Sega has announced some good news concerning the total shipments and digital sales for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva MegaMix — they have surpassed 150,000 units in Japan and Asia. Additionally, Sega has said that total shipments and digital sales for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone and its DX version have surpassed 450,000 units worldwide. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva MegaMix originally launched for Switch on February 13 in Japan, and is due out in 2020 in the Americas and Europe.
Kemco is remaking the mobile game D.M.L.C.: Death Match Love Comedy, the company has announced. It will release on Switch and other platforms as Death Match Love Comedy! on June 25 in Japan.
Here’s an overview of Death Match Love Comedy!, along with a trailer:
The Pokemon Company Japan has just published a gameplay preview for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX.
While the video is exclusively in Japanese, the over five minutes of footage shows different Pokemon NPC’s you can interact with in the central town hub, such as Genghis Khan, Wigglytuff, and Makuhita. Additionally, a few beginning story sections are shown, but again they are in Japanese only.
You can check out the full video below.
Nintendo Japan has just uploaded three new commercials for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Each commercial is roughly 30 seconds and shows such things as character customization, two player co-op, and handheld gameplay on the Animal Crossing: New Horizons themed Switch.
Check out all three commercials below.
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto spoke about the public impression during the Wii era of Nintendo being for kids in the latest issue of Famitsu.
Miyamoto highlighted that people have come to expect the company’s reliability. This influenced their first mobile game, Super Mario Run, as Nintendo gave a lot of thought on how players would pay for the game. Miyamoto also stressed that rather than focusing on market trends, Nintendo puts the player first above all else.
Here’s our full translation of the excerpt:
Developer Monster Couch is creating a new patch for Thea: The Awakening on Switch, releasing March 12, 2020.
In this patch, the game is receiving cross-platform co-op between Switch and Steam users and it will save your achievements as well. However, Monster Couch makes sure to emphasize that players should finish their playthroughs before updating, as it will force them to restart the game.
Nintendo is back with another North American advert for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Find the “Your Personal Island Escape” commercial below.
This week’s issue of Famitsu contains a 12-page interview with Nintendo’s legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. During one portion of the conversation, Miyamoto commented on Switch’s success.
Miyamoto noted that Switch was successful because people like carrying around devices with them. It’s also different to smartphones, in that it’s a straightforward piece of hardware.
Here’s our translation of the full excerpt:
Just like the 2016 Doom game, Doom Eternal is receiving a lot of attention for its soundtrack. A new video from Bethesda, which we have below, offers a look at how composer Mick Gordon assembled heavy metal vocalists to help create the music.
