Nintendo keeps up its advertising efforts for Pokemon Sun/Moon with a pair of new North American commercials. View them both below.
Koei Tecmo held a live stream for Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13 with Power-up Kit earlier today and showed off the latest footage from the game. See the full recording below.
After recently introducing Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns’ bachelorettes, XSEED is now turning its attention to the game’s bachelors. The first overview is for the flirtatious postman Wayne.
XSEED describes Wayne as follows:
Switch is about two and a half weeks away. To prepare for launch, retailers are starting to get their plans together. Best Buy is one such store in the U.S. readying for Switch’s release.
Based on information posted to the Switch section of Reddit which was verified by the moderation team, 682 Best Buy locations will have a midnight launch. Tickets will be handed out before the clock strikes 12, though store managers will decide on the specific timeline.
For those who didn’t pre-order, tickets will be printed for systems that were not reserved. Consumers will be given a ticket at least one hour before the store opening for locations not doing the midnight launch. As for quantities, we don’t have any numbers unfortunately, but systems are expected to be available.
As one final note, all accessories are street dated in Best Buy’s system. You won’t be able to purchase any of them until March 3.
Yesterday, a retailer in Scandinavia claimed that production for the NES Classic Edition (otherwise known as the NES Mini) would soon be ending. That prompted some concerns about the hardware’s status worldwide.
Thankfully, Nintendo of Europe has followed up with a quick comment and has clarified the situation. “Production for the Nintendo Classic Mini: NES continues, and NOE [Nintendo of Europe] will continue to ship units to retail on a regular basis,” a Nintendo UK representative told TechRadar.
Nintendo’s comment should put worries about the NES Classic Edition leaving the market to rest.
DLC is coming to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo has revealed.
An Expansion Pass will be offered for the game at launch for $19.99 / £17.99 / €19.99. You’ll then receive three new treasure chests that can be found at the Great Plateau. One contains a shirt with a Switch logo that Link can wear, exclusive to the Expansion Pass. Nintendo says that “The other two will deliver useful items.”
Some more details on Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers have emerged via Famitsu. In addition to some of the things we learned from the game’s box art, we now also know that you can customize your fighters in a variety of ways: you will be able to change their color palettes and play online using your unique-looking characters. Fighters will also gain experience and grow stronger as you progress through the game; it’s not known yet if this will only apply to singleplayer modes or if you will be able to use your powered-up fighters in online matches as well.
As for the new first-person mode we recently touched on, Capcom does indeed confirm that you play as Ryu and perform moves including Hadokens, Shoryukens, and Tatsumaki Senpukyakus. You’ll need to take down the Shadaloo Soldiers that appear on screen. Executing a Tatsumaki Senpukyaku is done based on hand positioning and movement speed of your arms.
Unsurprisingly, the game will also feature a Practice Mode where you can, well, practice your moves, combos and so on.
Finally, according to Capcom, development on the game is 50% complete – this likely means that the release of the game is still a ways off.
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
- Dragon Sinker (3DS) – 8/7/8/7
- Island (PS Vita) – 8/8/8/8
- NieR: Automata (PS4) – 10/10/9/10
- Plantera Garden Life (Wii U) – 7/8/8/7
- Plantera Garden Life (3DS) – 7/8/8/7
- Ride 2 (PS4) – 7/7/8/8
- Super Robot Wars V (PS4) – 9/8/8/9
- Super Robot Wars V (PS Vita) – 9/8/8/9
- Timepiece Ensemble (PS Vita) – 7/7/6/6
- The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 (PS4) – 8/8/8/9
- Yoiyami Dreamer (PS4) – 7/8/8/8
French outlet Melty recently had the chance to interview Yoshiaki Koizumi and Shinya Takahashi, who provided them with quite a few new details on the Switch.
First of all, while we already knew for a while that the Switch uses Bluetooth in some way, Koizumi now confirmed that the Switch is compatible with Bluetooth headsets – and that’s not all, as they (and regular wired headsets) can be used even when the Switch is in docked mode.
Pokémon Shuffle’s latest update adds new main stages to the game, as well as the usual special stages. Starting with Stage 531, players will be able to take on new challenges.
The special stages have also updated. Up first is the latest Mega Challenge, running until February 21. Players will face off against Mega Gardevoir for a chance to win Gardevoirite. The prizes are as follows:
Gardevoirite, 5 Raise Max Level, 5 Mega Speedup: Top 200 EU/300 NA Gardevoirite, 4 Raise Max Level, 4 Mega Speedup: Top 500 EU/700 NA Gardevoirite, 3 Raise Max Level, 3 Mega Speedup: Top 1,000 EU/1,500 NA Gardevoirite, 2 Raise Max Level, 2 Mega Speedup: Top 2,000 EU/3,000 NA Gardevoirite, 1 Raise Max Level, 1 Mega Speedup: Top 4,000 EU/6,000 NA Gardevoirite, 1 Mega Speedup, 1 Skill Booster M: Top 6,000 EU/9,000 NA Gardevoirite, 1 Disruption Delay, 1 Exp. Booster L: Top 9,000 EU/13,000 NA Gardevoirite, 1 Disruption Delay: Top 12,000 EU/18,000 NA 1 Attack Power, 1 Disruption Delay: Top 16,000 EU/24,000 NA 1 Attack Power: All other players
The other stages are a Cobalion event (running until February 21), a Volcanion Escalation battle, Smiling Pikachu, and a safari (each running until February 28). The safari will feature Sandshrew, Sandslash, Barboach, Whiscash, Zigzagoon, Linoone, and Shiny Rayquaza.
