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Update: The same Splatfest has now been confirmed for Europe, taking place during the same weekend.


Original: Nintendo has announced a new Splatfest for Splatoon 2. In North America, pancakes and waffles will be battling it out on February 8, kicking off at 8 PM PT / 11 PM ET. Per usual, it’ll last for a full day.

We’ll share the results of the Splatfest here after it concludes.

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This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Switch Retail

Dragon Marked for Death: Advanced Attackers – €14.99
Dragon Marked for Death: Frontline Fighters – €14.99
DreamWorks Dragons Dawn of New Riders – €39.99 (available February 1)
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy – €29.99

Darksiders Warmastered Edition

After it was initially leaked yesterday, THQ Nordic has officially announced Darksiders Warmastered Edition for Switch. The game will launch on April 2, the company confirmed today.

Here’s an introduction to Darksiders:

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Switch Retail

Riot: Civil Unrest – $16.99 (available February 5)
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 – $29.99 (available February 5)

Nintendo’s latest financial results are in, and included with the various documents is the upcoming release schedule for Switch and 3DS. Aside from a look at what’s to come from a first-party perspective, it also provides an overview of some planned third-party titles. We’ve attached the latest schedule below.

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Nintendo has announced its financial results for the fiscal year ending March 2019. We’ll be rounding up all of the important pieces of information from the report below.

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Mario Kart Tour

Mario Kart Tour will not hit its original release window. The mobile game will now launch sometime this summer, Nintendo just announced.

Mario Kart Tour was originally planned for this fiscal year. Explaining the delay in its financial report, Nintendo said:

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Thanks to Nintendo’s latest financial results, we’re able to get a look at the company’s latest million sellers. There are a few new entries this time around, and a couple are already at 10 million.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the current best-selling Switch game at just over 15 million. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a new entrant, sits at 12.08 million worldwide. Pokemon: Let’s Go has also sold 10 million copies.

Here’s the full lineup:

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After a week off, Masahiro Sakurai published his latest column in Famitsu this week. His piece was again dedicated entirely to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and this one was particularly interesting.

Sakurai managed to receive permission from Nintendo in sharing some data about online play in Smash Bros. Ultimate. His column was only in reference to a specific week, but he went over victory rates, character usage, and more. 

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It’s been revealed that THQ Nordic is bringing Darksiders Warmastered Edition to Switch. A trailer for the game exists on the company’s media server, confirming the news.

THQ Nordic hasn’t made the official announcement, so we don’t have a release window just yet. However, you can find a new trailer below.


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