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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.

Pokemon GO

Pokemon GO still has many new Pokemon to add. During a live stream last night, Chrales showed off a number of upcoming creatures uncovered by digging through the game’s code.

Here’s a look at the full set with regular and shiny forms:

Fire Emblem Heroes

For the next month, the 6th Tap Battle: Illusory Dungeon event for Fire Emblem Heroes (“Summer of Heroes”) will be available. There will be sets of Daily Special Quests with unique rewards, and two types of Tap Battle quests to take on starting July 14th. Additionally, stages will be added regularly as the event goes on.

 

The second half of the Bloomin’ Booty with Kapp’n event is now live, with new plants, rare creatures, tasks, and furniture. Be warned, as the exclusive content will only be available until July 16th, when the event ends. 

With the “A Sketchy Summer” event going live in Fire Emblem Heroes today, new Paralogue Maps were also added in. Take a look at some footage below:

Pokemon Duel is set to receive a minor balance patch tomorrow. A couple of figures and their abilities are being changed a bit:

Shaymin Sky Forme:

  • Dodge wheel size increased
  • Seed Flare, Quick Attack and Dazzling Gleam wheel size decreased

Lurantis

  • Green Power ability’s effect increased from +2 to +5 for each Grass-type Pokemon on the field

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As we announced previously, the next Summoning Focus for Fire Emblem Heroes, A Sketchy Summer, will be live for the next month. Summer themed Heroes, new story maps, and more will be available as part of this event. 

Fire Emblem Heroes

Nintendo has experimented with a couple of monetization models for its mobile games thus far. With Super Mario Run, you only need to pay once to unlock everything. Fire Emblem Heroes goes for a free-to-play approach instead.

Former Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima discussed how Nintendo goes about choosing the way in which it charges for mobile titles during its 78th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. He also reiterated the goal of spreading awareness of the company’s IPs and bringing consumers back to Nintendo hardware.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp continues to get a steady stream of additional content, which occurs fairly regularly. A couple of the new additions are as follows:

Fire Emblem Heroes

As noted a short while ago, Fire Emblem Heroes has been updated to version 2.7.0. Nintendo and Intelligent Systems have since posted an in-depth summary of what’s new.

Here’s the full rundown:


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