NBA 2K19 is official. The game will launch in September for Switch, and depending on which version you buy, you’ll have a chance to play it a few days early.
LeBron James will star on this year’s cover. 2K wanted to partner “with the most iconic athlete of this generation” to celebrate developer Visual Concept’s 30th anniversary, VP of marketing Alfie Brody said.
With just a week to go until Nintendo’s big E3 presentation, the name of the event has been officially confirmed. It’ll be called Nintendo Direct: E3 2018.
As previously mentioned, the presentation will highlight the new Super Smash Bros. game as well as other Switch titles. It’ll be held at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 5 PM in the UK / 6 PM in Europe.
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has kicked off the second half of the Digby’s Artful Retreat. Players will find a new kind of flower as well as new tasks. More rewards can be unlocked by helping Digby collect bumblecubes.
In other news, the Artful Retreat Pack is still available for purchase. The pack holds items that will help you capture bumblecubes.
Nintendo has poster another brief preview video of a stage in Splatoon 2’s upcoming Octo Expansion. This one is all about rail grinding:
Arc System Works has published the opening movie for Jake Hunter Detective Story: Prism of Eyes, the mystery adventure game coming to Nintendo Switch. Watch it below:
We’ve got quite a bit of Fire Emblem Heroes news today. First up, the Heroes & Legends Voting Gaunlet has entered into its final round. Gunnthrá and Alfonse were victorious in round 2, and they new face off against each other.
The Bound Hero Battle: Seliph & Julia is now available in Special Maps. It’ll last for six days. For the same duration, there’s also a Summoning Focus with the following 5-star focus units: Seliph: Heir of Light, Deirdre: Lady of the Forest and Julia: Naga’s Blood.
Finally, Nintendo posted a preview video of the upcoming Scattered Fangs Summoning Focus. It features Heroes from Fire Emblem: Blazing Blade: new arrivals Legault, Karla as well as a pegasus-riding Nino. Canas can also be glimpsed in the video, which means he will be available through other means. The Summoning Focus starts on June 8th.
Nintendo and HAL Laboratory posted a short clip on Twitter offering a look at Dark Meta Knight in Kirby Star Allies. View it below.
ジャマハローア。
皆、待たせたな。
追加ドリームフレンズ「ダークメタナイト」の新情報だ！
鏡を使った技が得意なようだが…
なっ…！敵の弾丸を反射させただと！？
やるな、ちょいワル仮面…！#星のカービィスターアライズ pic.twitter.com/PiKnFxtPNd— 星のカービィ (@Kirby_JP) June 5, 2018
Dark Meta Knight will be added to Kirby Star allies this summer as a new Dream Friend. He’ll be joined by Daroach in a free update.
Freedom Planet appears to be making its way to Switch. GalaxyTrail just posted a photo on Twitter, showing what looks to be the original game running in portable mode.
http://twitter.com/galaxytrail/status/1003831032947277824
GalaxyTrail said at the start of the year that the team was looking into bringing Freedom Planet to Switch along with its sequel. Hopefully this is the first step towards that.
Thanks to dondom95 for the tip.
A second new Mario Tennis Aces wallpaper is up for grabs on My Nintendo. This time, it’s a design featuring Mario with a trophy. The wallpaper can be used with PCs, smartphones, and tablets.
You can find the reward on My Nintendo here. Like other wallpapers, it costs 50 Platinum Points.
Thanks to Ben C for the tip.
Over the past few months in particular, some have said that discoverability has started to become a problem on the Switch eShop. Nintendo has started to address that with a new addition on the store.
Just a short while ago, a new section was added in under the “Featured” name. Here Nintendo is able to highlight upcoming content, recent releases, and past titles you may not have known about.
