Yesterday Activision revealed that the Transformers Prime games are coming exclusively to Nintendo formats this year, now they’ve unleashed the first teaser trailer for the game. The games will be based on the Transformers Prime animated series and are due to arrive on Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS sometime later this year.
Junichi Masuda, one of the developers at Gamefreak who make the Pokemon games, has revealed a lot of information regarding the mysterious N from Pokemon Black and White. These could be considered spoilers if you haven’t had a chance to play either games yet.
N’s real name is Natural Harmonia Gropius, with “N” coming from the term natural number.
With his high IQ, N exceeds humans.
A genius, N excels in math enough to be called a math wizard.
N is quick-witted and has extreme mood swings.
N can see the past and future of people.
According to Masuda, rumors have it that N was born from Pokémon; the parents are unknown.
N loves Pokémon but keeps his distance from humans.
N believes he’s perfect.
Always putting Pokémon first is N’s ideology.
Given how he is, he has been shunned by humans. In effect, he has a very strong connection with Pokémon.
Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter has revealed that Nintendo only managed to shift 190,000 Wii units in September, whilst Microsoft managed to sell nearly double that with 360,000 Xbox 360 units sold. Sony managed to come in second with 260,000 units sold. Nintendo also shifted 225,000 3DS units and 185,000 DS units in September.
Nintendo has announced that Mewtwo will be available for download for Pokemon Black & White via WiFi in Japan from September 26 through October 31. There isn’t too much information about the new version of Mewtwo except that it has the “Pressure” ability. Let’s hope that Nintendo America and Nintendo Europe announce something soon.
Nintendo has confirmed to online gaming publication Joystiq that the free version of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords isn’t the Gamecube version, but is in fact the original version of Zelda: Four Swords which was bundled with A Link To The Past on the Gameboy Advance. The free download will be playable on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS via the DSiWare store in September. Who’s looking forward to getting their hands on this classic game for free?
Nintendo have announced that their profits during the third quarter dropped to a staggering $1.3 billion compared to the previous year which saw the company’s operating profit at $2.31 billion during the same period.
Despite this the company hasn’t changed its operating profit forecast for this financial year and have announced that they’re sticking with $2.5 billion primarily because they’re launching the highly anticipated Nintendo 3DS on February 26th.
Enterbrain and Media-Create have announced that the immensely popular Pokémon Black & White has sold an incredible five million units in Japan, making it the fastest selling DS game of all time in the country.
Nintendo UK have revealed that the highly anticipated Pokémon Black & White will be arriving in the UK on the fourth of March which is two days before the North American release date.
French online gaming publication Gamekyo is stating that the long awaited Pokémon Black & White is due for release in Europe March 4th, which is two days before the US release date of March 6th.
Ubisoft have revealed that their limbless protagonist Rayman is currently their best selling franchise.
Rayman has beaten critically acclaimed titles such as Assassins Creed and the Prince of Persia games to become Ubisoft’s best selling franchise with over 29 million copies sold.
