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Nintendo Announces Release Dates For Upcoming Games
Nintendo has announced its release date schedule for all of its upcoming games for the Wii U and 3DS over the remainder of 2015. While many of the dates were already known, there are a few that people have been waiting to hear about. Devil’s Third, for one, now has a release date of December 11, and Star Fox Zero will hit stores November 20 with a price of $59.99.
3DS Games:
- Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer launches Sept. 25 at a suggested retail price of $US39.99. The set of 100 Animal Crossing amiibo cards, which are compatible with the game, launch the same day. The game comes with one complimentary amiibo card, so players can experience how to use the cards to bring additional Animal Crossing characters into the game. People who opt to download the digital version of the game in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS at the same price will receive an exclusive Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer HOME Menu Theme instead of an amiibo card. Cards are sold separately in packs of six at a suggested retail price of $US5.99 per pack. A bundle also launching on Sept. 25 includes the game, one amiibo card and the Nintendo 3DS NFC Reader/Writer accessory at a suggested retail price of $US49.99. The wireless NFC Reader/Writer is also sold separately at a suggested retail price of $US19.99.
- Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash launches Oct. 9 at a suggested retail price of $US29.99. A bundle that includes the Chibi-Robo amiibo launches the same day at a suggested retail price of $US39.99.
- The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes launches Oct. 23 at a suggested retail price of $US39.99.
- YO-KAI WATCH launches in the U.S. on Nov. 6 at a suggested retail price of $US39.99.
- Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon launches Nov. 20 at a suggested retail price of $US39.99.
- Skylanders SuperChargers Racing from Activision launches Sept. 20 at a suggested retail price of $US64.99. On Nintendo 3DS, gamers can go head to head with competitive multiplayer via local play or online with up to four players. Iconic Nintendo character Bowser and his Sky vehicle, Clown Cruiser, are available in the Skylanders SuperChargers Racing Starter Packs for Wii and Nintendo 3DS, and can also be played on the Wii U system.
- Shovel Knight for 3DS from Yacht Club Games will launch in stores in October at a suggested retail price of $US24.99.
Wii U Games:
- Super Mario Maker launches on September 11 at a suggested retail price of $US59.99.
- Yoshi’s Woolly World launches Oct. 16 at a suggested retail price of $US49.99. The game will also be available in a bundle that includes a green Yarn Yoshi amiibo at a suggested retail price of $US59.99. The green Yarn Yoshi is available as part of the bundle, with individual pink and light-blue Yarn Yoshi amiibo also launching on Oct. 16 at a suggested retail price of $US16.99 each.
- A new combo pack that includes two great games goes on sale Oct. 16. The pack includes both New Super Mario Bros. U and New Super Luigi U, and will be available at a suggested retail price of $US59.99.
- Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, co-developed by Koei Tecmo Games, launches exclusively in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U on Oct. 22 for $US49.99, just in time for Halloween. Players can download this free-to-start game and play the prologue, chapter 1 and most of chapter 2 for free. The full version of the game can be purchased as DLC directly from the Nintendo eShop or via the in-game menu.
- Star Fox Zero launches Nov. 20 at a suggested retail price of $US59.99.
- Xenoblade Chronicles X launches Dec. 4 at a suggested retail price of $US59.99.
- Devil’s Third launches Dec. 11 at a suggested retail price of $US59.99.
- Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival and amiibo figures for Animal Crossing characters Isabelle, Digby, K.K., Reese, Cyrus, Tom Nook, Mabel and Lottie launch Holiday 2015.
- Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash launches Holiday 2015.
- Runbow from 13AM Games will launch in North America on Aug. 27 in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U. For the first month after launch, anyone who downloaded the Nindies@Home demo version will receive 15 per cent off the regular price of $US14.99. Runbow is an up-to-nine-player action platform party game that includes guest characters from some of the Nintendo eShop’s most popular indie titles, like Azure Striker Gunvolt, Shovel Knight, Guacamelee! and Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien.
- Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition from Disney Interactive launches Aug. 30 at a suggested retail price of $US64.99.
- The Skylanders SuperChargers Starter Pack for Wii U from Activision launches Sept. 20 at a suggested retail price of $US74.99. For the first time in Skylanders history, two of Nintendo’s iconic characters — Donkey Kong and Bowser — will guest star as playable characters and will also work with select amiibo-compatible games with a simple twist of the character’s base. Turbo Charge Donkey Kong and Hammer Slam Bowser will be exclusively playable on Wii U, Wii and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
- LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment launches Sept. 27 at a suggested retail price of $US99.99. Additional LEGO Dimensions Level, Team and Fun Packs will also be available on Sept. 27 at the respective suggested retail prices of $US29.99, $US24.99 and $US14.99.
- Guitar Hero Live from Activision launches Oct. 20 at a suggested retail price of $US99.99.
- Just Dance 2016 from Ubisoft launches Oct. 20 at a suggested retail price of $US49.99.
- Shovel Knight from Yacht Club Games — winner of more than 100 awards, including many “Game of the Year” accolades — is coming to retail stores. The classically styled adventure launches on Wii U in October at a suggested retail price of $US24.99.
In addition to the slew of new games, Nintendo is also bringing down the price of the 2DS to $99.99 USD, which is quite the bargain given it comes with a download code for Mario Kart 7.
As Assassin’s Creed Shadows is about to sneak up on people in November, Ubisoft says that the time between developing games needs to be longer to find the “right balance.” Shadows has been in development for four years, longer than any other game in the series up to this point. That includes the huge open-world epics Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Shadows lead producer Karl Onnée (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz) says that the latest AC game took 25% longer to make than Valhalla. He says this is necessary to keep the quality of the series that it is known for: “It’s always a balance between time and costs, but the more time you have, the more you can iterate.” You can speed up a project by adding more people to it, but that doesn’t give you more time to make changes.
Onnée says this has as much to do with immersion and aesthetics as it does with fixing bugs and smoothing out pixels. This is because the development team needs time to learn about each new historical setting: “We are trying to make a game that is as real as possible.” We’re proud of it, and the process took a long time. In feudal Japan, building a house is very different from building a house in France or England in the Middle Ages. As an artist, you need to learn where to put things in a feudal Japanese home. For example, food might not belong there. Get all the information you need and learn it. That process takes a long time.”
You’ll have to wait a little longer for Ubisoft to work on each game. Are you okay with that? In what part of Shadows are you now? Is it interesting to you? Leave a comment below and let us know.
You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP, a remaster that Dragami Games and Capcom both created. You can now pre-order the PS5 game on the PS Store for $44.99 or £39.99. If you have PS Plus, you can get an extra 10% off the price.
The company put out a new trailer with about three minutes of gameplay to mark the start of the pre-order period. Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is a remaster of Grasshopper Manufacture’s crazy action game from 2012. You play as Juliet, a high school student who fights off waves of zombies.
The remaster adds RePOP mode, an alternative mode that swaps out the blood and gore for fun visual effects. It also adds a bunch of other features and improvements that make the game better overall. You can expect the graphics and sound to be better as well.
The game will now come out on September 12, 2024, instead of September 12, 2024. Are you excited to get back to this? Please cheer us on in the section below.
Is there really anyone who is following the story of Call of Duty’s zombie mode? We’ve known about the story in a vague way for a while, but we couldn’t tell you anything about it. It looks like the “Dark Aether” story will continue in Black Ops 6, but we don’t really know what that means.
For those of you who care, here is the official blurb with some background: “Requiem, led by the CIA, finally closed the last-dimensional portal, sending its inhabitants back to the nightmare world known as the Dark Aether, after two years of fighting zombie outbreaks around the world during the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War timeline.”
Wait, there’s more! “Agent Samantha Maxis gave her life to seal this weird dimension from the inside out.” Even worse things were to come: senior staff members of Requiem were arrested without a reason by the Project Director, who turned out to be Edward Richtofen.
Black Ops 6 will take place about five years later, and it looks like it will show more about Richtofen’s goals and motivations. The most important thing is that you will probably be shooting an unimaginable number of zombies in the head. This week, on August 8, there will be a full reveal of the gameplay, so keep an eye out for that.
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