Nintendo reveals the best-selling games on the Japanese eShop for the first half of 2018
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2018 is just a little over halfway done. With that in mind, Nintendo today revealed the best-selling games on the Japanese eShop this year so far.
We have two sets of data. The first chart combines retail and digital titles, while the second focuses exclusively on eShop games.
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Sonic Mania director on what makes a Sonic game, interested in making a 3D title
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Eurogamer spoke with Sonic Mania director Christian Whitehead as part of a feature exploring the creation of the game. One interesting topic brought up is what actually makes a Sonic game.
Whitehead shared the following on that front:
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou trailer
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Entergram has gone live with a five-minute Japanese trailer for the visual novel Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou. View it below.
Magic Scroll Tactics coming to Switch
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Magic Scroll Tactics is making its way to Switch, Play, Doujin! announced today. The side-scrolling, turn-based tactical RPG is currently in development, but lacks a release date.
Here’s a trailer:
More: Magic Scroll Tactics, Play Doujin!
Japanese Fire Emblem Heroes web commercial
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Nintendo issued a new Japanese web commercial for Fire Emblem Heroes today. Have a look at the advert below.
Mega Man X: Mega Mission to see English release in January 2019
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Mega Man X: Mega Mission has been published in Japanese, but never in English. That will change early next year thanks to UDON Entertainment.
UDON revealed at Comic-Con yesterday that Hitoshi Ariga’s Mega Man X: Mega Mission will finally receive a North American release. The first full-color, 48-page issue will be made available in January 2019.
As Rockman Corner notes, Mega Mission first appeared in Hitoshi Ariga’s Rockman Remix manga compilation in 1996. It’s an adaptation of the Mega Mission trading cards by Bandai, which follows a storyline that took place between Mega Man X2 and Mega Man X3.
More: Mega Man, UDON Entertainment
Nintendo on the possibility of a demo for Smash Bros. Ultimate and DLC
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At Comic-Con yesterday, IGN spoke with Nintendo’s Bill Trinen about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The two sides spoke about a number of topics, including the possibility of a demo down the road and DLC.
When asked if we could see a demo similar to the likes of ARMS Global Testpunch or Mario Tennis Aces, Trinen stated:
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux director on the remake, relation to main series, more
Posted on 6 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in 3DS, News | 0 comments
The folks over at Retronauts recently had the chance to interview Eiji Ishida, the director of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux, the 3DS remake of SMT: Strange Journey. You can check out the full interview on their website; below are a couple of interesting excerpts:
Disgaea 1 Complete – Flonne trailer
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NIS has posted the latest trailer for Disgaea 1 Complete; this one focuses on Flonne:
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Super Smash Blog update: Bewear
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The final Super Smash Blog update for this week is a new Pokeball Pokemon from Pokemon Sun & Moon, Bewear:
Bewear’s more ferocious than it looks, with slow movement speed offset by very powerful attacks.
