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● Nintendo Co., Ltd. recently applied for three Mario Kart Tour trademarks (’MARIOKART TOUR’, ‘マリカーツアー’ and ‘MK TOUR’). Read the actual application (obviously in Japanese) here.
● 4Gamer recently spoke with Shin Megami Tensei V producer Kazuyuki Yamai who says that full scale development has now begun, it will be aimed at both home console and portable players and the creations of the demons will take three times as much effort than before!
● Play-Asia have the placeholder date for Yoshi for Nintendo Switch as 28 December 2018 (source).
● The next update on 21 February to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for Nintendo Switch will add a silver haired Ultra Instinct Son Goku as a playable character priced at ¥1,200.
● RiME has finally been updated with the full patch notes posted here.
● Mebius announced that dreeps: Alarm Playing Game has moved from Winter to Spring release window.
● Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp was updated to Version 1.2.1 and fixes the bugs from the most recent major update.
● Miitomo saw the return of the “Legends of the animal kingdom! Zoo Wonders” stages with a number of lion and monkey themed items all pictured here.
● Team Love defeated Team Money 2-1 in the recent North American Splatfest over the weekend.
● The April 2018 issue of CoroCoro Comic (out 15 March) will come with a free Nintendo Switch software case with a reversible Splatoon 2 and Kirby Star Allies sleeve that will hold several games. Picture here.
● Compile Heart opened up a teaser website for a new game to be revealed in 2-3 days.
● Konami announced a new game in the Busou Shinki franchise plus a manga adaptation from Kadokawa. No platform for the game.
● A 15 second commercial for Mercenaries Saga Chronicles here.
● And a long livestream gameplay video of Touhou Koubutou V here.
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