Contigo Games and Whitethorn Digital have announced that StarCrossed, an action arcade game, will be appearing on Switch this month. It’ll launch digitally via the eShop on April 29.
Here’s an overview of StarCrossed, along with a trailer:
G-Mode Archives 01: Flyhight Cloudia is out now on the Japanese Switch eShop. Have a look at some footage in the video below.
Niantic has announced Incense Day as one of the latest events in Pokemon GO.
Over a six-hour period, players can receive different boosts from Incense for Water-, Fire-, Grass-, Psychic-, Bug-, and Ground-type Pokemon. While active, Incense will attract more Sentret as well. An event-exclusive 1 PokeCoin bundle featuring three Incense will also be available.
Here are the full details about the event:
The situation surrounding Cooking Mama: Cookstar doesn’t appear to be coming to an end anytime soon. After IP holder Office Create issued a statement earlier today and said it would be exploring legal action, publisher Planet Entertainment has come forward with a new response of its own.
Planet says that “creative differences arose as Cooking Mama: Cookstar was near completion that were outside the scope of our agreement and the game design approved by Office Create.” The company also believes it is within its rights to distribute the game.
Here’s the full statement from Planet:
Picross S4 has received a listing on the Japanese eShop where fans can download a demo ahead of next week’s launch. Take a look at some footage below.
Similar to previous years, SEGA intended to host a Sonic panel at SXSW 2020. But after the event was cancelled, those plans were forced to change. SEGA was last planning on sharing news from its SXSW panel in a new format sometime this month, but it looks like that’ll no longer be happening.
The official Sonic Twitter account shared the following statement a short while ago:
Update: An official statement for Gamescom 2020 has now been released, which we have below.
Original: The German Press Agency has reported that the German government have banned all public events until August 31st 2020 in response to social distancing measures implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively cancelling Gamescom 2020.
While the show’s organizers have yet to comment on the status of the show going forward, last month a post on the event’s website claiming that if the physical event could not go ahead, they would instead host a digital event in its absence.
This story is developing and we will update as the organisers respond to this situation.
Gamescom statement
Even though not all details are known at present, the nationwide ban on major events until the end of August will also affect the planning for Gamescom 2020. Furthermore: Gamescom 2020 will definitely take place digitally! We will provide further information shortly.
The over-the-top anime action beat ’em up Fly Punch Boom! is in the works for Switch, Jollypunch Games has confirmed. A release window has not yet been confirmed.
Here’s an overview of Fly Punch Boom!, along with a trailer:
Saber Interactive, the studio behind the Switch port of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, has revealed that it’s bringing World War Z to Switch.
World War Z is a four-player cooperative third-person shooter. Hundreds of zombies can sometimes appear on screen, and the game also supports four players online. Saber CEO Matt Karch said that giving everything involved, the Switch port has been “the hardest thing that we have had to do”.
Karch mentioned to IGN:
