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This week’s Famitsu scans are now available. Highlights include Nelk and the Legendary Alchemists: Atelier of a New Land, Dragalia Lost, and Layton’s Mystery Journey DX. Scans of all games are below.

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The second day of Nintendo’s E3 coverage will be kicking off in an hour from now. Expect the live stream below to start at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 5 PM in the UK / 6 PM in Europe.

Nintendo doesn’t have any presentations or tournaments today. However, Treehouse Live will be back for many hours of streaming coverage. We’ll be breaking up the different segments on the site as they wrap up, and will share any notable news if there is any.

Sushi Striker

The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

Switch – 40,834
PS4 – 20,174
PS4 Pro – 6,497
Vita – 3,955
New 2DS LL – 3,640
New 3DS LL – 2,736
2DS – 466
Xbox One X – 70
Xbox One – 56

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

Switch – 40,587
PS4 – 13,025
PS4 Pro – 5,146
New 2DS LL – 3,828
New 3DS LL – 2,653
Vita – 2,393
2DS – 337
Xbox One – 73
Xbox One X – 62

And here are the software charts:

Nintendo has announced the next Splatoon 2 update for July. Two new weapons are on the way, which are literally known as Kugel Shriver and Explosher in Japanese.

Here’s a look:

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Game Informer conducted a new interview with Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu / Eevee director Junichi Masuda at E3 yesterday. Below are a few excerpts:

Blade Strangers

Blade Strangers is launching sometime this summer in the west. As for Japan, a release date of August 30 was announced today.

Here’s a new trailer:

Blade Strangers will cost 4,000 yen physically and 3,700 yen digitally.

Mario Tennis Aces

This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:

Mario Tennis Aces (NSW) – 8/8/9/8
PixelJunk Monsters 2 (NSW/PS4) – 7/8/7/8
New Gundam Breaker (PS4) – 7/7/7/8
The Coma: Recut (NSW) – 7/7/7/7
Gekido Kintaro’s Revenge (NSW) – 6/6/7/6


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