Blast-off.
Konami has revealed that Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked will be launching on Nintendo Switch and other consoles on 11th June 2024.
In just over a month’s time, Konami’s opossum knight will be making his grand return. Re-Sparked is a collection of all three of Sparkster’s games — Rocket Knight Adventures, Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2, and Sparkster.
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Cyberpunk 2077 takes the crown.
After a short delay, the latest UK Charts are in, and despite its mixed reception, Endless Ocean Luminous has managed to crack the top 10 to land at, well, number 10.
In fact, there’s been a bit of a shake up this week – likely due to retail sales on specific titles – as Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition has managed to shoot all the way up to the top spot to beat out the likes of Stellar Blade and EA Sports FC 24.
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Oh Crab!
Over the years, many games have tried to recreate the precise, difficult nature of FromSoftware’s Dark Souls, a revolutionary title that created the aptly named Soulslike genre. Another Crab’s Treasure, from developer Aggro Crab, is another one of these endeavours, albeit with a significantly more colourful approach compared to the usual intensity of many Soulslikes.
The adventure begins with the introduction of protagonist, Kril, a Hermit Crab living above the surrounding ocean in a small tide pool. Before long, Kril is removed from his precious shell, as he now seemingly owes money to a creature by the name of the Duchess due to new tax laws. A Loan Shark — who takes the form of a plastic Shark-head-on-a-stick toy with a top hat — takes Kril’s shell as collateral, sending the adorable young crustacean on a journey to the depths of the ocean to retrieve his shell and return to his lovely tide pool. The writing is charming and full of witty remarks from the game’s cast of characters, resulting in an engaging narrative that will provide a few laughs here and there.
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Currently only two first-party games confirmed.
Nintendo has confirmed that a Direct showcase will take place in June 2024, focusing on softeware for the Nintendo Switch during the latter half of 2024.
This will hopefully offset what is looking to be a fairly quiet year for the Switch, with only two first-party games currently known to the public: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD. Considering these launch on 23rd May and 27th June respectively, Nintendo has, at the time of writing, absolutely nothing lined up for the remainder of the year.
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Dive in!
Update :
Nintendo has shared a first look at its Tetris 99 x Endless Ocean: Luminous Maximus Cup event, which you can view above. Once again, this event will kick off later this week on 10th May and runs until 13th May. Nintendo is also currently offering some Endless Ocean-themed icons.
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Nintendo release when?
After a surprise announcement at The Game Awards in 2022, the sequel to Hades has finally entered its early access phase.
While it’s only available on PC for now, it’s given many fans of Supergiant’s original roguelike hope there’ll be an announcement about console devices at some point in the future.
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Winning roll.
Ah, Super Monkey Ball… Since its debut back in 2001, Sega’s platforming, puzzle-solving, party extravaganza has had its ups and downs over the years, but has nevertheless remained a firm favourite with gamers – particularly those with a certain proclivity for Nintendo consoles.
In fact, Super Monkey Ball has shown up on pretty much every Nintendo platform bar the Wii U (pause for tiny violin) since its inception, making it almost as synonymous with The Big N as franchises like Animal Crossing, Mario Party, and — bizarre as it may be — Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Pulp fiction.
LCB Game Studio’s acclaimed visual novel is getting a bundled release this summer in The Pixel Pups Collection. Consisting of Mothmen 1966, Varney Lake, and Bahnsen Knights, the trio play homage to classic pulp horror using 8- and 16-bit visual styles.
And today, LCB Games has revealed that it’s partnering with Meridiem Games to release a special physical version of the collection. The physical version will come with exclusive cases and postcards designed to look like pulp novel covers.
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Rope burn’d.
Of all the studios to potentially work on a Donkey Kong project, Vicarious Visions (now known simply as Blizzard Albany) admittedly wasn’t particularly high up on our list.
However, details have emerged of a now-cancelled DK project at the studio via a new video from Did You Know Gaming (with prior reporting from DK Vine). According to the research, leadership at Vicarious Visions had wanted to collaborate more closely with Nintendo after the studio’s work on Skylanders: Superchargers (which, if you remember, included the likes of Bowser and Donkey Kong on Wii U, Wii, and 3DS). It had received developer kits for the Nintendo Switch and wanted to create something truly unique for the upcoming system.
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Get it while you can.
The Pokémon Company is currently running a new limited-time distribution for the latest Switch titles Scarlet and Violet.
This time it’s a special Gift Distribution for a Flutter Mane based on a Pokémon used in last year’s Korean Trainers Cup stream. It will be available until 7th May 2024. Here are the details courtesy of Serebii.net, along with the code:
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