PM Studios have announced that their action game, Bladed Fury, will now be launching this month on March 25 in Europe and North America. The game will be available both physically at retailers and digitally on the Switch eShop. You can check out our initial coverage of Bladed Fury, including an overview and trailer, here.
Source: PM Studios PR
Broccoli has shared a new trailer for Jack Jeanne, focusing on the Onyx character class. Take a closer look with the video below.
Jack Jeanne is scheduled to release for Switch on March 18 in Japan.
Capcom has released a new version of its Monster Hunter Rise demo (version 1.0.2). This update adds on to the demo originally released for the game in January by giving players a new quest to hunt the monster Magnamalo.
New players that don’t already have the demo on their Switch can download the second version directly from the eShop with this quest included. But players that already have the first version on their Switches can now download the update. The quests in this version can be played 30 times before the demo becomes unplayable.
The full version of Monster Hunter Rise is scheduled to release on Switch on March 26, 2021.
Heroes from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War are the focus of a summoning event and Bound Hero Battle in Fire Emblem Heroes. Five star versions of Seliph: Heir of Light, Deirdre: Lady of the Forest, and Sigurd: Holy Knight are being featured in a new Summoning Focus. Then a Bound Hero Battle is live, allowing players to take on Seliph and Deirdre to earn orbs.
Both of these events will be live until March 19, 2021 at 11:59pm PT.
Samurai Warriors 5 is getting an in-depth look in a new live stream coming on March 24, 2021 at 21:00 JST (5:00 am PT). This presentation will be hosted by Koei Tecmo and Omega Force and presenters include the game’s producer Hisashi Koinuma and the voice actors Ryouta Oosaka and MC Eiji Takemoto.
The live stream will feature the first live gameplay, reveal a new playable character, and show off the collector’s editions for the game. A link to the presentation is included below for when the stream goes live.
Samurai Warriors 5 is scheduled to release worldwide on July 27, 2021 on Switch.
The newest Gala Dragalia Remix is live now, boosting the appearance rate of featured adventurers to 6%. Included in this event are the adventurers five star Eirene (light/close-range manacaster) and five star Finni (water/axe). This summoning event will be live until March 14, 2021.
Also live now is a new set of quests in the series Rise of the Sinister Dominion. Players can fight against the demons attacking North Grastaea in Lilith’s Encroaching Shadow and receive the ability to equip new wyrmprints to their weapons as a reward. There will also be special wyrmprints to collect, and these can be equipped to a weapon’s sixth or seventh slot.
This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
1. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 53,603 / 476,387
2. [NSW] Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town – 33,677 / 236,073
3. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 31,760 / 2,006,555
4. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 20,197 / 2,433,274
5. [NSW] Bravely Default II – 19,841 / 112,902
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 14,684 / 3,714,231
7. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 12,052 / 4,187,325
8. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 11,731 / 6,681,145
9. [NSW] Pokemon Sword/Shield – 10,094 / 3,990,761
10. [NSW] Minecraft – 8,760 / 1,843,633
In a follow up to our Let’s Talk series, we’ve taken your responses and made a video of the top 6 dormant Nintendo franchises that you would like to see come back. This video weighs in all the comments that we received (on our website, Twitter, and Facebook) to the question “What dormant Nintendo franchises would you like to see come to the Switch?” and tries to narrow down the top 6 from the over 45 games mentioned!
Check out the video below, and make sure to keep an eye out for more videos made from our Let’s Talk series in the future.
