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@viceview51I think we need to start planning our battle! Do you have any particular times you're available? I can generally play every weeknight between 7PM-9PM. And in the weekends I also have some time during the day.

A physical release for Cat Quest I and II is coming: Which reminds me I need to pick up CQ1 in the sale, I think it's quite heavily discounted on the eshop.

I booted up the game yesterday, and tried all three levels. My focus wasn't there though, so I finished Glen's level with the easy route, but gave up on DCubed and Sméagol's level. So I'm not going to vote, but just wanted to say thanks for putting these levels together! I'll give them a go another time and see if I can finish them all!

Are there any (gaming) forums out there that still have in-depth discussions about games? My general feeling is that people just don't talk at length anymore on forums. I have been active on a couple of forums (this one, plus two music forums) and they all suffered from the same. The reason why I think is a combination of factors. We grew up with online forums but now have a fulltime job, less gaming time in general let alone time to put whole epistles on forums. The new generation is all about short and snappy, use other media and in general have a much shorter attention span so online forums don't do it for them (hence the lack of new members). They prefer bitesize video content, or a few short lines on Twitter or a Facebook group that hopefully give confirmation to their opinion. Those who do want to talk about their passion (in this case gaming) shift to a different format. For me it is writing a review or a special for the main site. Others record a podcast, or make a playthrough video for YouTube. For this forum personally, I also feel like I don't always have much to contribute. If I play a game a lot it is probably for a review, otherwise I tend to play slow and forum discussion will have moved on and I feel like saying "oh yeah, I also finally finished the game and I liked this and this" just adds nothing to the discussion anymore. Plus there are too many games out and not enough active users to get a discussion going as people are busy playing something else. Finally, seeing topics end up in personal feuds sometimes just makes me think, why bother?

If you want to reference the site maybe the best way is just to mention our Twitter account @N_Europe and for the rest use the #NEsomething format. Of course, if you have a good suggestion shoot!

Splatoon 3, although they could save that for E3 as well.

That's a good question, never really thought about that. For the Mario Kart League we usually use #NELeague (so without the dash). Seeing that #NEurope is indeed politically loaded, I would say use #N-E or #N-Europe. Is there any particular scenario you need the hashtag for? I'm guessing it's for Mario Maker, so we can also agree on different ones like #NEMaker. We already have #NELeague, can easily expand on that. #NEMaker, #NEPodPals, #NESmash, #NETokyoMirageSessionsSharpFEEncore...

That went fast and smooth. Cheers!

@Glen-i I'm already available for trading if you are as well.

This is a very good one. I have about 12 euros in my Play account and I don't know what to do with it (got it through enquiries). So this may be interesting to get it for a month and transfer stuff from X/Ultra Moon. @Glen-i well that bites, was indeed almost to good to be true. So let's trade in Sword/Shield then. I'm not available during the day but can do tonight from around 7PM UK time.

It's Valentine's Day, so maybe I should send a Luvdisc her way

Was just checking my Pokémon Go, unfortunately I don't have a Meltan (really thought I had one!). May ask for that on the GTS.

Let me know if you are ready for phone trading, I can do that all day. By the way, for phone trading I don't know if you have to both be on at the same time or that it is asynchronous like the GTS. Guess we'll find out.

You can! It's limited though to 1 GTS trade and 3 Wonder Box trades simultaneously. The premium plan can do more. Friend trades should work in the free plan as well.

Cool, you don't have Home installed yet, right? I have them in Home but I'll transfer them to Sword tonight. What times are you available this weekend? I can do tonight or Sunday whole day.

I booted up Let's Go yesterday, and I have available: 6x Alolan Diglett 4x regular Ponyta 3x Alolan Raichu 2x regular Mr. Mime (although that can be obtained in Sword/Shield) 1x Bulbasaur What I would like: Scorbunny Solosis Drampa Lotad Vullaby Galarian Corsola Lunatone Croagunk Sableye Spritzee Oranguru Eiscue Still have a long way to go in my Pokédex haha. I'll try to get some more 'mon over in the weekend from Let's Go (regular Weezing, Alolan Persian), so if you have any requests let me know.

I enjoyed my time with Dark Dawn, despite it not being as good as 1 and 2. Just as I enjoyed Metroid Prime Corruption, while it wasn't as good as 1 and 2. I see a trend here, with MP4 coming by power of logic this means GS4 is also coming. Hype!

I'm expecting a lot of Series X games for Microsoft, but also think they'll show another version of the console, probably the cheaper version. I'm curious to see if they can clearly communicate how they think the Xbox platform is going to work, with streaming and one or more consoles in the mix. Communication hasn't been their strongest point in the past. And talking about brands that don't communicate well: Yeah I think Nintendo showing more of BOTW2 is a given. Metroid Prime 4 is long overdue but I don't think it will be more than a teaser still. Would be nice to see some Bayonetta 3 and hopefully a release indication for that. Also there almost has to be something Mario in there (maybe a new Paper Mario although I think that is too small a franchise to be the main star game). And is it too early for Splatoon 3? As for those long-lost franchises I agree. We can sum up the wishlist again but I know better by now haha. All right, just one then: Golden Sun 3!

Yeah, this is going to be an interesting year. Sony is of course the big one staying home, and now this decision from Geoff. Maybe what he knows of the show is that they will host a commercial-filled awards show and he doesn't want to do 2 of those. Anyway, confirmed so far are: Xbox, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Bethesda, SEGA, Capcom, Square Enix, Take-Two, Bandai Namco, Warner Bros, Limited Run, Activision, Amazon games, Epic, THQ and XSEED, plus some smaller ones. Xbox will no doubt go all out, and I'm really curious what Nintendo will show. But my anticipation for E3 has been going down in the past few years, and will be just an interesting week, just as the weeks of PAX and Gamescom are interesting as well.

Oh god, that reminds me I have to reinstall Pokémon Go to transfer a Meltan to evolve it to transfer it to Sword... Will look tonight if I can come up with a list of what I'm missing!

I may be going back to Let's Go Pikachu to get some of the Alolan and original forms (like regular Ponyta and Alolan Raichu) if you are interested in these. I'm still working on filling my regular Sw/Sh dex so I could use some Shield exclusives or Gigantamax forms I missed.

With the launch of Pokémon Home we have a new way to trade with each other. So maybe it's an idea to share our Home friend codes here and put them in the opening post? Here's mine: HZAPCGAWTXCZ

Congrats @Ashley, hope you had a good one!

Oh no, I like the idea of doing it in a short amount of time. It's just that the time frame for this weekend doesn't work for me as the weekend is full.

Counter-counterpoint: you don't see Mr. G&W's eyepoint. He could well be looking up to Bayo's bum as well.