Dark Horse Comics, the company that previously published the Legend of Zelda compendium “Hyrule Historia,” announced “The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts,” a new art book that is the “first in a new line of The Legend of Zelda literature.”

Spanning more than 400 pages, the book contains official pixel art, rare promotional pieces and interviews with the design teams that worked on the various games over the years. There will also be official art from the newest game in the series, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, before its official release next year.

“The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts” will go on sale on February 21. Pre-orders are already available on Amazon and Penguin Random House.

Source: Dark Horse

Last weekend, Nintendo and GameStop partnered up to hold a special competition for Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby at select stores. Now, this weekend, they are teaming up again to give the public a chance to demo Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past and Metroid Prime: Federation Force.

Participating GameStop stores will have both games running on demo New 3DS XL units from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 27.

Metroid Prime: Federation Force launched for the 3DS last Friday. Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is set to launch for the handheld on September 16.

Source: Nintendo.com

The leaders of Pokémon GO‘s three main factions – Instinct, Valor and Mystic – will soon actually do something in-game when the next update comes out.

In the latest post on the game’s official site, the developers at Niantic announced the addition of “Pokémon Appraisal,” a new feature that lets players “learn about a Pokémon’s attack and defense capabilities from their Team Leader (Candela, Blanche or Spark) to determine which of their Pokémon have the most potential for battle.”

The update will also address minor, unspecified issues.

The new updates, version 0.35.0 for Android and 1.5.0 for iOS, should be going live very soon.

Source: Pokemongolive.com

With PAX West only a couple of weeks away, Nintendo announced their lineup of events for the show.

The company will be showing off Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past and Yo-Kai Watch 2 for the 3DS with playable demos at their booth. There will also be a Pokémon Sun and Moon setup where visitors can take photos with legendary Pokémon and Pokémon trainers.

The night before the actual event begins, on September 1, Nintendo will host the Nindies@Night event at Seattle’s EMP Museum. It will be a showcase for several indie games coming to Nintendo platforms, including Axiom Verge, Shantae Half-Genie Hero, Punch Club,  Azure Striker GUNVOLT 2 and Gurumin: A Monsterous Adventure.

For anyone that will not be able to make it to the Nindies@Night show, Nintendo will have most of those games playable during PAX West at their Indie Lounge in the convention center in Room 612.

PAX West will be held from September 2 to September 5 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

Source: Press Release

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Mario, Hello Kitty and other classic Japanese icons made a surprise appearance during yesterday’s Olympic closing ceremony as previous host city Rio de Janeiro passed its duties onto Tokyo, the host of the 2020 summer games.

#Tokyo2020 already stepping the game up!!! pic.twitter.com/HBbDZCAztS

— . (@lmfaofa) August 22, 2016

The new host city’s video montage culminated in Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe emerging from a warp pipe dressed as Mario. To add onto it, the entire segment ended with a firework display set to the level clear theme from Super Mario Bros.

The 2020 Summer Olympics are currently scheduled to be held from July 24 to August 9.

Source: @lmfaofa

A whole bunch of Nintendo Selects titles are coming out this Friday. So, while there are a lot of games shipping out this week, none of them are actually new.

Also coming this Friday is the Super Mario 3D Land New 3DS bundle. It’s only the second release of the smaller New 3DS model to come out in North America. The first being the Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer bundle.

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Pokémon GO players involved in GPS spoofing, tricking the game into thinking you are in locations that you are not, along with other methods of cheating, may find themselves receiving a permanent ban.

In a post on the official Pokémon GO website, the game’s developers at Niantic announced that they are terminating accounts of players that show signs of cheating.

“Our main priority with Pokémon GO is to provide a fair, fun, and legitimate game experience for all players. If our system has determined that you cheated, then you will receive an email stating that your account has been terminated.”

If anyone feels their account has been banned by mistake, there is a way to make an appeal in the Pokémon GO Help Center.

Source: Polygon

If yesterday’s announcement of Turtonator wasn’t enough for you, Nintendo also announced another new pokémon appearing in Pokémon Sun and Moon: Crabrawler, a Fighting-type with the abilities Hyper Cutter or Iron Fist.

The company also unveiled Sandygast, Palossand and Stuffulthe, the English names for three of the pokémon revealed in last week’s issue of CoroCoro.

Pokémon Sun and Moon are slated to launch on the 3DS on November 18 for most of the world and on November 23 for Europe.

Source: Pokemon.com

Along with the launch of Metroid Prime: Federation Force, Nintendo is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Metroid series by putting out a bunch of new Metroid apparel in Miitomo.

All users will receive a free Metroid hat and 8-bit Samus tee for their Mii.

In the Miitomo Shop, users can purchase pins of Samus’ logo for 1,080 coins, and in the Miitomo Drop mini-game, players can try to win outfits modeled after Samus’ Power Suit, Zero Suit and casual outfit from Metroid Fusion.

Outfits based on the Mechs from Federation Force are available on the My Nintendo rewards page. The head and body parts cost 50 Platinum Points each and come in four different colors. There is also a Metroid logo tee available for 200 Platinum Points.

All of the items will be available for a limited time until September 15.

Source: Miitomo.com