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Fire Emblem Heroes

A couple of updates regarding Fire Emblem Heroes: first up, the Raven & Lucius Bound Hero Battle is back until July 22nd. Beat the various difficulty levels to get orbs and clear the corresponding quests requiring you to use Alfone and Fjorm to get even more orbs.

A new map has been added to Tactics Drills under the Skill Studies section: Spd Ploy and the Forecast.

Finally, a very small update was released today that fixes the description of the Summer’s Breath skill used by Tiki: Beachside Scion.

Fortnite is currently down for maintenance to implement the new Season 5 update. Alongside a host of other changes, this version will add a crucial feature to the Nintendo Switch version of the game: the option to use gyro controls. 

You can find the full patch notes below.

Quite a bit is happening in Splatoon 2 tomorrow. The Pearl and Marina amiibo are finally being released and the game will also be updated to version 3.2.0. We don’t have the full English patch notes yet, but as always this update contains quite a few multiplayer balance changes. There are also several bug fixes and adjustments for the Octo Expansion.

Nintendo also revealed some new content coming to the game in a future update. First up is a new stage, Ancho-V Games:

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According to the Funko Reddit, a user stumbled across a Pikachu Pop figure at a Target in Ohio. It appears that it was not supposed to leave the warehouse or be sold to the public, meaning that an official announcement about Funko obtaining the Pokémon license should come soon. For now, it’s as good as confirmed. Unfortunately, the original post has been removed, but several reposts can be seen on the website.

It was also stated that the Pikachu Pop is a Target exclusive–whether or not this will be the same for all Funko Pokémon figures remains to be seen. A 10 inch version of the figures may also be in the works. Have a look at the leaked figure below:

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Pool Panic

Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Switch games. These include Go Vacation, Pool Panic, Cosmic Star Heroine, Sausage Sports Club, and more.

Here’s the full roundup:

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Hollow Knight

A new patch is being pushed out for Switch players, mostly for bug fixes. In addition to the patch notes, it has been confirmed that controller rebinding will be added to the Switch version via the Gods & Glory Content Pack. The fixes are as follows:

Marvelous just updated the official Japanese website for Little Dragons Café with some additional information about characters Dr. Zeff and Citta, as well as monsters of different colors. The details are as follows:

Tom Create just announced a new title for Switch, called Starship Avenger: Operation Take Back Earth. It will be a shoot ’em up style game, expected to launch on July 19th on the eShop. An overview of the game is as follows, from its Steam page:

Octopath Traveler

With just a couple of days until launch, Square Enix sent out another batch of Octopath Traveler details and screenshots. The latest update covers battle jobs, secret jobs, and party chat. Everything has been rounded up below, courtesy of Gematsu.

Best Buy has opened pre-orders for two new Smash Bros. Ultimate amiibo. Ridley is here, and Inkling is here. Wolf is not live as of this moment, but we’ll let you know when that changes.


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