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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:

1. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 – 94,876 / NEW
2. [PS4] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 – 91,547 / NEW
3. [PS4] Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris – 73,331 / NEW
4. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 56,160 / 5,114,386
5. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 44,261 / 1,113,070
6. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 20,094 / 215,305
7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 10,878 / 3,025,598
8. [NSW] Pokemon Sword/Shield – 7,857 / 3,654,961
9. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 7,450 / 3,486,199
10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 6,900 / 3,751,780

Hotel Sowls

Hotel Sowls, a mystery adventure game from CFK and Studio Sott, finds its way to Switch later this month. Have a look at some footage below.

Hotel Sowls will be out for Switch via the eShop on July 30.

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus makes its official debut on Switch tomorrow. For a look at some footage, check out the video below.

The latest episode of Nintendo Power podcast is now live. This time around, host Chris Slate is joined by Ethan Stockton from Nintendo Treehouse and Camille Van Duyn from the strategic communications team at Nintendo of America to share their detailed thoughts about Paper Mario: The Origami King and more.

Here’s the full episode:

Bounty Battle

Publisher Merge Games has announced that the indie brawler Bounty Battle has been delayed indefinitely.

Previously, the game was on track to launch this month. However, it has now been pushed back to implement “significant improvements” that the team wouldn’t be able to finish “without a slight delay.”

Merge Games’ full statement reads:

Forager

Humble Bundle and HopFrog have prepared a massive update for the Switch version of Forager. The game has received new modes, new biomes, new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

Here’s a full rundown of version 4.1.3:

Paper Mario: The Origami King

During a live stream, GameXplain showed off two hours of gameplay from Paper Mario: The Origami King. Check out the full recording below.

All Switch owners can begin playing Paper Mario: The Origami King tomorrow, July 17.

McCree’s noose spray has been patched out of Overwatch. Blizzard delivered the update this week, which replaces the noose with a horseshoe that has the text “Bad Luck” on it.

Blizzard hasn’t actually made an announcement about the change, nor has it issued any sort of statement. However, as Polygon points out, some players overlayed McCree’s noose on other sprays such as portraits of other Overwatch heroes. Given recent times and how the image of a noose could be linked to lynchings of Black people in America, Blizzard may have felt the change was necessary.

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Civilization VI

2K shared a new video today that shows off the Ethiopia civilization and its leader, Menelik II. This will be featured in the game’s New Frontier Pass.

Here’s the video:

Dustoff Z

Zordix Publishing and Invictus Games have announced Dustoff Z, the third chapter in the Dustoff helicopter search and rescue combat series. Switch owners can expect the game later in 2020.

Here’s an overview of Dustoff Z, along with a trailer:


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