Super Formation Soccer is being pulled from the service on March 28th, a Japanese Nintendo support account announced. The game, which seems to be owned by Spike Chunsoft and goes by Super Soccer in the US and Europe, will be removed from NSO worldwide, too, Nintendo Everything reports.
Update: Added that the game will reportedly be removed worldwide.
Pokémon Horizons wasn’t a big part of today’s Pokémon Presents showcase, but The Pokémon Company is teasing Mega Evolution becoming part of the series, which makes it seem like Liko and Roy might be making a trip to Lumiose City.
Pokémon Unite has been teasing Suicune’s addition to its roster for a little while now, but this year’s Pokémon Presents showcase, The Pokémon Company revealed that the Gen II legendary isn’t the only heave hitter coming to the game. Following Suicune’s debut on March 1st, Pokémon Unite will add Alolan Raichu (arguably the sickest pokémon to date) in April, and Alcremie (a monster made of berries and cream) some time later this year.
During this year’s Pokémon Presents stream, The Pokémon Company announced that the next Pokémon TCG Pocket expansion, Triumphant Light, drops on February 28th and will feature new monsters like the legendary Arceus.
Last year, the Toyota Engineering Society showed off a snazzy bike inspired by Pokémon Violet’s futuristic motorcycle dragon legendary Miraidon. And now — seemingly timed to this year’s Pokémon Day — Honda is teasing its own a similar concept vehicle styled after Koraidon, Pokémon Scarlet’s more prehistoric dragon whose wheel-looking appendages are actually flotation devices. The Koraidon bike already looks sick as hell, and if its “wheels” actually spin, it’s going to be a huge improvement over Nintendo’s original design.
Idrees Hassan has created a free iOS app called PicoChat that recreates the Nintendo DS’ messaging experience in iMessage, as spotted by Overkill.
You can type out messages on a tiny keyboard or make drawings to send to your contacts, complete with a simulated stylus that appears onscreen as you doodle. The app generates a PictoChat-themed image of your message you can send to others, giving them a similar experience without installing the app.
If Avowed and Monster Hunter Wilds haven’t taken up all of your time, the remaster of Xenoblade Chronicles X is coming to the Switch on March 20th. It may be a decade old, but its sci-fi world is still a huge and wondrous place to explore — and you can get a deeper look at it in this new overview video from Nintendo.
Though this year’s Pokémon Day will be full of announcements about the franchise’s upcoming games, it will also feature the debut of Dragonite and the Postal Worker, a new animated short produced by CoMix Wave Films — the studio behind director Makoto Shinkai‘s Suzume, Weathering With You, and Your Name.
A new trailer for the short — out on YouTube February 27th 12 AM JST — makes it look like it’s going to be a gorgeous reminder that there’s more to the Pokémon world than battling.
Nintendo is discontinuing its My Nintendo Gold Points loyalty scheme, which rewards players for purchasing Switch games, perhaps in preparation for a new rewards program for the Switch 2. New digital purchases will stop earning Gold Points from March 25th, though it will still be possible to claim points from preorders made before that date, or physical purchases of previously released titles.
Platinum Points — earned through promotions and in-game activities — are unaffected.
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Nintendo’s motion-sensing (and Doom-playing, with some unsanctioned modification) alarm clock is now available for anyone in the US to buy from its online store “while supplies last,” the company announced yesterday.
Nintendo also plans to sell the adorable clock at select retailers next month.
