Two New Tiers + Giveaway Winners Announced!

Welcome back from your weekend, Nintendo Force fans! (Or happy President's Day, if you're enjoying a long weekend and have today off as well.) 

First order of business this week is letting you guys know about two new tiers I've just added to the mix: the Double Print + Digital Combo Subscriptions for the United States and Canada. With these, you'll get two physical copies of each issue shipped to your mailbox – and the price is discounted versus what it would be if you made two separate Patreon accounts and signed up twice to get two copies coming to you with the original tier selections.

These should be a good option for those of you out there who are collectors and want to keep one copy of each issue intact in its packaging while also having another copy to open up and read. Or it could be good for poster fans who don't want to have to choose between which of the two sides of each double-sided poster gets to be the one displayed on your wall – with two copies of each poster, you can hang up both! And finally, there may be those of you who'd want to pass along the extra copy to a friend or family member. I know there are plenty of households out there with more than one NF fan living under the same roof!

If you want to switch to a Double Print + Digital Combo Subscription, go to Patreon.com/Home while you're logged in and click "Edit Pledge" under The Nintendo Force. Then click Edit next to Your Reward on the following page and scroll down to find the new tier options on the list. Simple as that!

OK! With that business out of the way, let's get to our Giveaway Winners Announcements!

First, we've got four more winners of copies of the original Legend of Zelda, thanks to our still ongoing 30 Days of Zelda Giveaways. They are:

- Joe from Peabody, Massachusetts

- Andrew Randas

- Taylor Ryan

- Casey William Santilli

Then, we've got our three winners who are walking away with a shiny new Corrin amiibo figure. They are:

- Landon Brawley

- Evan Dimmer

- Zachary Hittesdorf

Two more winners beyond that have earned themselves free copies of either Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright or Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest just for signing up as patrons here, and they are:

- Daniel Edwards

- Hans Hansen

And finally, the grand prize of my own unopened copy of the sold-out, highly sought-after and where-am-I-going-to-get-another-one-for-myself Fire Emblem Fates: Special Edition goes to . . . drumroll please . . .

- Robert from Gallipolis, Ohio!

Congratulations to all of you! I'll be in touch with each and every one of you through Patreon direct messages to give you further info on how your prizes are going to get to you.

And if you didn't win this time? No worries! This is just the beginning of many more giveaways we'll be holding here for our patrons, and you're all already signed up for all future contests just by being patrons here! There are 16 more chances to win the original Legend of Zelda between now and the end of February, and I've already got the next round of goodies ready to go after that as well. 

Finally, our next funding goal will be focused on funding/expanding these future giveaways! Everyone loves a chance at free stuff, and we got our start with giving away free new games through our revival of Player's Poll contests within the magazine itself last year, thanks to a stretch goal that was hit during our 2015 Kickstarter. So this new Patreon goal is the equivalent of that stretch goal from last year, but amped up – we're going to have more giveaways more frequently with more and better prizes. Can you imagine getting Nintendo's new NX system sent to you for free later this year? That's going to happen for one of you if we can hit our next goal!

~ Lucas M. Thomas