Weekend News Update With Two New Splatfests And Super Mario Crossover Event — Round 3!
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● With Japan having their Nike-sponsored Splatfest last weekend, Nintendo of America and Europe announced their regional Splatfests for next weekend with North America seeing the pictured Baseball vs. Soccer and Europe seeing Salty vs. Sweet (in regards to Popcorn!).
● The Alliance Alive and The Legend of Legacy will both be half-price on the Japanese 3DS eShop from 04 April – 18 April priced at ¥3,391 and ¥3,229 respectively.
● Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp saw Round 3 of the Super Mario Crossover Event with new furniture and clothing items including Wario and Peach outfits. Full details (and pictures!) here.
● Fire Emblem Heroes saw a Special Heroes: Spring Festival featuring Camilla, Xander, Lucina and Chrom with a Voting Gauntlet: Bunny Battle Ballot beginning on Wednesday.
● Miitomo saw new items added to the line-up in Miitomo Shop including Tracksuit Top, Tracksuit Bottoms, Wooden Sandals and Sporty Tracksuit Set all pictured here.
● Pokémon GO saw an April Fool’s Day joke from developers Niantic with 8-bit pixelated Pokémon added to the game screens! Pictured of the main four Pokémon from Generation 1 here).
● Yokai Watch: Puni Puni saw a collaboration with The Snack World. TV commercial here.
● This week’s Nintendo only Famitsu Most Wanted saw the very first appearance of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo Switch! Full charts posted here.
● The finals of the Splatoon European Championship including an Off The Hook concert here.
● And the ARMS US & Canada Online Open: FINALS here.
● Thanks everybody for following. Have a great Easter!
