Hello, my major and minor league gym leaders! This week on NEP, we’re going over all the new Pokemon details—including the controversies… We also break down the AlphaDream bankruptcy story, and Oni Dino has dug through some Japanese language reports and is bringing that straight to your ears. We also muse on our ideas for Nintendo skins for Overwatch characters, thanks to some lovely listener mail.
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At least as things stand now, Nintendo has a light week of maintenance planned. Only one session is currently on tap for Switch.
Here’s the full schedule:
Summoning Focus: Weekly Revival 18 is now live in Fire Emblem Heroes. 5-star Heroes who appeared before the start of Book II appear as focus Heroes, and the focus lineup changes each week.
Three Heroes quests are also available. Players have the chance to add the 3-star Jakob: Devoted Servant, Seth: Silver Knight, and Mathilda: Legendary Knight to their army by clearing these events.
As we’ve seen in the past, patents don’t always become actual products. That’s particularly evident with three Joy-Con filings uncovered by LetsGoDigital, which were applied for back in 2016.
These patents show off some unique designs for the Switch controllers. One features a wider set of Joy-Con whereas the other two have some interesting placements for buttons, including d-pads.
Here are a few mockups made by LetsGoDigital:
Several gameplay videos have come in showing off the new version of Yo-kai Watch 1 on Switch. We’ve rounded up the full set below.
Spirit Hunter: NG, the second entry in Experience’s horror series, is coming west on October 10. Have a look at some early footage as shown on an Aksys Games live stream below.
Publisher Coatsink and Sigtrap have announced that Sublevel Zero Redux, a roguelite six-degree-of-freedom shooter, is coming soon to Switch. A digital release is planned for the eShop on October 17.
We have the following overview and trailer for Sublevel Zero Redux:
Back in August, the first-person horror game Midnight Evil was announced for Switch. An eShop listing now shows that it will arrive on October 10.
Here’s an overview from the eShop listing, along with a trailer:
Publisher Klabater and developer Arclight Creations have shared a trailer for Help Will Come Tomorrow, the new story-driven resource management and survival game that was announced for Switch last week. Watch it below.
Help Will Come Tomorrow is targeted for a Q1 2020 release.
