This month’s NPD report brings along a rather impressive stat for Switch. Year-to-date dollar sales of the system are the highest of any hardware platform in United States history. Previously, Wii held the record for the year-to-date period ending April 2009.
Switch was again the best-selling hardware platform of April in the U.S. That goes for both unit sales and dollar sales.
New footage has emerged for Maneater, Tripwire Interactive’s open-world action-RPG. We’ve included a few gameplay videos below.
Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y – Waiwai Gakuen Seikatsu won’t initially be distributed at retail. Instead, Level-5 has said that it will release the game as a regularly updated, large-scale digital title.
Players can look forward to one free update per month. One major feature Level-5 is working on is a multiplayer mode, though specifics have yet to be shared.
Ministry of Broadcast has been updated on Switch, bringing along new features and improvements. An easy mode and improved checkpoints are a couple of the highlights.
Here are the full patch notes:
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.
