Aside from Nintendo’s own New Year sale, a number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include Dust: An Elysian Tail, Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition HD, Iconoclasts, Sonic Forces, and more.
Here’s the full roundup of sales:
Splatoon 2 hosted another worldwide Splatfest this weekend with a Frosty Fest theme. For the latest event, Nintendo asked if players get most excited to spend the holidays with friends or family.
After two days of battles, Nintendo has shared the full results. Here’s a look at how things panned out:
What up, kids and squids?!
This week on NEP, Oni and Galen cover the news and rumors spoiler-free, and go crazy on discussion over announced games for Nintendo platforms in 2019. There are actually SO MANY to talk about that we had to split it up! Tune in for part 1 and let’s talk about what games we’re hyped for!
A number of 3DS games are on sale at Amazon starting today. Most are down to $25, including the Luigi’s Mansion remake, WarioWare Gold, and more.
Here’s the lineup:
Fire Emblem Heroes’ latest event is now live. The new 5-star summoning focus features three Heroes with Tactic skills, which grant a stat boost to certain allies when they are within two spaces.
Summoning Focus: Heroes with Tactic Skills lasts until January 13.
Activision shared a new screenshot comparison for Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled this week. Below, you can get another look at how Dingo Canyon has changed since its original release.
Here’s the track from the PlayStation version:
BQM – BlockQuest Maker heads to the west this coming Thursday on the Switch eShop. View some footage in the video below.
Rare ended up creating a new version of Diddy Kong Racing for the DS back in 2007. What we didn’t know until this week is that another studio toyed around with the same game on Nintendo’s portable, albeit on a much smaller scale.
PtoPOnline unearthed a tech demo from Climax Studios that predates the launch of the DS by several months. We’re not sure if the company ever intended to pitch its own Diddy Kong Racing game, though it’s still pretty interesting to see. Note that Climax’s prototype and Rare’s final release on DS were completely unrelated.
