Thursday Update：Hollow Knight Sequel Announced, Ice Climber Coming Soon, Plus More News！
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● Quick update today as I’m still low on HP from yesterday! Team Cherry announced Hollow Knight: Silksong, a sequel, for Nintendo Switch. A Japanese release hasn’t been confirmed, but is expected after the original game excelled in the region. Check out the reveal trailer here.
● Hamster revealed 12 upcoming ACA NEOGEO and Arcade Archives titles. Four had previously been announced (including Ice Climber), one wasn’t actually revealed and will be in two weeks (a Tecmo arcade game!), with the remaining seven all new announcements, including one of my favourite battle games, Butasan! Check out the full list at this post.
● Reservations for both Fire Emblem: Fuuka Setsugetsu (Fire Emblem: Three Houses and ASTRAL CHAIN have both began in Japan with both games also receiving limited editions and releasing on 26 July and 30 August respectively.
● Nippon Ichi Software have opened up the teaser website for Jinrui no Minasama he. Check out the box art too!
● Koei Tecmo Games said that Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland has gone gold. It releases on 20 March in Japan as Lulua no Atelier ～Arland no Renkinjutsushi４～. A demo will be free in next week’s issue of Weekly Famitsu.
● Fortnite v.740 is here where you could earn a Season 8 Battle Pass for free by completing 13 free Overtime Challenges by 27 February. The update saw a Catch Limited Time Mode with no guns (just grenades and similar weapons!, and a Team Rumble LTD (the first team to get 100 eliminations wins). Switch players can also now view their stats in-game
● And Nintendo have opened up a webpage for Nintendo Switch Otome Games.
● Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp saw a new terrain option, aurora sky, available for 300 Leaf Tickets. Check out how it looks here.
● Dragalia Lost saw the flame-attuned adventurer upgrade event, the new story event, Valentine’s Confections, and the new Summon Showcase, Ardent Admirers all begin today. Void Battles are coming later this month,
● Fire Emblem Heroes opened up pre-registration for Saturday’s Grand Conquests event, which takes place on the continent of Tellus. Today saw a new map in Tactics Drills: Grandmaster. Sensor Tower also report that the game has grossed $500 million to date, more than every other first party app combined and doubled!
● Check out this week’s Famitsu Most Wanted here (with Animal Crossing above 500 votes!) and Famitsu software and hardware charts here.
● Also check out a recap from the 573rd Weekly Famitsu column by Masahiro Sakurai here with he discussing 20 years of writing the Super Smash Bros. series.
● Nintendo Co., Ltd. shares dropped by +0.62% today to close trading for the week at ¥29,810.00.
● From the Western Direct which we didn’t cover: Assassin’s Creed III Remastered was confirmed for Switch release and will be available on 21 May priced at $39.99.
● The Star Fox trailer for the Japanese release of Starlink: Battle for Atlas, which is now available to preload in Japan, here.
● The second promo video and a TV commercial for Gyakuten Saiban 123: Naruhodo Selection (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy) here.
● A short version of the Darius Cozmic Collection promo video here.
● A Dragon Ball FighterZ Fighterz Dojo Sono trailer here.
● The Japanese launch trailer for Victor Vran Overkill Edition here.
● A Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!／Eevee! ‘Download the free demo!’ trailer here.
● A TETRIS 99 ’99 players…but only one will remain!’ trailer here.
● A My Time at Portia ‘Relationships Trailer’ here.
● A gameplay video of Alchemic Dungeons DX here.
● The 19th episode of Dragalia Lost Radio Castle here.
● And the latest three hour Arks Winter Challenge livestream for Phantasy Star Online 2 here.
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