[Emperor Smeat]

Today's News:
1) Some Nintendo related news:

• Capcom announced a new game in the Ace Attorney series called Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice will arrive this summer for the 3DS eShop.
  http://www.destructoid.com/we-re-get...r-360621.phtml
• Pokemon Company revealed Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire has sold around 3 million copies in Europe alone since the game's launch.
  http://www.destructoid.com/pokemon-o...e-360520.phtml
• Nintendo revealed the next NES costumes for Super Mario Maker will be the main characters from Ice Climbers.
  http://www.destructoid.com/it-s-nice...n-360451.phtml

2) 2K Games announced the next game in the Civilization series, Civ VI, is currently in development and will arrive on October 21st for PC.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/civ.../1100-6439691/

3) SALES & FREEBIES:

• For those interested, Nintendo recently dropped the price of the 2DS to $80 ($20 price cut).
  http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-...0-360518.phtml
• Several retailers are currently holding pre-order sales for the upcoming Doom game with Steam's deal being 25% off.
  http://www.destructoid.com/doom-pre-...s-339105.phtml

4) Namco Bandai revealed Dark Souls III has sold around 3 million copies since its launch while the Souls series itself is around 13 million copies sold (not including Demon Souls or Bloodbourne).
http://www.destructoid.com/dark-soul...n-360516.phtml

5) Some EA related news:

• EA announced Titanfall 2 is currently expected to be released during the same fiscal quarter as Battlefield 1.
  http://www.destructoid.com/ea-pegs-t...e-360410.phtml
• The next Star Wars Battlefront game is currently planned to arrive next year and will feature stuff from the current films.
  http://www.gamespot.com/articles/sta.../1100-6439682/
• EA revealed the unannounced open world game they are currently working on meant to compete with the GTA and Assassin's Creed series won't arrive until 2019 at the earliest.
  http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...at-least-2019/

6) According to a report from Kotaku, several companies were rumored to be interested in purchasing Lionhead Studios from Microsoft when news of its pending closure was made public but Microsoft wasn't willing to include the Fable series in any potential deal. That ended up killing all interest potential buyers had for the studio.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ghts-to-fable/