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Here’s the Wii U’s Official Lineup for Launch Day and Beyond
The Wii U launches in North America on the 18th of November, 2012. Here are the 23 games that are launching with the system, as well as those coming before March 2013. It’s a rather large launch window Nintendo has defined for the Wii U launch, giving publishers four months to make it onto this…
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At Least Doctor Who Still Appreciates the Nintendo Wii
While the people from this particular planet are packing up their Wii consoles and preparing to trade them in for the next big thing, the last survivor of the planet Gallifrey is having a wonderful time flailing about in front of the television. In yesterday’s episode of Doctor Who, Matt Smith shows Wii Sports Tennis…
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Bayonetta 2 Going to Wii U Isn’t a Platform Change, from Its Creator’s Certain Point of View
Some interesting doublespeak comes out of Tokyo Games Show, as reported by Polygon. Platinum Games’ executive director Atsushi Inaba affirmed that Bayonetta 2 wouldn’t exist without Nintendo publishing it. Most folks already saw it that way, but he put it on the record with Polygon, so there you go. But then, “We are not viewing…
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Tire Maker Erases All Evidence of Kevin Butler Playing a Wii [Update]
A couple weeks back, a tipster reminded me that Jerry Lambert, the actor who has portrayed “Vice President of Everything” Kevin Butler in the PlayStation ads for the past three years, once appeared in an ad for Bridgestone tires playing a Wii. It was quirky, but a little outdated. Interestingly, that video has since been…
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Actually, It is Kinda B.S. That Bayonetta 2 is a Wii U Exclusive
It’s funny when anyone on the Internet flips out, but no one does it better than the video gamer. When the issue involves someone not getting what they want, when they want it, at the price they want it—and you yourself don’t want it—it’s entertaining as hell watching someone break into a Rumplestiltskenian fit on…
By Owen Good
