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Survivor Castaway Island

Publisher Microids and developer Magic Pocket today announced Survivor: Castaway Island, a new Switch game based on the Banijay-owned TV format. It’s slated to launch on October 3, 2023.

The adventure game has players choosing from twelve adventurers and joining a tribe. It’s also been mentioned: “Survive in the the untamed wilderness, test your skills in exciting challenges and play the social game of alliance and strategy.”

Ring Racer

Noowanda has announced that it’s about to bring Ring Racer to Switch as a digital release. The game is due out on July 21, 2023.

Ring Racer, which seems to take some inspiration from Star Fox, has players navigating narrow canyons at a high speed. More information can be found in the following overview:

The Dragoness: Command of the Flame release date

The Dragoness: Command of the Flame has now received a final release date. It’ll be available for Switch on September 7, 2023.

PQube and Crazy Goat Games previously announced the strategy RPG back in January. Only a general 2023 launch window was provided at the time.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince appear for the first time.

Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between June 29 and July 5.

Fire Emblem Heroes Rearmed Eitr & Rearmed Alcryst

Rearmed Eitr & Rearmed Alcryst is next up as the latest summoning event for Fire Emblem Heroes. It will include Diamant: Rising Power (voiced by Stephen Fu, art by Suekane Kumiko), Citrinne: Caring Noble (voiced by Brittney Karbowski, art by ne-on), Alcryst: Tender Archer (voiced by Micah Solusod, art by sena), and Eitr: Hand of Nothing (voiced by Caitlyn Elizabeth, art by Kippu).

Diamant’s learnable skills are Fair-Fight Blade, Bonfire, and Atk/Def Finish 4. Citrinne’s are Tome of Luxuries, Iceberg, Special Spiral 4, and Atk/Res Oath 4. For Alcryst, the skills are Arcane Darkbow, Deadeye, Flash Sparrow, Get Behind Me, and Def/Res Smoke 3. Lastly, Eitr has Arcane Nihility, Luna, Power of Nihility, Beast Sense 4, Alarm Atk/Spd.

Splatoon 3 Splatfest 7 results Ice Cream

Another Splatfest for Splatoon 3 is in the books and the results are in for the ice cream event which had vanilla, strawberry, and mint chip battling it out for supremacy.

The halftime report from Nintendo showed that Team Vanilla had the slimmest of leads at 33.94 percent. Team Mint was in second with 33.40 percent, followed by Team Strawberry with 32.66 percent.

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Pokemon Scarlet Violet Rillaboom Tera Raid Battle

Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet just revealed their latest Tera Raid Battle event that will be all about Rillaboom. Fans will recognize the Grass-type creature having started out in Sword and Shield as the final evolution for Grookey.

For the upcoming event, Rillaboom will carry the Normal Tera Type in seven star raids. Additionally, it will have the Mightiest Mark and can be caught once per save file.

Monster Hunter Rise

A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include the lowest prices ever for Atelier Ryza 3, LEGO 2K Drive, Monster Hunter Rise, and more.

Here are the full highlights:

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Below are the latest Nintendo products that can be currently pre-ordered at retailers:

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Nintendo’s latest maintenance schedule for the week of July 16, 2023 is now available. A bunch of different sessions have been added – probably the most we’ve seen in awhile. Switch will be impacted in various ways throughout the rest of the month, but that extends to 3DS and Wii U a bit as well.

The full maintenance schedule for the week of July 16, 2023 is as follows:


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