Nintendo released a new video today showcasing a few European digital game highlights from October 2018. You can watch it below.
Amazon has posted the final cover for the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Official Collector’s Edition Guide. We’ve attached it above.
The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Official Collector’s Edition Guide covers all fighters, strategies, and move sets across 464 pages. The hardcover book also features an exclusive design.
You can reserve the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Official Collector’s Edition Guide on Amazon here, which currently has a 40% discount.
Nintendo has revealed a brand new stage coming to Splatoon 2 with version 4.2.0. In just a few days, players will be able to access the Ruins of Ark Polaris.
That won’t be the only new piece of content planned for the next Splatoon 2 update. The third batch of weapons from the Tony Kensa collection will be available as well as the Ultra Stamp special and Torpedo sub.
Here’s a look at the new content announced today:
Thanks to Brent for the tip.
Octopath Traveler composer Yasunori Nishiki has returned with another written piece about the creation of his music. This week, we have details about the process of making “The Frostlands” background music.
Here’s the post in full:
Ubisoft will soon be bringing Valiant Hearts: The Great War to Switch. Ahead of its launch – which is just a few days away – we have some screenshots of how the game looks on Nintendo’s console. Hit up the gallery below for images.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War will be available November 8 on Switch.
Arc System Works has issued a new patch for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. Version 1.31 is out now for all players.
With the latest update, Arc System Works has tackled one issue in particular and made a couple of changes. We have the full patch notes below.
Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun finally debuted in the west this week. For a lengthy look at the game, check out the footage below.
Late last week, the children’s product safety certificates for Cloud, Ganondorf, and Sonic were updated. The first two had an additional run of manufacturing this month while Sonic went through the same process in September.
Usually when this happens, it means that a restock is on the horizon. Expect to see Cloud, Ganondorf, and Sonic available for purchase once again in the near future.
One of the elements in Kirby Star Allies that might be easy to glance over is the game’s menu skits. Players can watch a variety of skits while looking at the title, file select, and mode select menus. What you may not be aware of is the work that went into creating them.
This week, Tatsuya Kamiyama gave some insight into how the skits – of which there are 82 patterns – were created. Read what the developer had to say on the subject below.
Bethesda’s Pete Hines had quite a few interesting things to say about Switch during a panel at PAX Aus 2018 last week. We already heard Hines mentioning that the company is considering the console for its games in almost every case, but he actually had much more to say about Nintendo’s platform.
Hines first spoke about Switch support in general and why the publisher has been putting as many games as it has on the platform thus far. The big takeaway is that the primary reason for the lack of Bethesda support on Nintendo platforms in the past was simply due to tech specs. For Switch, what the system is capable matched up fairly well with what Bethesda is doing and the developers have allowed for these games to happen.
