Cygames has dated its card battling RPG Shadowverse: Champion’s Battle for Switch. The game, which is based on the Shadowverse TV anime and contains special summoning scenes, game-original cards, and support for two-player local battles, will launch in Japan on November 5.
Cygames has also sent along a bunch of details and a trailer. We have that below, courtesy of Gematsu.
Nintendo and Monolith Soft are teaming up with Good Smile for a new product. Melia, as she appears in Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, will receive a scale figure.
The figure is likely in the early stages, so we don’t really have a look at how it’s shaping up just yet. However, you can expect the design to look like the art above.
As for Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, the game launches May 29.
Fans spotted numerous third-party listings for Switch on Amazon France earlier today. No specific titles were mentioned, but we do know that they come from Warner Bros., Bethesda, Square-Enix, Ubisoft, Capcom, and Take-Two. Some companies had multiple listings while others were limited to just one.
Following up on that news, it seems that Nintendo itself has its own set of listings. You can access those pages here, here, here, and here.
It’s unclear what these listings could be at present. They all have placeholder images associated with them, so ignore the Ring Fit Adventure and amiibo boxarts. The tentative December 31 release dates also don’t give us much to go on. With any luck, Nintendo will be treating us with some announcements in the weeks and months to come.
EDIT: A new placeholder has popped up on Amazon France for a Switch game published by Koch Media and you can find that game placeholder here .
Synaptic Drive, a fast-paced arena battler from Custom Robo creator Kouji Kenjou, landed on Switch today. Have a look at some footage below.
Synaptic Drive is out now on Switch via the eShop.
Many Faces, a multi-directional shooter inspired by arcade classics, was made available on Switch today. View some footage in the video below.
Many Faces can be found on Switch as an eShop download.
A trio of Borderlands games arrive on Switch tomorrow with the Borderlands Legendary Collection. We’ve included direct-feed footage of Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition, Borderlands 2, and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel below.
A sequel to the Sonic the Hedgehog movie is on the way, Paramount Pictures and SEGA Sammy have announced. Jeff Fowler will be back as director while Pat Casey and Josh Miller are writing the script.
“The movie is still in the development stage so decisions have not been made yet regarding casting or a production start date,” Variety says in a new report.
Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher, and Toru Nakahara are confirmed as producers. Hajime Satomi, Haruki Satomi, and Tim Miller will serve as executive producers.
Ubisoft has put out the latest update for Trials Rising. The game has some new adjustments, fixes, and more. Incorrect times on the leaderboards have also been cleaned up.
Below are the full patch notes:
Bioshock 2 is getting its first crack at a Nintendo platform with its Switch release tomorrow. See how the game stacks up with the original Xbox 360 release below.
Monolith Soft celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. When the company started out making Xenosaga, no one could have predicted where they’d be today. Xenoblade has turned into a million-seller IP while Monolith Soft has been heavily involved in some of Nintendo’s top games, including Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Hirohide Sugiura, co-president of Monolith Soft, spoke about the developer’s origins in last week’s issue of Famitsu. Regarding his motives for starting his own company back in 1999, Sugiura shared (as translated by Oni Dino of Nintendo Everything):
