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Pokémon fans, it’s the moment you’ve been waiting for! Earlier today Nintendo released the first official footage of Pokémon Sun and Moon, confirming such details as the next generation of Starter Pokémon, the name of the next Region, the games’ release dates and more!
Pokémon Sun and Moon will be set in the Alola Region, a name that immediately springs to mind Hawaiian Islands or such similar climates, though it’s unclear as yet just where the real life basis of the new region may lie if any. Artwork of the new region was shown during the footage and appears to depict an island with various different land types, which may make for a very varied journey.
But what’s a new region without new Pokémon? As always, the next generation of Pokémon introduces a bunch of new critters to catch; and as always, you’ll start the game by choosing your starter from the standard mix of a Fire, a Water or a Grass type. Gen VII’s Water-type is known as Popplio and is based on a performing seal, who appears to like to blow bubbles and balance them on his nose. The appropriately-named Litten is your Fire-type choice, being a kitten capable of breathing fire; and the trio is completed with Rowlet, a Grass/Flying-type Bird Pokémon capable of launching its feathers like Razor Leaves, at least so the art implies. You can see all three in action in the video below. Oh, and apparently, the character who gives you your starter will be named Hala, though this may be different in other regions.
A lot of people complained about the character customisation options introduced in X and Y being taken out of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, and while it has not yet been confirmed if full character customisation is to make a return in Sun and Moon, the footage appears to show the character’s shirt and shorts differing in certain scenes, hinting to a potential return. Nintendo HAVE, however, confirmed that you will be able to change your skin pigmentation, as with X and Y, so it seems some customisability is planned at least.
The very last thing revealed today was the official box-art for English-language regions, which you can see above (click them for a larger image). This artwork also offers one more tantalising new fact – a look at the Legendaries of the two new games. Sun’s legendary seems to mix Pyroar with Reshiram in the appearance stakes; while Moon’s entry seems to be a very cool anthropomorphic bat with crescent-shapes on its wings and head.
Pokémon Sun and Moon will be released on November 18th 2016 in the US, Australia and Japan; and November 23rd in Europe – WHY NO SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE, NINTENDO?!? You proved it possible with X and Y, after all… Oh well, a five-day wait doesn’t seem all that bad. Hopefully we’ll have more tantalising info to share about Pokémon Sun and Moon coming up in the remaining six months to launch, but until then, take a look at the footage below. Until next time, Pokémaniacs!
Fans have been enjoying Miitomo, Nintendo’s first mobile application, since it launched back in March; soon, a new update will improve upon the user experience for the app. According to a recent email from Nintendo, Miitomo will be receiving a new update soon that will add new ways to add friends and more.
The update will allow users to send friend requests to other users via email and “other methods”, allowing you to connect with people who you couldn’t before. It’ll also allow you to answer the same questions as your friends when viewing their answers and edit a Miifoto before posting it as comment, as well as other improvements.
You can check out a screenshot of the email below!
Over a year since it was first teased, we still don’t know what it looks like, plays like, or even what its final name will be – and Nintendo don’t plan to spill the beans until later this year. But now, thanks to a Tweet by Nintendo of America (based on information discreetly hidden in Nintendo of Japan’s annual financial report), we DO finally have one piece of concrete information about the upcoming Nintendo “NX” console – it’s launch date:
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) 27 April 2016
March 2017. Just under a year away from the date of this article’s publication. For Nintendo, however, the launch likely can’t come soon enough. The Wii U has failed to resonate with players, with the GamePad being seen as a gimmick and games such as Splatoon and Bayonetta not doing enough to pull people on side; and the console’s lack of power compared to the XBox One and PS4 has seen its third-party support dwindle into near-nothingness. That Nintendo has taken a hit for the console’s failure was apparent in the annual fiscal report, revealing that Nintendo as a whole made 45.3 billion yen less in the last 12 months than the previous financial year, though this still equates to 504.5 billion yen or roughly £3.116 billion British Pounds.
Importantly, however, Nintendo’s operating income came in at 32.8 billion yen last year, an increase of 8 billion yen. The company predicts that its move towards smartphones, combined with the launch of the NX, will pay off in the next year and aim to hit 45 billion yen in operating income by the end of the 2016/17 financial year.
Of course, Nintendo may also have another ace in the sleeve to get people back on-side – a dynamite launch title. Nintendo also announced today, in a separate announcement to the fans, that the long-awaited Zelda Wii U title has once again been delayed to 2017, for “further quality testing”; and that the game will now launch simultaneously for both the Wii U and the NX – meaning that a new Zelda title may well be a launch title for the next console as well as a swansong for the current generation, paralleling the launch of Twilight Princess for Wii and GameCube ten years ago. 2017 may well be an interesting year for Nintendo fans.
We have a release date for World of Warcraft: Legion–August 30th, 2016.
Legion includes powerful world-drop Legendary items, a new transmog system, the new Demon Hunter class, Class Halls, and a major profession revamp.
You can prepurchase Legion for $49.99 (£34.99) for a Level 100 Character Boost and early access to Demon Hunters, or prepurchase the Digital Deluxe Collectors Edition for $69.99 (£49.99) to get Reins of the Illidari Felstalker and Nibbles, as well as some perks for other Blizzard games.
Defenders of the Alliance and the Horde—a great and ancient enemy has set its sights on Azeroth once more, and soon the land will be consumed in a storm of fel fire. On August 30, kingdoms will burn, heroes will fall, and the world will stand on the precipice of destruction with the launch of World of Warcraft: Legion!
All hellfire is about to break loose, so steel yourself for the return of the Burning Legion by pre-purchasing World of Warcraft: Legion digitally at www.wowlegion.com. Players who pre-purchase will receive an instant level-100 character boost, as well as unlock early access to the new Demon Hunter hero class prior to the expansion’s release.
The Warlords digital deluxe items ( Reins of the Dread Raven and Dread Hatchling) will not be available to purchase when the prepatch hits. These items are currently available for $20 (£15) on the Blizzard Shop.
It’s been a couple of weeks since the Fallout 4 Automatron DLc dropped on all platforms and I’ve been feverishly adding automatrons to all my settlements since then.
“The mysterious Mechanist has unleashed a horde of evil robots into the Commonwealth, including the devious Robobrain. Hunt them down and harvest their parts to build and mod your own custom robot companions. Choose from hundreds of mods; mixing limbs, armor, abilities, and weapons like the all-new lightning chain gun. Even customize their paint schemes and choose their voices!”
Automatron is a four mission DLC that kicks off at level 15 for the sole survivor. Now only four missions seems rather small and I thought so too, until I played it on stream the night it released and realised I had been playing for over 7 hours and the sun was coming up. You can see my live stream below, and no worries, I didn’t finish the final fight on stream, not only for spoilers, but also cos I was half asleep at the time.
What I will say about the ending though is that it gives a really interesting moral decision, one that I’m glad I chose the decision I went with and has not only left me with a fun set of armour for my companions, but also a new settlement and a new set of random radio quests for that added experience and looting opportunity.
One thing I would reccomend to anyone just starting Automatron though, if you don’t have the robotics perk, max it out! The Hack ability for robots works on ALL enemy automatrons in the DLC and adds for some hilarious outcomes when attacked by the new raider gang that use the robots!
Speaking of them, this new raider group is called the Rust Devils. They use robot parts to make weapons and armour, and the armour is comparable with good tier Synth armour, only being out done by Legendary Synth pieces later on, so unless you have a full set of heavy combat armour like I did when i started the DLC, it’s a great way to get some extra protection from the bots you have to face.
Of course, everyone knows by now what the biggest draw of Automatron is and thats the ability to build and upgrade your own automatrons and put them to work in your settlements! You kick off getting this workstation when you finish the first mission of the DLC and also gain Ada as a companion. you can use the workstation to upgrade Ada with any of the items available to you based on your perks, Science, Armoury, etc just like other workbenches, but you can also find parts from dead automatrons you find in random encounters. The other fun thing is that you can also upgrade Codsworth and Curie if she’s still in her Miss Nanny body (not her synth body, oh sorry, SPOILERS!)
The new settlement, without giving away spoiles, is both amusing, but also a pain in the ass to use properly, of course, this weeks new DLC, Wastelander (out Tuesday 12th April) will cure some of those annoyances with the new settlement build options, but right now, it is pretty useless beyond giving some minuteman style radio quests. It does however make a good hiding spot for the sole survivor, especially when the new survival update comes along aswell.
I have utterly love playing Fallout 4 since the beginning (surprising, since I never got into Fallout 4 and I was never a fan of Skyrim), but something about it has just grabbed me and won’t let go and Automatron has just added tot he experience in spades. I love updating my provisioners to using sentrybots instead of humans (they are far more valuable than being pack Brahman anyway)
One gripe I would give though is the other new settlement item you can use, the Eyebot Pod, which, in functionality sounds really useful, however, is pretty useless. It works by giving the eyebot the command to search for crafting materials or ammo, however, especially when it comes tot he junk for crafting, the amount you find fromt eh two part mission it gives you are miniscule compared to the power (6) that the pod needs. Of course, some will say that it’s also useful for getting you back to places you previously cleared out for other loot aswell, plus it can be useful for finding rare ammo like Railway Spikes and Cannonballs. But even those really aren’t worth it to be honest, so frankly, after testing, I scrapped the one I built.
All in all this is a great DLC, certainly worth the season price cost (I’ve played full price games with shorter storylines than this…) but even after the DLC price increase,
looking at the other DLC’s and free updates that are on the way? totally worth it! A Solid 9 out of 10!
