One last trailer has arrived for Big Helmet Heroes, the new 3D beat ’em up game for Nintendo Switch. Dear Villagers and Exalted Studio are promoting this week’s launch.
If you need a refresher on what to expect, check out the following eShop rundown:
Today, we’re going over which sub-skills are best for which Pokemon according to their Specialty in Pokemon Sleep and some of the things you should consider when assessing whether they’d be worth investing in, or better sent to the Professor for candy that you can invest in better ones.
In Pokemon Sleep, the Pokemon that you recruit have a variety of parameters to consider which can dramatically affect their productivity when you’re awake. Although their Main Skill is fixed by their species, their sub-skills, which they will learn at Level 10, 25, 50, 75, and 100, are randomly selected from a small pool of options, and can make a huge difference on how effective they are at their Specialty.
With Nintendo Switch 2 on the not-too-distant horizon, it’s almost certain that we’ll receive a new Super Smash Bros. game at some point within the next few years. And there’s plenty of debate on whether it’ll be an enhanced port of Ultimate or not – it’s possible this statement won’t age well, but we’re of the opinion that what we’ll see will be an all-new game. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate itself will be playable as-is on Nintendo Switch 2 via backwards compatibility, and we think the next entry will need to look significantly different in order to make the casual player recognize the difference. Look at Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, for example – both were available on the same system, but couldn’t have looked more different in terms of aesthetics.
With the idea of an all-new Smash Bros. in mind, we’re going over several brand-new fighters we’d like to see in the next game. We don’t quite expect that every single character from Ultimate will make it to the next title, but it can counter-balance that with high-quality newcomers (mainly, ones with unique movesets and mechanics). There’s absolutely a place for two different Super Smash Bros. games on the same console, and here are some of the characters we think would help set it apart.
Ghostpia Season One started out digital-only, but over in Japan, a physical release is planned. It will launch on March 13, 2025.
Ghostpia previously came out in English, and that will be supported in the new boxed version. Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese will also be included on the cartridge.
TrampolineTales brought Luck be a Landlord to came to consoles this week, and we have gameplay. The roguelike deckbuilder just landed on Nintendo Switch.
We’ve got a refresher on what to expect via the following overview:
System: Switch
Release date: January 23, 2025
Developer: Passtech Games
Publisher: Nacon
“Once upon a time” is an almost universally recognised phrase, beginning tales that many of us will have heard before, and will almost certainly follow a familiar pattern. There will be a hero, a villain, and in the end the former will defeat the latter, and the tale will have a happy ending. In modern interpretations of these classic tales at least, it’s rare that you’ll find one that doesn’t have a happy ending, unless it has been deliberately contrived for the sake of provoking shock in the audience, which it typically fails to do, being so exaggerated as to feel more cliche than original. Ravenswatch, the second game to be developed by Passtech Games, is an extremely rare example of this inversion of fairy tales done right, with some solid roguelike gameplay to back it up.
Today, publisher Kinda Brave and developer Ember Trail announced Distant Bloom for Nintendo Switch. A release window has yet to be provided.
Distant Bloom is described as a “serene management game” that “lets you explore an alien planet where things have gone amiss.” You’ll be using plants to restore the world and build a community with your crewmates.
Pokemon Unite is back again with another update and players can download version 1.17.2.10.
For the most part, the update is all about the latest balance adjustments. The team made changes to Pokemon stats as well as moves.
Retroware will be publishing Neon Inferno for Nintendo Switch, the studio confirmed today. A release is planned for Q3 2025.
Neon Inferno offers a mix of 2D run-and-gun and gallery-shooter gameplay. Zenovia Interactive, the studio behind Steel Assault, is handling development.
January 26: Progress Orders, which was previously announced for Nintendo Switch in Japan, is now confirmed for English release in the west. This also appears to be a simultaneous worldwide launch. According to the eShop listing, the game launches overseas on April 9, 2025.
Progress Orders is a guild management RPG from Yoshifumi Hashimoto’s studio Hakama. Hashimoto is known for his past work on the Story of Seasons and Rune Factory titles.
