Another Party Crash event will soon be taking place in ARMS. Lola Pop and Misango will be going head to head between January 19 and January 22. This time around, the theme is “New Face-Off”.
If you haven’t heard about Party Crash previously, they temporarily take over the regular Party Match mode. ARMS players can then join in on some fast-paced fights and earn points to raise their Lab Level. When Party Crash ends, everyone who participates will gain in-game currency and badges depending on what Lab Level they reached.
The Pokemon Company has released a trailer for Detective Pikachu giving us a first opportunity to hear how the English voice cast is shaping up. Check out the video below.
The official website for Detective Pikachu houses the official boxart for the new physical release in Japan as well as the upcoming amiibo. We have both images attached to this post.
Detective Pikachu launches in North America and Europe with the new amiibo on March 23. Japan’s physical release with the figure is also happening on the same day.
Update: Detective Pikachu also launches March 23 in the west. The “special limited-edition” Detective Pikachu amiibo is larger than the standard figures we’ve seen in the past and can unlock short videos that may contain helpful hints.
Original: Detective Pikachu is finally coming west, The Pokemon Company has revealed. A new amiibo will also be released.
Today’s news ties in with Japan, as Detective Pikachu is heading to retail in the country. A physical package will be sold with the amiibo on March 23.
Here’s a trailer promoting the release:
As for the west, Detective Pikachu has now popped up on The Pokemon Company’s press site along with an image of the amiibo above and character art from the game. We’re now waiting on more specifics, so stay tuned.
Over on Amazon Japan, the boxart for the recently-announced Switch game PriPara: All Idol Perfect Stage has been posted. We have it above.
This month’s NPD report hasn’t been published just yet, but we do have some early information. Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg actually shared a very noteworthy tidbit on Twitter.
Greenberg indicated that Switch came out on top last month. According to the data he has access to, Nintendo’s console sold the most overall hardware units in December.
Greenberg posted on his Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/951634151790096384
For those in the UK, if you’ve yet to secure a SNES Mini, you can nab one at the Nintendo UK store. It’s currently in stock here. A USB Power Adapter is included with all purchases.
Nintendo has announced that patch 2.2.0 for Splatoon 2 will be released next week, on January 17th at 10 AM JST. This will be a fairly major balance update with changes to a lot of weapons. Fans have kindly translated the patch notes, which we’ve put below. We will inform you once Nintendo publishes the official English patch notes.
It’s the end of the week, which means another new weapon is coming to Splatoon 2. The Dapple Dualies Nouveau are identical to the regular Dapple Dualies in terms of stats, but come with the Toxic Mist sub-weapon and the Ink Storm special instead. They’ll be available tomorrow around noon in Japan and Australia, early in the morning in Europe and later tonight in North America.
