Detroit Bankruptcy a “Game-Changing Event,” Meredith Whitney Says - Yahoo! Finance (blog)

It's been just over a week since Detroit filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history and, so far, there are more questions than answers about how this will all shake out. On Wednesday, a U.S. Bankruptcy judge ruled Detroit's Chapter 9 filing can proceed but local unions, pension funds and other creditors will continue to try and stop the process.

Related: Detroit Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better

Regardless of how the legal proceedings unfold, Meredith Whitney thinks she knows what will happen as a result of Detroit's bankruptcy filing: "staggering aftershocks" for the muni bond market and "important precedents" for other state and local governments.

"We know [Detroit's bankruptcy] is a game-changing event for certain," says Whitney, author of Fate of the States and founder of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group LLC. "It will galvanize other municipalities to either get their act together or follow Detroit's lead."

Asked what other municipalities might follow Detroit's lead into bankruptcy, Whitney cited the five other Michigan cities currently under emergency management: Flint, Pontiac, Ecorse, Allen Park and Benton Harbor. She also reiterated her concerns about the states of New Jersey and Illinois.

Related: Bernanke Costs Illinois $ 130M: 'Blue States' in Peril, Meredith Whitney Says

The Wall Street Journal recently cited Oakland, Philadelphia and Chicago as other big cities with the potential to follow Detroit's lead but Whitney declined to mention other cities.

"I'm not sure it's constructive to name towns [and] sound the alarm," she said. "But there are numerous others across the country. Detroit is hardly unique."

Of course, Whitney gained increased attention – and considerable criticism – when she sounded the alarm on 60 Minutes in late 2010. At that time, she predicted "a spate of municipal bond defaults. You could see 50 sizeable defaults. Fifty to 100 sizeable defaults. More. This will amount to hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of defaults.”

Nothing close to that level of muni bankruptcies has occurred, to date, but ask yourself: Was Whitney ‘dead wrong’ on 60 Minutes, as her critics continue to claim, or just early?

And check the accompanying video to hear specifics on why Whitney believes Detroit's bankruptcy is such a "game changing event" and whether she believes the city of Detroit can be ‘restructured’ via bankruptcy as were automakers GM and Chrysler.

Related: Why We Should Care About Detroit's Future

Aaron Task is the host of The Daily Ticker and Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo! Finance. You can follow him on Twitter at @aarontask or email him at altask@yahoo.com

Kickstarter-funded board game cancelled a year after raising over $100000 - The Verge

“The project is over. The game is cancelled.” With those eight words, Erik Chevalier alerted his 1,246 Kickstarter backers that the board game they collectively funded — The Doom That Came to Atlantic City — will never see the light of day. Thirteen months after rounding up $ 122,874 in contributions, Chevalier has completely pulled the plug on the project, attributing the failure to his own “inexperience in board game publishing,” “ego conflicts,” and unspecified legal and technical challenges. The cancellation is particularly baffling when you consider Chevalier’s Kickstarter overshot its original $ 35,000 target by almost $ 100,000.

What happened? That’s still not entirely clear, and Chevalier isn’t laying out specifics for legal reasons. After a series of missteps, “the money was approaching a point of no return,” he wrote in a recent Kickstarter update. “I’ve spent a large amount of time pitching investors, begging banks for loans and seeking other sources of funding to fix this. Sadly I found no takers.” As you’d imagine, his Kickstarter backers are crying foul, particularly with the idea that their money financed Chevalier’s move to a new city.

“I never set out to con anyone or to perpetrate a fraud but I did walk into a situation that was beyond my abilities and for that I’m deeply sorry.”

“It sounds to me that almost no money went into development but rather your pocket. You quit your job then moved to Portland then lived off our investor money,” wrote one angry financier. Chevalier is also facing heavy criticism over his claim that the project’s goal was the formation of a game company. His Kickstarter page doesn’t back up that notion, and early supporters insist they were funding production of The Doom That Came to Atlantic City and nothing more.

Chevalier’s collaborators on the project are disavowing any knowledge of what went wrong. Speaking for himself and game artist Lee Moyer, designer Keith Baker writes, “Neither one of us received any of the funds raised by the Kickstarter or pre-sales.” Baker claims that he and Lee “were not involved in the decisions that brought about the end of this project.” They plan to offer a print-and-play version of the board game in hopes of providing “misled” backers some consolation. As for refunds, Chevalier has vowed to (eventually) reimburse all 1,246 people that chipped in funds — something Kickstarter’s service terms require when a project’s rewards fail to materialize. Unfortunately it sounds like that will be a lengthy process. As for what ultimately sank The Doom That Came to Atlantic City, Cavalier has promised to write up a thorough post-mortem in the future. But for now it’s just another bump along Kickstarter’s rocky road of hits and misses.

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Author Neil Gaiman Announces Debut Game - IGN

Author and screenwriter Neil Gaiman’s wide body of work includes a long list of novels and children's books,  plus a host of comics, screenplays, and teleplays. He's about to add a videogame to his resume.

Wayward Manor is poised to be Gaiman's first game, which he's developing in conjunction with The Odd Gentlemen (The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom).

"For quite a while there's been a story that I've wanted to tell; something inspired by the kinds of films I loved when I was a kid," explains Gaiman in a video published on the game's new website. "Things like Arsenic and Old Lace, Blithe Spirit, The Man Who Came to Dinner."

"But I kept running into the same problem: it didn't really feel like a novel. It felt like something that you would have to experience yourself."

Wayward Manor is described as a puzzle/adventure game hybrid; you'll play as a disgruntled ghost trying to uproot your home's new, living owners. It's headed to PC, Mac, and tablets.

Pre-orders are available on the game’s official site, along with several tiers of merchandise and rewards. You can even secure an invite to an exclusive dinner with Gaiman himself.

For $ 10,000.

 Luke is Games Editor at IGN AU. You can find him on IGN here or on Twitter @MrLukeReilly, or chat with him and the rest of the Australian team by joining the IGN Australia Facebook community.

Harper's First Game-Ending Homer Lifts Nationals Over Pirates - New York Times (blog)

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Bryce Harper hit a two-run homer in the ninth to end the Nationals' losing streak at six games.

Bryce Harper delivered the first game-ending homer of his career, a two-run shot in the bottom of the ninth Thursday that lifted host Washington to a 9-7 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates and ended the Nationals' losing streak at six.

Harper drove a hanging slider over the wall just to the left of straightaway center with two outs off Bryan Morris, who also allowed a single to Kurt Suzuki.

Harper raised his right fist overhead as he rounded first base and was mobbed by a bouncing pack of teammates as he reached home plate.

Ian Krol earned the win despite being part of poor relief in the ninth that allowed the Pirates to erase a 7-3 deficit.

CARDINALS 3, PHILLIES 1 Lance Lynn allowed one run in seven innings, and host St. Louis scored three times in the third in a win against Philadelphia.

Matt Carpenter, Jon Jay and Matt Adams drove in runs for the Cardinals, who have won seven of nine.

Philadelphia has lost five in a row, tying a season high. St. Louis has the most wins in the majors at 62 and is a season-high 25 games over .500.

MARLINS 5, ROCKIES 3 Rob Brantly scored on a wild pitch to break up a scoreless game in the eighth inning, Donovan Solano homered in a four-run ninth, and visiting Miami beat Colorado after a 93-minute rain delay.

Reliever Adam Ottavino struck out the first two batters he faced in the eighth before Brantly singled to right. Greg Dobbs singled him to third. With Adeiny Hechavarria at the plate, Ottavino threw a pitch that bounced in the dirt and shot past catcher Wilin Rosario, allowing Brantly to score.

PADRES 10, BREWERS 8 Carlos Quentin and Jesus Guzman homered, and visiting San Diego got 16 hits on its way to a win over Milwaukee.

Will Venable added two doubles for San Diego.

Edinson Volquez worked into the sixth inning. Huston Street, the Padres' seventh pitcher, closed for his 18th save in 19 tries.

BLUE JAYS 4, ASTROS 0 Mark Buehrle pitched a two-hitter, and host Toronto ended a season-worst seven-game losing streak.

The last-place Blue Jays had been 0-6 since the All-Star break, swept in consecutive series by the Tampa Bay Rays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Toronto had dropped 14 of 18 overall.

WHITE SOX 7, TIGERS 4 Jake Peavy pitched into the eighth inning, and host Chicago beat Justin Verlander and Detroit as the Tigers played without Miguel Cabrera.

Cabrera missed his third straight game because of an injured left hip flexor.

Torii Hunter homered for the third time in the series, but he exited in the eighth and is day to day with a sore left Achilles.

ROYALS 7, ORIOLES 1 Jeremy Guthrie pitched six solid innings, Billy Butler homered and Kansas City beat visiting Baltimore.

The Royals, who limped into the All-Star break with five consecutive defeats, went 5-2 on the homestand against the Orioles and Tigers.

HUDSON OUT FOR SEASON Tim Hudson is out for the season with a broken right ankle, leaving the Braves without the leader of their pitching staff as they make a push for the pennant.

The team said Hudson would have season-ending surgery in Atlanta. Hudson was injured Wednesday night when Eric Young Jr. of the Mets inadvertently stepped on the back of Hudson's right leg while the pitcher was covering first base.

Atlanta placed Hudson on the 15-day disabled list Thursday and recalled pitcher Alex Wood from Class AAA Gwinnett to start against the Mets. Wood was set to pitch in place of Paul Maholm, who has a bruised left wrist.

BRETT STEPS DOWN George Brett is stepping down as interim hitting coach for the Kansas City Royals. Brett took the job May 30, with the Royals mired in an eight-game losing skid. He said he would do it for a month and wound up doing it for two.

He will return to his job as vice president for baseball operations for the Royals, his role since he retired as a player after the 1993 season.

PHILLIES ALL-STAR TO D.L. The Philadelphia Phillies have put the All-Star outfielder Domonic Brown on the seven-day concussion disabled list.

Brown hit his head on the ground diving for Carlos Beltran's triple in the seventh inning of Tuesday's loss at St. Louis.

Brown underwent a concussion test on Wednesday. He leads the Phillies with 24 homers and 69 runs batted in. He has started 97 games and is hitting .271.

GAME POSTPONED IN BOSTON Thursday's game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox was postponed by rain.

The game will be made up on Monday, which had been set to be a day off for both teams, at 6:10 p.m.

The Rays, who trail the Red Sox by half a game in the American League East, will head to New York this weekend to take on the Yankees, and the Red Sox will face the Orioles in Baltimore.

Xbox One to Support Indie Game Self-Publishing - PC Magazine

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About a month After dropping the always-on Internet Requirement for STIs One Xbox console, Microsoft will embrace Another change: allowing independent studios to distribute games without a publishing partner.

“Our vision is every person That can be a creator,” product chief Xbox officer Marc Whitten said in a statement. “That every Xbox One can be used for development. Every game That Can Take Advantage of and experience all of the features of One Xbox and Xbox Live.

“This Means self-publishing,” I said. “This Means Kinect, The Cloud, Achievements. Means This great discoverability on Xbox Live. We’ll have more details on the program and the timeline at Gamescom in August.”

the Move Means indie game developers can bypass a publisher, you have the final say on Which titles and scoops up a share of the game’s profit.

Independent self-publishing landed on Xbox One PCMag’s wish list, with calls for indie developers to have their own platform, rather Than Having to Operate at the Whim of a publisher .

“All this does is force the indie developers actually have good ideas whoa theire games to rush to meet the publisher’s deadline, and afterward Keeps Them from getting the full benefit from Their game, “PCMag wrote in May.

As noted by Game Informer, Several of Redmond’s former partners recently Promised never to work again for the tech giant due to STIs indie game publishing policy. It turns out Redmond was listening, and will allow developers to Their Own September release dates and pricing Which Should, the blog said, make Xbox Live releases Easier for creators to market.

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Game Informer said Redmond is “drastically overhauling” ITS certification process, targeting a 14-day turnaround for approvals – similar to Apple’s iTunes store.

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The news commas to after former Xbox chief Don Mattrick (now at Zynga CEO) Kotaku Told That the Xbox One would have an “independent creator program,” but declined to elaborate on self-publishing.

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not the only controversy surrounding the Xbox One. Last month, amidst fan Backlash, One Microsoft Announced That the Xbox will not have a daily online Requirement When playing single-player games – to 180-degree turn away from an initial ruled That required an online check-in every 24 hours.

Meanwhile, there were reports this week thatâ Microsoft would offer a non-Kinect Xbox version of the One, but thatâ Redmond shot down.

“We have no plans to Introduce One without an Xbox Kinect,” Redmond Told Game Front. “We believe in the value and Kinect Brings it to BOTH games and entertainment, and believe $ 499 is a great value for consumers What RECEIVE with theire Xbox One.”

Microsoft’s next-gen console STI Unveiled in May, showing off a Revamped controller and the Kinect sensor, Which said the company “is now an essential and integrated part of the platform.” Expected for release later this year, pre-orders for the new machine have already topped thoses for STIs predecessor, the Xbox 360.

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Neil Gaiman reveals haunting-puzzler 'Wayward Manor,' his first video game - The Verge

Neil Gaiman has written books, films, graphic novels, and even audio plays, and now he’s stepping into the realm of video games. The acclaimed fantasy author has announced that he’ll be collaborating with two game studios to produce Wayward Manor, a puzzle and adventure game made under his creative control. The title will throw players into the midst of 1920s New England, but they won’t be out enjoying the speakeasies — they’ll be dead, forced to haunt intruders out of their home.

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“I try and find the right medium.”

Gaiman said that the game is inspired by the “crazy, mordant, playful, funny, weird” films that he loved as a kid. The story had apparently been on his mind for some time, but he found that it just didn’t make sense for traditional mediums. “I'm an author, although more specifically than that, I suppose I'm a storyteller,” Gaiman said. “I try and find the right medium to tell the right story in.”

Wayward Manor will be released on Windows, Mac, and unspecified “tablets” — though the mobile developer attached to the project has exclusively published games for iOS so far. The developers are aiming to release it by December of this year, but they’re putting it up for a Kickstarter-like presale today. The game is being developed no matter how many copies are sold, but different purchase levels are available to entice buyers with some extra perks. The basic game is selling for $ 10, a digital art book and soundtrack will come alongside it for $ 35 more, and beyond that, T-shirts and limited edition posters are available for successively higher sums. Getting customers to drop more money than necessary on an unreleased game would be hard work for most, but Gaiman’s legacy of great fantasy works should be all that Wayward Manor needs.

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Man forces lover to beat video game before getting proposal - CNET (blog)

As if to show that romance has all sorts of aspects, a gamer hacks a Contra cartridge to create a game in which the ultimate prize is his heart.

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The subject of love bedevils us all.

Yet once you’ve found it, how do you propose to the woman with whom you want to spend your doddering dotage?

For one gamer, there was an absolute solution: create a game that she would have to play to the end to win his heart.

I am tearfully grateful to Kotaku for revealing the tale of EquinnoxX, a passionate gamer.

He decided to meddle with a Contra cartridge in order to create the perfect proposal for his one true love.

He documented the whole process in words and pictures, accompanied by the quite beautiful tagline: “I hacked Contra because she’s worth it.”

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I know that the several anti-romantics among you will simply want to know how he did it technically.

I will therefore offer one of EquinnoxX’s lines from his expose: “I bought Contra, dumped the ROM, hex edited the file, flashed it to a new ROM chip and soldered it all back together.”

There are no boundaries for a man in love. Indeed, he posted to a long Reddit thread: “I had very little knowledge of how the innards of a Nintendo worked before this. I had done basic electronic fixing/modifying/hacking before but that’s about it. It was trial and error all the way and I learned a lot. Of course the reference library that is the internet helped too!”

But what about the psychology of it all? The challenge for his lover — called Amy — was that she had to beat the game before getting her prize.

I can imagine a few musing that this seemed not merely cruel (and risky), but a touch egotistical. How could this man believe that he was such a catch?

I prefer to believe that he knows his Amy a lot better than we do. I prefer to think that Amy must be quite a handy gamer herself, as Contra is not reputed to be the simplest of games.

When Amy got to the end of the game, I imagine that she adored the effort that Quinn (her fiance’s real name) had put in, sniffled a touch and melted into her reward.

A proposal has to be meaningful and memorable, not the cliche of going down on one knee in a crowded restaurant and getting breadcrumbs on your trousers.

I wish the future Mr. and Mrs. EquinnoxX every happiness in the difficult and often contradictory game of life.

How could Amy say no?

(Credit: EquinnoxX/Imgur Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

A Year In The Making, Machine Zone Launches Game of War, An Impressively ... - TechCrunch

While iOS games started out as either simple physics or casual simulation titles when the platform launched about five years ago, the bar has gotten steadily higher and more hard-core. Midcore studios like Kabam started to rise in prominence.

Now the iOS platform might be seeing is most hardcore title to date — a very, very massive multi-player title from YC- and Menlo Ventures-backed Machine Zone.

The company, which started out doing text-based RPGs a couple years ago like iMob, is launching Game of War: Fire Age. It's a title where players build and grow empires, train massive armies, forge alliances with other players to win kingdoms.

The game can handle hundreds of thousands of players concurrently in the same universe, which is not an easy technical feat. Blizzard's World of Warcraft, in contrast, typically handles a few thousand players simultaneously in a single realm. All movement on the game's map is visible to everyone else.

"We wanted to take the company to the next level and be really ambitious," said Machine Zone CEO Gabriel Leydon. "We decided to build some things that had never been done before. We had the capital to do it and the willpower."

Leydon didn't hire just typical game designers to build the title. He also found people who had experience in scaling massive systems. The game's user interface is in HTML5 and is rendered natively, allowing the company to handle different screen sizes.

The other really cool thing about the game's social capabilities is that there is a mechanical turk-like translation system where the players themselves translate chat in exchange for virtual currency rewards. That helps Game of War have really interactive play with a proper critical mass of users who can talk to each other, even if they don't speak the same language. The in-game chat system helps Game of War get manage slang and gamer speak, which a third-party translation system probably wouldn't handle correctly. If say, 50 players translate the same words in the same way, then the game will start using that translation automatically.

"It's like a highly structured Facebook," Leydon said. "My goal as a game designer was to create a feeling of what it would be to be a king, where you'd have a lot of people under you. You'd have to subjects, wealth and land."

Assuming say, the game grows to 1 million players, there might only be 20 kings in the game. To reach that level, players have to woo others to form alliances with them. Within those alliances, there are ranks for different officers.

"This is a very hardcore game. This is not Candy Crush," he said. "This is a complex system with a lot of potential trees of outcomes. If you're the type of person that's fascinated by systems like this, then this is for you."

Machine Zone used to be known as Addmired, and rebranded last year when it took

Neil Gaiman to Release First Video Game - Mashable

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By Adam Popescu2013-07-25 10:11:40 UTC

Horror-fantasy icon and best-selling author Neil Gaiman is stepping into a whole new world. A virtual one. Today the British-born writer is announcing the launch of his first video game, Wayward Manor.

Inspired by Gaiman’s love of both supernatural and slapstick genres, the game follows the misadventures of a ghost who wants nothing more than a peaceful afterlife, and to kick out the motley crew living in the house he once called home. A gothic New England estate is the setting, with the storyline running from the 1920 all the way to the not-too-distant future. As the ghost tries harder and harder to get rid of the squatters, he also unravels the mystery of his own death and the after-life.

“It’s light hearted, its goofy, it’s nice to flip points of view,” says Gaiman, who was tight-lipped with details, but did tell Mashable that films like Arsenic and Old Lace, The Man Who Came To Dinner, and living in atmospheric New England inspired him.

“I was playing around with an idea essentially about a man and a house over a period of 200 years, thinking how much more fun it would be if the story of this relationship was actually something you could get involved in.”

See also: Neil Gaiman: I Would ‘Definitely Not’ Wear Google Glass

After a successful career penning more than 20 books in multiple genres, including the Sandman graphic novels and the novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane, this offering will be the first realized game.

“Back in the late 1990s I spent a lot of time working with various gaming companies,” he said. “What tended to happen is I put an incredible amount of work in these things and just as something was about to happen, the company was about to go bankrupt.”

Gaiman says he couldn’t pass up this new chance to work with the independent game studio The Odd Gentleman and Moon Shark, a game publisher co-founded by Creative Artists Agency.

“I think the biggest surprise is I did it and got involved in it. Nobody would have expected it and I didn’t have the time. It just got fun and I had to make time.”

As part of the release, Gaiman is also offering fans a pre-sale opportunity that includes limited-edition merch, the chance to name a game character, and even a private dinner with Gaiman.The game will be available this fall, on PC, Mac, and tablets.

“Normally in a game, if you’re in a haunted house, you are going to be walking through it intrepidly with your flashlight, your bell-book and candle, and your copy of the Necronomicon and you keep going until you find the ghost. In this one all you want to do is be left in peace with your lovely house and be left alone. I don’t want to give anything away but it’s safe to say you were killed in the 1880s and you were killed for a reason.”

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Skylanders Giants Starter Kit – Starter pack includes: Video Game, Portal of Power, 3 Skylanders figures collection posters, 3 Sticker Sheets with secret codes and 3 Trading Cards

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Activision Community Manager: 'Stop Threatening Game Developers' - IGN

In an interesting and thought-provoking editorial on his personal blog, Activision's community manager Dan Amrich expressed concern about the treatment of game developers on the Internet by the very people who play and enjoy their games, specifically citing a series of recent examples targeting David Vonderhaar of Treyarch.

In a recent patch of Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a series of tweaks were rolled-out that reduces the damage and speed of certain weapons. Due to the changes, which no doubt will alter the way some folks play the game, Vonderhaar was subject to ridicule and violent threats. The changes made some "people violently angry," according to Amrich.

As Amrich explains, "One of [Vonderhaar]'s many responsibilities is to keep the game as balanced as possible," yet when he does make these changes, he "often gets told he should die in a fire or kill himself or is a horrible person. If anyone thinks for a second that this is okay, it is not."

"But if the loudest voices in the Call of Duty 'community' act like an angry mob instead, guess how the entire world views Call of Duty?" Amrich continued. "Now consider that these Internet Tough Guy rants and demands are not unique to COD, but exist everywhere, in many gaming communities. This is why the world often does not take gaming seriously; this is why gamers are assumed to be immature, whiny assh***s. Because the immature, whiny assh***s are louder."

Amrich concludes with a plea for more thoughtfulness and calm, asking people to think about how they want to be treated. "If you enjoy your games," he ends his blog post, "have a little respect for the people who make them – and stop threatening them with bodily harm every time they do their job."

Colin Moriarty is IGN's Senior Editor. You can follow him on Twitter and IGN and learn just how sad the life of a New York Islanders and New York Jets fan can be.

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Pokémon Black Version 2 is turn-based action RPG for the handheld Nintendo DS, DSi and 3DS. It is a direct sequel to 2010′s best-selling game Pokémon Black , and place in the series “Unova region, two years after the events of the first game Game features include:. New legendary Pokémon, new areas to explore new Pokémon not in the first game version, additional functionality 3DS players via Nintendo eShop, engaging new game mechanics, activities and gym leaders, and the chance to battle trainers from previous games.

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A Timeless Pokémon Adventure Continues

back to captivating Unova region two years after the events of the original Pokémon Black and Pokémon White Version Games -. the first time in the core Pokémon video game series that an action has continued, from one game to another in Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 games, players can explore new areas, discover gyms with new leaders and see how everything has changed in the last two years., you can even capture Pokémon not published in the original game versions and fight enemies from previous favorite game.

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Unova region has changed and grown in the two years since the original Pokémon Black and Pokémon White Version Games. players travel through the first cities are completely new, and some characters from the previous games have grown up and moved into different roles.

In Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 , the players will also be able to use some of the Pokémon from outside the Unova region, such as Eevee, Riolu, Tyranitar, Arcanine and Mareep, start from the beginning of the game.

Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 feature of the Pokémon World Tournament, an exciting Battle Arena where players can take on many gym leaders and champions the last time Pokémon video games. Fans of the series will be able to fight trainers like Lance, Champion of the Johto region and Volkner, gym leaders from the Sinnoh region. players can also battle a variety of styles and moves in Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 found against these classic opponents.

In addition to want this new series, which is downloadable Pokédex 3D Pro and Pokémon Dream come radar for both the Nintendo eShop, which Nintendo 3DS players new ways to catch and learn about their favorite Pokémon.

Pokémon Dream radar players can use several features of the Nintendo 3DS system, including the Nintendo 3DS Camera, motion control and augmented reality technology to discover and catch Pokémon. The game includes hard- to-find Pokémon such as the new Therian Formes the Legendary Pokémon Tornadus, Thundurus and Landorus. players can transfer Pokémon Pokémon they dream in their radar Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 games have (visible only in 2D) caught.

Pokédex 3D Pro is a fully enhanced and improved version of the original Pokédex 3D application that provides detailed information about more than 640 Pokémon in the history of Pokémon presented can contain video game series. Pokédex 3D Pro includes in-depth sorting, comparison and ranking tools, and comprehensive information on what skills each Pokémon to learn and how it develops.

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