After about a week without maintenance, Nintendo is going back to work next week. The Wii U and 3DS eShops, Wii Shopping Channel, and DSi Shop will be down for four hours on Monday / Tuesday.
The full maintenance schedule is as follows:
– 1 PM PT (February 20) – 5 PM PT (February 20)
– 4 PM ET (February 20) – 8 PM ET (February 20)
– 9 PM in the UK (February 20) – 1 AM in the UK (February 21)
– 10 PM in Europe (February 20) – 2 AM in Europe (February 21)
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber joined the European Wii U Virtual Console last week. In North America, it arrives tomorrow.
Nintendo’s website shares the following overview:
“Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber is a tactical RPG originally released for the Nintendo 64 system. The game tells the story of Magnus Gallant, a recently graduated officer of the Palatinean Army who is assigned to the troubled southern region of his native land. There he witnesses the plight of the lower classes – the victims of a tyrannical ruling elite whose only thought is for the preservation of their own lofty status. With civil war brewing, Magnus is faced with a terrible choice: to betray his own noble origins in the name of liberty, or turn a blind eye to the evils of his rotten society.”
Ogre Battle 64 will set you back $9.99.
As the countdown to Switch’s launch gets closer, retailers are now beginning to set up displays. Units are beginning to show up at Best Buy locations, for instance.
Sadly, these displays aren’t actually playable, as they only show trailers on a loop. You can at least pick which video to be shown. Plus, this only helps to promote Switch to the wider public in the end.
MixedBag Games is holding true to its promise of delivering forma.8 on Wii U. However, the team has expressed interest in porting the game – and bringing future projects – to Switch.
When asked about sticking with forma.8’s release on Wii U and the possibility of a Switch version by Nintendo Life, MixedBag co-founder Mauro Fanelli said:
“We’ve promised a Wii U version of the game and there were no chances we wouldn’t deliver on that. Especially considering that we had the Wii U version up and running perfectly from 2015.
We can’t wait to work on Switch and we really hope to be able to port forma.8 and all our future projects on it. It’s such a lovely bit of kit!”
You’ll be able to pick up forma.8 on the Wii U eShop very soon – it’s slated for February 28.
System 3 sent out a new trailer for Constructor on its Facebook page today. View the video below.
Update 4 (2/15): GameStop now has the system itself back up.
Update 3 (2/4): The system and charger bundle is back up on GameStop.
Update 2: All sold out.
Update (1/25): GameStop is now selling the system with just a charger (no game) here.
Original (1/24): Several hours ago, Nintendo announced the Pikachu Yellow Edition New 3DS XL for North America. GameStop is now taking pre-orders, but only in the form of bundles. Options are available with either Pokemon Sun or Pokemon Moon along with charger.
Pre-orders are open on GameStop here. When other retailers begin taking reservations, we’ll bring that news to you.
Wobbly Tooth has wrapped up an update for Ice Station Z. After applying version 1.2, players will have access to new weapons, locations, vehicles and passengers, and more. Improvements and bug fixes are implemented as well.
Wobbly Tooth says the update will be ready on March 1. The full patch notes and trailer can be found below.
Nintendo has long been touting Switch as being compatible with Unreal Engine 4. Epic Games prepared a new update for the technology today, which makes it official.
Unreal Engine 4.15 adds “early support” for creating Switch titles. Epic Games does say though that it’s “still considered experimental in this release.” For the next release, it’s planned to be “in a shippable state”.
Vaccine is due out on Wii U eShop very soon. For those wondering, it takes up 316 MB of space. Look for the downloadable game next Thursday in Europe, and soon after in North America.
Shocking almost no one, yet another collaboration has been announced for Monster Hunter XX. Capcom is partnering with the CoroCoro manga Grandpa Danger. Felyne armor called Kikonashi D-ryman will be added as DLC.
In other news, the file size for Monster Hunter XX is in. It’ll take up 17,784 blocks, or 2,223 MB of space.
