This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Retail
Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion – $39.99 (available July 17)
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – $39.99 (available July 13)
Hunting Simulator – $39.99
Octopath Traveler – $59.99 (available July 13)
Touhou Genso Wanderer Reloaded – $49.99 (available July 17)
The next update for Super Mario Run is now available. On both iOS and Android, version 3.0.11 is live.
Nintendo states that ease of play has been improved. Additionally, some bug fixes have been implemented.
Fortnite Season 5 starts today, as we reported earlier. Epic Games have now released the announcement trailer for Season 5, which outlines some of the new features and updates:
The Blue Bomber is the focus of today’s Smash Bros update:
Mega Man’s standard and special moves use weapons copied from the bosses he’s fought throughout the Mega Man series. That means he has more projectiles than any other fighter!
A couple of updates regarding Fire Emblem Heroes: first up, the Raven & Lucius Bound Hero Battle is back until July 22nd. Beat the various difficulty levels to get orbs and clear the corresponding quests requiring you to use Alfone and Fjorm to get even more orbs.
A new map has been added to Tactics Drills under the Skill Studies section: Spd Ploy and the Forecast.
Finally, a very small update was released today that fixes the description of the Summer’s Breath skill used by Tiki: Beachside Scion.
Fortnite is currently down for maintenance to implement the new Season 5 update. Alongside a host of other changes, this version will add a crucial feature to the Nintendo Switch version of the game: the option to use gyro controls.
You can find the full patch notes below.
Quite a bit is happening in Splatoon 2 tomorrow. The Pearl and Marina amiibo are finally being released and the game will also be updated to version 3.2.0. We don’t have the full English patch notes yet, but as always this update contains quite a few multiplayer balance changes. There are also several bug fixes and adjustments for the Octo Expansion.
Nintendo also revealed some new content coming to the game in a future update. First up is a new stage, Ancho-V Games:
According to the Funko Reddit, a user stumbled across a Pikachu Pop figure at a Target in Ohio. It appears that it was not supposed to leave the warehouse or be sold to the public, meaning that an official announcement about Funko obtaining the Pokémon license should come soon. For now, it’s as good as confirmed. Unfortunately, the original post has been removed, but several reposts can be seen on the website.
It was also stated that the Pikachu Pop is a Target exclusive–whether or not this will be the same for all Funko Pokémon figures remains to be seen. A 10 inch version of the figures may also be in the works. Have a look at the leaked figure below:
Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Switch games. These include Go Vacation, Pool Panic, Cosmic Star Heroine, Sausage Sports Club, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
A new patch is being pushed out for Switch players, mostly for bug fixes. In addition to the patch notes, it has been confirmed that controller rebinding will be added to the Switch version via the Gods & Glory Content Pack. The fixes are as follows:
