Monday News Update With Nintendo Receive AMD Award, Kirby Star Allies Review, Plus Much More!
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● The lead story is from Yoshiaki Koizumi, Ko Shiota and Shinya Takahashi collecting the AMD Excellence Award earlier today earlier today due to the strength and impact of the Nintendo Switch console. Image above thanks to Game Watch.
● Check out the Japanese Nintendo translation for the first Kirby Star Allies review from Weekly Famitsu here. The game will also see a Kanpeki Support Guide (pictured here) and Official Guide Book (unpictured) on 30 March.
● Crazy Monkey Studios announced that Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2 is in development for Nintendo Switch. The original was published by Flyhigh Works in Japan so expect this one too to! Launch trailer added here.
● Both WWE 2K18 and NBA 2K18 are half-price on the Nintendo Switch eShop until 23:59 JST on 20 March 2018 with WWE 2K18 reduced to ¥3,790 and NBA 2K18 reduced to ¥3,402.
● Nintendo Mimamori Switch (Nintendo Switch Parental Controls) was updated to Version 1.5.0 with a number of changes with the update also referencing the Nintendo Switch system 5.0.0 update in order to use some of these features.
● Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will be getting a guide book from Nintendo Dream on 31 March with all data present and correct up until late February. Cover pictured here.
● Fire Emblem Heroes saw Blessed Gardens: New Map with Grotto of Water added, plus, ahead of the Tempest Trials event, Invisible Ties, there’s a summoning focus event for the bonus allies for the Tempest Trials featuring three Heroes from Fire Emblem Awakening (Olivia, Donnel and Cherce).
● Miitomo saw the return of the ”The digital age begins! Cyberpunk Fashion" stages with all 12 items pictured here.
● The North American/European Splatfest ended with Team Chicken beating Team Egg 2-1 by winning the Solo and Team Battles with 53% and 56% respectively in-spite of losing the Votes, by gaining just 41%!
● Ratalaika Games tweeted that their mysterious game is the turn-based strategy title Devious Dungeon which releases on Switch (and PS4 and Vita) in the next few weeks. Trailer here.
● Nicalis tweeted “Quote (from Cave Story) is ready for epic character cross-over battles on #NintendoSwitch! Are you?!?”
● WayForward posted a listing for Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse on the AU/NZ Switch eShop for 20 March including Japanese language support (expect Oizumi Amuzio to localise).
● Inti-Creates announced that Gal☆Gun 2 will release on 12 April in Europe and 24 April in North America.
● Team17 announced an atmospheric side-scrolling platformer Planet Alpha for Switch (and PS4, Xbox One and PC) in 2018. Announcement trailer here.
● Circle Entertainment announced that OPUS: Rocket of Whispers launches on the Switch eShop on 22nd March with pre-load live from 15 March. Trailer added here.
● And Atari announced that both RollerCoaster Tycoon and Atari Flashback Classics will be coming to Switch
● Ryokutya report that a Yokai Watch scoop will be in the May issue of CoroCoro Comic (available 15 April). The last time they promised a scoop saw Yokai Watch Busters 2: Hihou Densetsu Banbaraya announced for 3DS.
● Columbus Circle announced five new retro videogame consoles (Retro Combo, 16bit Compact, 8bit Compact, 8bit Pocket and the 16bit Compact MD). Full details with pictures here.
● Nintendo have released Original Nintendo Prepaid Cards for both Animal Crossing (¥3,000) and Kirby (¥1,500) in Japan today. Pictures here.
● Sega Holdings announced that Sega Games’ puzzle game series Puyo Puyo are now officially licensed e-Sports titles by the Japan e-Sports Union (JeSU).
● A Shingeki no Kyojin 2 (Attack on Titan 2) Levi Ackerman event scene here and another voice actress gameplay video here.
● Chinese and Korean language introduction videos for Gal☆Gun 2 here and here.
● And another Earthlock gameplay video from Cross Function here.
● Thanks to Nirbion for a couple of new images.
● Thanks too to Kite for the Kirby translation.
● And thanks everybody for following!
