The top five Wii U North American launch windows titles, as ranked by hypothetical Scrabble Scores with no special tiles and numbers / punctuation valued at zero: Disney Epic Mickey 2: Power of Two (56), Batman: Arkham City - Armored Edition (52), Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien (50), Rise of the Guardians: The Video Game (48), Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth (45).

The bottom five Wii U launch titles, same metric as above: 007 Legends (9), NBA 2K13 (10), Toki Tori 2 (12), WipeOut 3 (12), Wii Fit U (13). Here's the full list.

Stories of the day:

• Nintendo Wii U release date is November 18th in US starting at $299.99, November 30th in Europe
• Nikon launches the D600, its smallest, lightest, and cheapest full-frame DSLR
• Apple taking iPhone 5 pre-orders on September 14th starting at 12:01AM PT

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