Summoning Focus: Weekly Revival 7 is now live in Fire Emblem Heroes. 5-star Heroes who appeared before the start of Book II are available, and they have an initial appearance rate of 4 percent.
It’s also been announced that Forging Bonds: Joining Forces is starting on July 22. Players can forge bonds and gain friendship with Heroes like Byleth and Edelgard from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Special conversations can be unlocked by growing close to all event characters.
The last big event wrapped up in Splatoon 2 earlier today. Nintendo held the game’s final Splatfest, which had Team Chaos and Team Order battling it out one last time.
Here’s a look at how things panned out:
Nintendo has updated its maintenance schedule for the coming week, but at least thus far, only one session is planned. Taking place at the start of this week, the company’s digital stores will be affected.
Here’s the full schedule:
Gunpowder on The Teeth: Arcade will be releasing on Switch next week, according to an eShop listing. The platform game is lined up for July 25 in both North America and Europe.
Here’s an overview:
Luigi’s Mansion 3 director Yoshihito Ikebata has spoken more about the origins of Gooigi. Although he’ll be appearing in the Switch game in a few months, his first appearance was in last year’s 3DS remake of the series’ initial entry.
Ikebata told Polygon that the idea for including Gooigi in the Luigi’s Mansion 3DS remake first came about after he’d been imagined for the Switch game. He also stated:
French retailers recently started to list a physical version of Yono and the Celestial Elephants. Now that it has appeared on Amazon France as well, we feel more confident that those listings are accurate.
It appears that the physical version of Yono and the Celestial Elephants will be available starting September 1, or sometime around then. Currently, no information has been shared about a release outside of France. However, Switch is region-free, and English will likely be supported.
You can pre-order Yono and the Celestial Elephants on Amazon France here. We have the game’s boxart above.
Alongside its release in Japan this week, Rain World received a new patch. The update addresses a few bugs and crashes, among other things.
Below are the full patch notes:
Bandai Namco has confirmed its attendance at Gamescom 2019, led by the playable debut of One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4.
The full lineup includes:
SEGA has sent out a few screenshots from the newly-announced Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD, an updated version of the Wii title from 2006. View the images in the gallery below.
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD hits Switch on October 29.
Earlier this month, SEGA unveiled Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Mega39’s. This will be the first entry in the rhythm series for Nintendo’s console.
Following the announcement, Japanese magazine Famitsu spoke with creative producer Makoto Osaki and producer / director Keiichi Matsunami to learn more about the game. The two developers spoke about the project’s origins, how they went about choosing songs, settling on the visuals, wanting to use the Joy-Con, and more.
You can find our full translation below.
