The European Nintendo Direct released yesterday had some interesting Sega news, namely that the next Sonic game is going to be Nintendo exclusive. The Japanese Nintendo Direct however had it trumped, Yakuza 1 & 2 getting a WiiU HD port

There's not a lot else to say about it. Hopefully it somehow finds its way over here, not that I have a WiiU or a burning desire to play through the first 2 Yakuza games again (although Yakuza 2 is probably the series highlight)

The latest issue of Japan's "Famitsu Weekly" has apparently revealed the Japanese release date for Atlus' Shin Megami Tensei IV.

According to the magazine, the RPG will release on May 23rd. There will also be a limited edition 3DS XL to coincide with its release, and first edition copies of the game will come with a "Sound and Art Collection".

Capcom have announced that they are to close down the online infrastructure for Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii on April 30th. This is to make way for the imminent release of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate which launches in March.

Following a single complaint from a viewer, the Advertising Standards Authority have elected to ban the further use of a Wii U advert which implied that being able to play a game on the GamePad screen instead of the TV was universal.

The advert which premiered during Homeland last October- and has barely been seen since- made a show of the Play-On-Gamepad mode as the voiceover announced

"Say someone wants to watch TV when you're halfway through a game ... do both, and everyone's happy"

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The ASA largely agreed with Nintendo's argument that many of the other features seen in the advert, such as using the GamePad to shoot at the screen, would not feature in all titles. However, it decided that

"as this was a new console consumers would not have an awareness of whether this was something specific to individual games or a general feature of the console"

and deemed the advert to be misleading for not making a point of showing that it wasn't.

The advert now "must not appear in its current form".

Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor Overclocked, the 3DS remake of the DS title, has been bumped about here a bit in PAL land, it was due out a couple of weeks back before being set a new date of TBA

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked is coming to 3DS 22nd February. I've not played the Devil Survivor games, but the changes over the traditional series are enough to get me intrigued

You've probably not heard of Crimson Shroud, it's a downloadable 3DS e-shop game, and it's going to be available on the 13th December.



The reason you should care though is that it's a new rpg from Yasumi Matsuno, the man behind Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy Tactics

You may or may not be aware that New Super Mario Bros 2 on the 3DS is the first, and currently only, Mario game to get dlc. I'll be honest so far I've yet to bother with any of it, it's not the sort of game I need dlc for, and to be honest, it wasn't all that good.

Not that it was terrible, and it certainly got more interesting later on, but it was a bit dull. Anyway, to the matter at hand.

If New Super Mario Bros 2 wasn't quite old school enough for you then worry not as Nintendo are releasing some classic levels as free DLC. So far this is only confirmed for Japan, but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't happen here too.

The levels are Round 1 from Mario Bros, 01-1, 1-2 and 1-4 from Super Mario Bros, and 1-1 and 1-5 from Super Mario Bros. 3.

CVG are reporting that the excellent Resident Evil Revelations looks set to be making the jump from 3DS to PS3 and 360

There's a listing on the Korean ratings board's website that has triggered the speculation, and for what it's worth I think it would be a pretty smart move by Capcom.

Resident Evil Revelations was great, definitely worth picking up if you have a 3DS even though the last boss is awful. I'd stop short of saying that it's similar to the old games, but it is slower and more deliberate. Basically it sits somewhere between the old Resident Evil games and Resident Evil 4.

I'm not entirely convinced it will work as well on a home console, it might feel a bit sparse, and the tricks that get the game running on 3DS might become too apparent. It's also kind of sad to see one of the best reasons to own a 3DS go multiplatform, but given that Revelations is a better game than 5 (and 6 from what I'm told) I'd be happy if more people got to play it

Jeremiah Slaczka from 5th Cell, developers of the up and coming Wii U game Scribblenauts Unlimited announced on NeoGAF that the Wii U won't support an achievement system like those found on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

This isn't surprising news, as Nintendo have never said they would support this model, but I do believe Nintendo will alienate 3rd party developers, again.

Love Achievements and Trophies or hate them they have become and important addition to many people's gaming experience and not supporting an equivalent will have consequences. I'm mostly indifferent to them, myself, but Nintendo systems tend to be owned along with either a Playstation or Xbox and it's safe to say multi-format games aren't going to chosen for the Wii U, unless it does something really impressive with the Wii U GamePad. It's not an unfair to assume the Wii U will be third place when it comes to multi-format games.

Developers do have the option to incorporate their own achievements such as 5th Cell are doing with Scribblenauts Unlimited with its "Global Starite Shards" which works like a giant checklist.

This kind of game specific system has also been used on Nintendo Wii games such as Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Wario Land: The Shake Dimension so Nintendo aren't totally adverse to it themselves and may still appear later down the Wii U's life-cycle. It's still all speculation at the moment

Treasure CEO Masato Maegawa, talking to GamesTM, has let slip that Treasure are working on a new game, exclusive to the 3DS

"We are making a new game on Nintendo 3DS now. Not multiplatform, but exclusive to 3DS."

I'm eager to hear more, although my excitement has been tempered as it's occurred to me that I can't remember what the last new Treasure game I bought was