UK software sales (Week ending 5/11/2019)
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Marvelous hopes to release Rune Factory 5 in the fiscal year starting April 2020
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We don’t know a whole lot about Rune Factory 5 yet, except a vague release date of “2020”. At their recent final results briefing, Marvelous offered a bit more insight. They stated that Rune Factory 5 will “definitely not” be released in the current fiscal year, i.e. before March 2020. Instead, they hope to release the game in the following fiscal year, meaning sometime between April 2020 and March 2021.
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses introduces Dorothea
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The official Japanese Fire Emblem Twitter account has introduced another character in Three Houses today. Dorothea, voiced by Juri Nagatsuma, is a member of the Black Eagles. She was the apprentice of a famous opera singer before coming to the Monastery. Since she was also a member of the Mittelfrank Opera company, she has a great deal of admiration for Manuela. She’s the only commoner in the Black Eagle house, which makes her feel uncomfortable to a certain degree, but it also makes her treat everyone as an equal, no matter their social standing.
Here’s a closer look at Dorothea, including a clip of her talking to Byleth, before she finds out that he’s a teacher:
Switch version of God Eater 3 to be shown off in a live stream on May 14
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We will soon be getting some new info on the Switch version of God Eater 3. It’ll be shown off in a live stream on May 14, Bandai Namco announced today. The stream will start on May 14 at 8 PM JST. Here is the link to the Youtube stream.
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Splatoon 2: next EU & NA Splatfest announced – Time Travel vs Teleportation
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The next Splatfest for Splatoon 2 has been announced. This will be a cross-region Splatfest for Europe and North America. The question this time is which superpower would you rather have, time travel or teleportation? The Splatfest starts next week, on May 18 at 1 PM UK time.
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses introduces Lorenz; Japanese website open
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The official Japanese Fire Emblem Twitter account has introduced another Three Houses character today. Lorenz of the Golden Deer house. He is voiced by Hiroshi Watanabe. Lorenz is the eldest son of Duke Glostar. He may come across as snobby, but he is fully away of the responsibilities and what it means to be a member of the nobility. It seems he has been trying to chat up some girls at the monastery. but to little success. Here’s a brief clip of him talking to Byleth:
実は胸元の薔薇は造花。ローレンツとの会話です。 #FE風花雪月 pic.twitter.com/OewgfDRJUA
— 『ファイアーエムブレム』総合 (@FireEmblemJP) May 10, 2019
In addition, Nintendo opened up the official Japanese website for Fire Emblem: Three Houses today, which you can find here. It doesn’t really contain any new info, but among other things, it has a nice overview of the character introductions Nintendo has been posting to Twitter over the last couple of days.
Fire Emblem Heroes: Darkness Within Summoning Focus, main story chapter, Forging Bonds: Power’s Den, special orb promo
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Quite a bit of Fire Emblem Heroes news today. First up, the previously announced Darkness Within Summoning Focus is now live. It’ll be available until May 30. The 5-star focus units are Berkut: Purgatorial Prince, Tiki: Torpid Dragon, Mareeta: The Blade’s Pawn and Corrin: Wailing Soul.
These four characters are also the focus of a new Forging Bonds event. “Power’s Den” will be available until May 24. Among other rewards, you can also earn First Summon Tickets for the Darkness Within Summoning Focus.
A new main story chapter, Chapter 7: A Home Unknown of Book III has also been added, as well as some limited-time quests.
The special orb promo for May has gone live. You can purchase 21 orbs and get 60 Sacred Coins as an additional gift.
Finally, Intelligent Systems has provided an update on the issue with Aether Raids that was discovered after the recent update. The issue was caused due to a problem with the rematch feature in Aether Raids. As such, the rematch feature has temporarily been disabled. The issue will be fixed with patch 3.5.1, which will be released sometime before May 14, which is the start of the next Aether Raids season. All players will receive 10 orbs and 100 Heroic Grails.
Dragon Ball FighterZ – “Goku Day” video
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Goku (GT), the latest DLC addition to the Dragon Ball FighterZ roster, is available today. Bandai Namco decided to celebrate the occasion by releasing a special “Goku Day” video (since May 9 can be read as “go ku” in Japanese), showcasing some key moments from Dragon Ball history using only in-game footage from FighterZ:
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Fortnite v9.00 patch notes & Battle Pass video
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Version 9.00 of Fortnite is now live. Here’s the overview video for the new Battle Pass, as well as the full patch notes past the break:
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YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World rated by the ESRB
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It seems like YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World will be released outside Japan. The Switch version of this remake of a classic visual novel has recently been rated by the ESRB, the North American rating agency, suggesting that the game is cleared for release in North America. The game received an M rating for “Blood, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Violence”.
