Tuesday News Update with Fire Emblem Heroes Ver. 2, 15 million Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp downloads, plus more news!
● A ‘New Warrior Edition’ promo video for the new Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for Nintendo Switch Extra Pack 1 DLC here.
● Studio Tokyo tweeted: “Mani Yugi TOKOYO planned to be sold at steam and New3DS, we plan to sell English version later only steam. Probably the title is zen shotting TOKOYO.“
● The “Catch a lot of Pokémon!” global mission wasn’t reached in Pokémon Ultra Sun Moon . Although players will receive a participation prize of 1,000 Festival Coins.
● Fire Emblem Heroes saw Ver 2.0 available adding Book II to Story Maps, the Blessings ability, the Weapon Refinery feature plus traditional Chinese language support. Today also saw the Legendary Hero Summoning Event with Fjorm and some Weapon Refinery Quests.
● Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp saw Ver 1.0.2 available which addresses connection issues. Sensor Tower also reported that the game was downloaded 15 million times in its first six days.
● Pokémon GO too has been updated adding iPhone X support. The recent Pokémon GO Safari Zone in Tottori Sand Dunes saw 87,000 visitors in 3 days. And Ho-Oh is now appearing in Raid Battles!
● Miitomo saw the “Long limbs unite! Zoo Wonders” stages available again with Giraffe and Elephant-themed apparel all pictured here.
● Playtonic Games announced that Yooka-Laylee will be coming to Switch on 14 December. Check out the trailer here.
● BadLand Games announced that the roguelike brawler Heart & Slash will release for Switch in December.
● Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap has sold 100,000 on Switch and SteamWorld Dig 2 has sold nearly 10 times the amount of games on Switch as it has on Steam. Thanks to GoNintendo.
● Nintendo have made many new My Nintendo rewards available including Mario’s Winter Wonderland and Animal Crossing: Jingle’s Toy Day 3DS themes as well as several 3DS and Wii U discounts. Check out the full list here.
● This week’s issue of Weekly Famitsu features Kirby Battle Deluxe!, Shingeki no Kyojin 2 ~Mirai no Zahyou~. Xenoblade 2, Splatoon 2, Nobunaga no Yabou: Taishi and more. Check out this week’s review scores too here.
● The latest Famitsu digital estimates are Super Mario Odyssey with 63,538 (in three days), Pocket Monsters Gold & Silver with 65,720 (totalling 144,554) and Splatoon 2 with 16,172 (totalling 140,964). Dates from 25 September – 29 October.
● Hiroshima Carp baseball player Akitake Okada has put 100 hours into Monster Hunter XX Nintendo Switch Ver. according to a Tokyo Sports interview.
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