Though it is already available in North America, Dragon Ball Fusions is scheduled to arrive in Europe on February 17 and now Bandai Namco has unveiled that a day 1 patch will be available that same day.
This patch is not necessary to play, but after installing it, all players will get new characters, items, titles and Special Moves.
Here’s the new characters that will come with the patch:
- Trunks (Super)
- Goku Black
- Super Saiyan Rosé Goku Black
- Super Saiyan Trunks (Super)
- SSGSS Vegito
- Zamas
- Fused Zamas
The update will be releasing in North America at some point. However, we still don’t know when the new content will be available.
Codemasters announced Dirt 4 yesterday. It’s the next entry in the company’s long-running racing series. At least initially, the game won’t be coming to Switch, but senior designer Darren Hayward isn’t ruling out the possibility of it happening in the future.
Hayward told Daily Star:
“Personally, I’ve got my Switch pre-ordered and I’m getting it day one. Obviously at launch [DiRT 4] is not coming to Switch. We’d already picked our platforms. We’ve nothing to announce right now, but, I wouldn’t rule it out.”
Hayward was also asked how he thinks racing games can work on a system like Switch. He said in response:
“There are signs of more traditional games coming out for Switch with full controller support like Skyrim, but would Dirt Rally or Dirt 4 work on a split Switch controller? I think we’d have to do quite a lot in terms of extra tweaks.”
“When you take it away and you’ve got it in tablet mode with the Joy-Cons it’s great, but those split controllers, that’s custom game design right there specifically for that platform. There are not many inputs, so you’d have to have super simplified controls and because of that, it may not be the ideal scenario for DiRT 4. That said, I could definitely see Nintendo Switch having some compelling racing experiences.”
Nintendo UK updated its website today with detailed information about the various parts of Switch. The system itself, Dock, Joy-Con, strap, and grip are covered in detail.
Continue on below for the full breakdown of the Switch hardware.
With just one week to go until launch, Nintendo created a new “Discovery” trailer for Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World. Watch it below.
Pokemon Bank was finally updated this week to include functionality for Pokemon Sun/Moon. To celebrate, Nintendo of Europe presented a challenge to Game Freak’s Junichi Masuda to name as many Pokemon as he can in 20 seconds. See how he did below.
Switch game cases are beginning to pop up at Japanese retailers. Twitter user Gaijinhunter stopped by one of these stores, and shared a bunch of photos today. Not only are there images of the cases themselves, but also a couple of shots showing how the size compares to the PSP boxes.
Nintendo has scheduled more maintenance for both Wii U and 3DS as well as maintenance specifically pertaining to the use of eShop cards. As far as the schedule goes, both are as follows:
Wii U / 3DS maintenance (online play, rankings, etc.)
– 4 PM PT (January 30) – 8 PM PT (January 30)
– 7 PM ET (January 30) – 11 PM ET (January 30)
– 12 AM in the UK (January 31) – 4 AM in the UK (January 31)
– 1 AM in Europe (January 31) – 5 AM in Europe (January 31)
Using eShop cards
– 10 AM PT (February 7) – 1 PM PT (February 7)
– 1 PM ET (February 7) – 4 PM ET (February 7)
– 6 PM in the UK (February 7) – 9 PM in Europe (February 7)
– 7 PM in Europe (February 7) – 10 PM in Europe (February 7)
The Japanese Twitter account for Splatoon has posted a handful of screenshots from Splatoon 2 which show off one of the new maps. Called “Barnacles Sports Club” in Japanese (surely the official English name will be pun-tastic), this map was briefly seen in the Splatoon 2 trailer shown at the Switch presentation two weeks ago. As the name implies, it’s sort of a sports club / gym with climbing areas, a pool, fitness equipment and so on. It seems like the spawn point for each teams will be the highest points of the map, with slopes leading down to the central area.
Tsunakazu Ishihara, CEO of The Pokemon Company, recently sat down with Nikkei for an interview. Other than some general talk about the games industry and Pokemon GO, he had this to say when asked about safety concerns when playing Pokemon GO:
“To avoid the danger, we also released “Pokemon Go Plus,” the smartphone-linked wearable device, so that “Pokemon Go” players do not have to always be looking down at their smartphone screens. Together with Nintendo, we are thinking of developing a new device that can be played more safely. “
Since the interview was originally conducted in Japanese, there’s always the danger of something being lost in translation, but the word “device” being used here is interesting. Pokemon GO Plus is more of an accessory since you still need an actual smartphone to properly play Pokemon GO, but it seems like Ishihara might be talking about a device here that lets you play the game on its own.
Certainly an interesting possibility, but either way, it seems like this mysterious device is still in the planning stages, so we probably won’t get to see it for a while.
Nintendo just released part 2 of the “Heroes & Heroines” trailer for Fire Emblem Heroes, showing off a couple more of the game’s characters and their all-new artwork and voice samples. Give it a watch:
