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Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood

Original (8/26): The key creators behind the Wild Arms series and Shadow Hearts series have just announced a “Double Kickstarter” campaign intended to bring Armed Fantasia and Penny Blood to life. These are two new, large scale JRPGs inspired by their previous games.

Armed Fantasia features a dramatic story about a group of Pathfinders and their trusted ARMs who embark on a perilous journey across an expansive Westernpunk world hurtling towards destruction. Akifumi Kaneko, creator of the Wild Arms series, will be in charge of lead game design and scenario writing. Tomomi Sasaki is handling character design. Lastly, music is planned to be made by Michiko Naruke, Noriyasu Uematsu and Elements Garden, also veterans of the Wild Arms series.

This week’s UK software sales are as follows:

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Ubisoft has just announced that the original Mario + Rabbids game, Kingdom Battle, has been played by over 10 million people. This news comes in celebration of the game’s fifth anniversary, only a few months before the launch of its sequel, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.

Additionally, Ubisoft have also shared an interview with the game’s Creative Director Davide Soliani, Lead Producer Xavier Manzanares, and Associate Producer Cristina Nava which covers the transition they went through in beginning work on Mario +Rabbids Sparks of Hope.

Nintendo has just provided some updated information on several of their Switch million seller titles via CESA 2022. As such, we’ve got some new sales figures for a few of these titles.

Note that this list is accurate as of December 2021, so it is a bit dated. However, it contains updated figures for titles such as Super Mario 3D All-Stars, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Bayonetta 2, which haven’t received any sales updates in quite a while.

Below is the list of updated million-sellers from CESA 2022, table courtesy of Twitter user Pierre485:

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NHRA Championship Drag Racing: Speed for All gameplay

NHRA Championship Drag Racing: Speed for All just arrived on Switch a few days ago, and lots of gameplay has come in showing the final product. A 26-minute video has been published with footage.

Here’s some information about the game: 

Cygnus Entertainment has just announced that their latest adventure game Colossal Cave will be making its way to Switch. The game is set to release later this year.

Colossal Cave is a reimagining of the classic 1977 text-based adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure, and is being developed in collaboration with Roberta Williams, the designer of well-known titles such as King’s Quest and Phantasmagoria.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Trish Una

We have yet another character trailer for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R with a look at Trish Una. In battle, she uses the Stand known as Spice Girl.

Below is some additional information about JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R:

Type-Moon has released another trailer for their upcoming visual novel Witch on the Holy Night. This new trailer highlights another one of the main heroines, Alice Kuonji.

Witch on the Holy Night is a visual novel originally released on PC back in 2012. This Switch release marks a console debut for the game and will feature full voice acting and HD visuals.

resident evil 4 camera masahiro sakurai

Resident Evil 4 has earned a ton of acclaim over the years, but it was apparently Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai who was the first to praise the game’s camera.

That news came about during a discussion with Shinji Mikami and Jun Takeuchi. Mikami was the original director of Resident Evil 4 while Takeuchi has worked on several different entries in the series.

Islets gameplay

Armor Game Studios published Islets on Switch last week, and those that would like to get a closer look can view a new batch of gameplay. 23 minutes of footage has come in.

Learn more about Islets in the following overview:


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