Friday News Update With Nintendo Labo Releasing, Ultra Shiny Trademark, Plus Much More News!
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● Arguably Nintendo’s most important release in the first half of 2018, Nintendo Labo released today. Nintendo are selling spare parts on their Japanese online store here and have upload PDFs of each part here.
● Platinum Games’s Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya spoke at Reboot Develop 2018 today and outlined their desire to see The Wonderful 101 release for Nintendo Switch.
● City Connection’s limited edition retail release of Psyvariar Delta will cost ¥6,264 and include DLC, a DL code for the soundtrack and a logo sticker.
● Splatoon 2 will see the Custom Range Blaster tomorrow (tonight in North America) with the Curling Bomb as the sub and the Bubble Blower as the special.
● Arc System Works posted details and screens for Wizard’s Symphony here although the official website is just a landing page. The game is set for Fall 2018 release.
● Arc System Works also revealed that the open beta for BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle on Nintendo Switch will run from 16:00 JST on 11 May 11 until midnight on 14 May.
● The Inazuma Walker livestream still didn’t give a release date for Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin so a June release is looking less likely.
● Ubisoft have published a demo for UNO on the Japanese Nintendo Switch eShop.
● Rei-Jin-G-Lu-P will receive a 33% discount next week, Brave Dungeon + Dark Witch Story: Combat a 20% discount, and both Tallowmere and Human: Fall Flat 50% discounts.
● Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp saw Whitney, Colton, Muffy, Julia, Pierce and Tia arrive today. Check out the official artwork and details of their favourite furniture here.
● Miitomo saw the “Konnichiwa! Japanese Culture [A]” stage available on Miitomo Drop featuring Kanji Dress, Floating Kanji, Kanji Hoodie and Kanji Tracksuit Bottoms all pictured here.
● Screaming Villains announced Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition for the Switch eShop this Summer with Limited Run Games announcing a retail version.
● Nintendo Co., Ltd., Creatures Co., Ltd. and Game Freak Inc. have applied for a trademark for ウルトラシャイニー (Ultra Shiny) in Japan. Check out the actual application here.
● Check out this week’s Famitsu Most Wanted here and Nintendo eShop charts here.
● This week’s update to the official Nintendo LINE account saw Kinopio-kun celebrate the release of Nintendo Labo with pictures, a video, a PDF and some smartphone wallpaper all found here.
● Please support my Toad for Super Smash Bros. campaign here!
● Watch Bill Nye go hands-on with Nintendo Labo here .
● And a Japanese promo video for Immortal Redneck here.
