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Earlier this year, Mango Protocol brought Agatha Knife to Switch. The studio has now confirmed that another one of its games, MechaNika, will also be getting a release on the eShop.

MechaNika will have you playing as a the sassy seven-year-old girl Nikka who is on a quest to find the components she needs to build her particular deadly metal weapon. With it, she’ll destroy all of the things in the world she doesn’t like. Mango Protoco says “MechaNika is a whole new darkly sarcastic adventure with fascinating characters, each with their own twisted story, many puzzles with different ways to be solved, and more stunning hand-drawn visuals.”

A Nintendo Switch Nindies Showcase Summer 2018 presentation will be held next week, Nintendo has announced. The broadcast will be held next week – August 28.

The presentation will go live at the following times:

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Dragon Marked for Death

During a live stream last night, Inti Creates showed off a bunch of new footage from Dragon Marked for Death. This is one of our best looks at the game yet as the gameplay is essentially direct-feed. Continue on below for the full recording.

Breakers: Dawn of Heroes

A new update for Dawn of the Breakers has gone live. Cyberstep released version 1.013 today.

The new update includes some new features as well as bug fixes. We’ve included the full patch notes below. 

Next month, Arena of Valor will finally be seeing its full release on Switch. Have a look at 16 minutes of direct-feed footage below.

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Switch Retail

Blade Strangers – $39.99 (available August 28)
de Blob 2 – $29.99 (available August 28)
Little Dragons Café – $59.99 (available August 24)
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate – $59.99 (available August 28)
Night Trap – 25th Anniversary Edition – $13.49 (available August 24)
Victor Vran Overkill Edition – $39.99 (available August 28)

Fortnite

Epic Games released the latest update for Fortnite today. Version 5.30 is out now for all players.

Below are the full patch notes, including some technical improvements on Switch:

Earthworms

Earthworms is due out for Switch this Friday via the eShop. For a look at the game, check out the following video:

Crossed Swords is this week’s NeoGeo game on Switch. As for next week, it’ll be Football Frenzy. The latest issue of Famitsu confirms the release.

As the name implies, Football Frenzy is an arcade football experience. The game will cost the usual $7.99 / €6.99 / £6.29.


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