This week’s Famitsu scans are now available. Highlights include Sonic Forces (including new screenshots), Sonic Mania, Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology, Fire Emblem Echoes, Pro Yakyuu Famista Climax, and Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission X. Scans of all games can be found below.
The first official Switch bundle has been outed by Nintendo’s own official store in Russia.
Consumers will be able to choose between two options: one with gray Joy-Con and another with the neon colors (note that these pages may be inaccessible unless you’re located in Russia or use a proxy). Both come with a physical copy as opposed to a pre-installed version.
Nintendo may be announcing this Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle during its Nintendo Direct tonight. It’s unclear if North America will be receiving the package at this time.
The previously-announced update for Yo-kai Watch 3 was said to be on track for this spring. Today, Level-5 announced that it’s launching very soon – this Friday in fact. Yo-kai Watch 3 will be updated to version 3.0.
The upcoming patch adds in a bunch of additional content. Players will have access to new Enma, quests, and yo-kai, along with new Dungeon and Guardians for the Busters Treasure Mode. Other features include fishing at the port town Nagisaki. All of the update details are located here.
The European eShop has updated with a listing for yet another Neo Geo game. Next Thursday, Hamster will be bringing out Fatal Fury as its latest Arcade Archives release.
Here’s an overview from the eShop listing:
“Fatal Fury is a fighting game released by SNK in 1991. Players take part in brutal street fights in a variety of locations, with the goal of toppling the infamous crime lord Geese Howard.
The game includes very unique features when compared to other fighting games available at the time, including a special Line Battle system that allows players to traverse between the foreground and background and 2-player co-op functionality.”
Yesterday, the European eShop listed Over Top for Switch. That Neo Geo title should be out on April 27.
Indie developer Causal Games has recently been interviewed by Nintendo World Report about their upcoming Ghouls ‘n Ghosts inspired game, Battle Princess Madelyn, which will presumably come out by February 2018 on various platforms.
But talking specifically about the Wii U and Switch versions, Causal Games has brought the possibilty of a physical release to the table. They would love to create a physical Switch cartridge for Battle Princess Madelyn and are in fact looking into making it happen, but for now they cannot confirm anything.
“Wii U will probably not be physical, but if we were able to we would love to! Switch we’re looking into, but can’t confirm anything just yet!”
It would be great to have another indie title with a Switch physical edition.
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
Switch – 41,193
New 3DS LL – 19,533
PS4 – 18,022
PS4 Pro – 6,490
Vita – 5,987
2DS – 4,629
New 3DS – 1,523
PS3 – 704
Wii U – 358
Xbox One – 132
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
Switch – 45,509
New 3DS LL – 25,719
PS4 – 25,006
Vita – 7,780
2DS – 6,240
PS4 Pro – 5,051
New 3DS – 1,995
PS3 – 1,724
Wii U – 449
Xbox One – 187
And here are the software charts:
Update: Serebii now reports that the balance updates for Venusaur, Drapion, Bulbasaur, and Weezing are included. Eleven new figures were added to the Boosters as well.
More details:
– The three EX figures are Virizion, Sceptile, and Trevenant
– Rare figures are Grovyle, Lilligant & Crobat
– The UC figures are Skorupi, Swellow, Chikorita, Phantump & Petilil
– Four new Plates, focusing on Grass, Flying, Bug & Ghost-type Pokemon
– Orange Time Booster added that may appear through League Matches until April 26; guaranteed to hold Grass-type or Poison-type Pokemon
– A Sextuple Booster that gives 6 figures with at least one guaranteed EX until April 19 for 300 Gems is available
Original: Pokemon Duel’s latest update is here. There may not be much to it, but version 3.0.6 can now be downloaded. The update notes merely state that bugs have been fixed.
While that may not be terribly exciting, Pokemon GO should be receiving a balance patch very, very soon. You can read about all of the details here.
Much like recent Fire Emblem games, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia will have DLC. Nintendo revealed what’s in store for the newest 3DS game today.
Fire Emblem Echoes’ first DLC is planned for April 20 in Japan. First, players can receive a one-time reward of the “Boots” item for free. Other than that, paid DLC is as follows:
Nintendo has released a trailer showing new characters that are on the way to Fire Emblem Heroes. On April 14, the game will be adding Alm, Clair, Lukas, and Faye. A new Paralogue, “World of Shadows” will be available on the same day.
Here’s the video:
With the new Sacred Seals feature being added to Fire Emblem Heroes, the game now features some Quests and log-in bonuses running until April 28. By completing various Quests, players can earn Sacred Seals, as well as a few characters and orbs. Furthermore, until the event ends, players can earn 2 Orbs each day as a log-in bonus.
Furthermore, the rewards for the Voting Gauntlet have now been distributed: by logging in, players will recieve 20 Orbs, 5 of each Great Badge, and 5,000 Universal Crystals.
