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The Book IV Midpoint Celebration is live now in Fire Emblem Heroes with a special summoning event and EXP/SP event. This summoning event features heroes with the Savage Blow ability which deals up to 7 damage to foes within 2 spaces of their target after combat.

Then there is a SP/EXP event that will award players with quintuple experience and SP in battles until June 14, 11:59pm PT.

The new summoning event, Nadine and Linnea’s United Front, is now live. This event brings some new dragon battles as well as the ability to summon the five star variants of the adventurers Linnea and Nadine. 

This event will last until 10:59pm PT, June 18 2020, so make sure to summon as much you can while it is active. If you would like more information on this event make sure to check out the source below and if you’d like to see the new adventurers in action, gameplay videos of both have been added below as well. 

The Producers of Pokemon Masters have released a letter discussing what is coming soon to the game. In this letter, they discuss new additions such as Egg Events, the ability to battle champions similar to the Pokemon League, and seasonal sync pairs.

Then they delve into revisions coming to systems already in the game like Sync Pair changes and battle timers. The whole letter is available to read below so feel free to check it out.

The Pokemon Company has announced via their official Twitter that they will be teaming up with Niantic to donate $5 million to nonprofit organizations. This news comes shortly after the Pokemon Company donated $200,000 to organizations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement in support of those affected by systematic racism and police brutality.

This donation is set to take place after Pokemon Go Fest 2020 (July 25 and 26) and the specific charities being contributed to will be listed at a later date. This money is meant to go towards helping children and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion at a young age. The statement also specifies that the money will go to organizations that will educate and mentor black children that may be in need.

Feel free to check out the official annoncument from the Pokemon Twitter page below. 

The turn-based strategy game 1971 Project Helios has received a gameplay video courtesy of Handheld Players on YouTube. This 26 minute video takes you through the beginning of the game and showcases the battle system at length.

Feel free to check out the full video below. 

1971 Project Helios releases for Switch on June 9, 2020. 

Medals have been added to Pokemon Masters in the update (version 1.10.5) and are obtainable by meeting set conditions during certain battles and missions. 

A section in the Poryphone is dedicated to these medals and it lets players view information on medals already collected as well as see how to earn new ones. There is also an option to set a favorite medal that is visible for others to see on your Friend List. 

The full patch notes of this update are available below:

Mario Kart Tour has released a new update (version 2.1.1) for iOS and Android devices. This update is about 80MB on Android and 195MB on iOS and it functions primary to fix some known bugs in the game.

Full patch notes have been included below:

According to news outlet Serebii, a new Dynamax Crystal event is coming to Pokemon Sword and Shield. In this event, you can get a code from certain video game retailers and it will provide you with a Dynamax Crystal which can be used to activate the Gigantamax Copperajah Max Raid Battle in the Watchtower Ruins. 

It seems that only Gamestop in Germany and GameMania in the Netherlands have rolled this out right now, but it is expected that more regions will see this soon. The Dynamax Crystal event for Gigantamax Copperajah is expected to go on from June 5th, 2020 to July 5th, 2020. 

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Nintendo Switch

The newest firmware for Nintendo Switch is out now (version 10.0.4). This update fixes an issue which was preventing users in certain regions from registering credit card information on their accounts to purchase things on the eShop. 

This is seemingly the only feature of this new update, but feel free to check out the full patch notes below:

The fifth episode of the anime web series Pokemon: Twilight Wings has been released. The only audio and subtitles currently available are Japanese but the English version should be coming soon. 

Feel free to watch the episode below.

EDIT: The episode has now been released in English. Check it out below!

 


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