And there’s also some new DLC.
The sandbox game Minecraft continues to expand and the latest reveal is a new hostile mob. It’s called “The Bogged” and is a new poison skeleton mob that will be added in the upcoming 1.21 Update. It’s available now in testing as well.
Here’s a bit about it from the official announcement, along with a look in the video above:
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Gotta roll fast.
You might have seen our sibling site Time Extension talking about a new Sonic-style Kickstarter project known as Rollin’ Rascal. The upcoming 3D platformer developed by Curiomatic was already locked in for PC and as of this week, it’s now been officially confirmed for the Nintendo Switch.
This is all thanks to the Kickstarter project reaching its 100k stretch goal. Here’s the official announcement and artwork:
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Metal as…
If you’ve been finding platformers to be a bit on the, shall we say, chill side, then you might want to keep an eye on Krimson, launching on the Switch eShop on 21 March, 2024.
Described as a ‘gritty, heart-pounding journey through a nightmarish hellscape’, Krimson sees you navigate a series of frankly ridiculous environments that pulse and move in time with the music. You must keep in time with the beat if you’re to survive, but judging from the trailer, you’ll also need sharp eyes to keep track of everything that’s going on.
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Is 2024 the year we finally get it?
You read the headline correctly — Hollow Knight: Silksong was officially revealed to the world five years ago today, on 14th February 2019.
The sequel to Hollow Knight, Silksong follows your rival-turned-friend Hornet, who is captured and taken to the kingdom of Pharloom, where she must escape and reach the top of the kingdom to find a “shining citadel”. Hornet’s adventure was originally planned as DLC for the acclaimed indie hand-drawn Metroidvania, but developer Team Cherry eventually expanded it into a full-blown sequel.
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‘Rebel Transmute’ launches next month.
Publisher Jandusoft has announced that Rebel Transmute will launch on the Nintendo Switch on 14 March, 2024.
If you’re unfamiliar with the title, it’s a pixel art Metroidvania that takea a few cues from the likes of Metroid and Axiom Verge in which you explore a vast world filled with weird and wonderful creatures that you’ll need to blast to smithereens. Lovely.
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“What’s here is generally very well done”.
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered arrives on the Switch this week and the tech experts at Digital Foundry have already got a video up about the performance and frame rate across each system.
In case you missed it, the Switch version of this remaster runs at a native 1080p and 60 frames per second in docked, and 720p at 60 frames per second in portable mode. Digital Foundry also notes how it did not encounter a single frame rate hiccup, so it really is a silky smooth and “near perfect” experience in terms of performance.
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A few other titles have also made use of it.
During the Switch generation, Nintendo has sometimes developed the odd title on a different engine. We’ve seen Yoshi’s Crafted World and more recently Pikmin 4 utilise the Unreal Engine and now it appears the upcoming release Princess Peach: Showtime! might have also been created in Unreal.
This discovery stems from a post on social media (shared by Akfamilyhome via X), which shows the Chinese game box for Peach’s new game, and on the back of it, you can see the Unreal Engine logo:
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Let’s kick shell.
If you’re a gamer over the age of 30 with a decent amount of disposable income, then you’ve almost certainly heard of the Quarter Arcades range. As the name suggests, these are 1/4-scale reproductions of famous coin-ops, and the company has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the business to expand its lineup over the past few years – including Namco, Taito, and Konami.
With the likes of Space Invaders, Pac-Man, and Bubble Bobble in its ranks, the Quarter Arcades family can already lay claim to possessing some serious big-hitters – but the arrival of Konami’s 1989 coin-op Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will arguably take things to an entirely new level for players of a certain age.
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When old becomes new.
Not many game franchises manage to ascend to the status of ‘iconic’, but Tomb Raider is undoubtedly one of them. Despite the original trilogy being released for multiple platforms, Lara Croft quickly became synonymous with the PS1, standing toe-to-toe with Crash Bandicoot as one of the console’s mascots. Since then, of course, Lara has been practically everywhere, yet 2024 marks the first occasion the original trilogy has been fully revamped for modern audiences via Tomb Raider I-III Remastered.
We say ‘revamped’, but these are the same games you know and love from the late ‘90s, albeit with the additional expansions included for the first time on console. What developer Aspyr has done here, however, is give all three titles a much-needed lick of paint, boosting the visuals significantly while adding in an optional modern control scheme for those who might not get on with the ageing ‘tank’ controls — more on that later. Smaller additions include a surprisingly robust photo mode and health bars for boss encounters.
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Disorderly.
Splatoon 3: Side Order, the long-awaited single-player DLC for Splatoon 3, is just nine days away, and Nintendo has dropped an in-depth overview trailer to act as your guide for climbing the Spire of Order.
We know the gist of Side Order already — as Agent 8, you wake up in a new “world of order”, a grey-scale world which needs a bit more colour added to it. You need to climb the Spire of Order to figure things out, and the tower holds many, many secrets.
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