A new update is now available for the Switch version of Arena of Valor. Among other changes, it adds motion controls to Hook Wars. Here are the full patch notes:
Adding motion controls to Hook Wars. You can now Shake the Joy-Con to fire the hook.
Changing the lobby background image to Airi.
Rumble can now be enabled or disabled in Settings.
Maloch, Slimz and Kahlii can now be obtained from Lucky Draw.
This update will also prepare for our upcoming Snow Festival events which will begin on December 18th
A Switch version of YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World was revealed earlier this year. Since then, we’ve heard very little about the game. Today, we can finally share some news thanks to early reports of this week’s Famitsu coverage. The visual novel is set to be released in Spring 2019 in Japan. An anime adaptation is also set to air during Spring.
Version 7.01 of Fortnite is now available. Highlights include a new melee weapon, the Infinity Blade, as well as lots of changes to Creative Mode:
UI
- Players are no longer brought to the Battle Royale lobby when clicking “Creative” in the game mode select screen.
Battle Royale
Limited Time Mode: Close Encounters
Summary
Close quarters combat with Shotguns & Jetpacks!
Mode Details
- The only weapons in this mode are Shotgun variants.
- Jetpacks & Heavy Shotguns can be found in chests & Supply Drops.
- Other Shotgun variants are spawned as floor loot.
- The Storm moves in more quickly than normal at mid to late game.
- Typical match length is about 15 minutes.
- Stats are enabled for this mode.
Weapons + Items
- Infinity Blade
- This Mythic melee weapon can be found on Polar Peak.
- Primary Fire delivers a powerful sword slash. It deals big damage to enemies and destroys structures in one blow (75 damage to players).
- Alternate Fire allows the player to leap great distances, destroying objects in its path. Upon landing, it delivers damage and a knock-up to nearby players (25 damage).
- The wielder of the sword is also granted additional abilities:
- An increased pool of max Health and Shields (200 Health/200 Shields).
- Regeneration of effective Health over time up to max Health and Shields (1 HP per second).
- An instant burst of effective Health upon elimination of an enemy (50 HP).
- Increased movement speed (130%).
- The first player to pull the Infinity Blade from its pedestal will be instantly healed to full Health and Shields.
- If a player picks up the Infinity Blade, all other inventory items aside from building materials will be dropped.\
- When the wielder of the Infinity Blade picks up an item (aside from building materials), the Infinity Blade will be dropped.
- The Infinity Blade will be dropped when the wielder is knocked out or eliminated.
- Only one Infinity Blade will appear per match.
Gameplay
- X-4 Stormwing
- When a plane is shot down, the driver and all passengers of that plane will now take 25 damage from the explosion.
Bug Fixes
- Speculative fix for players moving after being eliminated.
- Fixed players being ejected from vehicles if they lost the icy feet effect.
It happens quite rarely, but we’ve learned of a Japanese game’s Western release date before its Japanese release date. In fact, The Caligula Effect: Overdose will even be released in North America before it’ll be released in Japan – only by two days though. FuRyu’s RPG will launch in Japan on March 14, 2019. The North American launch is set for March 12, and it’ll be released in Europe on March 15.
Listings on the European and Australian eShops reveal that Team17 will soon be publishing a new game on Switch. Coming from developer Unicube, Sheltered will be available starting next week.
Sheltered describes itself as “a deep and emotional survival management game.” We have a few more details and a trailer below.
The sixth and latest Gyroidite Scavenger Hunt is now live in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for players looking to earn some new rewards.
Players will have the capability of searching out and finding many Toy Day Gyroidite until December 21st. As expected, these can then be used for crafting exclusive Toy Day items. Perfectly Nintendo has provided a list of the items below:
Ackk Studios announced this past weekend that YIIK: A Postmodern is finally launching in January. Check out over a half hour of footage below.
Following today’s Feh Channel presentation, the next big Fire Emblem Heroes update went live. Nintendo and Intelligent Systems are now distribution version 3.0.0.
Below are the official patch notes:
