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image: Nintendo Nintendo continues its push onto mobile devices with  Fire Emblem: Heroes , releasing sometime today on both iOS and Android. This comes after the mega success of Niantic Labs'  Pokemon GO , as well as the more qualified success of Nintendo's own  Super Mario Run , which came out in December. Fire Emblem: Heroes gives the mobile treatment to a franchise well-known among  the Nintendo faithful, but not quite as iconic as properties like  Mario  or  Zelda . Unlike  Super Mario Run,  it's being billed as truly free to play, and so it will be interesting to see how Nintendo manages a monetization strategy it still doesn't have much experience with. As of right now, I'm not seeing it inside the app store app on either iPhone or iPad, but it appears to have already been released in Europe and Japan. Hopefully it arrives in North America soon, and we'll update you when that happens. Like the main line games,  Fire Embl...

There's been a lot of election brouhaha over the past several weeks, and this past week,  Today  host Billy Bush was suspended from his duties on the daytime talk show series after footage was released revealing he had made some disparaging comments against women more than a decade ago. This morning,  The Today Show  returned to the schedule. Interestingly, the series chose to barely make note of the Billy Bush scandal, with the hosts only briefly addressing the scandal. Al Roker, who took over for Billy Bush during  Today 's third hour, addressed what happened with the tape from a decade ago that surfaced, noting: As you can see Billy Bush is not joining us today, as you're probably aware, (he was) part of that 2005  Access Hollywood  taping with Donald Trump that's been in the news all weekend. Roker's onscreen partner, Tamron Hall, picked up the slack where Roker left off, also noting that NBC has indefinitely su...