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[gamasutra.com] Court Denies Motorola's Desired 360 Ban in US Looks like MS will have to license tech though. gamasutra.com news aspro
Interview with Tomb Raider Producer Minor spoilers for first few hours of game. 1up.com news aspro
[gameinformer.com] Steam's Big Picture Mode Exits Beta Controller friendly Steam Sale marks public launch. gameinformer.com news aspro
[gameinformer.com] North America Getting Nintendo Direct on 5th 9:00 am PST. gameinformer.com news aspro
[playstation.com] PS3 Now #1 Netflix Device Passes the PC. playstation.com news aspro
[eurogamer.net] Digital Foundry Face-Off: Trine 2 on Wii U Meet the multi-platform game that looks better on Nintendo's new console eurogamer.net gamingeek
[bbc.co.uk] Motorola fails to win Xbox ban in US and Germany Frand-type innovations - inventions which the firm has recognised are critical to industry standards and should be therefore be licensed bbc.co.uk gamingeek
Game modes and extras you can unlock with Uplay on Wii U Ubisoft's free Uplay app for Nintendo's Wii U doesn't just add-on an achievement system for the publisher's games, it also offers up some neat freebies for their titles. polygon.com gamingeek
[eurogamer.net] Discovering the Wii U's third space "We're in our thirties, it's Saturday night and we're playing a brightly coloured variant of tag" eurogamer.net gamingeek
[eurogamer.net] Star Wars: Battlefront 3 was 99 per cent complete? Bullshit! Says Ex-LucasArts source eurogamer.net gamingeek
Microsoft files complaint over .com and .net domain names Xbox Fitness? fusible.com gamingeek
[gamefront.de] Metal Gear Rising Trailer Gameplay gamefront.de gamingeek
[gamekyo.com] The Last of Us Teaser gamekyo.com gamingeek
[gamekyo.com] Screens Yakuza 5 gamekyo.com gamingeek
[gameinformer.com] Gameinformer: My Wii U Love Affair gameinformer.com gamingeek
[nintendoworldreport.com] Little Inferno - video review nintendoworldreport.com gamingeek
Sony boss picks up a Wii U, asks for friend requests “Got a Wii U. My Nintendo ID is ‘ShuYoshida’, pls send me a friend request so I see you on the Activity Feed.” gematsu.com gamingeek
We Love our BioShock CosPlayer so Much, We HIred Her! Very Cool Story. Amazing likeness! irrationalgames.com phantom_leo
[ign.com] New Wii U Firmware Update Available Now! An End to the Vuvuzela Freeze? ign.com news phantom_leo
[epicgames.com] Epic Loses Yet Another Vetran WTH is going on? epicgames.com news aspro
[eurogamer.net] New Stuff About Obsidian's Kickstarter Game The first work in progress renders. eurogamer.net media news aspro
[ign.com] [Nintendo Direct] Fire Emblem: Awakening gets a NA Release Date Guess the last one sold well enough! ign.com news phantom_leo
[kotaku.com] After playing BioShock Infinite for 4.5 hours... ...no longer worried about BioShock Infinite! kotaku.com impressions phantom_leo
[eurogamer.net] Nintendo blocking 18+ rated Wii U eShop content at certain times "We have thus decided to restrict the access to content which is unsuitable to minors (PEGI) to the 11pm - 3am time window." eurogamer.net gamingeek
[eurogamer.net] Rayman Legends demo out next week eurogamer.net gamingeek
[nintendoeverything.com] Dragon Quest X Wii U debut trailer nintendoeverything.com gamingeek
[eurogamer.net] Eurocom makes remaining staff redundant, ceases trading Not even social games, last 50 staff redundant eurogamer.net gamingeek
[time.com] TIME picks the top 10 games of 2012 2. Xenoblade Chronicles time.com gamingeek
[eurogamer.net] Digital Foundry Face-Off: Assassin's Creed 3 on Wii U "the look of the game is nigh on identical in terms of native resolution, texture quality, its shadow rendering method, and environmental detail" eurogamer.net gamingeek
[computerandvideogames.com] Next Halo in early stages of development, says 343 exec Yay computerandvideogames.com gamingeek
[eurogamer.net] The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - Dragonborn review 9/10 eurogamer.net impressions gamingeek
[mcvuk.com] Capcom to make casual focused Ghostbusters game Who you gonna... ah forget it mcvuk.com gamingeek
[mcvuk.com] Rayman Legends UK date confirmed mcvuk.com gamingeek
[gamefront.de] Six Crysis 3 screens gamefront.de gamingeek
[youtube.com] Pikmin 3 HD GAMEPLAY TRAILER LATEST I didn't use capitals, copy/paste youtube.com media gamingeek
[gamekyo.com] Dishonored : trailer, first DLC gamekyo.com gamingeek
[gamekyo.com] Images Dragon's Dogma : Dark Arisen gamekyo.com gamingeek
[computerandvideogames.com] Activision - 3DS/Vita face challenges in portable space computerandvideogames.com gamingeek
[gametrailers.com] Former Madden dev rants on EA's outlook on games "but seriously… don't trust EA. Not because they're bad. They do good by their people, really. But because they're robotic." gametrailers.com editorial gamingeek
Nintendo of Canada on Wii Mini - Why it exists, lacks online Is only hitting Canada and more polygon.com gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] Nintendo Direct (Europe) - all trailers Pikmin 3 et al gonintendo.com media gamingeek
[computerandvideogames.com] Ruffian's now-cancelled Streets of Rage re-imagining computerandvideogames.com gamingeek
[eurogamer.net] PAL Wii U doesn't upscale Wii games to HD No progressive scan either WTF? eurogamer.net gamingeek
Nintendo steps up their digital manuals with Wii U Better than a paper manual? n-sider.com gamingeek
Former RARE dev details the Perfect Dark sequel that never happened Shows interest in Wii U development, notenoughshaders.com gamingeek
[nintendo.com] Hard drives over 2TB now supported on Wii U Though nothing larger than that amount can be used. If you have a slightly bigger drive, the system will now no longer reject it. nintendo.com gamingeek
Bill Trinen talks Wara Wara Plaza naming, working with Miyamoto "He doesn’t read off the teleprompter." killscreendaily.com gamingeek
[youtube.com] Carly Rae Jepsen's full promo for Wii U, SiNG Party Call me maybe? Or DON'T youtube.com gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] 007 Legends lacks Wiimote/Nunchuk control   WOW gonintendo.com gamingeek
[mynintendonews.com] Iwata believes ZombiU to be a seminal title mynintendonews.com gamingeek
[gamesindustry.biz] Pachter - No one will support Wii U, Nintendo to become irrelevant Call of Duty a failure gamesindustry.biz gamingeek
[youtube.com] Trine 2 - first 50 minutes youtube.com gamingeek
[nintendo.com] Nintendo shows Wii U Zapper/screen prototype An experiment using the Wii Zapper4 controller was what inspired us to put a gyro sensor in the Nintendo 3DS nintendo.com gamingeek
[ign.com] And the Nominees for IGN's Game of the Year are... ME3, H4 and BORDERLANDS 2, among others... ign.com phantom_leo
[gameinformer.com] Levine Explains Bioshock Infinite Cover Art And salad dressing. gameinformer.com news aspro
[playstation.com] Hands-on With Bioshock Infinite From the PlayStation blog. playstation.com impressions aspro
[gamespot.com] New US Retail Releases Week of Dec 9, 2012 The Walking Dead, lotsa DLC and expansions. gamespot.com news aspro
[destructoid.com] Street Fighter x Megaman Game gets Backed by Capcom!? Well, so much for Borderlands 2 being my GOTY! destructoid.com news phantom_leo
[gametrailers.com] METAL GEAR SOLID V STEALTH REVEAL!!!! Craziest reveal of a game of all time gametrailers.com news Dvader
[gametrailers.com] Dark Souls 2 announced!!! Praise the sun!! gametrailers.com news Dvader
[ign.com] The Last of Us Release Date Revealed May 7, 2013 ign.com news Ravenprose
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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:41:05

So.... amazon uk shipped some Wii U deluxes without Nintendoland and are sending out download codes for the game. Mine came with the disc, others have to download it.

So amazon emailed me a download code anyway and I don't know what to do with it? Can I sell it? Can I give it away? What if it's tracked back to me or something? Should I just delete the email and ignore it?

BTW Zombi U get.  

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Is that IGA?  That banner wouldn't lie

edit:  christ those bum-tight jeans ... cannot be unseen

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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:16:52
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Is that IGA?  That banner wouldn't lie

edit:  christ those bum-tight jeans ... cannot be unseen

LOL IGA banner is proof.

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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:23:17

Nintendoland single player cheating! Well at least this thing doesnt have leaderboards cause that other wiimote helping would have ruined them.

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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:23:54
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gamingeek said:

Is that IGA?  That banner wouldn't lie

edit:  christ those bum-tight jeans ... cannot be unseen

You know what the funny thing. Let me preface this by telling you that I am being 100% honest when I say the following:

When I posted the story with the subtitle: Iga strikes again - I hadn't even seen or spotted the IGA banner in that pic. I just saw the Pokemon backpack and was having a joke. Then like 20 minutes after I posted the pic I saw IGA on the banner. lol

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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:26:37
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Nintendoland single player cheating! Well at least this thing doesnt have leaderboards cause that other wiimote helping would have ruined them.

Why can't they do the opposite and have single player ways of playing Mario chase etc? I like those games.

Nintendoland, some of the games feel like, if you tweaked them they could be good games in their own right. Funny how stuff like Luigi's Mansion, Mario Chase, they look like the worst kind of crap you don't want to play, then when you play them it's like a lightbulb pinging in your head and you just GET it immediately.

That Octopus dance.... *shudders*

I'm off to try Zombi U.

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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:06:42

Yup those are great fun with others.

Enjoy zombiU.

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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:22:13
Did you know that the wii u is the first console not to get an extended warranty when you register it on club Nintendo. There are already reports of a blue light of death. Nintendo went full current gen hd console in more ways than one.
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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:45:51
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Did you know that the wii u is the first console not to get an extended warranty when you register it on club Nintendo. There are already reports of a blue light of death. Nintendo went full current gen hd console in more ways than one.

We get a 12 month standard warranty here.

I thought my U had a red pixel problem like the Wii 1 when it had that red and green dot problem. Turns out that the TV has a lone red pixel, how annoying.

Played an hour of Zombi U. Even that long with the game I'm scratching my head at some of the low reviews. 4.5 out of 10 and scores of that ilk make me expect a horrible broken game. This is nothing like that.

Acually enjoying it quite a lot so far, although it's not all rosy. Like Dvader I temporarily lost my ability to play with an inverted Y axis, I blame Wii U gyro games that have me aiming by just pointing up. I do not think the stick sensitivity is quite right. I turned it all the way to 100% but it still doesn't feel just right. I wish it was smooth like Halo. Does it get better as your character becomes more experienced with guns?

I also hate having to click down on the stick to run, there are enough buttons on the controller that I should be able to use something else. Once again, why don't all games let you button map to your own liking?

Still, unlike Nintendoland this game is a coherent and compelling demonstration of what the U can bring to a hardcore game and I like it. Almost all the features so far are enjoyable and the U pad feels like a tool in your hand (no sex pun intended) which enhances the experience. The game is very atmospheric and the graphics are good. They aren't super impressive but they are in no way bad in any shape or form and look quite good in many parts. The game has been fairly easily for the first 50 minutes or so, I have yet to test out the controls and features against a horde. I have a feeling I will shit my pants, get lost and die easily.

BTW, when you save right, say you die after, can you just load your last save?

Can you mark waypoints on the map guys? Oh and there are messages on the walls from people, nearly of all them people are rating as do not trust.

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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:49:52

Oh yeah a relative went to a major supermarket today, they had like 20-30 PS3 games, 20-30 360 games, about 10 3DS games and how many Wii U games?

4

Yep. 4.

And I see a story today about how U games didn't even break the top 10 in the UK? The store only had COD, Mario, Zombi U and Nintendoland on the shelves.

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Trine 2 is good stuff, but some of the puzzles drop red herrings. You come up to sections and they will lay pipes or something there. So you start thinking how to use them to get past the obstacle. And you get frustrated because you cannot use those items to get past certain bits. And instead you find a completely different way to get past those sections not even involving those items. It's mildy annoying sometimes.

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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:09:09
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We get a 12 month standard warranty here.

I thought my U had a red pixel problem like the Wii 1 when it had that red and green dot problem. Turns out that the TV has a lone red pixel, how annoying.

Played an hour of Zombi U. Even that long with the game I'm scratching my head at some of the low reviews. 4.5 out of 10 and scores of that ilk make me expect a horrible broken game. This is nothing like that.

Acually enjoying it quite a lot so far, although it's not all rosy. Like Dvader I temporarily lost my ability to play with an inverted Y axis, I blame Wii U gyro games that have me aiming by just pointing up. I do not think the stick sensitivity is quite right. I turned it all the way to 100% but it still doesn't feel just right. I wish it was smooth like Halo. Does it get better as your character becomes more experienced with guns?

I also hate having to click down on the stick to run, there are enough buttons on the controller that I should be able to use something else. Once again, why don't all games let you button map to your own liking?

Still, unlike Nintendoland this game is a coherent and compelling demonstration of what the U can bring to a hardcore game and I like it. Almost all the features so far are enjoyable and the U pad feels like a tool in your hand (no sex pun intended) which enhances the experience. The game is very atmospheric and the graphics are good. They aren't super impressive but they are in no way bad in any shape or form and look quite good in many parts. The game has been fairly easily for the first 50 minutes or so, I have yet to test out the controls and features against a horde. I have a feeling I will shit my pants, get lost and die easily.

BTW, when you save right, say you die after, can you just load your last save?

Can you mark waypoints on the map guys? Oh and there are messages on the walls from people, nearly of all them people are rating as do not trust.



Ignore the messages by people, it is totally useless. No loading previous saves, if you die you start with a new chars yet and the wave is overridden. You can quit right before you die to get to your last save.
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Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:44:52
Played more good game. Definetly the u game to get.

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:38:05
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Trine 2 is good stuff, but some of the puzzles drop red herrings. You come up to sections and they will lay pipes or something there. So you start thinking how to use them to get past the obstacle. And you get frustrated because you cannot use those items to get past certain bits. And instead you find a completely different way to get past those sections not even involving those items. It's mildy annoying sometimes.

They're not red herrings if they form a way to get past the puzzle, which they do from what I remember. None of the puzzles can be solved only one way.

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:50:45
Nice Bioshock Cosplay story there and wow does she ever resemble the character.

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:03:35

Wow she really does look like her too, that's pretty cool.

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:27:42
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They're not red herrings if they form a way to get past the puzzle, which they do from what I remember. None of the puzzles can be solved only one way.

The pipes are particularly bad. They give you pipe pieces, you arrange them for airflow for 20 minutes, then find they are completely useless and you can just build a block tower or stand on a bubble and push it with a block. The flap down bridges are particularly bad. Still a good game though.

Played more Zombi U in the dark. Like it a lot, very atmopsheric. Found something slightly annoying, I was player 1, got killed, went to nab my backpack during a horde invasion as player 2 died, came back as player 3 and could only loot player 2s stuff not player 1 where all the good shit was.

I need some nails and have none. When the game throws a horde at you everything goes tits up and panic sets in. You really cannot dig into your backpack when there is a horde about there is no time, you have to have everything prepped before in quiet moments and really be on your game when the horde shows up.

Game has not scared me yet, but does feel very tense. There was this part where I wanted to get into the sewers but had two zombies bearing down on me. I knew I had to fight them off or I could not get to the sewers, so I shoved them back out of the room then slammed the door in their face. I ran to the manhole, accessed it and breathed a sigh of relief when the map came up. Only..... the game was still happening on the main screen and I as I was scrolling the map to click the safe house - I looked up - the zombies bust through the door and lurch towards my characters' back as fast as possible. I just clicked it when they were like a foot away from killing me. So intense. laugh

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:32:38

BTW what's with Zombi U's graphics looking better on the U pad screen? Seems they blurred the HDTV pic, then when you use the U pad screen everything is clearer and well lit due to the lighting and the shadows look better. It's deliberate and actually very clever of the devs, makes the pad seem very useful.

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:39:13
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Later that night, when we were looking for things to entertain ourselves, I suggested checking out the new Wii U. My father-in-law and I each grabbed Wii Remotes, and I gave my one-year-old toddler the GamePad as an experiment. She’s young, but she has at least a small understanding of the mechanics of touch screens. I used to hand her my iPhone, but I can’t do that anymore now that she has mastered the unlock and has a penchant for rearranging my applications. Under my wife and mother-in-law’s watchful eyes, the baby gripped the stylus in a stabbing motion and began attacking the screen, randomly placing blocks for Mario and Luigi to jump on. She didn’t provide any real help (and was mostly a hindrance, in fact) and though she didn’t understand what she was doing, I still feel like I played my first cooperative video game with my daughter.

Now this is a fun way to play NSMB U multiplayer. Random kid touch screen block placing. cheeky

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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:20:18

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Got a Wii U (US version), my Nintendo ID is "ShuYoshida", pls send me a friend request so I see you on the Activity Feed.


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@yosp Haha you have a wiiU. Which is better in your opinion? Ps vita or Wiiu


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By the way, don't bother trying to add him as a friend - he appears to have blown his 100 person limit already, unsurprisingly.

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