Famitsu’s most wanted games – March 16, 2025 – Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition moving up
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It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart outlining what Japanese gamers are looking forward to based on reader votes. As Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition approaches launch, it continues to move up – and is now #2 for the first time.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between February 26 and March 4.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles 2 gets Tanjiro Kamado, Muichiro Tokito, and Mitsuri Kanroji character trailers
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The first wave of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles 2 characters trailers are now in, which highlight Tanjiro Kamado (Swordsmith Village Arc), Muichiro Tokito, and Mitsuri Kanroji. More videos should be released leading up to launch.
We have the character trailers for Tanjiro Kamado, Muichiro Tokito, and Mitsuri Kanroji in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles 2 below.
Nintendo pre-order updates – March 16, 2025
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Nintendo maintenance schedule – March 16, 2025
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Nintendo’s latest maintenance schedule for the week of March 16, 2025 is now available.
Note that there’s a bit of downtime planned for the Nintendo Switch Online service. Specifically, cloud saves will be impacted.
Below is the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of March 16, 2025:
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4 ways the next Animal Crossing could improve multiplayer
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One of the most highly-criticized features of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is its multiplayer system. Strangely enough, though, multiplayer was also one of the reasons the game became such a runaway success. It released during the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, which played a big part in why New Horizons sold almost 50 million units. Players were able to use Animal Crossing as something of a communication medium during this time – where people couldn’t meet up and hang out in real life, they still could in Animal Crossing to an extent. That being said, once players actually visited each others’ islands, they found that there wasn’t all that much to do. You could take others on a quick tour of your island, but that wouldn’t take much time After that, all that’s left is to walk around and look at things. Animal Crossing’s multiplayer has always been like this, to an extent, but its shallowness kind of hit a peak with New Horizons.
So today, we’re looking at multiplayer in the Animal Crossing series and how Nintendo could improve it for the next game in the series. There’s real potential for something great here, and we have some ideas on how to make it much better.
Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster 1.2.0 update out now, patch notes
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This week, Square Enix started distribution of a new version 1.2.0 update for Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster. All of the individual games have been patched (Final Fantasy 1 – 6).
A number of improvements have been made – alongside the standard bug fixes. Square Enix says it tweaked the UI, controls, specific gameplay elements, and more.
You can get the full rundown via the official patch notes below.
Kemco RPG Selection Vol. 10 Nintendo Switch physical release set for Japan and Asia [update: pre-orders]
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March 12: The Kemco RPG Selection series continues on, and Vol. 10 has now been announced for Japan and Asia. It will be available in both regions on June 26, 2025.
Four more RPGs will be bundled together on a single cartridge. The lineup includes Infinite Links, Devil Labyrinth, Fairy Elements, and Dragon Prana.
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Fairy Tail 2 1.4.1 update adds Fired Up difficulty, more – patch notes
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A new version 1.4.1 update dropped for Fairy Tail 2 this week, which includes a new Fired Up difficulty – among other things.
If players are looking for an extreme challenge, that’s where Fired Up comes in. It features even stronger enemies, but provides more ether exclusively. Also in this update is an increase for the Origin Rank’s upper limit, a new Origin Tree for the Magic Origins, and a “Reread Fairy Tail Diaries” feature.
Here’s the full overview:
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Comparing all three Splatoon games against each other – series comparison
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For the most part, the Splatoon series is iterative – each new game that releases is intended to replace the previous one. Even though Splatoon 3 is currently the most recent entry in the series, there are still reasons – albeit small ones – to go back to the original title on Wii U plus Splatoon 2 on Nintendo Switch, which still has semi-active servers in Turf War and the like. Most of these reasons boil down to the unique story modes available in both games, which have unique levels and lore that Splatoon 3’s story mode doesn’t. Also, even though Splatoon 3 is essentially meant to replace both Splatoon and Splatoon 2, there are still reasons to love these two games above all else. Today, we’re going through all three Splatoon games and the unique features they have over the others and asking you: what’s your favorite of the three?
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One way Xenoblade Chronicles X can connect to the numbered trilogy
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It’s no secret that Xenoblade Chronicles X is much, much different than the numbered games. It’s also no secret that when Monolith Soft was making Xenoblade Chronicles X in 2015, they didn’t plan for it to connect to future games in the series. But things have changed, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s Future Redeemed DLC has us thinking that the studio may or may not try to connect Xenoblade Chronicles X to the numbered trilogy. We’re no lore experts, but today, we’re going over some possible ways that it could be retconned to connect to Xenoblade 1, 2, and 3. We do have to cover spoilers from those games in order to properly speculate, so you might want to come back later if you’re trying to avoid plot details. There are also spoilers for Xenoblade Chronicles X itself here, so keep that in mind too.
