Following yesterday’s leak, Niantic has confirmed a new holiday event for Pokemon GO.
The event begins today, and features more Ice-type Pokemon appearing around the world as well as new Water-type and Ice-type Pokemon from the Hoenn region. Additionally, when you visit a PokeStop for the first time each day, you’ll receive a single-use Egg Incubator with your first Photo Disc spin. There are special boxes available from the in-game shop as well.
Here’s the full notice about the event from Niantic:
Tiny Troopers Joint Ops XL lands on the Switch eShop today. Get a look at the game’s official launch trailer below.
A bunch of new digital games are releasing on Switch today, including Tiny Metal. Take a look at the game running on Nintendo’s console below.
It’s quite rare for Nintendo to make the soundtracks of their first-party games available to purchase, but it seems like they’ll be making an exception with Super Mario Odyssey. Nintendo has announced that a Super Mario Odyssey “Sound Selection” will be available on iTunes starting tomorrow, December 22nd. As the name implies, this isn’t the full soundtrack release, but only a small sample of it. The following twelve tracks will be included:
- Cascade Kingdom
- Tostarena
- Steam Gardens
- New Donk City
- Jump Up, Super Star! (New Donk City Festival Edition)
- Shiveria
- Bowser’s Castle
- Break Free! (Lead The Way)
- Jump Up, Super Star! (Japanese version)
- Break Free! (Lead The Way) (Japanese version)
- Jump Up, Super Star! (Karaoke version)
- Break Free! (Lead The Way) (Karaoke version)
If you want the full soundtrack, you’re going to have to wait a little while longer.The official Super Mario Odyssey soundtrack will be released in Japan on February 28th 2018, for the price of 4,600 yen. It will come on a total of four discs – the first three discs will feature 31 tracks each, while the fourth one will contain 43 tracks, for a total of 136 tracks. The soundtrack will also come with a booklet featuring comments from Aimi Mukohara (the Japanese voice actress for Pauline and performer of Jump Up, Super Star! and Break Free!) and the development team, as well as two sheets of stickers. No word yet on a Western release of the soundtrack, so you might have to import this one from Japan.
We’re nearing the end of the week, which means it’s time for another Splatoon 2 weapon update. This time, a brand-new weapon will be added to the game – the Squeezer, a shooter-type weapon that will come with the Splash Wall sub-weapon and the Sting Ray special. As always, it’ll be available tomorrow around noon in Japan and Australia, early in the morning in Europe and later tonight in North America.
A new summoning focus is now available in Fire Emblem Heroes. This summoning focus is called “Weapons to Refine Part 2” and is a continuation of the last summoning focus in this series.
The Weapons to Refine Part 2 summoning focus features 5 star versions of Eldigan, Minerva, and Jaffar and will be available until January 4th.
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp just got a new update that adds 7 new animals to the game. The new animals that you can find in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp are Marshal, Mitzi, June, Drake, Vesta, Goose, and Avery.
There is also a new event called “Host the Most” which features new Timed Goals to complete. In order to finish the goals and get rewards, you have to host as many animal friends. Also, while these Timed Goals are active, your friendship with animals will grow more quickly when completing requests. The “Host the Most” event will be available until December 27th.
Layers of Fear: Legacy first surfaced for Switch in September. Today, Bloober Team shared new details about the game.
Layers of Fear: Legacy is based on the original title from 2016 that released on a number of platforms. It has been “remastered and redesigned exclusively” for Nintendo’s console.
The Nintendo Power brand has been brought back in a big way. Nintendo just released the first episode of its new “Nintendo Power” podcast. You can listen to it right here.
Host Chris Slate is joined by Nintendo Minute co-host Kit Ellis and Damon Baker from Publisher and Developer Relations at Nintendo of America to look back at Switch’s first year. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild developers Eiji Aonuma and director Hidemaro Fujibayashi then discuss their game.
