Wii U - Analyst: Negative Publicity Will Not Hurt Sales

Michael Pachter - who else - thinks the Wii U will be sold during the Christmas season. The grumbling about the console had no influence.

The Wii U comes not at all testers and customer enthusiasm. Nintendo's new console is struggling after the launch in the U.S. with a few technical problems and correspondingly bad press: The firmware update is too big, the operating system is too tough, the console after an aborted update irretrievably "gebrickt" that is defective.

Analyst Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities, never short of an opinion believes, however, that negative publicity will not hurt the sales of the Wii U in the Christmas season and beyond. Pachter says:

"I do not think they [the negative votes] a huge impact on the sales start, and expect the launch allocation of consoles as well as repeat orders through March 2013, sold out. (...)

The whole negatives will never stop completely, so I expect that lasts until after Christmas. I think [Nintendo] all produced [Wii U] units will be sold through March, which is 5.5 million copies. The company will have shipped three million by Christmas and all consoles will be sold out. "

Pachter also sees no impact of negative news on the upcoming launch of the Wii U in Europe and Japan.

In Europe, the Wii U is on 30 November in the trade.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - New Update Available

The latest update to multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive not only fixes some bugs, but will make a handful of adjustments to the competitive mode.

Valve announced today a new update for the multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive developer Hidden Path released via Steam.

This not only further errors (such as the timer was wrong times) to be eliminated but also made some changes in the competitive mode. So keep players who go out a lot and start again later in this angehäuftes their money. In addition, players will gekickte ersätzt instantly by a bot.

For inexperienced players also have a better explanation about the rules of the competitive modes was introduced.

Minor fixes

• Fixed Bomb Defusal resetting when a server lags below 20fps.
• Fixed a case where the round timer and were not being updated when spectating.
• Fixed another case where warmup alerts panel did not show for late joiners.
• Fixed a crash that would happen when you died that associated with the spectator panel.
• Fixed general scale form crashes.
• Made radio commands so selectable via the keypad numbers.
• Fixed enemies on radar that were above / below you showing their up / down indicators rotated.
• Made alive / dead state on the spectator UI easier to read.
• Replaced mp_teamname_t and mp_teamname_ct with mp_teamname_1 and mp_teamname_2 to disambiguate convars from sides in a fashion that supports team switching at halftime. Now the names follow the teams after the switch. (Mp_teamname_1 is the first team that plays CT).
• Changed spectator HUD to show Which Primary weapon each player has purchased during freeze time.
• Made spectator HUD show all grenades Carried by each player.

Classic Competitive Changes

• Added an explanation about competitive fashion rules to better explain its difference from other modes.
• Added save / restore of cash for competitive matches: When a player disconnects and reconnects in competitive mode, their pre-disconnect you will now be preserved.
• Added a button Requiring players to ready up when a competitive match is found. When all 10 players ready-up then the matchmaking servers lock them in for the match. Abandoning at any point after clicking the ACCEPT button will result in Competitive cooldown.
• Increased competitive cooldowns to 30 minutes for first offense, 2 days for second offense and so on.
• Kicking a player no longer offers a vote to continue. The game will proceed with a bot in place of the player kicked.

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Cryptic Studios - Star Trek Online And Champions Online - Better By Free2Play

According to Andy Velasquez, the lead producer of Neverwinter, the changeover to improve both Free2Play MMO Star Trek Online and Champions Online considerably.

In the opinion of Andy Velasquez with the changeover to the Free2Play model improves both MMO Star Trek Online and Champions Online strong. That explained the lead producer of the MMO Neverwinter, which comes from the same developer, gameinformer.com in an interview with.

'We operate [Star Trek Online and Champions Online] now for a year with a Free2Play model. And I think that the games with Free2Play model have become because of this transition infinitely better. "

One reason, however, is the experience of Perfect World with the business model. The publisher had taken the developer Cryptic Studios some time ago and is one of the leading publishers in the field Free2Play. Thus the conversion of MMOs was much easier.

The upcoming MMO Neverwinter should also be based on a Free2Play business model.

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Dishonored: The Mask of Wrath - The Protagonist Was Not Always Planned As A Silent Character

The hero of the stealth action game Dishonored: The mask of anger Corvo says not a word in the entire adventure. That was not always planned.

Corvo attano, the hero of stealth action game Dishonored: The mask of anger is a fairly taciturn fellow. Occurring in the game, he is not a single word from him. That was not always planned by the developers.

Have explained Raphael Colantonio and Harvey Smith of Arkane Studios in an interview with the Official PlayStation Magazine, it was in the alpha version of the game even some passages in which Corvo had something to say. This idea was never expanded.

In the third game of Arkane Studios from Lyon in France's going for us in a weird steampunk world filled with magic. A hero Corvo should we educate the murder of the Empress and thus prove our own innocence. And we can avoid fighting, but we must also be very brutal. Corvo mastered magic, but even then with conventional weapons such as guns.

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Skyrim - Trailer And Release Date For The DLC "Dragonborn"

Bethesda has, as promised, released the first trailer for Skyrim DLC Dragonborn. The video shows scenes from the new territories. So far there is only a release date for the Xbox 360 version.

On a list of the exact features of Dragonborn we have to wait on, but at least the developer Bethesda has released the first trailer for the next Skyrim DLC - as announced. Download the extension from the 4th to December 2012 for 1600 Microsoft Points (around 20 euros) are available via Xbox Live for paid download. Is a release date for the PC version or the PS3 version is not there. So far, none of the Skyrim DLCs have been released for the Playstation 3, Bethesda, and Sony have reported several times to work on the problem.

In the trailer for Skyrim: Dragonborn can see numerous scenes and thus new areas from the DLC. Even some of the new enemies are shown. A short scene shows even the player riding on a dragon. There were rumors that the dragon could ride as a new feature finding its way into the game.

The trailer, however, confirmed suspicions that Dragonborn would return the player to Solstheim. As a new opponent also the first dragon's blood is presented.

The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim (PC version)
Which is harder than fighting a dragon? Exactly: the fight against two dragons! In the mountains we find the same two ragged creatures, a spitting fire, the other ice.

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Assassin's Creed 3 Walkthrough - Refresher Course

After the opening sequence, follow your friends into the cave directly in front of you. Keep walking until another cut scene interrupts you. Again, keep walking forward until another cut scene. Slide down the steep bank until you reach the newly opened door.

Continue through it. After another cut scene, Desmond has slipped out of consciousness, and is now in the Animus. Cue training sequence! First simply run forward by using the run button (RT). After getting through the first two checkpoints, now is the time to start climbing. Keep holding the run button while running into the wall to easily climb right up. The next wall is more challenging. After climbing up as far up as you can go, follow the ledges to the left until you reach another platform to stand on. Continue forward, jumping across the gaps and beams automatically when RT is held. After sliding down a bank and scaling the wall after it, an optional objective will pop up to make an air assassination.


Once on top of the platform, two Templars will appear. Jump off the platform and hit X to assassinate one of them. To get to the second Templar, swing from the pipe protruding from the left-side wall. Jump onto a beam and then strike down on the Templar. Continue on, sliding down the bank in front of you. Climb the fence and use that to jump to the closest beam to you. Hop along the beams until you reach the huge gap. Hold RT and press A to Jump across. Continue forward using the fence to boost you up to the pole and then climb to the window on the wall. Scamper up the building, and jump along the chimneys until you can drop down to a door. You have earned the Rude Awakening achievement or trophy

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Assassin's Creed 3 (360) Completed Walkthrough

Assassin's Creed III is the fifth installment in the open-world action-adventure Assassin's Creed series on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PC. Players take on the role of Connor Kenway, who is half-British and half-Native American, in Boston and other colonies during the American Revolutionary War, and also the role of Desmond, a descendant of Connor's who lives over 200 years after him.

As with previous games in the series, Assassin's Creed III features a competitive multiplayer mode. Assassin's Creed III was released on October 30, 2012 in North America and October 31 in Europe and Australia. It has also been confirmed as a launch title for Wii U. The game has been delayed for PC users and will release on November 20 in North America and November 23 in Europe. According to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, the team has been "working for three years" on the project.


Assassin's Creed 3 (360) Completed Walkthrough

Table of Contents:

Sequence 1

• Refresher Course
• A Deadly Performance
• Journey to the New World

Sequence 2

• Welcome to Boston
• Johnson's Errand
• The Surgeon
• The Soldier
• Infiltrating Southgate

Sequence 3

• Unconvinced
• The Devil Is In The Details/Execution Is Everything
• The Braddock Expedition

Sequence 4

• Hide and Seek
• Feathers and Trees
• Hunting Lessons
• Something to Remember

Sequence 5

• A Boorish Man
• A Trip to Boston
• Boston's Most Wanted
• River Rescue
• The Hard Way 

 Sequence 6

• Desmond on the Skyscraper
• On Johnson's Trail
• The Angry Chef
• The Tea Party
• Hostile Negotiations  

 Sequence 7

• The Midnight Ride
• Lexington and Concord
• Conflict Looms
• Battle of Bunker Hill

Sequence 8

• Something on the Side
• Bridewell Prison
• Public Execution

Sequence 9

• Desmond in the Stadium
• Missing Supplies
• Father and Son
• The Foam and the Flames
• A Bitter End

Sequence 10

• Alternate Methods
• Broken Trust
• Battle of Monmouth

Sequence 11

• Desmond at Abstergo
• Battle of the Chesapeake
• Lee's Last Stand

Sequence 12

• Laid to Rest
• Chasing Lee
• Desmond Finds the Truth
• Desmond's Decision

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