Category Archives: Nintendo News
E3 and Conferences
E3 is the world’s premier trade show for computer and video games and related products. Tens of thousands of professionals will experience the future of interactive entertainment. The most influential people leading the most innovative companies in the industry attend E3 to see groundbreaking new technologies and never-before-seen products for computers, video game consoles, handheld systems, mobile and social, and the Internet.
Injustice: Gods Among Us is the Wii U’s only retail release this month
In a perfect world an article like this would never have to go up. Sadly, this is not a perfect world, and there is only one game being released for the Wii U this month. Despite all of the pain and suffering the Wii U has caused gamers.
Batman: Arkham Origins announced
Warner Bros. has announced the newest edition to the Arkham series with Batman: Arkham Origins. While the game has not been fully revealed, a few things are known. This title takes Batman back near the start of his superhero career. Before the Dark Knight was the ultimate crime fighter and master detective, he had to begin at the bottom and work his way up. Bringing in villains before they hit the big time will help even the odds against this early Batman. One of these villains is Deathstroke, as seen in the Game Informer magazine cover. Of course Batman still wins. He always wins. He’s Batman.
Disney Shuts Down LucasArts
According to sources close to Kotaku, Disney has laid off the staff of LucasArts and cancelled all current projects, including the amazing Star Wars 1313 shown at E3 last year and Star Wars: First Assault.
Pax East hast started, what’s new?
Pax East opened its doors this morning at 10 am Boston time. What did Publishers and developers announce right from the start? Learn more by reading this.
15 new Assassin’s Creed 4: Blag Flag screenshots
GC recently reported that Ubisoft will be releasing Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag in October of this year. Now you can feast your eyes on some brand spanking new screenshot.
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag release date and announcement trailer
Can’t wait for the next Assassin’s Creed on next gen consoles? Well, you could be playing it sooner than you think.
Ubisoft play it smart with Assassin’s Creed 4
Releasing games at the start of a new console generation is a big risk. Although the first wave will not struggle to get noticed due to the lack of titles, the user base is too small to even bother with releasing a game on it in the first place.
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag confirmed
When Ubisoft stated they were making a new Assassin’s Creed game for a 2014 release, many wondered how it would play out after the seemingly closed ending of Assassin’s Creed III. The company attempted to allay these concerns with the announcement that it would star a new protagonist. Now Ubisoft has confirmed that the newest addition to the franchise will be Black Flag.
Nintendo is on the warpath- No more online piracy
Nintendo has sent a letter to the U.S Trade Representative asking them to put pressure on Countries where Online Piracy is out of control. They are urging them to take action because of the mounting losses that are occurring because of rampant Piracy of their games.
GC’s worst and most disappointing games of 2012
GC takes a look back over 2012 and sifts out the rotten and disappointing games to be brought to the front and made an example of. Let’s take a look at what we chose:
Black Friday 2012 console sales figures
Black Friday as been and gone and traditionally it’s a time of year when can get amazing deals on absolutely everything and a pretty good time to pick up a console.
THQ liquidates its supply of Wii U-draw tablets
The U-draw tablet for the Wii was released holiday 2010 to much success. Then THQ thought they would put it out on the PS3 and the 360 as well. That was not too wise of a decision for the troubled company.
Accidental Wii U hacker unveils upcoming Wii U games
The Wii U has only been out for a short time, but holes in the system have already been discovered. A gamer by the name of “Trike” was able to hack into the Wii U miiverse. Once there he found all sort of information.
Walmart releases 8 Wii U games 5 days early
Have you always wanted to own games for a system almost a week before you could play them on the console they were developed for? You are in luck if you have! Because Walmart put out eight new Wii U games for purchase at midnight on the 13th of November.
Tatsunoko VS Capcom is no more
It was announced today that Capcom’s publishing deal with Tatsunoko Productions had expired. From today onward Capcom is unable to sell copies of the 2010 fighting game ‘Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars’ in stores and online.
New Okiraku Golf 3D trailer
Arc System Works new 3DS e-shop game Okiraku Golf 3D is on its way to Japan tomorrow.
It is just a basic golfing game where you will use the 3DS touch screen to control most of the actions in the game. When you watch the trailer you will see that it is a bit reminiscent of the golf section in Wii sports. Just replace your Mii with a Japanese anime looking character.
First Confirmed Unreal Engine 4 licensee: Square Enix
Today Epic Games announced an agreement with Square Enix, giving them access to UE4 for use in the development of “multiple games”.
The Wii U’s GPU “confirmed” as a modified E6760
Started on NeoGAF a few months ago, a rumor stating Wii U’s GPU was the E6760 was spread. A user claimed that AMD tech support had sent him a response that included the specification. Recently another GAF member tried the same trick with AMD and sure enough in their response an E6760 is mentioned:
Wii U to launch powerful assault on the world this Christmas
Today Nintendo finally brought gamers what they have been looking for for almost two years now. During their Conference in New York, Nintendo announced everything we have been waiting to hear about since E3 earlier this year.
Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune have now been confirmed by ESRB to be upcoming Wii U games
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board or ESRB has recently confirmed that Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune will soon be heading to the Wii U.
GamrCred: A new type of gaming community
GamrCred is a place solely built for a gaming community. We were invited to the beta and came away a little impressed with what they are trying to achieve here. First let’s talk about what they hope to achieve.
