Friday News Update with Snack World coming in April, Metroid Prime 4 rumours, plus much more!
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● Level-5 announced that their first Nintendo Switch title The Snack World Trejarers Gold will release on 12 April priced at ¥6,458 with improved graphics and battle system to the 3DS version plus both lots of DLC.
● Eurogamer report that Bandai Namco Entertainment are working on Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch. Obviously this is unconfirmed.
● President Tatsumi Kimishima that Nintendo will “continue to release numerous software titles” during the second year of the Nintendo Switch “including some not announced.”
● Monolith Software announced that Xenoblade 2 Ver. 1.3.0 will arrive next week adding the ‘Advanced New Game Mode’, an ‘Easy Mode’, fix the issue with the disappearing Blades, plus much more.
● Mechanic Arms announced that Code Name『▲』 (working title) will be revealed on or before 22 February, available for pre-load on 22 February and available simultaneously worldwide on 1 March. We suspect it is Fight Pigs although we have nothing concrete.
● Dengeki data revealed that the Switch version of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 The Game sold 2,054 pieces last week in Japan with the PlayStation 4 version selling 1,154 pieces.
● President Tatsumi Kimishima says that Nintendo 3DS “continues to sell, so for now we hope consumers will embrace it together with Nintendo Switch. But as for what transpires in the future, that is uncharted territory.” Ki Shiota adds that Nintendo are considering several possibilities for future hardware development but are currently undecided.
● Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will see scheduled maintenance on 14 February at 01:00 JST for seven hours. ROW times are all 13 February at 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET, 11:00 ET and 08:00 PT. This is for the major game update.
● Fire Emblem Heroes saw the Special Heroes (Love Abounds) featuring Lilina, Roy, Hector and Lyn added plus the new Tap Battle: Illusory Dungeon event.
● Miitomo saw the “Studying stylishly! Miitomo Stationery [A]” stage available on Miitomo Drop featuring Head Hardbacks, Scissors T-Shirt, Doodle Print Dress and Eraser all pictured here.
● FDG Entertainment announced that Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom will release at retail in North America this Summer published by Sega.
● TinyBuild will announce six (not a typo) Nintendo Switch games tomorrow at 10am PST / 7pm CET.
● THQ Nordic announced Legend of Kay Anniversary will come to Switch in 2018.
● Nintendo of Europe will distribute the retail version of Dark Souls Remastered in Europe.
● The North American Bayonetta (and Bayonetta 2!) website is open (here).
● Undercoders will publish Superola and The Lost Burgers on the Switch eShop on 22 February.
● See this week’s Nintendo eShop charts (Switch, 3DS and Wii U) with new entries forThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Guns, Gore & Cannoli here plus this week’s Famitsu Most Wanted here.
● Watch the third Gotouchi Tetsudou for Nintendo Switch!! parents vs. children gameplay video here.
● The second Fire Emblem Heroes TV commercial here.
● The first Federal military character introduction video for Senjou no Valkyria 4 (Valkyria Chronicles 4) here
● The opening movie for World End Syndrome here
● The third introduction video for Shingeki no Kyojin 2 (Attack on Titan 2) here
● An ACA NEOGEO series promo video
here.
● And the Dragon Quest Builders launch trailer
here.
● Thanks to Contra Network for a lot of the worldwide news.
● Thanks too to RiruKiria for some of the worldwide news.
● Thanks to naruki for The Snack World news.
● And thanks everybody for following. Have a great weekend!
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