A Double Special Heroes summoning event has gone live in Fire Emblem Heroes, giving many special variants of heroes a higher chance of being summoned. Two five-star Special Heroes of each color are available during this summoning focus and their appearance rate is 6% instead of the usual 3%.
Also, all regular (non-special) heroes have a 0% chance of showing up, so make sure to check the post picture for those special heroes included in this focus. The first summon in this focus will cost no orbs.
It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 returns to the top spot for Nintendo titles. Atelier Ryza 2 and Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster also appear for the first time.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between July 30 and August 5.
Ninjala is getting a collaboration with Sonic the Hedgehog, GungHo has revealed. This was first outed as part of a datamine for the game back in April. Details of the collaboration haven’t been shared just yet, but the datamine indicated that we’ll be seeing cosmetic items involving Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles at the very least. The collaboration will be featured in Ninjala Season 2.
GungHo shared other information about Ninjala today as well. The next anime episode is planned for early September and will star Jane, a hacker for the WNA’s Info-Communications Division.
A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include A Hat in Time, Devil May Cry, Golf Story, Horizon Chase Turbo, NBA 2K20, Runner3, and more.
Here are the full highlights:
Publisher Leoful and developer Busy Toaster Games have set a final release date for Georifters. The action-platformer is now confirmed to launch digitally on September 18, and it’ll cost $29.99 on the eShop.
Georifters will initially be sold physically in Hong Kong and Taiwan on September 18, followed by Southeast Asia on October 2. Copies will include the cartridge and exclusive Pro Gamer Candy skin parts. The import price is set at $39.99.
Here’s an overview of Georifters:
Nintendo has updated its upcoming maintenance schedule. There are still three sessions that were previously announced, but there’s now another period planned specifically for the Switch eShop.
Here’s the current schedule:
A poll was recently held to determine the next couple of Pokemon GO Community Days. Charmander, Caterpie, Grimer, and Porygon were all nominated.
Porygon was the top choice with 55.3 percent of the vote. Next up was Charmander, who earned 36.6 percent. They’ll be featured in the next Pokemon GO Community Days for September and October respectively.
Look for the next Pokemon GO Community Day on September 20. Following that will be on October 17.
Nintendo brought back another one of Splatoon 2’s Splatfests this weekend. Team Chicken won back in 2018, but Team Egg now had another opportunity to take home the win.
The encore Splatfest has drawn to a close and the results are in. Here’s a look at how things panned out:
Before a movie goes into full production, it can be accompanied by a previsualization video. Concept shots and footage are created before any real work is done. For animated films, it can give animators and directors a better idea as to how certain scenes will actually turn out.
Artist Ellery Ortiz has now uploaded a video showing off previsualization work for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. She said of her work on Vimeo:
