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Update: Now live on iOS as well. Official page here.


Original: Fire Emblem Heroes is now starting to launch in North America. For those on Android, you should be able to install it. The official Google Play page is here.

If you click on the app, it may still says pre-register. However, if you try to install it from the menu, you should be good to go (thanks Devin).

Unfortunately, Fire Emblem Heroes still doesn’t seem to be up for iOS users in North America. We expect that will be changing very soon though.

In related news, Fire Emblem Heroes features Google Play Achievements. You can find the full listing below.

GameXplain sent some questions over to Intelligent Systems’ Kouhei Maeda as part of an interview about Fire Emblem Heroes. Maeda commented on the hurdles of making a Fire Emblem for mobile, if balancing is affected by microstransacations, future support, and more. Check out the full interview below.

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Mobile

Fire Emblem Heroes – free-to-play (available later today)

Wii U Download

I C REDD – $1.49
Lucentek Beyond – $3.99
Star Splash: Shattered Star – $3.49

Wii U Virtual Console

Bomberman ’94 – $6.99
Gradius – $6.99

Fire Emblem Heroes

Fire Emblem Heroes has started to launch in major regions like Europe and Japan. Players are now beginning to take plenty of footage of their experiences, so we’ve included some of these videos below.

Fire Emblem Heroes is out today, and to celebrate the game’s launch, several of the artists who designed characters for the game have shared some special artwork.

Above you can see Yusuke Kozaki’s drawing of Sharena, one of the characters he designed. He’s also responsible for the other original characters of Heroes (Alfonse, Veronica and the Mysterious Man) as well as Heroes’ version of series staple Anna. Kozaki was also the main character designer for Fire Emblem Awakening and Fire Emblem Fates.

Below is Kotaro Yamada’s special artwork of Lyn and Narcian, the characters he’s responsible for in Heroes. Previously, he drew the spin-off manga of Fire Emblem 6, Hasha no Tsurugi.

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Update: The game is also available in Europe.


Fire Emblem Heroes is now available in the iOS and Google Play stores in Japan. Other territories are sure to follow over the course of the day, so stay tuned!

Fire Emblem Heroes is releasing soon, and the My Nintendo page has updated with some rewards for playing. The rewards are very basic: you will earn 100 Platinum Coins for linking the game to a My Nintendo account, and then will earn another 100 Platinum Coins for completing chapters. The website lists a prologue and nine chapters, meaning that you can earn 1100 Platinum Coins total.

There are also several rewards that you can claim for the game itself. They all purchasable with Platinum Points, with prices as follows:

  • 10 Orbs – Free with My Nintendo account
  • 500 Universal Crystals – 100 Platinum Coins
  • Stamina Potion – 100 Platinum Coins
  • Light’s Blessing – 100 Platinum Coins
  • Dueling Crest – 100 Platinum Coins
  • 500 Universal Shards – 100 Platinum Coins
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    Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima delivered an update on the company’s mobile plans during a financial results today.

    According to Kimishima, 2-3 titles will be produced each year. He also said that DeNA’s efforts allows for these games to be possible. However, Kimishima wouldn’t deny the possibility of asking support from other companies in the future.

    When Nintendo announced its partnership with DeNA back in 2015, the big N bought a 10 percent stake in DeNA. DeNA meanwhile purchased 1.24 percent of Nintendo. The two sides have been working together exclusively on Nintendo’s mobile efforts since then.

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    The Fire Emblem Heroes “Choose your Legends” vote has come to a close. When the poll was open, Nintendo says that 1.2 million votes were recorded. We should be finding out about how things went shortly.

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    Super Mario Run has added in the Gold Goomba Event and Easy Mode this week. Footage of both shared by GameXplain can be found below.


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