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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!
New details have been made public for Rainbow Six Siege’s next bit of free content, Operation Dust Line.
Already known was that it was going to bring the new ‘Border’ map (described as being the most open and destructible map yet) and two new operators that you could play as; Valkyrie with her sticky cameras that anyone on the team can access, and Blackbeard with his rifle-mounted shield to protect from small arms fire.
The update will also come with the ability to customise your operators between rounds to help teams be a bit more reactive to opposition instead of being stuck with a disadvantage all session; and also the ability to disable the placement of gadgets during a match enabling players to get down to just shooting at each other instead of using traps. There will also be a post match screen to show the winning team and highlight the most valuable player in a match.
Of course there’ll be tweaks to existing content too, with side protection being added to Montagne’s shield and Tachanka’s machine gun being made easier to place among other changes.
The new map will release for all players free on May 11th, which is also when Season Pass owners will get instant access to both new characters. Everyone else will have to wait a week for them to unlock on the 18th, and then will have to purchase them through in-game currency Renown or the microtransaction-based R6 Credits.
Once again, we have a leaked release date, courtesy of someone somewhere pressing the wrong button too early.
The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine expansion is coming quite soon, and it seems that someone got overly excited, making the Steam page for the expansion live with the unannounced release date before removing it quickly. Oops.
Unfortunately for whoever set it live, the Internet has many eyes. Tweeter @Wario64 not only posted the announcement of the date, but then followed it up with a screencap moments later when the date was taken down:
The Steam description listed that Blood and Wine would take players on a 20+ hour long adventure in an area that rivals No Man’s Land in size, and even mentioned something about Geralt having access to his own vineyard. There’ll also be new gear, with armour being dyeable now and Gwent players getting a new set of Skellige cards for their collection.
So, keep your eyes on the Interwebs for the official confirmation of the release date as May 30th, provided this leak is accurate information.
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!
