There’s one more surprise event for the Season of Alola! Get ready to battle during this one-day-only GO Battle Day event. Since Pokémon GO’s GO Battle League Interlude Season is ending soon, Trainers will have a day dedicated to battling their way up to Rank 20 and earning even more…
Sometimes in the hectic turf wars of Splatoon it can be tricky to figure out what you’ve actually contributed to a match. Well, the crafty developers of Splatoon 3 have implemented a remedy — a new system for handing out post-match recognition in certain categories, such as inking the most…
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards was one of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack titles I was anticipating the most. Who wouldn’t want to revisit this take on Pop Star and some surrounding planets, melding copy abilities and collecting Crystals the whole way through? Unfortunately for players, things weren’t quite…
Is… is this the first piece of official EarthBound merchandise (besides amiibo) available outside Japan? Through My Nintendo, no less? 13-year old me would have never believed it. But it’s here, plain as day — the UK and Europe My Nintendo stores have added an EarthBound Beginnings Eight Melodies music notebook to their shops.
To be extra clear, this is a notebook that is neither college nor wide ruled, but filled with musical bars you can fill in (hence the “Eight Melodies” theming), meaning it’s somewhat unpractical unless you can write are at least read music notation. But with that in mind, it’s a very nice product, embossed with pixel art decorations from the first Mother game in nice sepia toned pages. It has an energy of ancient, eternal nostalgia to it, which is very well suited to an EarthBound product in general.
The notebook is going for a modest 400 Platinum Points at both My Nintendo Europe and My Nintendo UK. No word on if the notebook will come over stateside, though I am personally willing to offer large sums of money to Doug Bowser personally to make it happen. Just kidding; I don’t have that much money. But if I did…
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