Twitter has shared some official information and statistics about its social media platform during E3 last week.
According to Twitter, there was a 94% increase in overall gaming conversation during E3 compared to the previous week. There were close to 15 million #E3 related tweets last week as well. The United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Spain, and France were the countries that tweeted the most about the expo.
GameSpot posted a new BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, which we have below, showing off new DLC for the fighter. Take a closer look at Character Pack #2, #3, and Yang.
Nintendo’s longstanding battle with piracy has been well documented. Piracy was a huge issue in particular on DS, but also continued with its subsequent systems.
With Switch, Nintendo is taking serious anti-piracy measures. Reports in the modding and hacking scene indicate that the company has started banning particular gamecart certificates. In other words, Nintendo can go after games that have been illegally obtained by conducting a check between certificates and game cards.
Some folks are naturally wondering what may happen with the pre-owned market and pre-owned games. Since we only have early information and the situation is developing, not everything is clear at the moment.
A few minutes of off-screen footage has popped up for V-Rally 4 following its playable appearance at E3 last week. Check out the video below.
A few minutes of footage is in showing Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion running on Switch in portable mode. Check out the video below.
Ys VIII will have a day-one update on Switch, NIS America has confirmed. The publisher shared details on this front today in a message to those who reviewed the game.
The patch will address technical issues in which text was not displaying correctly. NISA says it was aware of this, and it will be addressed with the patch. Aside from text, “other issues” will be tackled as well.
The day-one update is one of three planned patches for Ys VIII on Switch.
Nintendo has posted a new piece of Splatoon 2 art in celebration of the latest Splatfest taking place this weekend. We have it above.
Are you for or against pulp in your orange juice? That question will be decided with the new Splatfest in just a few days.
Following the reveal of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate last week, director Masahiro Sakurai wrote a new article for this week’s issue of Famitsu. This is one of his first columns about the new game included in the magazine.
In it, Sakurai talks about how the first proposal came about in late 2015, the game’s faster tempo, and much more. He also touched on how it was decided to build off of past mechanics, which in turn allowed for a larger roster.
We’ve prepared a full translation of the column below.
Psyonix is sharing the second of two big status updates for Rocket League today. After detailing a new Rocket Pass system yesterday, the studio has followed up with information about changes to XP and level progression that are planned for this summer.
Here’s the full rundown:
