Perfect Dark, Rare’s classic N64 shooter, is officially 20 years old today. To celebrate the milestone, Eurogamer caught up with several of its key developers as well as then Nintendo of America producer Ken Lobb to learn more about the creation of the project. Several interesting topics were discussed in the feature, such as how Rare decided against making a sequel to GoldenEye 007, how the Perfect Dark name was chosen, using the memory Expansion Pak, and more.
We have a roundup featuring these notable points below. The full feature from Eurogamer can be found here.
Potata: Fairy Flower, a puzzle-platformer, will be out for Switch on June 6. View some early footage in the video below.
The action-puzzler Urban Flow has been dated for Switch. It’ll release digitally via the eShop on June 26, Baltoro Games has announced.
Here’s an overview of Urban Flow, along with a trailer:
A couple of new gameplay videos are in for Minecraft Dungeons, the new action-adventure game for Switch. We have a pair of videos below.
Minecraft Dungeons will be hitting Switch on May 26.
The previously-announced Tempest Trials+: A Waltz Unending event is now live in Fire Emblem Heroes. By clearing maps to raise your score, you can earn rewards. Refining Stones are also up for grabs by completing requests.
Fire Emblem Heroes is also hosting Summoning Focus: Heroes with Lull Skills. Three Heroes with Lull skills are available as part of a 5-star summoning focus.
Several new events have dropped in Dragalia Lost, including a limited-time upgrade event (Ascent to Eminence), the Platinum Showcase, the Dragon Special, a Chapter 13 Interlude, and a new void battle.
With this amount of content going live, it can be a bit overwhelming looking through it all. Luckily, we’ve compiled the events and their information and included them to view below:
A new trailer has been released promoting Catherine: Full Body for the Nintendo Switch by showing a gameplay segment with Joker from Persona 5. In this video, Joker traverses a second area in the Babel challenge stage know as “Menhir.”
Originally, the Persona 5 content in Catherine: Full Body was DLC, but it will be included by default in the Switch version.
It is interesting to note that while this video is meant specifically to promote the Switch version of the game, it uses PS4 gameplay footage. The full trailer is available to view below.
Catherine: Full Body launches on Switch on July 7, 2020 in the West.
The Pokemon Company recently announced that they would make Galarian Mr. Mime and a ball set available to Pokemon Sword and Shield players via a mystery gift . Now, they have added three more Pokemon, along with more item sets to accompany them (usually different types of pokeballs but also other items).
These Pokemon include Galarian Ponyta, Corsola, and Meowth and their run times have also been given. Check out the specifics of their item sets and the exact running times of each below:
Pokemon Home has received a new update on mobile (iOS and Android). This update is roughly 68mb and adds battle data as well as fixing a few bugs.
The full patch notes are included below:
In this week’s issue of Famitsu, Xenoblade Chronicles director delved into the improvements made for Definitive Edition on Switch. Monolith Soft focused on improving player understanding through the UI, playability, and visuals.
Takahashi gave a few examples of improving playability. If the player loses consistently against a specific boss, a related tutorial will appear after a set amount of time. Also, you can now be assisted with receiving a full party gauge upon returning to the game.
