Nintendo’s announced New Super Mario Bros 2 for 3DS, confirming an August launch for the sequel in Japan.
The game was announced as part of the latest Nintendo Direct, shown right at the end of the stream.
Nintendo of America has confirmed on its Twitter it’ll released the game in the US this August as well alongside the Japanese release.
No details for Europe have been announced, but those are expected to arrive when the European version of Nintendo Direct airs at 1pm BST this afternoon.
There’s caps of it below, via Japanese blog Esuteru.
Source: VG247
[Gamasutra rounds up the week's biggest reports on South Korea's booming online games market from This Is Game, the leading English-language site about the country's game industry.] In our latest round-up of news from South Korea’s online games space, we look at NCSoft’s Lineage III (pictured) lawsuits over leaked trade secrets, NHN’s new developer programs, upcoming game ratings changes for the country, and more. Former Lineage III devs found guilty, sentenced to jail for leaking …
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dkdkdYou may want to support the continued localization and promotion of the JRPG genre in America – the overarching goal of the
MonkeyPaw Games/Gaijinworks Kickstarter – but at the same time, you may not know a whole lot about the specific game being Kickstarted,
Class of Heroes 2 for PSP.
The publishers have sought to provide that missing information, releasing a new trailer for the school-themed dungeon crawler. You’ll see plenty of gameplay footage, along with character art for all the different in-game races – all of whom are teenagers in school uniforms.
Study this Class of Heroes 2 trailer originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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[Gamasutra rounds up recent reports on the Japanese games industry from local news site Andriasang.com, a leading destination for English-language news on Japan's game industry.] In our latest round-up of Japanese game industry news not previously reported on Gamasutra, we look at a Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Prada collaboration, sell-through rates for Kingdom Hearts games, new social network apps for PlayStation Vita, and more. Kingdom Hearts 3D Sells 64% of Stock Square Enix sold 64.2 …
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Star Command is estimated to launch this July or August, according to the co-founders of developer Warballoon. The game, which had its first public showing this past weekend at PAX East, will launch with the “Rise of Antorians” story, followed by the “Cortexian Campaign” in October.
Warballoon co-founders Justin and Jordan Coombs told us updates will be free for the game, as they plan to expand the Star Command universe and want to bring everyone along for the ride.
The PAX East demo showed off how combat in the game works, as Antorians (a humanoid ant race) invaded the ship and started a blaster fight with the crew. The Antorian ship also got into the action and attacked, while members of the engineering crew had to handle fires and loss of cabin pressure. The Warballoon team already told us they are switching to a far more context-sensitive interface system after observing players at PAX East.
The game is also officially heading to iPad, since the team ported it to the platform after realizing they didn’t want to pass around their personal phones to demo the game at the show.
Star Command beams in this summer originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Remember the news on Wednesday that New Vegas developer Obsidian Entertainment is working on an unspecified Kickstarter Project? Kind of baffling at the time, I speculated that since it probably wasn’t some kind of desperate ploy (they are working on South park: The Game, after all), maybe they’re jumping on the ‘revive long dead gaming franchises’ bandwagon. Shockingly, it turns out I was absolutely right, and it’s even better than I thought. Obsidian want so to be involved in Brian Fargo’s attempt to bring Wasteland 2 into the world.
Yes, you read that right. Confirming the news, Brian Fargo told Rock, Paper, Shot gun that “I have a history with the guys at Obsidian that dates back to the days of Interplay’s Black Isle studios. Together we created some of the greatest RPG’s of all time, from Fallout 1 & 2 to titles like Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment. It is great that we now have a chance to reunite on a project like Wasteland 2.” Hang on, I need to wipe the drool off my keyboard.
OK, done. Now, there’s only one catch: The Wasteland 2 Kickstarter, already at $ 1,812,814, needs to raise 2.1 million dollars in the next 16 days for Obsidian to join. Which is to say, we are so damned close. So if you want to see Wasteland 2 brought to you by a Voltron composed of the people who brought us Wasteland, Planescape and numerous Fallout games, you know what to do.
Via Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Celebrate the big fat box in its majesty: PlayStation 3 is celebrating its fifth birthday in Europe today.
SCE UK PR manager Hugo Bustillos noted the milestone in a tweet.
The console launched in the mainland and the UK on Friday, March 23, 2007 for £425/€599 . It was due to release the same day as the US, but the European launch was delayed in September 2006 due to a delay in shipping components.
The launch line-up include debuts for what are establish IPs, including Motorstorm and Resistance, as well as third-party titles like Call of Duty 3, Virtua Fighter 5 and Ridge Racer 7.
Since then, other massive titles coming from the European arm of Sony’s Worldwide Studios and its partners include Heavy Rain, LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2 and 3 and more.
Happy birthday, PS3!
Source: VG247
Have you been interested in playing Star Wars: The Old Republic but a little intimated by having to commit to a subscription in order to access? You’re in luck. This weekend, BioWare is making their awesome, and fairly successful MMORPG available for free. The F2P period lasts from Thursday, March 15 at 12:01AM CT, through
Monday, March 19 at 2:00AM CT.
Access is limited and will be granted on a first come, first serve basis. More details are available on the official site
Source: Gaming Today
