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| The wait is finally over. Shovel Knight is here! |
The Wii U eShop has quite a few new titles available this week. Shovel Knight is undoubtedly the most-anticipated game of the bunch, a retro-style platformer from former members of developer WayForward. The other major releases are Wii Sports Club Boxing and Wii Sports Club Baseball. There are also quite a few smaller games hitting the eShop, but information on them is scarce. Full details after the break.
Wii U eShop
Shovel Knight
- $14.99
- Action platformer
- Features retro-style graphics reminiscent of NES games
- Miiverse integration
- Has receiving mostly great reviews
- From Yacht Club Games
Wii Sports Club Boxing + Baseball
- $9.99 permanent pass, $1.99 day pass
- Remastered HD versions of minigames from the Wii's system-selling pack-in
- In Baseball, GamePad is used for pitching and fielding while Wii MotionPlus is used for batting
- In Boxing, two Wii MotionPlus controllers are used in each hand
- From Nintendo
Monkey Pirates
- $4.99
- Sea combat title
- Players take on the role of a monkey pirate
- Multiple arenas and battles
- Various upgrades to earn along the way
- From Henchmen Studios
- Details on nintendo.com here
My Arctic Farm
- $7.99
- Farm-sim game set in the Arctic
- From BiP Media
- Details on nintendo.com here
My Jurassic Farm
- $7.99
- Farm-sim game featuring dinosaurs
- From BiP Media
- Details on nintendo.com here
BrickBlast U
- $3.99
- Players bounce a ball to destroy colored bricks
- Numerous power-ups to pick up as you go
- From Nexis Games
Wii U Virtual Console
- $4.99
- Action platformer
- Third entry in the series, returns to linear gameplay after previous game got mixed reception
- Three playable characters with different abilities
Wii U eShop Promotion
- All players can access all five sports from 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern Time starting on June 26th
- Promotion activates when game is started and is available until December 31st 2014.
Wii U eShop Temporary Discount
- $19.99 until July 8th
- Action-RPG
- From Nordic Games
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