It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Animal Crossing remains at #2.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between January 23 and January 29.
Bandai Namco has issued the latest Japanese commercial for My Hero One’s Justice 2. Take a look at the new advert below.
A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include the Crash Bandicoot games and Spyro Reignited Trilogy, plus Dead Cells, the Trine titles, and more.
Here are the full highlights:
Nintendo will again be carrying out maintenance this coming week. Three different sessions are currently planned, and they all involve Switch.
Here’s the schedule as things stand now:
It’s been awhile since we last saw The Wonderful 101. After the game launched on Wii U in 2013 and perhaps didn’t reach as many people as it could have, fans were hoping that a port would end up on Switch. That’s finally happening, as PlatinumGames recently announced a Kickstarter campaign to revisit The Wonderful 101 and release it on new platforms, including Switch. It took less than thirty minutes for the funding goal to be reached.
Prior to the announcement, Nintendo Everything spoke with director Hideki Kamiya and studio head Atsushi Inaba. One of the first questions we asked is what made PlatinumGames want to revisit The Wonderful 101.
In response, Kamiya told us:
Several Japanese outlets published hands-on previews with Pokemon Home today, including Inside Games, Game Watch, and 4Gamer. With that, the latest information about the Switch and mobile app has been shared.
Here’s a new round of tidbits:
Hello, my wonderful superheroes! This week on NEP, we’ve got exclusives on The Wonderful 101: Remastered coming to Switch, PS4 and Steam via Kickstarter. Oni Dino talks about his meetings with Platinum last year, leak culture and butts in Platinum Games (of course). Galen is still holding out for Wonder Red in Smash Bros. Galen also tells more about Dragon’s Crown Pro experiences, and Oni Dino highlights some of the more bespoke writing in Tokyo Mirage Sessions. And the topic of games-as-a-service rears its head in our listener segment.
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During the Dragon Ball FighterZ World Finals, new information about the fighting game was announced.
Season 3 and FighterZ Pass 3 are officially happening with even more DLC characters. Five additions are planned, starting with Kefla at the end of February. Goku (Ultra Instinct), who was previously announced, will follow this summer.
Those who purchase FighterZ Pass 3 will get two days of early access to each character. That means with Kefla, you’ll be able to start playing on February 26 instead of February 28.
Here’s a trailer for FighterZ Pass 3:
Update (2/9): Pre-orders are up on Amazon UK here and Amazon Germany here.
Update (2/4): Amazon US has opened pre-orders here.
Update (2/3): This is now up on Amazon Canada.
Update (1/31): The Nintendo UK store has opened pre-orders here.
Original (1/30): Every now and then Nintendo comes out with a special edition Switch. To celebrate Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a special hardware design will be available. You can read more about it in our original post here.
Retailers have started opening pre-orders for the new release. Right now you can get a reservation in at either Best Buy or GameStop.
In other news, we have the packaging image for the box above.