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

Information Update - Nintendo 3DS


1.- Ubisoft has unleashed a couple of new Assassin’s Creed 3 screenshots to feast your eyes on. Assassin’s Creed 3 is due out on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on October 31st in Europe and October 30th in North America. The company has yet to announce when we will be seeing the Wii U version, but hopefully we won’t have too long to wait for it.

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Namco Bandai has filed two trademarks, one titled All Star Battle, and another titled Project X Zone (Project Cross Zone). It sounds quite possible that either of these aforementioned trademarks could be related to the mystery game that Sega, Namco and Capcom are working on together. The full reveal for the mystery crossover game is expected sometime next week.


Famitsu has posted this weeks most wanted video games in Japan. You’ll be pleased to see that there’s an impressive six games for Nintendo platforms in the entire top ten. Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online continues to remain the most wanted Nintendo exclusive in Japan. The Wii version is due to be released later this year.

1. [PSV] Persona 4: The Golden
2. [PS3] Dragon’s Dogma
3. [PS3] Resident Evil 6
4. [Wii] Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online
5. [3DS] Fire Emblem: Awakening
6. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4
7. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Wonderland 3D
8. [3DS] Animal Crossing
9. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 & White 2
10. [PS3] Lollipop Chainsaw

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of the video game development and online distribution company Valve has confessed on the Geek A Week podcast that he absolutely adores legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto’s games. Newell claims that if he was forced into an apocalyptic situation then he would have to bring an N64 with him and a copy of the sublime Super Mario 64.

2.- Nintendo released a whole batch of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask concept art which is available to view in the Zelda encyclopaedia Hyrule Historia. Thankfully fan-based website Zeldac has uploaded what appears to be the vast majority of the concept images. I’ve uploaded a few, but there’s plenty more to be seen here.

Square Enix has official acknowledged that there’s a bug in the recently released Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance. The bug can prevent players from making progress in the long-awaited adventure. There doesn’t appear to be an update to resolve the issue, but Square Enix has produced an information page which details the bug, and shows players how they can avoid it. Hopefully the bug won’t be an issue when the game launches in North America on July 31st.

Rayman Origins was originally meant to retail for $39.99 but multiple retailers are nowadvertising the game for the more enticing price of $29.99. As I’m sure you’re all awareRayman Origins for Nintendo 3DS has suffered multiple delays. The critically acclaimed game is now scheduled to be released sometime in June worldwide.

Yesterday a tentative floor plan for this years E3 event was posted on Map Your Show that showed some of the exhibitors that will feature at the show. One of the interesting things spotted is that LucasArts has a booth for a Wii U massively multiplayer online game. Of course this could be an error, but numerous developers have stated how great MMO’s would be on Wii U. Let’s hope it’s the real deal.

3.- Assassin’s Creed 3 is at PAX East, and a few more screenshots from the game have been shared online. You can check them out after the break.

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Mister Gaga