Publisher Akupara Games and developer Queen Bee Games today announced that Spinch, “a tight and precise platformer with a bubbling psychedelic world full of misshaped and malformed enemies,” is coming to Switch. It will launch on September 3 via the eShop.
Here’s an overview of Spinch, along with a trailer:
Taito and Strictly Limited Games today announced that it will be bringing Space Invaders: Invincible Collection to North America and Europe. A trio of limited, physical versions of the Space Invaders Invincible Collection will be available exclusively on Strictly Limited Games’ website beginning June 28.
Below are the full details:
Nintendo has released a new set of screenshots for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate showcasing Min Min. View the gallery below, which also includes a look at the character’s alternate costumes.
Min Min will be appearing in Smash Bros. Ultimate as a DLC character on June 29.
The free-to-play MOBA game Smite has just announced a new crossover with Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, Nickelodeon’s previous television shows.
Aang/Avatar Aang (Merlin), Zuko/Blue Spirit (Susano), and Korra/Avatar Korra (Skadi) will be featured as part of the game’s next Battle Pass. A release is planned for July.
Here’s a trailer for the Avatar Battle Pass:
System: Switch
Release date: June 23, 2020
Developer: Purple Lamp
Publisher: THQ Nordic
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom would seem like an unlikely candidate for a remastering (or a rehydration) considering that – to the credit of the original – it’s merely an above average licensed 3D platformer of the GameCube generation. These games have almost completely vanished, but for its time these games were everywhere. I have an especially vague sense of nostalgia with this game: I actually can’t remember if I played Battle for Bikini Bottom specifically or if it was any of the other countless similar SpongeBob games that were released in the half decade following it. To further complicate this nostalgia, Battle for Bikini Bottom doesn’t just evoke the other SpongeBob games of its generation, but games like the now-forgotten Tak and the Power of Juju (which, as an aside, one might say was a trailblazer in the modern video-game-to-failed-TV-series pipeline.) Put aside the modern visual overhaul of Rehydrated in the Unreal Engine, which is competent but less than optimal on the Switch, and the game seems frozen in time. Rehydrated still feels like a game from 2003, but with the relative rarity of its kind in 2020, it’s hardly worse for it.
Ahead of the upcoming release, we have a look at the Switch verson of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated in action. View a half hour of gameplay below.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated is due out on June 23.
Nintendo has released new photos of the Joker and Hero amiibo, both of which are based on their appearances in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Above, we have the packaging for both figures. We also have a closer look at the amiibo below.
Nintendo has shared the full presentation that just aired in which Masahiro Sakurai presented Min Min as the newest character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. We have it below.
As is tradition for new fighters, Min Min has received a special piece of art to celebrate her appearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Check out the image above.
Min Min joins Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on June 29.
Nintendo has put out an announcement recapping the major news from today’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate presentation, which revealed Min Min from ARMS as the latest DLC character.
Here’s the full press release:
