This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Salt and Sanctuary (PS4) – 8/9/8/9
Tokyo Xanadu eX+ (PS4) – 9/8/8/8
F1 2016 (PS4/XBO) – 8/8/8/8
Bound (PS4) – 7/8/7/9
Volume (PS4/PSV) – 7/8/7/8
Yuukyuu no Tierblade: Lost Chronicle (PSV) – 7/7/8/8
Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger: Battle Cube Puzzle (3DS) – 7/7/7/7
A few days ago, Let’s Play Video Games put up a report claiming that NX will make use of advanced vibration technology and motion sensing in new controllers intended to replace the Wii Remote. The site has now followed with additional unconfirmed information regarding the current version of development hardware.
Let’s Play Video Games writes that developers have access to a split d-pad as well as some sort of share button, similar to that of the PlayStation 4. The button features a small icon of a camera and will let users upload still images and video on Miiverse, Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. Images or video can also be saved to external memory devices, which then can be ultimately moved to PC.
Let’s Play Video Games offers up the following mockup:
Just like last week’s report, these latest rumors are unconfirmed. It’ll stay that way until Nintendo has something official to say about its new system.
This week’s Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Wii U
1. Minecraft Wii U Edition – Nintendo
2. Mario & Sonic: Rio 2016 Olympic Games – Nintendo
3. New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
4. Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo
5. Pokken Tournament – Nintendo
6. Splatoon – Nintendo
7. Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Warner Bros. Interactive
8. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Nintendo
9. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD – Nintendo
10. Super Mario Maker – Nintendo
3DS
1. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
2. Pokemon Omega Ruby – Nintendo
3. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
4. Yo-Kai Watch – Nintendo
5. Pokemon Alpha Sapphire – Nintendo
6. Pokemon X – Nintendo
7. Pokemon Y – Nintendo
8. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D – Nintendo
9. Monster Hunter Generations – Capcom
10. Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon – Nintendo
Source: Chart-Track
Pokémon Shuffle’s free weekly updates continue! As announced last week, a repeat run of the Mega Charizard X stage has begun, and will run until September 6. As usual with Mega challenges, only the best players will earn the Mega Charizardite X, going to the top 13,000 players in Europe, 19,000 in North America and 60,000 in Japan. Other prizes are as follows:
-Skill Swapper: Top 1,000 (EU), 1,600 (NA), and 5,000 (JP)
-Mega Speedup: Top 4,200 (EU), 6,400 (NA), and 20,000 (JP)
-Disruption Delay: Top 4,201-19,000 (EU), 6,401-26,000 (NA), and 20,001-80,000 (JP)
-Attack Power: All players who don’t get the Charizardite X
Players who qualify for the Charizardite X but already have it will receive a Raise Max Level instead.
The non-competitive stages added this week are a new stage for Xerneas, and repeat runs of Arceus, Regice, and Daily Pokémon (#5). The last of those features Maractus, Dunsparce, Qwilfish, Durant and Heatmor, all switching on a daily basis. The Xerneas stage will last until September 6, while the others run until the 13th.
Tallowmere will be hitting the Wii U eShop in North America on September 1. To download it, you’ll need 326 mb of space.
Bandai Namco’s lineup for the 2016 Tokyo Game Show is now live. You can access the page here.
Bandai Namco intends to have live streams during the show. Currently, however, a schedule has not been announced.
Head past the break for Bandai Namco’s full TGS lineup, courtesy of Gematsu.
Artdink published A-Train 3D back in 2014 in Japan. Last year, Natsume localized the game for North America and Europe. Now Artink is developing a new version.
A-Train 3D Neo (or perhaps we should call it A-Train 3D: City Simulator Neo) is coming to Japan on December 1. Other than the regular package at 4,860 yen, there will be also a “Beginner’s Pack” that comes with an official guidebook priced at 5,378 yen.
A-Train 3D Neo improves upon features from the vanilla version. Additionally, the eight extra scenarios that were offered as paid DLC will be included here. Compatibility with data from the vanilla version is planned as well.
Niantic has posted an update on the situation surrounding bans in Pokemon GO. Some accounts have been unbanned – mainly from players who were unaware about what they were getting into with add-on map apps. However, most accounts that were previously banned for violating Terms of Service will not be adjusted.
Here’s the full update from Niantic:
We continue to work to ensure the integrity of the game and the health of our servers by blocking unauthorized access and at times by banning offending accounts. This includes blocking bots, data scraping operations, and banning end user accounts associated with those activities. Some players may not have realized that some add-on map apps do more than just show you nearby Pokémon. Each end-user app can be used as a collection tool by the app creator, invisibly collecting and forwarding data to the app creator with or without the knowledge of the end user. These apps can have an effect similar to DDoS attacks on our servers. Because of this we have had to ban some accounts associated with using these add-on map tools, leading to confusion by some users about why they were banned. This is a small subset of the accounts banned.
As a result of some changes made to our infrastructure, we are now able to unban this set of accounts. Add-on maps which scrape data from our servers still violate our Terms of Service and use of them may still result in an account ban going forward. Accounts whose sole purpose was to scrape data are not being unbanned. Accounts which used apps or websites to remotely capture Pokémon, battle or deploy on Gyms, or harvest resources from PokéStops are also not being unbanned. Our main priority is to provide a fair, fun, and legitimate experience for all players, so, aggressive banning will continue to occur for players who engage in these kinds of activities.
Three Wii U games from Nintendo have had their prices permanently reduced on the eShop. Yoshi’s Woolly World, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, and Mario Party 10 are now $30 each. The discounts come ahead of the new amiibo bundles in North America next week.
