Deep dive.
Nintendo yesterday dropped new details about the upcoming Switch release Endless Ocean Luminous, and now it’s released a new ASMR-like video highlighting the “sights and sounds” of the game.
This video is almost four minutes in length, and as you listen to it, you’ll be able to hear all the sounds of the ocean, straight out of the game.
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Freedom Planet 2! Botany Manor! The Gap!
The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!
What They Don’t Sea (LearnDistrict, 29th Mar, $4.99) – Explore a wonderful mix of beautiful and creepy environments, with drops of humor delivered by charming underwater creatures in this oceanic adventure! As a marine researcher with the Rachel Carson Research Organization, you have been sent to collect samples of a new species of algae for an alternative energy project. Explore the depths of the ocean but be sure to watch your air levels! Friendly creatures like Bean, the jellyfish weapons dealer, will help prepare you for the … not-so-friendly creatures along your journey. What They Don’t Sea was created by Team Atlantis, a group of middle school girls who won the grand prize at the 2019 Girls Make Games Demo Day competition.
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Well isn’t that just peachy?
This week’s Japanese charts are in from Famitsu (via Gematsu) and Nintendo’s latest release once again finds itself sitting on the throne.
Yes, Princess Peach: Showtime! is number one again this week, though its additional 27,258 sales are nothing compared to its 77,562 debut. The PS5’s Rise of the Ronin has, uhh, risen to number two this time, kicking last week’s silver medallist, Dragon’s Dogma II, down into fifth.
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Dive in next month.
Nintendo has today revealed the Japanese website for Endless Ocean Luminous, containing new details of what we can expect from the diving sim when it makes a splash on Switch on 2nd May.
The Japanese website is (shockingly) in Japanese, though TokyoGameLife has translated the newly revealed features so that we can see what’s in store.
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Available until May 5th.
SEGA is still showing support for last year’s side-scroller Sonic Superstars with all sorts of DLC, and the latest promotion is a new collaboration with the restaurant chain IHOP to unlock an exclusive Amy outfit.
According to the official PR, loyalty members can earn ‘PanCoins’ and redeem them for an exclusive Amy Rose outfit until 5th May. Any purchase with an IHOP account will unlock this offer. Of course, the catch is you’ll need to be located in North America, as codes are region-locked.
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Show your support.
Vanillaware’s new title Unicorn Overlord got off to a great start last month with plenty of excellent reviews and sales surpassing 500k.
While it’s still early days, it seems Atlus is already gauging interest in a sequel. As highlighted by Siliconera, the company has sent out a survey asking people if they would buy a follow-up game. Here’s the exact question fans in Asia have been sent:
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Event was planned for January.
According to the Japanese daily newspaper Kyoto Shimbun, police have arrested a suspect tied to the threats that led to Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo’s cancellation (via 4Gamer & Nintendo Everything).
The weekend-long event was set to take place this January and would hold Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Splatoon 3 competitions alongside the usual showcase of Nintendo games and presentations.
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Full game arrives this month.
We are mere weeks away from the release of Square Enix’s upcoming RPG SaGa Emerald Beyond on 25th April, and there’s some good news for those curious about this one as it has been announced that a free demo will be hitting the Switch eShop tomorrow (4th April).
The demo will be available from midnight local time and will give you a taste of what’s in store for the next entry in the long-running series.
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Ribbit-ing stuff.
Do you love frogs? Have you ever wanted to raise an army of the little hoppy creatures? Developer Humble Reeds’ Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge is a ribbit-ing farm sim that’ll let you live out that fantasy.
Originally only coming to PC, we can exclusively reveal that Kamaeru will also be hopping onto Nintendo Switch in 2024 — at the same time as the PC release. With beautiful watercolour visuals and a cute little premise, the game looks pretty irresistible if you like your faming sims, or a just a big frog lover.
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A Link to the Peng (sorry).
Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo has announced a new range of t-shirts based on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (thanks, VGC).
Launching in Japan on 26th April, 2024 at ¥1,500 (roughly $10 / £8) each, the range consists of six designs based on Nintendo’s sublime sequel to Breath of the Wild, which launched on the Switch in May 2023. No Western release for the range has been confirmed at the time of writing, but based on previous collaborations, we’re confident that Uniqlo will bring them over shortly after the initial Japanese launch.
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