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Activision officially announced Skylanders Imaginators earlier today. We now have the boxart (above) and the first trailer (below).

Pre-orders for Skylanders Imaginators are now open as well. You can reserve it at Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop. With the former two, you can save 20 percent via Amazon Prime or GCU respectively.

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There’s been some talk as of late about the decline of the toys-to-life business. For the most part, amiibo is still doing quite well, and LEGO Dimensions entered the scene last year. But Disney Interactive recently closed entirely – marking the end of Disney Infinity – and Skylanders hasn’t been performing quite as well as it used to.

Despite this, Activision still appears to be very much on board with toys-to-life. The company announced Skylanders Imaginators today, reaffirming its commitment to the market.

Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg also told TIME that the publisher believes in the potential of toys-to-life. In his remarks, he mentioned that “Skylanders is now the 11th most successful game franchise of all time after just five years.”

When asked about the situation of Disney and concerns about the toys-to-life category, Hirshberg said:

I certainly can’t comment on Disney’s business, so that’s a good question to ask them, and they’ve obviously got good reasons for making the decision they did. What I will say is, we’ve said publicly that some of our more recent games haven’t met our expectations, and yet we’re still here making games, so we obviously still believe in the potential. We created the category, and Skylanders is now the 11th most successful game franchise of all time after just five years.

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Just like in North America and Japan, Europe will also be getting Minecraft: Wii U Edition at retail. Nintendo shared a date of June 30 on its Twitter page.

The message reads:

Minecraft: Wii U Edition is coming to retail in North America on June 17. The Japanese version is set for June 23.

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My Nintendo added a trio of Miitomo rewards in all regions earlier today. And in Europe, a couple of extra prizes were added.

If you have a European My Nintendo account, you can spend Gold Points on Xenoblade Chronicles X and Xenoblade Chronicles 3D. The two discounts require 140 and 110 points respectively.

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

PS4 – 24,813
Vita – 14,956
New 3DS LL – 12,394
Wii U – 4,340
New 3DS – 2,495
PS3 – 1,017
3DS – 696
3DS LL – 78
Xbox One – 61

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

PS4 – 18,430
New 3DS LL – 12,051
Vita – 10,954
Wii U – 4,109
New 3DS – 2,552
PS3 – 1,001
3DS – 700
3DS LL – 103
Xbox One – 72

And here are the software charts:

1. [PS4] Dragon Quest Heroes II – 184,820 / NEW
2. [PSV] Dragon Quest Heroes II – 120,664 / NEW
3. [PS3] Dragon Quest Heroes II – 68,376 / NEW
4. [PS4] Overwatch – 58,363 / NEW
5. [PS4] Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator – 17,829 / NEW
6. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot – 17,313 / 285,647
7. [PS4] Uncharted 4 – 10,040 / 159,919
8. [PS3] Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator – 9,385 / NEW
9. [3DS] Yo-kai Sangokushi – 7,493 / 525,985
10. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 6,335 / 780,431
11. [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 – 5,816 / 131,889
12. [PS4] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 – 5,685 / 146,132
13. [WIU] Splatoon – 5,225 / 1,372,492
14. [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 – 5,140 / 85,532
15. [PSV] Cladun Sengoku – 4,459 / NEW
16. [WIU] Super Mario Maker – 4,412 / 882,905
17. [PS4] Homefront: The Revolution – 3,781 / 13,204
18. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 – 3,420 / 599,789
19. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games – 2,903 / 163,951
20. [3DS] My Hero Academia: Battle for All – 2,810 / 8,417

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The latest trailer for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE puts the focus on the RPG’s story. You can see the new video below.

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Following recent leaks, Activision has made the next entry in the Skylanders series official. Skylanders Imaginators will launch on October 16 for Wii U and other platforms. Unlike past years, there’s no sign of Wii and 3DS versions.

Details that we heard about yesterday were spot on. Skylanders Imaginators will let players make their own Skylanders for the first time, there will be a new elementally-aligned toy type called the Creation Crystal, and Skylanders Senseis are being introduced.

You can find the first Skylanders Imaginators below. We’ve also included the official announcement with more details after the break.

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Lost Reavers has received a pretty big update. The game has been updated with a new level, weapons, events, costumes, and bug fixes. Today’s update is 1,340MB, so you may need to make some extra room for the extra content.

Thanks to Cameron and Dez for the tip.

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Splatoon’s Squid Sisters have already seen two concerts in Japan. Nintendo’s now expanding their reach, as a new performance is set to be held at the Japan Expo in France on July 8.

Nintendo tweeted out the news a short while ago:

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Miiverse will be undergoing some major maintenance next week, during which the service will be down. While Miiverse is down, game functions that use Miiverse will not be available either. Nintendo gives the specific examples of BLADE functions in Xenoblade X, uploading courses or showing comments in Super Mario Maker, and uploading screenshots, stages, and replays in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U. The estimated maintenance times are listed below:

North America (EST): June 6th, 10PM to June 7th, 6AM
North America (PST): June 6th, 7PM to June 7th, 3AM
Europe: June 7th, 4AM to 12PM
UK: June 7th, 3AM to 11AM
Japan: June 7th, 11AM to 7PM

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