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The last big event in Splatoon 2 is finally live. Nintendo is holding the game’s final Splatfest starting now, which puts Team Chaos up against Team Order.

This will be the longest Splatfest, lasting until July 21. We’ll post the results on the site as soon as Nintendo reveals how things panned out.

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Former SEGA designer Ted Sterchi recently took his project Orange Island to Kickstarter in hopes of getting the action-adventure RPG funded. The £15,000 goal was quickly reached, and has even surpassed £50,000. Thanks to the Kickstarter success, the game will be made for Switch.

Here’s some additional information about Orange Island plus a trailer:

The party game JumpHead: Battle4Fun! is coming to Switch, and it’s due out very soon. Light Maze and JumpHead Team have announced that their title will be available via the eShop starting July 19.

Here’s an overview of the game, along with a trailer:

The latest issue of Famitsu has revealed the top 100 best-selling games in Japan during the first half of 2019. On the Nintendo-side of things, it’s actually a 2018 title at the top – Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Below are the full results:

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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:

01./01. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 # (Nintendo) {2019.06.28} (¥5.980) – 54.720 / 334.077 (-34%)
02./00. [NSW] God Eater 3
(Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.11} (¥6.800) – 20.960 / NEW
03./03. [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4: We Are Looking Up at the Same Sky (Level 5) {2019.06.20} (¥5.980) – 12.287 / 222.791 (-37%)
04./05. [NSW] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball (Konami) {2019.06.27} (¥6.980) – 11.374 / 105.598 (-39%)
05./07. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate # (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} (¥7.200) – 9.136 / 3.158.604 (+2%)
06./08. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} (¥5.980) – 7.687 / 2.364.659 (-6%)
07./09. [NSW] Minecraft # (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} (¥3.600) – 7.141 / 845.060 (-1%)
08./04. [NSW] Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle (Koei Tecmo) {2019.07.04} (¥7.800) – 6.759 / 25.886 (-65%)
09./11. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! # (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} (¥5.980) – 5.715 / 1.577.403 (+0%)
10./06. [PS4] Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle (Koei Tecmo) {2019.07.04} (¥7.800) – 5.421 / 20.238 (-63%)

A new set of Coliseum quests has gone live in Fire Emblem Heroes. These require you to play the three Coliseum modes (Allegiance Battles, Arena Duels and Arena Assault) in order to earn rewards such as orbs and feathers. These quests come in three difficulties (Normal, Hard and Lunatic) and you need to clear all quests on one difficulty in order to access the next set on the higher difficulty.

Also, since it’s Thursday, a new map has been added to Tactics Drills. “The Path to Victory” can be found in the Grandmaster section; clearing it gets you 300 feathers.

Marvelous has released a new trailer for their upcoming Switch exclusive Daemon X Machina. The (Japanese) video provides an overview of the story, gameplay, customization, multiplayer and more:

Daemon X Machina will launch on September 13.

Another Dragon Special Summon Showcase is coming to Dragalia Lost starting in the early morning of July 20th.

This special set will last until July 26th. The full details can be viewed below.

Pokemon Crystal

This week’s 3DS eShop charts are as follows:

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PlatinumGames is continuing its blog series on Astral Chain with a new contribution from Koji Ishida. In his piece, the modeling artist explains how the team went about creating the game’s character models and how they should look. We also get a look at character customization, which you can see above.

Here’s the full blog:


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