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Miitomo maintence tonight ahead of big update

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Jason Nason

Nintendo revealed some information today that Miitomo will be down for maintenance tonight. The maintenance work will take place between February 8th at 11:00 p.m. ET until February 9th at 5:00 a.m. ET.

The maintenance is being conducted to prepare for an upcoming big update. After maintenance is completed, the app can be updated to the newest version of Miitomo. During the maintenance period Miitomo won’t be available.

No worries, though. Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes are still a thing.

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IMPRESSIONS: Fire Emblem Heroes

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Jason Nason

Nintendo and Intellgent Systems today released the mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes. This is the third mobile app from Nintendo and the second game to be released by the company.

Fire Emblem Heroes is an original strategy RPG about two warring kingdoms in a bitter clash. As a summoner, players build their army by calling upon popular Fire Emblem heroes from worlds that span the breadth of the series. Players will wage tactical battles streamlined for on-the-go play and level up a mix of new combatants and legendary heroes. Some familiar hero characters will become allies, while others will become enemy generals.

First of all the game is gorgeous. I would expect nothing less from Nintendo and Intelligent Systems but the game has all the polish you would see in a regular console release of any Fire Emblems game.

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Toby: The Secret Mine opens up January 19th

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Jason Nason

Toby: The Secret Mine from Headup Games is coming to the Wii U eShop on January 19th. The game will then be released on Xbox One January 20th.

In Toby: The Secret Mine, a peaceful way of life in a small village in the mountains was thrown into disorder. Someone has kidnapped most of its residents. A couple of brave hearts tried to rescue their friends but none of them has returned. You’ll go with little Toby on an eerie adventure in a dark and creepy world full of dangerous situations, enemies and challenging puzzles. Use our wits, platforming skills and puzzle-solving abilities to bypass mind-bending puzzles, while avoiding traps and monsters.

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Capcom releasing iOS and Android versions of Mega Man 1-6 in January

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Jason Nason

We clearly missed this last week but Capcom announced recently that it will be bringing the six original 8-bit Mega Man games to iOS and Android devices in early January. This will be the first time that all six of the original 8-bit Mega Man games will have been made available on smart devices.

These adaptations have been optimized for mobile devices with adjustments to game speed and will each retail individually for $1.99 USD.

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Pokemon Go Players Have Walked Billions of Kilometers

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Pokemon GO is one of the few unique mainstream games that rewards players for going out into the real world and exploring. Whether they’re walking down the block or across their entire city to hatch eggs, Pokemon Trainers the world over have racked up quite the tally – over 9 billion KM have been tallied by trainers the Pokemon Company since its July launch.

If you need a comparison to help you comprehend just how massive 9 billion KM is, here is what the Pokemon GO blog said:

“We are pleased to share that—as of December 7—the Pokémon GO community has collectively walked more than 8.7 billion kilometers. That’s more than 200,000 trips around Earth! Fun fact: A commercial jetliner would take more than 1,000 years to cover the same distance. While covering this distance, Trainers also caught more than 88 billion Pokémon along the way. That’s roughly 533 million Pokémon a day!”

Even with all of this walking, Pokemon GO Players haven’t crossed the entire solar system yet – who knows if Nintendo will make an interstellar announcement once players cross the 287 billion KM mark (the diameter of our solar system).

Alongside their blog post Niantic also included the following animated info-graphic:

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New Pokémon and Holiday Pikachu added to Pokémon GO

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Jason Nason

Niantic and Nintendo spread a little bit of holiday cheer today with the announcment of some new Pokémon coming to Pokémon GO.

Togepi and Pichu will start hatching from Eggs. Starting today, trainers will have the opportunity to hatch these and several other Pokémon that were originally discovered in the Johto Region in Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver video games.

Niantic also shared that these are the first of more Pokémon coming to Pokémon GO over the next few months.

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Miitomo updated to version 2.1

Posted on December 10, 2016 by Jason Nason

On Thursday morning Nintendo rolled out a minor update to Miitomo, with the update going live at 6:00 AM Eastern time. The update brings the application to version 2.1 and introduces a few new features to the game.

With version 2.1 you can now share what your Sidekick Mii characters think. It’s not just your main Mii who can answer questions anymore and your Sidekick Mii characters can too. To be honest I never really got around to creating a sidekick me, but maybe I should get around to that now. I’ll have to be sure to give them plenty of personality.

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Big update to Magic: The Gathering – Puzzle Quest tomorrow

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Jason Nason

The next update for Magic: The Gathering – Puzzle Quest is scheduled to go live tomorrow, and from the post on the developers blog it looks like it’s going to be a big one.

With the game hitting its one year anniversary, this new update will include the addition of cards from the Kaladesh expansion. The Kaladesh expansion adds 184 new cards to work with and now lets you battle with vehicles, massive constructs and harness the plane’s energy to gain the upper hand on your opponents.

This expansion features 4 brand-new mechanics: Energize, Overload, Fabricate and Crew. Energize and Overload go hand in hand. When a card performs Energize, it adds Energy to gems on the board. By itself, Energy doesn’t do anything, but when you match gems that contain Energy, ANY card you control on the battlefield with the Overload keyword will activate and the Energy is then removed from the matched gems.

Fabricate summons supports that grant +1/+1 to the first creature you control, and Crew gives mana to Vehicles when another non-token creature you control enters the battlefield.

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More Pokémon coming soon to Pokémon GO

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Jason Nason

There are about to be more catchable Pokémon in Niantic and Nintendo’s mobile game Pokémon GO soon.

The official Pokémon Twitter channel sent out a brief tweet today announcing that “More Pokémon are coming to Pokémon GO!” The tweet went on to tease the date of December 12th for more information.

There is some speculation of what the new Pokémon will be, with the assumption that it will be the second generation Pokémon coming to the game. While that is the most likely assumption, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the new Pokémon from Nintendo’s newest 3DS games Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon might not be in the mix.

It would certainly be a miss not to use this release to cross promote between the two Pokémon games.

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Apollo Justice – Ace Attorney now available on Android and iOS

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Jason Nason

Capcom announced today that they have released its highly popular courtroom drama, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney for Android devices. The game was released for iOS this past Friday. The original game was released for the Nintendo 3DS in North America in 2008.

For the smartphone and tablet version of the game, Capcom has optimized the UI and graphics to take advantage of the superior resolutions and aspect ratios available with these current devices. Also, the smartphone game will offer full English and Japanese language support.

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Lara Croft GO now available for Steam/PlayStation

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Jason Nason

Lara Croft GO has been released today for PlayStation 4, PS Vita, and Steam.

Originally released as a mobile title last summer, Lara Croft GO is a turn based puzzle-adventure set in a long-forgotten world. You’ll explore the ruins of an ancient civilization, discover well-kept secrets and face deadly challenges as you uncover the myth of the Queen of Venom.

Following the award-winning Hitman GO, the game was devloped by Square Enix Montréal in collaboration with Montréal indie studio, KO_OP.

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Are Skylanders cards on the way out?

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Jason Nason

Less than a year after their release, could Activision be dropping Skylanders Battlecast?

Based on the Skylanders videogame series, Skylanders Battlecast launched in May of this year. The game is a free-to-play mobile card game where players build their ultimate deck of cards, master strategic card combinations and use them in never before seen battles. In addition to the digital cards in the game, physical card packs are also available for purchase in retail stores.

But since the first release of the cards, and a few minor updates to the app, there have been no further releases of cards or any major updates to the game itself.

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Crazy Chicken: Director’s Cut comes to Android

Posted on December 4, 2016 by Jason Nason

Teyon and phenomedia publishing gmbh announced on Friday that they have released Crazy Chicken: Director’s Cut in the Google Play Store. The action-shooter is now available worldwide to download for FREE.

The shooter is the latest game from Teyon to hit mobile devices and might look familiar. In the opposite of the trend the game is a port of one which was previously released in the Nintendo eShop. The game was released as a DSiWare title just over three years ago.

In the game you take position in the director’s chair, reload your shot gun and get ready for some serious shooting action! The crazy chickens have returned to Android in this brand new game with a totally new theme and game-play. Explore the backstage of a movie studio and go behind the scenes where all the action takes place! With limited ammo, hit your targets with precision and reveal all the riddles and secrets for bonus points! There are loads of achievements to collect as well as online leaderboards to top to keep you shooting all day long!

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Pokémon GO updates, Ditto, and local realtime tracker

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Jason Nason

I’ll be honest. After the initial craze for Pokémon GO hit I somewhat fell off the bandwagon. I wasn’t one of those people who spent hours and days walking around seeking the elusive creatures, sucking up tons and tons of data. I’ll admit, after I let a friend without mobile data tether off of my data and I ended up going way over my monthly data, I really scaled back on my usage.

Heck, I’m only level 14.

But I have been keeping tabs on the game and am not one of those who uninstalled the game and wrote it off. I’m sure there’s much more to come.

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Square Enix shutting down Guardian Cross

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Jason Nason

Square Enix announced today that they are shutting down their mobile game Guardian Cross. Square stated the shut down was due to the difficulty in offering satisfactory to all the players.

Guardian Cross, which was released on September 13th, 2012 will end services as of January 10th, 2017. Square dropped Android support from the game back in March.

The announcement comes on the heels of the release of Square Enix’s latest mobile game Guardian Codex, a brand-new title appears from the creators of Guardian Cross.

Sales within the game will cease on December 4th, 2016 at 10:00 p.m. (EST) with end end of the game slated for January 10th, 2017 10:00 p.m. (EST).

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