Weekly Wrap-UP #10 – Ubisoft is Waiting for Next-Gen Consoles, PlayStation Vita is on Fire

<p>Welcome to the Weekly Wrap-Up&comma; the weekly &lpar;and ever evolving&rpar; time when we look at the top five news stories of the week&comma; in no particular order&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sorry we missed last week&comma; we had some communication issues that kept this from being published&period; Luckily&comma; we are back and hopefully better than ever&period; Below is a brief summary&comma; but for the full stories simply click on the hyperlink&period; So&comma; here’s the list without further adieu&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;ubisoft-ceo-gen-consoles-required&sol;ubisoft&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-21136"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21136" title&equals;"Ubisoft" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;06144138&sol;Ubisoft-300x248&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"248" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;ubisoft-ceo-gen-consoles-required&sol;">Ubisoft CEO Yves<&sol;a> Guillemot said in an interview that he believes the lack of new gaming software is ultimately hurting the industry&period; Guillemot claims that it is easier for developers at the beginning of a console cycle because of the lower risk involved for developers to create new IPs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;nintendo-shows-3ds-xl-comiccon&sol;nintendo-3ds-xl&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-20391"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20391" title&equals;"Nintendo 3DS XL" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;06145949&sol;Nintendo-3DS-XL&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"590" height&equals;"341" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Concerns over <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-admin&sol;Concerns&percnt;20over&percnt;20&OpenCurlyQuote;blurry’&percnt;20screens&percnt;20on&percnt;20the&percnt;203DS&percnt;20XL&percnt;20were&percnt;20addressed&percnt;20earlier&percnt;20by&percnt;20Takashi&percnt;20Murakami&percnt;20&lpar;Nintendo’s&percnt;20research&percnt;20and&percnt;20development&percnt;20unit&rpar;&percnt;20when&percnt;20he&percnt;20was&percnt;20asked&percnt;20about&percnt;20possible&percnt;20problems&percnt;20by&percnt;20Nintendo’s&percnt;20CEO&comma;&percnt;20Satoru&percnt;20Iwata&period;">&OpenCurlyQuote;blurry’ screens on the 3DS XL<&sol;a> were addressed earlier by Takashi Murakami &lpar;Nintendo’s research and development unit&rpar; when he was asked about possible problems by Nintendo’s CEO&comma; Satoru Iwata&period;Murakami responded that he has incredible eye sight so he can see a slight difference&comma; but most people will not be able to tell a difference&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;vita-heating-literally&sol;516dukkapal&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-21297"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21297" title&equals;"516dUkKaPaL" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;06143444&sol;516dUkKaPaL&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"401" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There have been reports in Japan of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;vita-heating-literally&sol;">PlayStation Vita’s overheating<&sol;a> while being charged&period; So far&comma; 31 Vita’s have shown this problem&period; 23 of them in Japan and the rest are based in North America&comma; United Kingdom and Australia&period; Sony reports on this saying that it will not be issuing a recall&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;skylanders-giants-release-date&sol;amended&lowbar;composite&lowbar;logo&lowbar;pref&lowbar;4&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-21426"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21426" title&equals;"Skylanders" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;06143127&sol;Skylanders-1024x345&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Skylanders Heroes" width&equals;"590" height&equals;"198" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Activision’s newest IP&comma;<em> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;skylanders&period;com&sol;">Skylanders&colon; Spyro’s Adventures<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; appears to have done much better than many had anticipated&period; The game’s sequel&comma; <em><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;skylanders&period;com&sol;giants">Skylanders Giants<&sol;a>&comma;<&sol;em> was announced by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;skylanders-giants-release-date&sol;">Activision on February 7&comma; 2012<&sol;a>&comma; and the release date has officially been set for October 19&comma; 2012 in the UK&comma; while the US release is scheduled for October 21&comma; 2012&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;leaked-photos-monster-hunter-playstation-vita-game-surface&sol;monster-hunter&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-21602"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21602" title&equals;"monster-hunter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;07&sol;06142243&sol;monster-hunter-1024x768&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"590" height&equals;"442" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kotaku released a few photos of what appeared to be a <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;leaked-photos-monster-hunter-playstation-vita-game-surface&sol;">Monster Hunter game playing on the PlayStation Vita<&sol;a><&sol;em>&period; The photos appeared on a Chinese bulletin board&comma; and show a screen shot of the game inside the screen borders of a Vita&period; The photos appear to be photoshopped and Kotaku has since apologized to their readers for getting their hopes up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This week had a lot of big news and the news staff and I found it hard to narrow it down to the usual five stories&period; No honorable mentions this week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you missed out on the big news items this week&comma; you can check out our weekly podcast and get an audio update of this week’s madness from our podcasting team&period; Listen to us as we talk about some things seriously and a few other things not so much&period; We guarantee this episode will make you shake your fist at times and nod your head at others&period; And finally&comma; check out<a title&equals;"The Interview with Q" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;interview-jacob-andersen-game-director-heroes-generals&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"> The Interview with Q<&sol;a>&comma; hosted by Matthew Quinlan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;small&lowbar;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let us know if you agree with our top five&period; If you have suggestions for future Weekly Wrap-Ups&comma; feel free to email me at <a href&equals;"mailto&colon;jeremy&period;tyler&commat;bagogames&period;com">jeremy&period;tyler&commat;bagogames&period;com<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Enjoy&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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