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Wide Care Switch

In Japan today, Nintendo kicked off a new subscription service for Switch known as Wide Care.

The service promises to fix problems with Switch systems up to six times a year or damages worth up to 100,000 yen. Issues such as fall damage, water damage, and “natural failures” will all be taken care of. Shipping is included as well.


Pokemon Sword Shield Shiny Marill

A new Max Raid Battle event is here for Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield with players having a chance to obtain Shiny Marill.

The event is putting the focus on Water-type Pokemon. By defeating them, you’ll be given items like Fresh Water, Soda Pop, and Lemonade. Poliwag, Marill, and Spheal will be appearing more often. Shiny Marill isn’t a guarantee to show up, so you’ll need a bit of luck on your side.

Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course gameplay

Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course, which finally launched today following previous delays, has received new gameplay on Switch. 19 minutes of footage has come in.

We have more information about Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course in the following overview:

Capcom Fighting Collection pre-order

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

1. [NSW] Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes – 97,538 / NEW
2. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 19,255 / 512,301
3. [NSW] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles – 10,663 / 122,512
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 9,261 / 4,691,651
5. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 8,239 / 777,810
6. [NSW] Mario Strikers: Battle League – 7,688 / 52,863
7. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 7,437 / 3,188,728
8. [NSW] Minecraft – 7,095 / 2,684,472
9. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 4,621 / 7,272,811
10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 4,449 / 4,909,639

nintendo switch online sega genesis june 2022

Nintendo Switch Online has just added four new SEGA Genesis games as part of its update for June 2022. Comix Zone, Mega Man: The Wily Wars, Target Earth, and Zero Wing are now available for Expansion Pack members.

Here’s information about each title:

Monster Sanctuary The Forgotten World Update trailer

Monster Sanctuary received its latest patch today known as The Forgotten World, and a new trailer has provided a closer look at the additions.

As a reminder, the update includes ten new monsters (five of which were designs from the community) for players to add to their team, two new outfits, 78 new skills, 13 new items, and three new game modes (Bravery Mode, Randomizer, and Permadeath) that can be combined freely, allowing players to customize their Monster Sanctuary experience for endless replayability. We have the full patch notes here for those that missed it previously.

Fire Emblem Warriors 2

Fire Emblem Warriors 2 was an idea Nintendo and Koei Tecmo considered before settling on development of Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, it’s been revealed. 

That nugget of information comes from an interview published by Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream with development producer Hideo Suzuki, producer Yosuke Hayashi, and director Hayato Iwata. Hayashi said the team “wanted to make a sequel to Fire Emblem Warriors” and “called it Fire Emblem Warriors 2 as a placeholder name and discussed various directions we could take it in”.

QUByte Classics: Zero Tolerance Collection release date

QUByte Interactive, along with Piko Interactive, today announced a final release date for QUByte Classics: Zero Tolerance Collection. The package will initially debut digitally on July 7, 2022.

Here’s an overview of the collection:

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II Switch update

A new update has just gone live for the Switch version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. 

Aspyr has confirmed that this addresses the game-breaking bug that was previously reported, though there was a bit of a workaround built in already. On top of that, a couple of other issues have been fixed.

The full patch notes for the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords update on Switch are as follows:

Rabbids: Party of Legends trailer

Ubisoft has gone live with a launch trailer for Rabbids: Party of Legends. Switch owners around the world can get their hands on the party title starting today.

For more on Rabbids: Party of Legends, read the following overview:


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