Nintendo is celebrating the start of 2018 with a few new images. Above, we have some special New Year’s art for ARMS. You can also find a new Super Mario Odyssey-themed January wallpaper and calendar below.
Circle Entertainment previously released a trio of Mercenaries Saga games on the 3DS eShop. The full collection is now on its way to Switch as part of Mercenaries Saga Chronicles.
Circle Entertainment just posted the news on Twitter. Aside from the initial announcement, specific details haven’t been shared. We’ll be receiving more details “soon” at least.
Here’s the official tweet:
Exciting news! Very soon we will release Mercenaries Saga Chronicles on the Switch eShop – the full RPG trilogy on Nintendo hardware for the first time! More details soon… #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/qwgVUGtPGj
— CIRCLE Ent. (@CIRCLE_Ent) December 31, 2017
Update: Amazon has now started to pull these listings. It could be a sign that they went up too early.
Original: A ton of new mystery listings for Switch have appeared on Amazon. We’re counting 18 titles in total on the website, most of which can be pre-ordered. Prices range from $60 all the way up to $100.
The thought here is that these games could be unveiled during an upcoming Nintendo Direct, which will almost certainly take place in January. Amazon even used the exact same image for Project Octopath Traveler a few months ago after it was fully unveiled during the September broadcast.
Two new Pokemon figures have been announced within the past week. Along with a Nendoroid for Giovanni, Lillie is also receiving another figure.
Pre-orders for Giovanni will open in Japan on January 19. Like other Nendoroids, it’ll have customizable parts.
As for Lillie, we don’t have much to go on at the moment. The figure itself hasn’t really been shown yet aside from the art below. It will be available sometime in 2018.
Bandai Namco has demonstrated its commitment to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 with a ton of new content. The game has regularly received new DLC as well as free updates.
The next content drop for Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is set for February. Bandai Namco will be releasing Extra Pack 2 featuring a new story scenario and four playable characters. One of these characters is confirmed to be Fu, a mysterious teenager who carries a ninja sword on his back.
In Japan, Imagineer recently released Medabots Classics for 3DS. You can check out some lengthy gameplay in the video below.
Milestone issued a new video for Monster Energy Supercross – The Official Videogame showing off gameplay in San Diego. Check it out below.
Fire Emblem Heroes’ New Year celebration has officially started. As part of a new summoning focus, some Special Heroes have appeared wearing traditional New Year’s garb – specifically Camilla, Takumi, and Azura.
Nintendo will also be starting a new event tomorrow. Voting Gauntlet: Winter Festival vs. New Year’s will feature the following:
– Robin: Festive Tactician
– Lissa: Pure Joy
– Chrom: Gifted Leader
– Tharja: “Normal Girl”
– Azura: Celebratory Spirit
– Camilla: Holiday Traveler
– Takumi: Prince of Soup
– Ryoma: Peerless Samurai
Zelda: Breath of the Wild has no set way of getting through the game. Thanks to its freedom, players can tackle it in any way they see fit. Zelda’s freedom has allowed players to come up with all sorts of interesting ways of solving puzzles. In some cases, they’ve even found ways of skipping large sections of Shrines entirely.
Producer Hidemaro Fujibayashi told IGN in a new interview that this was “all according to plan.” Nintendo wanted players to be able to have “multiple answers, multiple ways, multiple ways of doing anything.”
No one could have expected Nintendo to add a motorcycle in Zelda: Breath of the Wild. But in The Chammpions’ Ballad, Nintendo did just that. The reward at the end of the DLC is none other than the Master Cycle Zero.
In an interview with IGN, Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma discussed the development of the new motorcycle. You might be interested to know that Nintendo imported assets from Mario Kart 8 as a “test drive” of sorts.
