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Tattoo Punk

No Gravity Games and VARSAV Game Studios have announced Tattoo Punk, a story-driven management title in which players customize a tattoo studio, make futuristic tats, and grow their business and brand. The project will be released on Switch.

Here’s some additional information and a trailer:

The Caligula Effect 2

FuRyu and Historia issued a new trailer for their RPG The Caligula Effect 2. Get a look at the video below.

The Caligula Effect 2 is lined up for June 24 in Japan. In North America and Europe, the game is slated for this fall.

Fire Emblem Heroes has a new Summoning Focus and more new content, check it out here:

The arcade puzzle shooter Flowing Lights releases soon, and footage from the game is now live on YouTube. This over 24 minutes of gameplay shows off the beginning of the game and gives a good glimpse of the strategic shooting gameplay.

Check out the full gameplay preview below.

Flowing Lights releases on Switch on May 7, 2021. 

It turns out that Level-5 isn’t done with Layton’s Mystery Journey. The company has announced Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and The Millionaires’ Conspiracy Deluxe Edition Plus for Switch, which is on track for July 8 in Japan.

Based on what we know thus far, it’s largely the same as the original. However, players can switch between the original voice acting or new voice acting from the anime at any point.

The tactical rogue-lite Crying Suns is on the way to Switch, Humble Games and Alt Shift Studio have announced. It will launch digitally on May 27.

Here’s an overview of Crying Suns, along with a trailer:

Chris Meledandri

Earlier today, we heard that Chris Meledandri will be selected as an outside director at Nintendo. Nintendo elaborated on the move during its financial results call.

Nintendo explained that Meledandri “will appropriately supervise our companyʼs management from an objective perspective, while providing valuable advice to our organization, based on his broad experience and insight gained as a leader in the field of entertainment.” Also mentioned, “We believe that the addition of Mr. Meledandri will help to ensure our balance of diversity, including global perspective, knowledge, and experience, further enhancing the effectiveness of our Board of Directors.”

Here’s the full bit on Meledandri’s role at Nintendo:


Nintendo touched on its upcoming slate of releases during its financial results call today.

New Pokemon Snap just came out on April 30. On the horizon are Miitopia, Game Builder Garage, and Mario Golf: Super Rush. There’s also the upcoming launch of the blue Switch Lite.

Nintendo said the following today:


While Nintendo couldn’t be doing much better when it comes to Switch hardware and software, that success extends to digital sales. The Big N’s digital sales are up 68.5 percent over the past year.

The Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield Expansion Pass as well as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate played a big role in sales for add-on content. Nintendo mentioned that there was growth for indie titles, download-only software, and Nintendo Switch Online.

According to Nintendo:

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Nintendo has pointed to Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury as one of its top performing Switch games of late. In its first six week, the sell-through amount was four million units.

Nintendo also shared the graph above as part of its latest financial results to stress overall strong software sales for Switch.

The company said:


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