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Mario Rabbids Sparks of Hope Gareth Coker Yoko Shimomura

Gareth Coker and Yoko Shimomura are now confirmed as two of the composers on Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, Ubisoft has revealed. Creative director Davide Soliani shared the news during a presentation today, but didn’t elaborate on how the work is being broken up. 

Grant Kirkhope, who provided music for the first entry in the series, was already confirmed to be returning. However, this is the first time we’ve heard about Coker and Shimomura being involved. Both will be bringing a high level of talent to the project.

Chinatown Detective Agency physical

Red Art Games, in partnership with Humble Games and General Interactive, has revealed a physical release for Chinatown Detective Agency on Switch.

2,900 units will be produced. Copies should be shipped on September 30, 2022.

XIII Switch

Microids has provided an update on the Switch version of the XIII remake, revealing that it will launch on September 13, 2022.

The game originally launched in 2020. Microids delayed the Switch version to 2021 just before launch, but it would later quietly slipped into 2022.

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Showcase

The Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope Showcase is set to begin not too long from now, and we’ve got a live stream ready to go for the event. It will cover the game’s “unique and epic tactical gameplay, and uncover a few surprises”. As a reminder, the stream begins at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 5 PM in the UK / 6 PM in Europe.

Catch up on Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope with the following overview:

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R Iggy

Bandai Namco today published the latest trailer today for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R, which shows off Iggy. Despite being a dog, he’s a Stand user who has The Fool at his disposal. 

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

Atari 50 The Anniversary Celebration

Atari is teaming up with Digital Eclipse on Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, a special package for Switch and other platforms. A release is planned for this holiday.

According to the official description, Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration “takes players on an interactive journey through 50 years of video games via interviews with designers, developers and industry leaders, documentary footage, product design documents, high-resolution original artwork, and a specially-curated list of more than 90 playable games.” Titles from the arcade, 2600, 5200, 7800, Atari 8-bit computers, Lynx, and Jaguar will be included. Additionally, Digital Eclipse has made the Reimagined series, which is comprised of “six new games that revisit, mash-up and reimagine Atari Classics” – the lineup is Swordquest: AirWorld, Haunted Houses, VCTR-SCTR, Neo Breakout, Quadratank, and Yars’ Revenge Reimagined.

crisis core final fantasy vii reunion

Original (6/16): Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion is coming to Switch, Square Enix has just revealed. It will launch this winter.

The game isn’t entirely new, though its availability has been limited. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII originally launched on the PSP in 2007 (2008 in the west), and that’s where it has stayed since then.

Fury Unleashed physical

Publisher Meridiem Games has revealed that it’s teaming up with Awesome Games Studio on a physical release of Fury Unleashed for Switch in Europe, known as the “Bang!! Edition”. It will be available as a boxed title starting September 29, 2022.

Meridiem Games will be in charge of the design, manufacture, and distribution of the Fury Unleashed: Bang!! Edition across European specialist retailers. All copies feature a specially designed cover emulating the pages of a comic book (one of the main features of the game) and an exclusive Hive Queen Boss keychain.

prison architect gangs dlc kite update

Prison Architect is still being supported on Switch, and the game received new Gangs DLC as well as a Kite Update (version 1.0.20) today.

With the Gangs DLC, the title introduces the element of gang combat into your prison. We have more details below.


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