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Games

Funky Barn

Title: Funky Barn
Publisher: 505 Games
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Strategy/Sim
Release Date: 11/20/2012
Overview: Life on the farm will never be the same with the bizarre machinery you’ll use in this freewheeling farm simulator! Choose from three scenarios: Build your farm from scratch, work a farm in a challenging location, or put your stamp on a farm that’s gone careening out of control. Pick up fruit or grains with your one-of-a-kind Flying FruitBox-Haybale Copter. Toss sheep into the Shearing Machine, shake cows while they’re eating strawberries to make strawberry milk, and more. Use the GamePad to manage your machinery, interact with your animals, build buildings, and shake fruit off trees. And don’t worry about the giant walking egg. It’s okay, he works here.

Nintendo Land

Title: Nintendo Land
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Family/Party
Release Date: 11/20/2012
Overview: Travel to a theme park filled with your favorite Nintendo characters and the legendary worlds of Nintendo’s greatest games! Nintendo Land serves up 12 carnival-style games that deliver a different experience depending on whether you’re using the GamePad, wielding a Wii Remote, or just watching. One player battles in the sky using the GamePad while the others battle on the ground using the TV in team games like Metroid Blast. Up to five players can compete in head-to-head contests like Mario Chase. Single players can challenge themselves in solo games like Balloon Trip Breeze and Donkey Kong’s Crash Course. Each attraction has multiple challenges to beat as you explore Nintendo Land.

New Super Mario Bros. U

Title: New Super Mario Bros. U
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/20/2012
Overview: New Super Mario Bros. U adds a new star to the side-scrolling show: you! Play as Mario, Luigi, Toad – or your Mii – on a new adventure to save Princess Peach. Up to five players can team up, with one player using the GamePad to create routes through levels, distract enemies, and discover hidden items and pathways. Finish levels as fast as you can in the co-op Boost Rush Mode, where you’re forced to keep moving by a screen that never stops scrolling. Go for the high score in single or multiplayer Challenge Mode. You can seamlessly switch between single-player play on TV and on the GamePad, so you can keep playing even when someone else wants to use the big screen.

Ben 10 Omniverse

Title: Ben 10 Omniverse
Publisher: D3P
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/20/2012
Overview: The past is coming back to haunt the present in this action-packed time-twisting brawler based on the hit Ben 10 TV series! Use new powers and play as one of 16 total characters as you pound enemies and solve puzzles from the past to fix problems in the present (and the other way around!). Play as Teen Ben and Young Ben for the first time in a story that spans two time periods! Use the power of Ben’s new Omnitrix to summon 13 playable alien heroes, including classic forms like Heatblast and XLR8 and new additions Bloxx and Gravattack. Battle your way through a rough-and-tumble single-player story or have a friend play as Ben’s partner Rook in two-player co-op.

Tank! Tank! Tank!

Title: Tank! Tank! Tank!
Publisher: Namco
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 11/17/2012
Overview: What starts as a friendly little competition turns into a smoldering ball of fiery wreckage in this game that fuses the multiplayer mayhem of kart racing with the explosive action of tank battle! TANK! TANK! TANK! turns you loose on a sprawling combat playground where there’s nothing to do but blow stuff up. Up to four players can hit the battlefield and destroy buildings, shoot down giant monsters, and take out targets with maximum firepower in co-op and competitive modes. Go out on your own for a solo Campaign Mode where you’ll level-up your tank by defeating increasingly powerful enemies. Take pictures with the Wii U camera and give your avatar the perfect look before heading into battle.

Wipeout 3

Title: Wipeout 3
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Family/Party
Release Date: 11/17/2012
Overview: The hit TV obstacle course challenge returns for a third smash-and-splash romp that adds two key words: Instant Replay. Test your balance as you try your luck on 200 new winter and summer obstacle courses in solo or team modes for up to four contestants. Successfully survive courses to unlock new characters, episodes, and power-ups. A new over-the-shoulder point of view lets you see firsthand that squishy foam obstacle that’s about to derail your dreams of victory and send you splashing into defeat. Each splashdown can now be rewound and played over and over again with the new Instant Replay feature, so you can get maximum payout from every wacky wipeout!

ZombiU

Title: ZombiU
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/17/2012
Overview: As a zombie outbreak spreads through London, you’ll have to do what it takes to survive in a world drenched in shadows and overrun with infected attackers looking to make you their next snack. The GamePad will be your emergency-ready Bug-Out Bag. Swap weapons, choose your gear, and track your location on the touch screen as you stockpile supplies and turn your safe house into the ultimate fortress against the zombie horde. If they get you, you’ll come back as a different survivor. Your first mission: find and defeat the infected old you who’s carrying your bag of supplies.

Transformers: Prime

Title: Transformers: Prime
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/17/2012
Overview: The Decepticons have discovered a secret weapon in outer space, one with the power to destroy not just the Autobots, but the entire Earth! Play as your favorite Autobot characters as you lead the charge to stop Megatron and save the planet in this game based on the hit Transformers Prime animated series. Battle the Decepticons as Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Arcee, Bulkhead, and other heroic Autobots. Use interactive GamePad controls in explosive brawls when you’re in robot mode and high-speed chases when you’re in vehicle mode. Get help from the show’s human characters, including Jack, Miko, and Raf. Choose from 11 different Autobots and Decepticons and battle against or alongside friends in a variety of multiplayer modes.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Title: Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/17/2012
Overview: In the not-too-distant future, two superpowers dominate the world. The United States and China have pushed each other to the brink of destruction. When a cyber-terrorism strike unleashes America’s drones against its own cities, the situation goes from bad to full-blown Armageddon. Experience a more branching Call of Duty storyline written by The Dark Knight’s David S. Goyer, and set in two eras – 2025 and the 1980s Cold War. Use the GamePad to customize your control scheme mid-battle and shape the outcome of your mission. Call up multiplayer maps, cash in Score Streak rewards (bonuses you’ll earn by helping your multiplayer team succeed), and set up your loadout before combat.

NBA 2K13

Title: NBA 2K13
Publisher: 2K Sports
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 11/17/2012
Overview: NBA 2K13 unleashes its extensive features on Wii U, adding exclusive GamePad controls and giving you one never-before seen basketball superpower. Use an intuitive new Control Stick scheme in play boosted with music, pre-game montages, and other production enhancements from executive producer Jay-Z. Other new features include an expanded My Career Mode that spills across the world of social media and a Shoe Creator. The Wii U GamePad lets you call plays and substitute players, plus it gives you the equivalent of a coaching super-power: biometric heat vision. Point the GamePad at the screen to check your player’s fatigue levels, see who’s hot and cold, and maximize your team’s performance.

Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two

Title: Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
Publisher: Disney Interactive
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/17/2012
Overview: Walt Disney’s most iconic character teams up with his first cartoon star in this magical, open-ended, creative journey made for co-op play. Return to the Wasteland, the alternate Disney reality filled with forgotten characters and out-of-use attractions. Play as Mickey Mouse and, for the first time, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney’s first cartoon star, in a fully-voiced adventure. Explore levels based on Disney films, using your imagination to solve puzzles with Mickey’s magic paintbrush and Oswald’s electricity-controlling remote. A second player can drop in any time for co-op play and, in true Disney tradition, the characters will occasionally expand the story by singing songs. Each player will have their own screen (TV and GamePad) in co-op play.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Title: Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Publisher: Namco
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Fighting
Release Date: 11/17/2012
Overview: Tekken Tag Tournament makes its first appearance on a Nintendo console and invites some of the Big N’ biggest characters to be a part of the action. Choose from over 50 playable characters and customize your warrior with exclusive Nintendo crossover costumes, like Mario and Luigi. Master the moves in Fight Lab, then conquer the tournament. Play Wii U-exclusive battle modes, fight four-player team brawls, choose from three types of multiplayer matchups, or flash back in classic modes like Arcade, Time Attack, and more. Your fighter’s most powerful combos are at your fingertips with touch-screen GamePad controls. Replay matches on the Tekken Channel, create your own soundtrack with Tekken Tunes, and get in-fight power-ups from – you guessed it – mushrooms.

Darksiders II

Title: Darksiders II
Publisher: THQ
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/17/2012
Overview: On the list of people you don’t want to make angry, Death has to be high on that list. The Second Horseman of the Apocalypse returns to crush those who would banish his brother War into oblivion. Follow Death through hell and beyond in order to clear his brother’s name in this sequel that continues the events of the original Darksiders. Unleash Death’s fury using thousands of weapons, armor, and spell combos. Travel through the realms of light and dark as you uncover a shocking plot that spans the worlds of angels, demons, and men. You’ll also get exclusive weapon and armor sets, additional side quests, and other Wii U bonuses!

Mass Effect 3 Special Edition

Title: Mass Effect 3 Special Edition
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/15/2012
Overview: The Reapers have taken Earth. The galaxy is on the verge of destruction. If you can’t stop the Reapers? Total annihilation. In other words: just another day at the office for Commander Shepard. Customize your game to suit your style and lead the counterattack in a new Mass Effect story that you’ll shape, one battle and one planet at a time. This Wii U Special Edition adds bonus content and custom Wii U controls. Get an exclusive new weapon, a new mission, and a new squad member, plus the Extended Cut ending and an interactive backstory chronicling the entire Mass Effect series. You’ll command the battlefield with touch screen controls, issuing orders and unleashing attacks from the Wii U GamePad.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Title: Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Publisher: Sega
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 11/14/2012
Overview: The rules of the road no longer apply in this Sonic racing challenge where you’ll leave the track, soar into the air, and rocket across the water! Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed puts you in control of vehicles that convert from racers to fliers to boats and back. Switch between vehicle modes to conquer terrain that could shift at any moment. Use powerful All-Star moves and build up your skills to avoid or block power-up attacks by other players. Playable characters include favorites from Sonic games, plus Gilius Thunderhead from Golden Axe, Vyse from Skies of Arcadia, and other characters from the Sega universe. Up to eight racers can compete in an online Grand Prix or Battle Arenas Modes.

ESPN Sports Connection

Title: ESPN Sports Connection
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 11/13/2012
Overview: Connect with your friends while playing your favorite sports in this Wii U-exclusive game from the worldwide leader in sports! Play football, baseball, tennis, soccer, and golf or go kart racing with a combination of motion controls and GamePad interactivity. Go online to challenge your friends, earn rewards, and see where you rank on the leaderboards. Get inside the game with the GamePad, which lets you get a closer look to give you an edge on your opponent. The touch screen lets you add a fifth player to kart races, and you can seamlessly switch back and forth between the touch screen and your big screen in solo play.

Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2013

Title: Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2013
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 11/13/2012
Overview: Your Shape Fitness Evolved is designed with variety in mind, so you’re losing inches from your waistline, not losing interest in your workout. Choose from 125 workouts and 215 moves that focus on cardio, strength building, stretching, relaxation, or help you burn calories while you dance. Create a customized four-week fitness program with trackable goals and Daily-Do’s that help you reach your goals. Get motivation and guidance from expert virtual trainers. Connect with other workout warriors online, where you can see your rank on leaderboards, compete with friends, gain encouragement, and tap the knowledge of the game’s community. The included recipe database features 150 delicious meals and snacks to help you eat right and live well.

Assassin’s Creed III

Title: Assassin’s Creed III
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/13/2012
Overview: The true history of the battle for the New World will be authored by a man who does not appear on any American currency. Turn the tide of the American Revolution in this Assassin’s Creed saga. Play as a Native American assassin and fight alongside some of this nation’s greatest heroes, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, as you experience pivotal battles from the legendary conflict. For the first time, firearms play a prominent role in Assassin’s Creed. Watch your enemies helplessly try to reload their weapons as you stalk your targets with tomahawks, rope darts, and the tools of a master assassin. Track your location on the Touch Screen or use it to swap weapons without missing a beat.

Game Party Champions

Title: Game Party Champions
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Arcade/Puzzle
Release Date: 11/12/2012
Overview: The Game Party series delivers another winner with this experience custom built for Wii U! Play eight classic sports, party games, and arcade favorites using easy pick-up-and-play controls enhanced by the interactive functionality of the GamePad. Choose from ping pong, table hockey, hoop shoot, mini golf, and more. Turn, tilt, and touch the screen to control your player on-screen. Compete against AI opponents in a quest to reach World Championship Stadium in Story Mode or get right to the game in Quick Play. The four-player Party Mode adds a freewheeling challenge. Using the GamePad, you’ll try and stay focused on your game while three friends try and derail you using Wii Remotes.

Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition

Title: Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: Wii U
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/12/2012
Overview: Venture inside Arkham City’s walls for a sinister Dark Knight saga five times more massive than Arkham Asylum. Feel like the Caped Crusader, using the GamePad as a wrist-mounted Bat computer to select gadgets, track evidence, check maps, set explosives, and perform other functions without interrupting the action on-screen. Batman and Catwoman have had their suits enhanced with a new Battle Armored Tech Mode that allows you to power up for more damaging attacks. You’ll get all the storylines and gameplay options of other editions, plus the bonus expansion packs from the Game of the Year Edition.