The delightful new Wii U game Lego City Undercover has a bunch of Nintendo Easter eggs. I found a few of them during the 22 hours and counting that I've played the game. The one in the video here is my current favorite.
It's an excellent, brand-new year-one Wii U game.
With the latest trailer for LEGO City Undercover my desire for an open world brick-based game for my Wii U reaches dangerous new heights. At the risk of sounding vain, I'm pretty sure TT Fusion has crafted this game for the sole purpose of seducing me.
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As with just about every other major console that has ever launched, promises and plans for the Wii U's first few months are thinning into the reality of a system plagued with a lack of early releases.
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Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon comes to the 3DS on March 24, one highlight among several release dates Nintendo announced for its spring lineup this morning.
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Untethered to any movies, comics or TV shows, the Wii U's Lego City Undercover will be -gasp- an entirely original Lego game from Traveller's Tales and Nintendo. We saw it at E3 and today we've got a new look at it. Pretty nice, huh? It's slated for an early 2013 release, though it's unclear if that means it will…
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It's never too early for preorder bonuses! At today's Nintendo event it was announced that folks that put their money down on the Wii U's LEGO-powered launch game will secure an exclusive minifig, which is all LEGO fans really need to know.
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You can run around a very blocky open world in Lego City Undercover, an upcoming Wii U game with some cool new features. Don't expect any blood or prostitutes here, but City Undercover really does feel a lot like a brickified Grand Theft Auto: you walk and drive around an open city, following missions and interacting…
