Initially announced yesterday, Nintendo has debuted The Making of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Fans can get an inside look at the game’s creation. Take a look at the full series below (warning: potential spoilers).
A few hours ago, Fire Emblem Heroes added in its new Blazing Shadows Event. We’ve posted some footage of it below.
Pokemon Duel received a new update today. Version 3.0.4 is available for players on both iOS and Android.
Once updated, Pokemon Duel users will have access to the Dragon Gym Cup, which features new figures including Dragonite earned by reaching 35 wins. Also, trophies will be provided at the end of the event with you being able to display on your ranking screen. The event itself has all Dragon-type Movement 1 & 2 figures get an increase of 1 for movement and Fairy-types getting an Attack increase of 20 for each attack.
You’ll have until March 23 at 04:59 UTC to participate. Booster Redemptions are available until March 30.
Eurogamer has a new report up explaining how The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild uses dynamic resolution scaling. It doesn’t mean much for the end user, but it’s still pretty interesting. The technique is used in the game to help maintain the frame rate.
When Zelda: Breath of the Wild is running Switch to the max, resolution appears to dip to 90 percent on both axes. In other words, when in portable mode, resolution drops to 1152×648 for 81 percent of native 720p in total. Breath of the Wild has a native pixel-count of 1440×810 when docked and stressed, dropping from its usual 1600×900.
Eurogamer further adds:
17 minutes of footage has arrived showing Battle Princess Madelyn in its pre-alpha form. Check out the gameplay below.
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Let It Die – Uncle Prime Edition (PS4) – 9/9/9/9
Monster Hunter XX (3DS) – 9/9/9/8
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (PS4/XBO) – 8/9/9/9
Snipperclips (NSW) – 8/8/9/8
Farming Simulator 17 (PS4) – 7/8/8/9
WRC 6 (PS4) – 8/7/7/9
Side Kicks! (PSV) – 8/8/8/7
Hatsuyuki Sakura (PSV) – 7/8/8/7
1000m Zombie Escape (3DS) – 7/8/7/7
Koneko no Ie 2 (3DS) – 7/8/7/6
Unearthing Mars (PS4) – 6/7/7/8
According to research done by SuperData, Nintendo has so far managed to sell 1.5 million Switch systems worldwide. 500,000 systems were sold in the US, 360,000 were sold in Japan and Europe “isn’t far behind”, though it should be noted that most of these numbers are from first week sales, so they’re likely higher by now. Nintendo’s goal is to sell 2 million units in March, a goal they will likely easily achieve.
Unsurprisingly, the best-selling Switch title so far is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. According to SuperData, 89% of Switch owners also bought the new Zelda game, which would equate to 1.34 million copies sold.
Nintendo has released a video highlighting the new Heroes added to Fire Emblem Heroes. You can watch it below:
New Heroes have been added to #FEHeroes with the Blazing Shadows Event happening now! pic.twitter.com/kuRwiSbTjg
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) March 14, 2017
Fire Emblem Heroes has added some new Heroes from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade to its lineup, as well as a new Focus to summon them, Paralogue Maps, and some Quests. The new characters are as follows:
The Event will be live until March 30. There are also new Paralogue Maps featuring the characters that are added to the game, as well as Quests for these maps that will run until March 30.
Finally, the rewards for last week’s Voting Gauntlet are now live. All players will receive 20 Orbs, 5 of each Great Badge, and 5000 Universal Crystals. These will be sent to your gift box upon logging in.
This update includes a required 17.3 MB download.
The Switch will be undergoing some online maintenance later this week. The times are as follows:
– 5:50 PM PT (March 16) – 7:30 PM PT (March 16)
– 8:50 PM ET (March 16) – 10:30 PM ET (March 16)
– 1:50 AM in the UK (March 17) – 3:30 AM in the UK (March 17)
– 2:50 AM in Europe (March 17) – 4:30 AM in Europe (March 17)
