There are some big Nintendo games coming over the following couple of months. Pikmin 3, Rayman Legends, and Wind Waker HD will all be coming to the Wii U this autumn. Nintendo wants you to load up your wallet to prepare, and they’re offering you cash to do it.

Through July 28, in case you add between $50 and $99 in your eShop account, you will get a $5 promotional code. Add greater than $100, and you will earn yourself $10. Codes can be delivered on August 2 (two days before Pikmin 3 arrives).

This is for Wii U only, but when you’re looking for some free cash for the 3DS, Nintendo and Atlus are still running their Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei promotion. Buy them both and you may earn yourself $30.

[Source: Nintendo]

Our Take
Smart move, Nintendo. This not just incentives people to decide to eShop purchases, but it surely is a great strategy to promote upcoming titles. It is also wise for them to incorporate Rayman Legends at the page, giving people a reminder that it was originally designed for the Wii U. This is often two intelligent promotions in a truly short period, and that i hope it marks a brand new strategy for the corporate.

If you’re an RPG fan with a Vita, Square Enix has just a little surprise for you. Previously only announced for a Japanese release, Chaos Rings is currently available at the North American PlayStation Store.

The story is told in four parts, with players following different couples thrown into an arena to fight for his or her lives. Magic and stat boosting is handled through a “gene” system, and using the loot from fallen foes enhances their utility through the years.

Chaos Rings is obtainable now for PlayStation Mobile and PlayStation Vita for $7.99.

[Source: PlayStation Blog]

Our Take
I’ve almost purchased Chaos Rings half a dozen times for my iPhone and always held off for one reason or another. At once, I’m glad I did. I’m anticipating giving this a try on my Vita sometime very soon.

The organizers behind the yearly Game Developers Conference are actually taking submissions for the imminent 2014 event. If you are fascinated with presenting a lecture, roundtable discussion, or panel at GDC 2014, you’ve until the tip of August to submit your idea.

The event contains several different tracks on the topic of the sport industry, including audio, business, marketing and management, design, production, programming, and visible arts. Proposed content is reviewed by an advisory board featuring Square Enix’s Julien Merceron, PS4 architect and veteran game designer Mark Cerny, Media Molecule’s Siobhan Reddy, and Canabalt creator Adam Saltsman. Two new members have joined the advisory board to boot. Christina Coffin comes from a technical background, where she worked on games including Ultima Online, Assassin’s Creed II, and Battlefield 3. Chelsea Howe worked at Zynga, and is now a senior game designer at TinyCo.

“Our continuing goal with the GDC is to be the nexus of game design creativity and innovation, bringing compelling and practical sessions to our attendees,” said Meggan Scavio, general manager of GDC events. “The additions of the amazing Christina Coffin and Chelsea Howe to the 2014 advisory board are particularly exciting, as both women bring deep experience designing and programming a large choice of games, and they’re going to ensure even greater diversity in GDC programming that reflects a few of the fastest growing sectors of the industry, like social, mobile, and independent game development.”

Submissions may be accepted until August 29. Visit the official site for additional info. GDC 2014 shall be held from March 17-21 in San Francisco. 

Our Take
A conference without content is barely a crowd. Fortunately, GDC organizers has been packing the development with insightful panels and discussions for greater than 20 years. In case you are within the industry and you’ve got something interesting to mention in your peers, prepare a submission – everyone benefits from sharing information and perspective.

At the SIGGRAPH tech conference, Epic Games showed off its Unreal Engine 4 on NVIDIA’s next-generation Logan mobile GPU.

The Logan processor features Kepler GPU architecture that’s featured in PCs today, and which Epic has used for its previous Unreal Engine 4 demos just like the Infiltrator one shown above.

Also, the SIGGRAPH demo ran on OpenGL 4.3 – a feature set that Tim Sweeney, Epic CEO and technical director, says “brings to mobile devices an analogous high-end graphics hardware capabilities exposed via DirectX 11 on PC games and on next-generation consoles.”

[Source: Epic Games]

Our Take
I’m not a tech expert, but you do not have to be to determine the possibility of mobile once you combine Epic’s engine with an impressive GPU and tools. Epic defined this console generation with the industry’s wide usage of Unreal Engine 3, and if Unreal Engine 4 is simply as adopted and Logan is that this capable, shall we see some unbelievable-looking mobile games coming our way.

Matt Gilgenbach, the creator of Retro/Grade, the backwards-rhythm-side-scrolling-shooter, goes in an exceptionally different direction for his next title.

Neverending Nightmares is horror title designed by Gilgenbach as a metaphor for his personal struggles with depression. In an interview with Polygon about his newly announced game, Gilgenbach said, “I’m explicitly sharing something about my experience and the horrors which have form of popped into my head. To the players it won’t be clear that, ‘Oh, that’s an intrusive thought that the developer had.’ The theme and the mood are really what I’m looking to capture essentially the most of what I experience.”

You can take a look at the teaser trailer for the disturbing game below, that is in stark contrast to Gilgenbach’s Retro/Grade.

[Via: Polygon]

Our Take
Gilgenbach is putting a number of himself and his personal experience into Neverending Nightmares, that is a trend in game design that could only benefit games being taken seriously as a medium of artistic expression. I’m curious to be told more concerning the game. Retro/Grade is a really different game in almost every aspect, however it was an awesome game. Retro/Grade makes me hopeful that Neverending Nightmares will aspire to a stronger level of quality than the somewhat comparable game, Papo & Yo, which had some shortcomings despite interesting themes.