October 23, 2017

The Witches Festival Spooks Up Some Fun In ESO For The Next Week


Posted on October 23, 2017 by Rae Michelle Richards

Denizens of the online version of Tamriel can spend the next week collecting time limited epic loot to celebrate All Hallow’s Eve with The Witches Festival in-game event. After picking up a free “Crows Caller” memento item from the Crown Store players can begin a special holiday quest. Completing the quest will reward players with a Witchemother’s Whistle and Witchemother’s Cauldron Memento items. While players can keep these items, their XP granting powers will only work until the event ends. 

Defeating World Bosses and Delves bosses will award players with a “Plundered Skull” which is a time-limited item that will provide with special Witches Festival recipes, housing items, and even armor motifs!

Here is the full rundown of items available from the Plundered Skulls: 

  • Hallow Jack Crafting Motifs 
  • Sweet Sanguine Apples (Recipe) 
  • Crunchy Spider Skewers (Recipe) 
  • Pumpkin Snack Skewer (Recipe) 
  • Ghastly Eye Bowl (Recipe) 
  • Frosted Brains (Recipe) 
  • Witchmother’s Potent Brew (Recipe) 
  • Witchmother’s Party Punch (Recipe) 
  • Double Bloody Mara (Recipe) 
  • Pumpkin Mask (Runebox) 
  • Scarecrow Specter Mask (Runebox) 
  • Spooky Housing Items (Housing – Various) 

Bethesda and Zenimax Online Studios have also included seven different achievements for The Witches Festival. Unlike other achievements completing them won’t give you access to exclusive dyes but if you manage to complete all seven you’ll be granted the unique title: “Sun Dusk’s Reaper”. 

I spent the majority of my evening farming delve and world bosses to get my hands on some of the Plundered Skulls. In combination with the several Plundered Skulls that I collected this evening and the gold I had on my main character I was able to afford the Hallow Jack style pages for my feet, chest, and gloves. I’m only missing shield, sword, shoulders, and helm and I’ll have the complete set. World bosses seem pretty generous when it comes to the Amber needed to craft any of the Hallow Jack styles that you may learn.  

Stock up on these items now because in a week they’ll be gone. More information on The Witches Festival is available at the source link below. 

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Pick up your Shiny Silvally at EB Games stores


Posted on October 23, 2017 by Jason Nason

Starting today you can add the uniquely colored version of the Synthetic Pokémon Silvally to your team, but only while supplies last.

Power up your Pokémon party with a bit of Legendary Pokémon flair by visiting a participating EB Games (Gamestop in the United States) where you can pick up a code card that allows Trainers to receive a Shiny Silvally in their copy of Pokémon Sun or Pokémon Moon.

Shiny Silvally radiates in battle with its RKS System Ability, and you can give it a memory disc to hold to change its type, then unleash its signature Multi-Attack! Act fast!

The code cards are available starting today, but will only be available until November 13, 2017 and only while supplies last.

Codes must be entered by February 13, 2018.


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Animal Crossing Direct coming Tuesday


Posted on October 23, 2017 by Jason Nason

Nintendo announced this morning that there will be a special Nintendo Direct planned for tomorrow. The Direct will be focused solely on the Animal Crossing mobile app.

A mobile app based in the Nintendo franchise was announced long ago with no details aside from being dated for 2017. The presentation tomorrow should give us all the information we need including release date, pricing, as well as just what the app will be about.

Will this be a mobile version of the popular game? Will it connect somehow to the 3DS title or allow for some functionality between the two titles? Perhaps the new app will play a role in an as yet unannounced Switch title.

So many questions, which will hopefully be answered tomorrow.

The Nintendo Direct is set to begin at 11:00PM ET.

https://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/10-24-2017/


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Nostalgia Fueled ‘New 3DSXL SNES Edition’ Confirmed For North America


Posted on October 23, 2017 by Rae Michelle Richards

Not simply content with mining the nostalgia from our collective youth with the recently released SNES Classic Mini, Nintendo of America has confirmed that the previously Europe exclusive ‘New 3DSXL: SNES Edition’ will be coming to our shores on November 27th. 

Setting the North American version apart from its colorful European counterpart is, of course, the muted color scheme of light & dark purples featured on the face buttons. Combining the familiar North American SNES controller ABXY button colors with the soft grey of the console’s housing – this limited edition New 3DSXL mimics Nintendo’s 16-bit console faithfully.  

No word yet on if you leave your New 3DS XL SNES Edition in the sun if it will turn yellow like the SNES’ of yore. 

The yellowing color of many early SNES units was actually due to a fire suppression chemical being mixed incorrectly when the plastics for the body were produced.
[Image source: VintageComputing.com]

 

The New 3DSXL SNES Edition will come bundled with a download code for the SNES classic racer Super Mario Kart and will retail for $199 USD. 

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