As always, there’s something going on in Fire Emblem Heroes. Here are today’s highlights:
- A new arena season has begun! Go face off against the teams of other players in challenging battles!
- In this Double Special Heroes summoning event, two Special Heroes of each color are available as part of a 5★ summoning focus and have an initial appearance rate of 6%! (The rate for regular 5★ Heroes will be 0%.) Your first summon in this event won’t cost any Orbs!
- he fifth category in the #FEHeroes: Voting Jubilee event is…The Hero You Wish Were Your Sibling! A great many Heroes share the bonds of brotherhood or sisterhood. If you could welcome anyone as a sibling, who would it be? Vote now right here.
- Protect the Kingdom of Askr from Thórr’s advancing army in Mjölnir’s Strike! This time, the enemy army will be led by Lyon. It’s time for the Brace phase! Build structures and place allies on the map! For further details, please see the in-game notification.
- 30th Anniversary Grand Hero Battle Revivals are now live! There will be a series of battles every two days. Today, Kempf: Conniving General is back, along with some limited-time quests! Active: Apr. 14, 12:00 AM PT – Apr. 15, 11:59 PM PT.
New events are available for players of Pokemon Masters. See the list below:
- Clemont & Heliolisk charge into the Spotlight Scout today, and will be available until April 28th.
- A new difficulty level is now available for the Main Story (Hard Mode.)
- A new type of Event is now live: the Flying-Types Incoming! Solo Event. This will be available until April 28th.
- While the Flying-Types Incoming! Solo Event is running, a set of Special Missions is available for you to tackle.
- A new set of Daily Log-in Bonuses is now live: Main Story Support Rally. It allows you to get various goodies, including Gems, Level-Up Manuals, and more until April 30th.
- While the Main Story Support Rally is ongoing, a set of Special Bingo Missions is available for you to tackle.
Nippon Columbia has announced a new veterinarian-styled game “Wan Nyan Doubutsu Byouin: Pet o Tasukeru Daiji-na Oshigoto”, or ‘Woof Meow Animal Hospital: An Important Job to Help Pets’ in English. The game will launch in Japan on July 2nd for 4,800 yen. Here’s an overview of the title thanks to Gematsu, collected from Nippon Columbia. We’ve also added screenshots below:
Switch received its new 10.0.0 update earlier today, which you can read more about here. GameXplain has posted a video showing off some of the new features. Give it a look below.
A massive Switch firmware update is now available. Nintendo is now distributing version 10.0.0, which includes some major features.
Among the new functionality includes bookmarks for news items, the ability to transfer software data between the internal memory and SD card, an option to remap the controller buttons and a new section in User Settings for Play Activity Settings. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has also received some new icons. And there’s some stability improvements as well, since that’s tradition at this point.
Below are the official patch notes for version 10.0.0:
Everook is bringing its brain-splitting action-puzzler Damaged In Transit to Switch, the studio announced today. It will launch digitally via the eShop on April 23.
Here’s an overview of Damaged In Transit:
Rick May, the original voice of Peppy Hare and Andross, has passed away. May had moved into a nursing home for rehabilitation after recovering from a stroke, but unfortunately caught the coronavirus while there.
Aside from voicing those two Nintendo characters in Star Fox 64, May played the role of The Soldier in Team Fortress II as well as the narrator and voice of Genghis Khan in Age of Empires II. He was more than just a voice actor having appeared in major motion pictures, TV shows and commercial. We’d also be remiss if we failed to mention that May was a teacher at Rekindle School.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to May’s family as well as all other affected by the coronavirus.
Limited Run Games is giving a pair of Star Wars games on Switch the physical treatment. Boxed versions are in the works for both Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, the company has announced.
Both games will have standard copies as well as collector’s editions. Fans can also choose to purchase Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy as a dual-pack with slipcover.
Pre-orders go live on April 24 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET, and then again at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET. Standard copies can be reserved over a four-week period, though the collector’s editions will go very quickly.
Rumor: Pokemon Yellow source code leak references scrapped Pokemon Pink, audio files for anime cries
If the latest reports are to be believed, there may have been plans at one point to create a companion game for Pokemon Yellow. Source code for the series’ original games have appeared online, and in the header of Pokemon Yellow, there’s a reference to “Pocket Monsters Pink and Yellow”. The code also has other references to a potential Pink version as well.
The thought here is that Pokemon Pink, had it actually released, could have starred Clefairy or Jigglypuff. Of course, that’s just speculation.
