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How to Get Animals – Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town Preview

Outside of the farming, the other major way to earn money in Friends of Mineral Town is to invest in animals. There are a ton of different animals to get, including different types of cows, sheep, alpacas, a horse, bunnies, and a few different types of chickens. But how do you get these awesome animals? Read on below!

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Do Not Sell That Grass: Nature Sprites – Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town Preview

In your first season or two of play, there are a number of things you really want to accomplish to maximize your experience, maximize your funds, and more. Key objectives like upgrading your house, getting a fridge, getting a bigger pack and basket, are just a few of the things you’ll want to accomplish. To get that all done, however, will take some help, and that is where Nature Sprites come in!

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Things That Have Changed – Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town Preview

When Marvelous and XSeed announced that Friends of Mineral Town was getting a remake on the Nintendo Switch, they promised a slew of changes would be coming to the classic formula - and for a game that is neraly full price, fans were expecting at least a few things to be different from the original, mostly via additional content as opposed to cutbacks. It seems as if the development team has provided us both. As per our preview guidelines, we can only post and ...

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How to Spend Your First Day – Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town Preview

If you are unfamiliar with the Story of Seasons or Harvest Moon franchises, your first day in the game can be pretty daunting. What do you do? Where do you go? Should you spend a ton of stamina cleaning up your field?

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Pokemon Sword – The Isle of Armor Review

When it comes to their Pokemon title on Nintendo Switch, GameFreak is doing things differently. Open worlds might be the biggest change to the latest entry in the franchise, but there is another that has been a few generations in the making: gone are the days of a third Pokemon game release. Instead, Nintendo has opted to provide fans a season pass of content, priced at 39.99 in Canada and 29.99 in the United States, which includes two more areas to explore. ...

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Summer in Mara First Impressions

A few months ago, I chose to back Summer in Mara on the Nintendo Switch, via Indigogo in Canada. The game promised a farming simulation experience that weaved in quests, story, and more. As a huge fan of Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons, I was excited to give this game a shot. While I wouldn't really use those two games to compare to this, I would use on other title - Rune Factory. But does Summer in Mara live up to my pre-backing expectations?

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The LEGO Group and Nintendo reveal full product range for new LEGO® Super Mario™ play experience

BILLUND, June 16, 2020: The LEGO Group today revealed the full product portfolio for its LEGO® Super Mario™ experience. Fans can expand on the LEGO Super Mario range announced in April with a whole new range of Expansion Sets, collectible Character Packs and Power-Up Packs. The result of a unique partnership with Nintendo, LEGO Super Mario will reinvent the way people interact with Super Mario in the physical world. The products announced today give fans ...

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Borderlands Legendary Collection Review

Not every game that is released on major consoles requires a port to the Nintendo Switch. While we fully support the expansion of gaming - and giving players on Nintendo Switch an opportunity to play games originally launched on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 - not every game ports well to the system. With that being said, when Take Two announced that three bundles would be coming to the Nintendo Switch, I was definitely excited and had high expectations for one of ...

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Summer in Mara Coming This Month

Summer in Mara was originally a crowd funded title - which we backed on Indigogo in Canada. The game is a play on the Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons franchise, although probably resembles something like My Time at Portia from Team 17. Last week, the development teamed announced that people could play through the prologue on Steam. While we haven't done that yet - waiting on our Switch review opportunity, check in next week! - others have.

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First Pokemon DLC Releasing June 17th

The first DLC pack for Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield is launching later this month, on June 17th. Below you can check out a brand new, 3 minute plus trailer of the DLC pack.

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