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GameXplain recently attended Defenders of the Triforce, the new Zelda escape room-esque experience. You can get a good feel for what the event offers with their video tour below.

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This spring, LEGO Dimensions will be receiving three new packs. Warner Bros. announced today that the Goonies Level Pack, Harry Potter Fun Pack, and LEGO City Fun Pack will arrive on May 9 in North America and May 12 in the UK.

LEGO minifigures included with each pack have special golden Toy Tags. These are used to unlock a free play Adventure World of the corresponding entertainment brand along with a Battle Arena that can be reached through Vorton. Battle Arenas are customized to the world of the character used to unlock it and features competitive split-screen local gameplay for up to four players.

Screenshots and information for the new LEGO Dimensions packs can be found below.

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Activision is extending its Skylanders Academy animated series further. The company announced today that the show has been renewed for a third season, which will begin production in February.

Season 3 kicks off in 2018. As for the second season, here’s what fans can look forward to:

“This year, audiences can enjoy Season 2 of ‘Skylanders Academy,’ which brings back Justin Long as Spyro, Ashley Tisdale as Stealth Elf, Jonathan Banks as Eruptor and Norm Macdonald as Glumshanks.

New addition Felicia Day (The Guild, Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will join the cast in Season 2, voicing the role of Cynder, a new cadet at the Academy with a mysterious past. The Diamond Minecart (Daniel Middleton) will reprise his role as Cy and Daniel Wu returns as King Pen. Additional voice talent in Season 2 includes Susan Sarandon, Parker Posey, James Hetfield, Catherine O’Hara, Bobcat Goldthwait, Chris Diamantopoulos, Jonny Rees, Harland Williams and Richard Horvitz. The series features the exclusive song ‘Harmony’ (Skylanders Academy Theme) produced by GRAMMY® Award winner Timbaland and performed by Timbaland fet. Dalton Diehl.”

Source: Activision PR

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, Mobile, News, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Mobile

Fire Emblem Heroes – free-to-play (available later today)

Wii U Download

I C REDD – $1.49
Lucentek Beyond – $3.99
Star Splash: Shattered Star – $3.49

Wii U Virtual Console

Bomberman ’94 – $6.99
Gradius – $6.99

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Fire Emblem Heroes has started to launch in major regions like Europe and Japan. Players are now beginning to take plenty of footage of their experiences, so we’ve included some of these videos below.

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New data provided by SELL reveals France’s top 20 best-selling games of 2016. Two Nintendo-published games made the list.

Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon were collectively the second best-selling game. The two sold 805,390 copies in France last year. Additionally, Yo-kai Watch was the fifteenth best-selling title at 222,218 units sold.

Two other notable entries include Minecraft and Just Dance 2017, which were the seventh and sixteenth best-selling games in France of 2017 respectively.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop | 9 Comments

Pixel Princess Blitz was looking to be funded through Kickstarter. With about a week to go, the campaign reached its funding goal. That means we’ll eventually be seeing the game on Switch.

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As previously reported, the eShop will be down for maintenance on Tuesday specifically for redeeming eShop cards. More maintenance is actually planned before that though. Credit cards can’t be used for several hours this Sunday / Monday.

The maintenance schedule is as follows:

– 7 PM PT (February 5) – 3 AM PT (February 6)
– 10 PM ET (February 5) – 6 AM ET (February 6)
– 3 AM in the UK (February 6) – 11 AM in the UK
– 4 AM in Europe (February 6) – 12 PM in Europe (February 6)

From Sunday, February 5, 2017 7 :00 PM – Monday, February 6, 2017 3 :00 AM Pacific Time

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Monster Hunter XX has received another video today. In the latest footage, a couple of quests are shown featuring Lao-Shan Lung and Deviant Diablos. View it below.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 60 Comments

Analyst Hideki Yasuda wrote up a new article on GamesIndustry Japan earlier today. There’s one part of the piece pertaining to third-parties that stood out to us in particular.

Yasuda talks about how many investors were anticipating major overseas third-party games to be announced for Switch, but the timing wasn’t right (due to E3 being a few months away, etc.). He then mentions that NIS is making Disgaea 5 Complete for the system’s launch, which used to be a PS4-only title. NIS was never really on Nintendo platforms before, and their few Wii / DS games were buried among other games leading to a lack of success. 3DS also didn’t receive a high amount of support from NIS because of its unique specifications. With Switch though, the company is bringing over a PS4 title and on day one.

Yasuda was in attendance at Nintendo’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, and relayed a comment from Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto said that games developed with PC as a base can be ported to Switch in about a year. The report also adds that the console was revealed to third-parties last summer. It’s thought that we could therefore see major multiplatform titles starting from the fall season.

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