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Koei Tecmo is working on Fire Emblem: Three Houses, but it sounds like the game was mostly done by Intelligent Systems. Nintendo director Genki Yokota told VG247 that Intelligent Systems was primarily responsible for the main plot, the game system, ideas, and gameplay mechanics. Meanwhile, Koei Tecmo assisted on the programming side of things.

Intelligent Systems director Toshiyuki Kusakihara said that Three Houses “wouldn’t have been possible” without Koei Tecmo’s help. Yokota was more optimistic, but said that not having Koei Tecmo would have required much more development time.

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Limited Run Games has opened pre-orders for the physical version of Transistor. In addition to a standard copy, a collector’s edition is up for grabs.

The collector’s edition includes:

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Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa commented on the Switch Online service at the company’s 79th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. An investor asked about how it will be enhanced given how a subscription is “inexpensive”, but “the content of the service still feels rather weak.”

Furukawa highlighted that Nintendo Switch Online has surpassed 10 million accounts, and the number of subscribers “has increased steadily since the service was launched last September”. He would later say that Nintendo understands “that making the Nintendo Switch Online service attractive to users is extremely important, and will continue to make the content of the service even more appealing going forward.”

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Nintendo today announced its lineup for Hyper Japan Festival 2019. A number of Switch games will be making their playable debuts in the UK, including Zelda: Link’s Awakening.

Here’s the full lineup:

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Rounding out today’s news about Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town is an update for PAL regions. Marvelous will publish the game directly in Europe and Australia, the company has announced.

Here’s an overview of Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town:

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Nintendo has shared the latest piece of Splatoon 2 art in celebration of the final Splatfest. This time around, Crusty Sean & Bisk get the focus.

Nintendo says the following about the two characters representing Team Order:

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Konami today announced its lineup for Gamescom 2019. As far as Nintendo titles go, Conta Rogue Corps and Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution will be present. eFootball PES 2020, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game rounds out the lineup.

Gamescom 2019 runs between August 20 and August 24.

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses was shown off today at Japan Expo 2019 in Paris. Toshiyuki Kusakihara from Intelligent Systems and Genki Yokota from Nintendo were present and revealed a few new tidbits about the game (credit goes to Perfectly Nintendo for translating and transcribing):

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Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle is out today. To celebrate the occasion, Koei Tecmo put together a launch trailer for the game:

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Today’s Fire Emblem: Three Houses character introduction is about Shamir, one of the instructors at the academy. A master archer, she used to be a mercenary, but joined the Knights of Seiros as personal favor to Rhea, who had shown her a kindness in the past. She’s loyal only to her and isn’t really a believer in the Church of Seiros.

Here’s a brief clip of Shamir talking to Byleth:

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