It seems like PlatinumGames is pleased with the response to Astral Chain – the developer shared the special artwork shown above on Twitter, which was drawn by Hajime Kimura, thanking players for making Astral Chain “such a success”. We don’t have any concrete sales numbers yet, but judging by its first-week performance on various sales charts in different countries as well as the eShop, it’s definitely been doing well.
Update: The Arena connectivity issue has been resolved and five orbs have been sent to all players as compensation.
The previously announced A Splendid Soiree Summoning Focus is now live in Fire Emblem Heroes. Until October 7, you have a chance to summon Nephenee, Reinhardt, Ishtar and Berkut in their special dancing outfits. Additionally, a paralogue story featuring these Heroes is now also available, as well as some time-limited quests which will reward you with some extra orbs.
Pre-registration for the next Grand Conquest event has now started. The event will begin on September 8 and will feature a three-way battle between Laegjarn, Laevatein and Helbindi.
The special orb promo for September is now available. You can purchase 21 orbs and receive 50 Heroic Grails as an additional gift.
Finally, there are currently some issues with the Arena and Arena Assault modes as players can’t connect to and play these modes. Intelligent Systems has acknowledged the issue and is working on resolving it. We will keep you updated.
If you’ve been playing pretty much any kind of mobile game on an Android device lately, you will likely have received several warnings about updating to Android 10 as compatibility of games with this new OS update could not be guaranteed. Pokemon Masters at least seems to have resolved this issue – a new update for the game is now available, which fixes any compatibility issues with Android 10.
During the Japanese version of this week’s Nintendo Direct, Square Enix revealed that the first three Dragon Quest games are coming to Switch this month. While there hasn’t been any news for the west, it looks like there will be an English option available.
Square Enix Asia has indicated that those same three Dragon Quest games will be distributed in Asia “as one packaged bundle.” English, Traditional Chinese, and Korean language options will be supported.
Square Enix Asia mentions that the release will be taking place sometime in 2019.
The non-violent, no death platformer Himno arrives today on the Switch eShop. Get a look at some footage below.
Marvelous has gone live with a pair of Japanese commercials for Daemon X Machina. Take a look at both adverts below.
For the past year, Nintendo has added NES games to Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online service each month. Now that SNES titles have entered the picture, Nintendo is changing things up.
Of course, more releases for SNES are planned going forward. There will also be more games from the NES platform. However, Nintendo says that “those releases will not adhere to a regular schedule”. In other words, there are no longer plans to specifically launch new games each month.
With NBA 2K20 launching today, 2K Sports and Visual Concepts have shared a launch trailer for the game — titled “Momentous”.
Those interested can view the footage below.
Following a previous rating in Taiwan, Ninja JaJaMaru Collection has been officially confirmed for Switch. The package will launch in Japan on December 12.
Ninja JaJaMaru Collection includes five classic titles from the series along with an entirely new one. The lineup is as follows:
The NES – Nintendo Switch Online app has received an update. Version 4.0.0 is now accessible for all users.
Like the new SNES version, you can now sort NES games by preferred order, title, release date, last time played, and total play time. You can also hide the bar on the bottom that displays controls in game.
If we hear about any other changes/additions, we’ll be sure to let you know.
