Darksiders II was announced for Wii U at e3 2011. It was noted at the time that the game would be a launch title for the Wii U. Vigil Games Lead designer Hayden Dalton, has today confirmed that Darksiders II will launch alongside the Wii U and has commented on how they are using the Wii U’s controller in a unique way.

“That’s been very interesting to see what those guys are doing, and they’re making efforts to make sure we do use it in more than a slapdash way.”

“It’s basically the core game, but then with added abilities to do certain things that you can’t do on the other consoles.”

“One of the things that we did, when we were originally going to show it off, was that you could equip stuff directly. So, for instance, I could be running along and I could click on another piece and I could put it on as I’m running through the game,” he revealed.

“That’s huge, it’s not breaking up the game in a way, I’m not going into a menu and assigning it, I’m literally just tapping as I’m playing.”

“We’re not basically heavily changing the core game to support the control system, but the control system will be an enhancement of the core game.”

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The Wii U will be released later this year, and whilst there are gamers over the world that are giddy with excitement and are eagerly awaiting it’s impending release. It seems as though the industry’s financial analysts have little faith in Nintendo’s new console.

Industry Analyst Doug Creutz of Cowen and Company doubt’s the Wii U, will significantly impact publisher shares when it hit’s the market.

“We note that while the WiiU will launch later this year, we do not view it as a likely driver of third party publisher shares given their historically low exposure to Nintendo platforms,”.

According to a post from The Royalty Network (spotted by Go Nintendo), Ubisoft has requested the song Evacuate the Dance Floor by Cascada for use in “Your Shape Wii U”.

The Your Shape series first launched on Wii with a camera attachment. How will it work on Nintendo’s new console the Wii U? Will Ubisoft package another camera or are they planning on putting the Wii U’s controller camera to use?

Ubisoft Montreal’s Creative Director Alex Hutchinson has said they’ve completely redone the combat system in Assassins Creed III. Hutchinson describes the new system as a “two-handed combat system”, effectively allowing you to dual-wield.

“The combat system in Assassin’s Creed III has been completely redone. We burned it to the ground and we’re building it back up”.

“At its base it’s a two-handed combat system, so all of the weapons are two-handed. Some of the cool new combinations include a tomahawk and knife. Connor also has a bow”.

“At first our research said basically that bows had been replaced by guns, but what we found was that a lot of the different tribes were still using them to hunt from horseback because the guns were so inaccurate. We thought it was a cool weapon, and still historically accurate”.

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Ubisoft’s Annecy studio developed the multiplayer for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and assisted with the multiplayer in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. It has been revealed that they are also behind Assassin’s Creed III’s multiplayer.

E3 Expo

A user over at the NeoGaf forums has come across this year’s E3 floor plans. Though this list may be premature, we are able to see some companies that involve Wii U in their show floor plan. This list is certainly not definitive but may also turn out to be untrue.

Accessories > Nintendo Wii U

Hyperkin, Inc.
http://hyperkin.com/

Action > Nintendo Wii U

Capcom U.S.A., Inc.
http://www.capcom.com

Casual Games > Nintendo Wii U

Bigben Interactive
http://www.bigben.eu/

Distributor > Nintendo Wii U

GAMEWORLD DISTRIBUTORS
http://www.gameworlddistributors.com/

Mecca Electronic Ind. Inc.
http://www.meccaelect.com/

Proximo Games LLC
http://www.proximogames.com/

Family/Children’s Entertainment > Nintendo Wii U

Bigben Interactive

Fitness > Nintendo Wii U

Bigben Interactive

Hardware > Nintendo Wii U

Mecca Electronic Ind. Inc.

Internet Product/Service > Nintendo Wii U

Pole To Win
http://www.poletowinamerica.com/

Manufacturing > Nintendo Wii U

LevelUp
http://www.levelupgear.com/

Peripherals > Nintendo Wii U

Mecca Electronic Ind. Inc.

Retail > Nintendo Wii U

Pole To Win
Proximo Games LLC

Sports > Nintendo Wii U
Bigben Interactive

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Kojima Productions studio head Hideo Kojima recently commented that if he makes a Wii U game, it would have to be unique and tailored to the device.

“Wii U is kind of a special case, the way the player interacts with the device is very different than any other device out there. So if I were to make a game for the Wii U, it would have to be a unique game.”

“I don’t want any misconceptions that [the Fox Engine] is specific to a certain hardware platform, because it’s not. The way we envision it, it’s more this platform that isn’t mounted to a particular hardware.”