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Level-5’s new 3DS game The Snack World has debuted in Japan. For a look at the release, watch the videos below containing a half hour of footage.

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The new Switch version of Quest of Dungeons was added to the Japanese Switch eShop today. We’ve posted some footage below.

Note that Quest of Dungeons takes up just 49.6MB of space on Switch.

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Level-5 has sent out a second trailer for the Yo-kai Watch 3 version 4.0 update dropping in Japan this summer. Check it out below.

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Capcom brought a demo of Monster Hunter XX to the Japanese Switch eShop a short while ago. Take a look at some footage below.

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We have a slightly more concrete release window for Thimbleweed Park on Switch. It won’t be this month, but the game should be launching sometime in September on the eShop.

Thimbleweed Park will support both Joy-Con controllers and touch screen controls. This will allow players to easily switch between tabletop, handheld, and TV modes. We don’t have a release date nailed down for the Nintendo eShop yet but expect it to be in September.

In case you missed it previously, here’s Thimbleweed Park running on Switch:

Source: Terrible Toybox PR

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It’s troubling times for Japan Display Inc. having suffered a net loss of 31.5 billion yen this past financial quarter. The company could be forced to partner with a Chinese or Taiwanese entity if it intends to survive, and 3,700 people will be laid off – or 30 percent of its total workforce. That’s significant in the Nintendo scene as Japan Display is the sole supplier for Switch screens.

Takashi Mochizuki, who wrote about the news for WSJ, says that Japan Display’s business with Nintendo isn’t that big since Switch uses cheaper panels. The number of Switch units produced is also much lower than the amount of screens created for Apple products. A notable part of Japan Display’s troubles have come about due to Apple moving away from liquid crystal displays in favor of OLED screens.

It’s not entirely clear how this news will impact Nintendo and Switch, if at all. We’ll keep an eye on the situation going forward.

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Game Informer is continuing its coverage of Game Freak and Pokemon today with some new insight into the studio. For the latest entry, the magazine goes over the company’s early history.

Game Freak first started out as a magazine / mini comic. When the Famicom was introduced, co-founder Junichi Masuda says the development of Mendel Palace started. Masuda said that the team “didn’t really have any official development equipment, so we just sort of had to hack the NES and figure out how it worked so we could develop on it ourselves without the official sort of development tools.”

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SEGA has sent out another new piece of music from Sonic Mania. We’ve included the track for the Mini Boss Theme – “Danger on the Dance Floor” below.

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Capcom has put up a demo for the new Switch version of Monster Hunter XX on the eShop. The download takes up 1.7GB of space.

Thus far, Capcom has yet to announce any localization plans for Monster Hunter XX. However, if you have a Japanese Nintendo account, it’s possible to download today’s demo from the Japanese eShop.

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The Japanese Switch eShop has updated with the file size for Sonic Mania. In order to download the game, you’ll need 186MB of free space.

Sonic Mania is just a few days away. SEGA will be publishing the game on August 15 in both North America and Europe.

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