The Pokemon Company has released a trailer for Detective Pikachu giving us a first opportunity to hear how the English voice cast is shaping up. Check out the video below.

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Japanese Detective Pikachu boxart, amiibo packaging

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The official website for Detective Pikachu houses the official boxart for the new physical release in Japan as well as the upcoming amiibo. We have both images attached to this post.

Detective Pikachu launches in North America and Europe with the new amiibo on March 23. Japan’s physical release with the figure is also happening on the same day.

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Detective Pikachu confirmed for the west, amiibo revealed

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Update: Detective Pikachu also launches March 23 in the west. The “special limited-edition” Detective Pikachu amiibo is larger than the standard figures we’ve seen in the past and can unlock short videos that may contain helpful hints.

Original: Detective Pikachu is finally coming west, The Pokemon Company has revealed. A new amiibo will also be released.

Today’s news ties in with Japan, as Detective Pikachu is heading to retail in the country. A physical package will be sold with the amiibo on March 23.

Here’s a trailer promoting the release:

As for the west, Detective Pikachu has now popped up on The Pokemon Company’s press site along with an image of the amiibo above and character art from the game. We’re now waiting on more specifics, so stay tuned.

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PriPara: All Idol Perfect Stage boxart

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Over on Amazon Japan, the boxart for the recently-announced Switch game PriPara: All Idol Perfect Stage has been posted. We have it above.

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December 2017 NPD: Switch sells the most overall hardware units

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This month’s NPD report hasn’t been published just yet, but we do have some early information. Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg actually shared a very noteworthy tidbit on Twitter.

Greenberg indicated that Switch came out on top last month. According to the data he has access to, Nintendo’s console sold the most overall hardware units in December.

Greenberg posted on his Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/951634151790096384

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Splatoon 2: Patch 2.2.0 releasing next week, includes several balance changes

Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in News, Switch | 8 Comments

Nintendo has announced that patch 2.2.0 for Splatoon 2 will be released next week, on January 17th at 10 AM JST. This will be a fairly major balance update with changes to a lot of weapons. Fans have kindly translated the patch notes, which we’ve put below. We will inform you once Nintendo publishes the official English patch notes.

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Splatoon 2: Dapple Dualies Nouveau being added to the game today/tomorrow

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It’s the end of the week, which means another new weapon is coming to Splatoon 2. The Dapple Dualies Nouveau are identical to the regular Dapple Dualies in terms of stats, but come with the Toxic Mist sub-weapon and the Ink Storm special instead. They’ll be available tomorrow around noon in Japan and Australia, early in the morning in Europe and later tonight in North America.

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