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Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island

It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island now takes over as the top Switch game.

Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between December 20 and December 26.

It’s the start of a new year, and as is tradition, a new Choose Your Legends event has just started in Fire Emblem Heroes.

Voting has opened for Choose Your Legends: Round 8, with players able to vote for their favorite characters from across the entire Fire Emblem series. Once voting has concluded, the top two male and top two female characters will appear in Fire Emblem Heroes at a future date sporting special Choose Your Legends outfits.

Splatoon 3 Splatfest results - Friends vs. Family vs. Solo

We have the results for the newest Splatfest in Splatoon 3, which had Friends vs. Family vs. Solo going to battle. The theme asked players how they spend their holiday.

When Nintendo showed how things were going at halftime, Team Friends was in the lead – but barely – at 34.54 percent. Next up was Team Solo at 34.17 percent. Finally, Team Family landed at 31.29 percent.

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A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include the lowest prices ever for Graveyard Keeper, Tinykin, and more.

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Below are the latest Nintendo products that can be currently pre-ordered at retailers:

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Reigns: Three Kingdoms gameplay

Gameplay is here for the new Switch version of Reigns: Three Kingdoms. Footage shows a couple of runs from the turn-based card battler.

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Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Switch games. These include Hitman: Blood Money – Reprisal, Hidden Through Time 2, and more.

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Postal Brain Damaged

Postal: Brain Damaged is making its way to Switch, an eShop listing reveals. The title arrives on February 2, 2024.

Originally released in 2022, Postal: Brain Damaged is a spin-off of the franchise as a first-person shooter inspired by games from the 90s and 2000s. We’ve got more information in the following eShop description:

Metroid Dread CG amiibo

In a post on Nintendo’s recruitment website, developer Uenaka Minoru shared insight into his work on Metroid Dread, including CG and amiibo. He’s been with the planning and production department since 2019.

Minoru’s post goes into working with MercurySteam and how the “finest details” needed to be considered since CG was used on Nintendo’s website, the boxart, and more. Working on E.M.M.I. was probably the biggest aspect of the project since it required “a sense of realism that required not just cooperation from the series development team, but also cooperation with other companies to get the fine details properly finished and as convincing as possible.” As for the amiibo, he wanted to create two poses so that it would look like Samus and the E.M.M.I. were squaring off.

Arcade Archives Cosmo Gang the Puzzle dropped on Switch this week, and for those interested in getting a closer look, we’ve got gameplay. Hamster showed off the title during its latest live stream.

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