharpshooter package: Unleash the Sharpshooter fury in multiplayer with 1 new character, the Sharpshooter, 1 Relic, 1 Emblem, 1 special Picture and the Title of “The Jester”.

The Special Edition

• The Special Edition features a special packaging, the retail copy of the game and an exclusive single player mission:
• A Dangerous Secret: Fight against a secret that could jeopardize the funding of the revolution. In case of success, you’ll be rewarded with an exclusive weapon: a Flintlock Musket.

2.- To give you more insight into the breadth and depth of Pit’s arsenal, Nintendo have created a handy info graphic for Kid Icarus: Uprising. Each weapon type has individual characteristics including attack range and trajectory and how it affects your speed of movement; each weapon also has attributes that influence your battlefield skills. Weapons can be bought, sold and gained through the multiplayer mode and fused together to create even more weapons with unique characteristics.

Nintendo UK and Nintendo Europe have announced that Game Gear games will be making an appearance on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console this week. Game Gear fans will be able to purchase Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble, Shinobi and Dragon Crystal. Nintendo UK and Europe have also announced that Mega Man 5 will be available on Wii Virtual Console.

This weeks UK all-format chart information is in via Chart Track and shows that Kid Icarus: Uprising, which was released on Friday, has managed to make its debut at number six. That’s not bad considering the game is exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo’s advertising campaign which has sprawled its way across TV, Twitter, and the Web has obviously paid off. Here’s the UK all-format top ten games:

1. [360] Fifa Street
2. [PS3] Fifa Street
3. [360] Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
4. [360] Mass Effect 3
5. [PS3] Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
6. [3DS] Kid Icarus: Uprising
7. [PS3] Mass Effect 3
8. [WII] Mario Party 9
9. [360] Fifa 12
10. [PCD] Shogun 2: Total War Fall Of The Samurai

3.- The inevitable has happened and GAME has finally entered administration this morning. PwC is now in charge of the administration of the company. PwC has yet to confirm store closure plans, nor how many jobs it expects to cut. Here’s the entire statement:

Mike Jervis and Stuart Maddison of PwC were appointed joint administrators of the UK and Ireland operations of The GAME Group plc, Game Stores Group Limited, Gameplay (GB) Limited, Game (Stores) Limited, Games Station Limited, Game (retail) Limited, Gamestation Limited (“the group”) on 26 March 2012. The appointment was made following the company’s announcements on 21 March that the listing of its securities on the Main Market of London Stock Exchange plc had been suspended from trading and a filing of a notice of intention to appoint an administrator had been made.
The group, with a turnover of £1,625m in the year to 31 January, is a multi-channel retailer of video games and video games hardware trading under the names of Game and Gamestation. The group’s head office is based in Basingstoke with operations in the UK and Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Czech Republic and Australia. There are currently 609 stores throughout the UK and Ireland. There are 385 employees based in the group’s head office in Basingstoke and 5,136 store employees across the UK and Ireland.
Mike Jervis, joint administrator and partner at PwC said:
“The group has faced serious cashflow and profit issues over the recent past. It also has suffered from high fixed costs, an ambitious international roll-out and fluctuating working capital requirements.
“Despite these challenges, we believe that there is room for a specialist game retailer in the territories in which it operates, including its biggest one, the UK. As a result we are hopeful that a going concern sale of the business is achievable.”

Epic Mickey was originally developed exclusively for Wii, but it sounds as though the developer Junction Point seriously want to get the game on other platforms. Warren Spector has told Game Informer that it’s a project he desperately wants done, but he wouldn’t say any more on the subject. Epic Mickey: The Power of Two is coming to Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sometime later this year, and there’s also a Nintendo 3DS game in the works.

“I will tell you I desperately want to do it, and other than that I have no comment at this time.”
“I just think it would be cool for people to see where the story started, so we’ll see. We sold many millions of copies of [Epic Mickey] on just the Wii, and being on the Wii was great. It was a perfect way to reintroduce Mickey as a hero in video games.”

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Mister Gaga