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The previously-announced Hugh Neutron DLC is now available for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, publisher GameMill as well as developers Ludosity and Fair Play Labs have announced.

Hugh Neutron is voiced by Mark DeCarlo. He brings along an all-new stage and bonus alternate costume, pictured above.

Blazing Strike delayed

In announcement made by developer RareBreed Makes Games, the studio announced that Blazing Strike has been delayed to Spring 2023.

The fighter was unveiled for Switch and other platforms in May 2021. The game’s release window has shifted around a couple of times. It was initially planned for Spring 2022 and then Fall 2022. The latest fall target won’t be met and we’ll now be seeing it next year instead.

switch joy-con steam

It’s a work in progress, but Steam has started to add in support for the Switch Joy-Con controllers. Those that are involved with the service’s beta client can access the functionality now.

According to Valve, the Joy-Con controllers can be used with its service individually as a mini-gamepad or combined into pairs.

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A new Nintendo Monthly Rewind video has gone up for July 2022. It goes over the launch of the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Live A Live, announcement of Kirby’s Dream Buffet, Bayonetta 3 release date, and more.

Here’s the full video:

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle R Gyro Zeppeli

To close out the week, Bandai Namco has provided a Gyro Zeppeli character trailer for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R. He uses his stand, Ball Breaker, in battle.

Here’s some additional information about JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R:

C-Side was revealed as band in Splatoon 3 late last year, but Nintendo has now shared a new music track known as “Paintscrapper”. Nintendo says “they’ve welded a shiny rainbow melody to a thrash-metal skeleton and added all kinds of chrome spikes.”

Here’s a quick refresher on Splatoon 3:

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Grim Guardians: Demon Purge

Gunvolt developer Inti Creates today announced Grim Guardians: Demon Purge, a new gothic horror 2D action platformer. We know that it will be appearing on Switch, but a release window hasn’t been announced.

Here’s what we know thus far:

mario kart 8 deluxe dlc datamine

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe fans may have uncovered specific tracks that are planned as future DLC courses thanks to a new datamine.

In the latest update released for the game which brought about the second wave of courses in the Booster Course Pass, fans noticed that Nintendo left song prefetches to many future DLC courses. Nintendo deleted the full songs of unreleased tracks from the ROM, but accidentally left some of the prefetch files, which are stored separately. Music preview files are used since it can take some time to load a full music file from the ROM and this is played while the full file is being loaded, as pointed out by Twitter user OatmealDome.

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

1. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 112,728 / NEW
2. [NSW] Digimon Survive – 28,536 / NEW
3. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 24,966 / 623,493
4. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set – 17,209 / 217,472
5. [NSW] Live A Live – 14,098 / 85,235
6. [PS5] Gran Turismo 7 – 12,453 / 139,888
7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 11,542 / 4,745,609
8. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 11,201 / 823,909
9. [NSW] Tengoku Struggle: Strayside – 10,912 / NEW
10. [NSW] Minecraft – 9,873 / 2,727,866

Made in Abyss Binary Star Falling into Darkness Notebook

Spike Chunsoft has released more details about Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness, this time focusing on the game’s Notebook. This logs information on the original characters, relics, primeval creatures, and more.

Here’s the full rundown:


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