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Best-selling racer accounts for more than half of Wii U game sales in three months ended June 30th
Read More »Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker to land in UK in January 2015
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker has been dated for a January 2015 UK release. Nintendo revealed in its recent financials that the spin-off of the Super Mario 3D World mini-game would see a December release in Japan and the US, before coming to the UK and the rest of Europe one …
Read More »Physical release planned for NES Remix on Wii U
Nintendo is granting its previously digital-only NES Remix titles a boxed physical release. NES Remix and NES Remix 2 are to be spliced together into a single retail SKU for Wii U, having previously been only available on the eShop in the West. The two games have previously been bundled …
Read More »Wii version of Skylanders: Trap Team includes download code for Wii U release
Activision’s upcoming toys-to-life release will effectively offer a cross-buy option between Wii and Wii U. The publisher tweeted at the weekend to say that the Wii version of Skylanders: Trap Team will include a code to download the title on Wii U – and it’s all the more notable considering …
Read More »Sonic Boom gets November dates for 3DS, Wii U
Sonic the Hedgehog reboot Sonic Boom will release for 3DS and Wii U this November, Sega has announced. Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal will launch on November 11th for Nintendo 3DS (pictured), while Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric lands on Wii U one week later on November 18th. Sonic Boom is …
Read More »PS3 overtakes Wii U in Japan to become top-selling home console again
The PS3 has once again become the top-selling home console in Japan, according to the latest sales data from Famitsu. Sony’s 2006 machine outpaced Nintendo’s divisive box by a mere 32 units sold last week. However, both firms’ home consoles were easily outsold by their respective flagship handhelds, the Vita …
Read More »Wii U purchase intent jumps 50% as PS4 falls post-E3
The number of consumers who say they plan on buying a Wii U doubled after E3 in June. That’s according to an IHS survey reported by Games Industry, which questioned 1,000 core gamers before and after the LA showcase. Prior to the show 14 per cent of respondents said they …
Read More »Wii U version of Project Cars not due until 2015
Project Cars will not race onto Nintendo’s machine until after it has arrived on consoles and PC. Bandai Namco’s UK PR and marketing boss Lee Kirton confirmed as much on Twitter, stating that the planned November release for the racer remains in place for PS4, Xbox One and PC but …
Read More »PS4 slips behind PS3 in Japan
The PlayStation 3 trumped the PS4 this week in Japan according weekly chart data provided by Famitsu. This was no doubt helped by sales of PS3 titles Watch Dogs, Kamen Rider Battride War II and Grand Theft Auto V in the software Top Ten this week. Sales of the Wii …
Read More »Modders demonstrate successful Wii U Mario Kart 8 hack
The security of Nintendo’s Wii U appears to have been compromised. A speedrunner called MrBean35000vr has a released a video that shows some very basic tweaking of Mario Kart 8 using a web-browser vulnerability, such as the speeding up of in-game music. Fortunately, the hack has already been blocked by …
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