Includes one Switch-specific update.
Apart from some news for Sonic Frontiers and the upcoming Sonic Superstars this week, Sega has also rolled out a brand new patch for its retro compilation Sonic Origins Plus.
On the Switch, in particular, the opening animation quality for the game has been improved. Along with this, players can also look forward to some Game Gear game improvements, audio fixes and multiple game-specific fixes.
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A turf battle against nostalgia.
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is an immensely conflicting outing that capitalizes on nostalgia by drawing water from the same punk-as-hell city tap as Jet Set Radio. Sometimes the cup runs over. Others, rusted pipes bleed into the water, poisoning the experience.
Jet Set Radio casts a low-poly shadow over any game about street culture or graffiti—cel-shaded or not—and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk deserves better than getting labeled as an imitator and getting hocked in some back alley tourist trap with knockoff Gucci bags and Rolex watches. But despite its effort to tag its own turf, Bomb Rush ends up retreading old ground and painting over tags left by the Dreamcast classic and reigning king of the microgenre.
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Samba de Amigo! Sea of Stars! Blasphemous 2!
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!
Samba de Amigo: Party Central (SEGA, 29th Aug, $39.99) – Move to the beat and shake your Joy-Con controllers in a new Samba de Amigo game! Compete online* in World Party mode or enjoy local multiplayer** with a friend to see who has the best moves! Forty songs are included, spanning a multitude of genres from around the world. So, grab those controllers and get shakin’ when Samba de Amigo: Party Central shimmies onto the Nintendo Switch system Aug. 29. Pre-orders are available now.
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Deluxe limited to 300 units.
Red Art Games has unveiled pre-orders for an upcoming physical Switch release for the chess-strategy roguelike game Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Launching in Q1 2024, the release will come in two flavours: a standard edition and a deluxe edition. While both come in at the same price of €34.99, the latter is exclusive to the Red Art Games website and is limited to 300 copies.
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Here’s what’s included.
After a number of successful crowdfunding campaigns, publisher Edia has now announced a new one – Cosmic Fantasy Collection 2.
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“An extremely difficult day for everyone at BioWare”.
The Electronic Arts developer BioWare – known for famous RPG series such as Baldur’s Gate, STAR WARS: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect – has announced it is “eliminating approximately 50 roles” at the studio.
In order to match the changing needs, it will shift towards a “more agile and more focused studio” – allowing developers to iterate quickly, unlock more creativity and form a clear vision of the games being built before development is ramped up. This “extremely difficult” decision will also apparently “preserve the health of the studio” and allow it to focus more on what it does best: “create exceptional story-driven single-player experiences filled with vast worlds and rich characters.”
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Download it today.
If you’re still playing Dragon Ball FighterZ, you’ll be interested to know this excellent game has just received another balance patch. This update is in the process of rolling out on multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch.
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AK-xolotl! Bloomtown! Dome-King Cabbage!
Returning to Gamescom 2023 is GamesRadar’s Future Games Show. Following on from its showing during Summer Game Fest, Future Games Show @ Gamescom 2023 was full of an eclectic variety of titles — many of which are coming to both PC and Switch.
The showcase was hosted by voice actors Troy Baker (The Last of Us) and Erika Ishii (Apex Legends), and with plenty to run through, we’re just going to jump straight into things — here’s every game coming to Nintnedo Switch that was featured in the Future Games Show @Gamescom 2023 showcase.
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What do you think a video game called Dome-King Cabbage is about? If you said farming sim, you’re wrong. If you said survival game… you’re also wrong. The title doesn’t really give anything away, but it also gives everything away — it’s really darn weird.
Dome-King Cabbage is a visual novel which takes place inside a monster-collecting RPG. Main character Mush is trying to become the ‘Dome-King’ and, in order to prepare for this job interview, uses their experience in monster-collecting to view the world through the lens of this beloved RPG. The trailer, above, is psychadelic, and it shows off the many strange choices you’ll have to make along the way to getting your new job.
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Git gud games.
Updated with the macabre sequel, Blasphemous 2 and the surprising stripped-down experience Bleak Sword DX.
When Dark Souls launched back in 2011, it ushered in a new era of lore-filled and inscrutable combat-focused games that gave players the freedom to follow their own path and play style, but steadfastly refused to ‘go easy’ on them. Every encounter in FromSoftware’s series, no matter how minor, has the potential to end in tears; if you blunder in mindlessly mashing buttons, you will be punished.
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