Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 10 Comments

As the countdown to Switch’s launch gets closer, retailers are now beginning to set up displays. Units are beginning to show up at Best Buy locations, for instance.

Sadly, these displays aren’t actually playable, as they only show trailers on a loop. You can at least pick which video to be shown. Plus, this only helps to promote Switch to the wider public in the end.

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MixedBag Games is holding true to its promise of delivering forma.8 on Wii U. However, the team has expressed interest in porting the game – and bringing future projects – to Switch.

When asked about sticking with forma.8’s release on Wii U and the possibility of a Switch version by Nintendo Life, MixedBag co-founder Mauro Fanelli said:

“We’ve promised a Wii U version of the game and there were no chances we wouldn’t deliver on that. Especially considering that we had the Wii U version up and running perfectly from 2015.

We can’t wait to work on Switch and we really hope to be able to port forma.8 and all our future projects on it. It’s such a lovely bit of kit!”

You’ll be able to pick up forma.8 on the Wii U eShop very soon – it’s slated for February 28.

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System 3 sent out a new trailer for Constructor on its Facebook page today. View the video below.

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Update 4 (2/15): GameStop now has the system itself back up.

Update 3 (2/4): The system and charger bundle is back up on GameStop.

Update 2: All sold out.

Update (1/25): GameStop is now selling the system with just a charger (no game) here.

Original (1/24): Several hours ago, Nintendo announced the Pikachu Yellow Edition New 3DS XL for North America. GameStop is now taking pre-orders, but only in the form of bundles. Options are available with either Pokemon Sun or Pokemon Moon along with charger.

Pre-orders are open on GameStop here. When other retailers begin taking reservations, we’ll bring that news to you.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS eShop, News | 1 Comment

Wobbly Tooth has wrapped up an update for Ice Station Z. After applying version 1.2, players will have access to new weapons, locations, vehicles and passengers, and more. Improvements and bug fixes are implemented as well.

Wobbly Tooth says the update will be ready on March 1. The full patch notes and trailer can be found below.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 56 Comments

Nintendo has long been touting Switch as being compatible with Unreal Engine 4. Epic Games prepared a new update for the technology today, which makes it official.

Unreal Engine 4.15 adds “early support” for creating Switch titles. Epic Games does say though that it’s “still considered experimental in this release.” For the next release, it’s planned to be “in a shippable state”.

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Vaccine is due out on Wii U eShop very soon. For those wondering, it takes up 316 MB of space. Look for the downloadable game next Thursday in Europe, and soon after in North America.

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Shocking almost no one, yet another collaboration has been announced for Monster Hunter XX. Capcom is partnering with the CoroCoro manga Grandpa Danger. Felyne armor called Kikonashi D-ryman will be added as DLC.

In other news, the file size for Monster Hunter XX is in. It’ll take up 17,784 blocks, or 2,223 MB of space.

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Nintendo has a new Dragon Quest VIII up to celebrate some of the accolades the RPG has been given my the media. Have a look at it below.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop | 17 Comments

Update 2: Trailer is now back up. Also, Sumo Digital has now clarified that Snake Pass launches on March 28 in North America and March 29 in Europe.

Update: Video is now offline. It should be back up tomorrow.

Original: Snake Pass isn’t too far away from launching on Switch. As shown in a new trailer, the platformer is set to arrive on March 29.

Here’s the video:

Sumo Digital announced last week that David Wise is on board as the composer for Snake Pass. You can listen to a couple of samples here.

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