Nintendo has produced a new North American commercial for Switch highlighting some of the games that can be played together with others. Check out the advert below.
On the official Japanese Twitter account, Nintendo has provided a look at storyboard images from the opening cut-scene in Super Mario Odyssey. Here’s a look:
https://twitter.com/mario_odysseyJP/status/993244262958592000
With that opening, Nintendo was looking to leave a strong impression on players – hence why we see Mario and Bowser duking it out from the beginning. The story manages to get off to a fast start as a result.
Black Riddles Studios doesn’t have a release date for Crazy Justice just yet. However, the team has indicated that a release is planned for June.
We also have a new video showing off battle royale in Crazy Justice. Have a look at the brief gameplay below.
Ahead of its release on Thursday, Super Chariot has received a new launch trailer. Take a look at the video below.
Gunpei Yokoi was involved with many projects at Nintendo on both the hardware and software front back in the day. But around the time that the unsuccessful Virtual Boy launched, Yokoi left the company. As it turns out though, that system’s failure wasn’t a direct cause of his departure.
Yokoi wrote about leaving Nintendo in the November 1996 issue of Japanese magazine Bungeishunju. Livedoor recently republished his piece, which gives us a chance to hear from him directly.
Kotaku offers the following translation:
Ninatic is bringing back two of its summer events for Pokemon GO as part of the Pokemon GO Summer Tour 2018. Along with Pokemon GO Fest for North America, Safari Zone events will be running in Europe.
After a disastrous inaugural event in 2017, Pokemon GO Fest will be giving things another go. This year’s event will again be held in Chicago between July 14 and July 15. Niantic promises that A Walk in the Park ” will offer a unique, immersive play experience unseen anywhere else that will create a daylong adventure for Trainers.” Exclusive activities are planned.
As for the Safari Zone event, it’ll be held in Dortmund, Germany between June 30 and July 1. According to Niantic, “Activities will expand to Dortmund’s entire city district, inviting players from all over Europe to explore the city’s cultural history”.
Update (5/7): Updated the Switch / 3DS maintenance schedule below.
Original (5/3): Nintendo has a bunch of maintenance lined up for next week. Between Switch and 3DS, five sessions are currently planned.
The current maintenance schedule is as follows:
With InkSplosion releasing on Switch this week, publisher Ratalakia Games has readied a new launch trailer. You can view it below.
In the last couple of days, the official (Japanese) Fire Emblem Heroes Twitter account ran a quiz campaign. They posed questions about the game and people could use Twitter’s poll feature to answer them. There were a total of 20 questions and all of them have been answered correctly. As a reward, ten orbs and 5,000 hero feathers will be sent out to all players on May 10th.
