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With just two months to go until release, THQ Nordic is continuing its promotional efforts for SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated. We have a new “The Battle is On” trailer below.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated is due out for Switch on May 23.

Into the Breach

Subset Games has announced that a new update will be made available soon for Into the Breach on Switch. With version 1.2, the studio is adding in support for a bunch of additional languages, implementing touch controls, and changing the cost of all weapons to 1 Reputation.

Here’s the full rundown:

StarCrossed, a new action arcade game, will be appearing on the Switch eShop starting April 29. Find some footage below.

Infinite: Beyond the Mind appears to have a release date. Though we knew that the action-platformer would arrive sometime in Q2 2020, a new eShop listing shows that the game is due out on May 7.

Here’s an overview of Infinite: Beyond the Mind, along with a trailer:

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

This week’s Switch eShop charts are as follows:

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Capcom isn’t ruling out more Street Fighter games for Switch. In a recent interview with USgamer, series producer Yoshinori Ono said the company “would consider” Nintendo’s console if there’s “another opportunity that makes sense for us”. Ono also indicated that Ultra Street Fighter II and Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection were financially successful.

Ono also has a positive outlook when it comes to Switch overall. Capcom views the system “as an important platform for all types of games,” he said.

Ono shared the following when asked for his thoughts about Switch in terms of Street Fighter and fighting games in general:

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is introducing something we didn’t really see with previous games. The Switch title is receiving regular updates, which are primarily tied into seasonal events. Bunny Day kicked things off right around launch, and the game is continuing to go strong with Nature Day and more.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons director Aya Kyogoku spoke about the approach to future updates in an interview with CNET. Although Kyogoku wouldn’t dive into any specifics, she did mention that Nintendo is looking to continue surprising players “in two years or three years down the road”.

Kyogoku’s full words:

Several new games out came out this week on the eShop. If you’re interested in checking out what’s new in screenshot form, take a look at the gallery below.

Hang the Kings, a chess-inspired puzzle game, is out now on the Switch eShop. Take a look at some footage in the video below.

Risk of Rain 2 has been updated on Switch, and is now at version 1.0.6. A pair of notable issues have been addressed as part of today’s patch.

Specifically, the following has now been fixed:


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