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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - Nintendo Switch

Nintendo has prepared a new Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze trailer to promote the game’s early launch on Switch in May. We have the video below.

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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

Switch – 34,165
PS4 Pro – 8,967
PS4 – 4,480
New 2DS LL – 4,191
Vita – 2,892
New 3DS LL – 2,842
2DS – 439
Xbox One – 59
Xbox One X – 57

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

Switch – 36,308
PS4 – 9,491
New 2DS LL – 4,564
New 3DS LL – 3,366
Vita – 2,921
PS4 Pro – 1,473
2DS – 616
Xbox One – 55
Xbox One X – 17

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SaGa Scarlet Grace boxart

Aside from the debut trailer we posted earlier today, Square Enix has sent out the boxart for SaGa Scarlet Grace, along with first details and screenshots. We’ve rounded everything up below, courtesy of Gematsu. Gematsu

Today, a new interview with Nintendo’s Shinya Takahashi was published on The Guardian. As one of the leaders at the company, he spoke about taking risks, Nintendo’s approach to development and its hiring process, the union between hardware and software teams, and trying to surprise players.

We’ve rounded up the interesting comments from the piece below. You can find The Guardian’s original article here.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

Arc System Works has more plans for Switch when it comes to the fighting genre. On one of its Japanese Twitter accounts, the company says more fighting titles will be released on the console in the future.

Yesterday, Arc System Works announced that Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus R is coming to Switch. BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle also launches in June.

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Above, you’ll see the Japanese box art for Octopath Traveler. It was just revealed by Amazon Japan. It features, perhaps obviously, the playable characters in the game. The art style is exactly what would be expected from the game: Very paintlike with attractive splashes of color.

Octopath Traveler is slated for release July 13.

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Square Enix has uploaded an official trailer for SaGa Scarlet Grace: Scarlet Ambition. You can check out the trailer down below.

Sonic Mania Plus

Earlier we wrote a post about how Sonic Mania Plus is coming to Japan but without a release date yet. However, The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu has just come out and Sonic Mania Plus will launch for Switch on July 19 in Japan for 4,490 yen.

As for the Americas and Europe, Sonic Mania Plus is due out “this summer” but the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account teased that a new trailer is due out later today, so a western release date may be announced soon.

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Splatoon 2 - Callie

Splatoon 2 updated earlier tonight with a bunch of new content. Take a look at the video below for a look at Callie’s return, the Camp Triggerfish map, and latest weapons.

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Original Soundtrack

Columbia has sent out a new video for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s official soundtrack, which has started to arrive in Japan. Take a look at it below.


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