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The latest Mythic Hero Summoning Event is now live in Fire Emblem Heroes. The new addition is Thrasir: Omnicidal Witch. In addition to her, the following Heroes are the 5-star focus units for this Summoning Focus: Yune: Chaos Goddess, Veronica: Spring Princess, Eir: Merciful Death, Genny: Dressed with Care, Corrin: Wailing Soul, Hríd: Icy Blade, Eliwood: Blazing Knight, Eirika: Graceful Resolve, Ephraim: Legendary Lord, Soren: Addled Strategist and Kjelle: Fair Fighter. The Summoning Focus will be available until October 8.

Additionally, a new Mythic Hero Battle featuring Thrasir is now available. Legendary Hero Battles for Eirika, Hríd and Eliwood and the Mythic Hero Battle for Yune are also back; all of them will be available until October 8.

Outside the game, Meet Some of the Heroes has been updated. You can now learn more about Sigurd, Quan, Ethlyn, Eldigan and Lachesis.

Finally, the price of orbs will soon increase in Japan. This is due to the increase of the Japanese sales tax from 8% to 10% starting tomorrow. The exact date and the amount the orb prices will increase have not yet been announced.

In a bit of a surprise move, Nintendo has announced a new entry in the Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training / Brain Age series of games for Nintendo Switch. However, so far this game has only been announced for Japan. It’ll be released on December 27. The physical version of the game comes with an official Nintendo Switch stylus and will be sold for 3,480 Yen + taxes. The digital version costs 2,680 Yen + taxes; the stylus can then be bought separately for 864 Yen.

In addition to the standard brain training features, this version also has several new additions:

The latest Raid Event — Fractured Futures — is now live within Dragalia Lost.

While only a trailer was shared previously, full details on the event can be viewed below.

SEGA has released an official English version of the gameplay trailer that they released for Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD last month.

Previously, the trailer had only been in Japanese, but now Western audiences can follow along as well. Those interested can view the footage below.

It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. In what should be its final week, Dragon Quest XI S overtakes Pokemon Sword/Shield for the third spot while Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 sees a big jump.

Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between September 12 and September 18.

Auto Chess: Origin is on the way to Switch, Dragonest has announced. The online strategy game will be hitting Nintendo’s console sometime in 2020.

Here’s an overview of Auto Chess: Origin from its mobile release, along with a trailer:

The first DLC pack for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is now available, Nintendo has announced. Marvel Knights: Curse of the Vampire features a new story scenario and lets players use Punisher, Blade, Moon Knight, and Morbius. New challenges also await in Gauntlet Mode.

Here’s a trailer:

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include the Crash games, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Don’t Starve, Golf Story, Mark of the Ninja: Remastered, Wandersong, and more.

Here are the full highlights:

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The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening sold around 140,000 copies in its first week in Japan. According to Dengeki, the game sold through 60 percent of its initial shipment.

Dengeki examined the game’s sales closer by comparing the debut of Link’s Awakening to Breath of the Wild. The latter Zelda title sold 204,000 copies in its first week before going on to sell over 1.22 million units overall (and counting). Like that game, Link’s Awakening could maintain long-term sales.

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Nintendo Switch

Nintendo has another round of maintenance planned for the coming week. Starting today, there will be activity impacting Switch, leading into the next few days.

Here’s the full schedule as of now:


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