Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 introduces a feature we’ve never seen before in the series. A bunch of retro events are included, which lets players experience the game with a classic look and feel.
One point of interest has been the manner in which SEGA approached the graphical style. Sonic is right out of the 16-bit era, but Mario maintains his original 8-bit look from Super Mario Bros. A little while back, producer Nobuya Ohashi and director Noahiro Hirao spoke about the decision in an interview with 4Gamer.
Several new games out came out this week on the eShop. If you’re interested in checking out what’s new in screenshot form, take a look at the gallery below.
Last week, Milestone published a gameplay video for Monster Energy Supercross: The Official Videogame 3. Get a look at it below.
New footage has emerged for the Game Boy-inspired platformer Squidlit. Take a look at the gameplay in the video below.
Digital Cybercherries issued a new trailer for the co-op first-person shooter Hypercharge: Unboxed showing off the game’s customization features. We have it below.
Natsume president Hiro Maekawa is ringing in the New Year with a special message to fans. Aside from touching on strong sales of the company’s recent games, there’s also a very vague tease as to what’s planned for 2020 and beyond.
Here’s the message in full:
The atmospheric visual novel Lydia will be making its way to Switch this month, publisher Nakana.io and developer Platonic Partnership have announced. A release is planned for January 17.
Here’s an overview of Lydia, along with a couple of trailers:
Switch owners can get their hands on the twin-stick shooter/puzzler THOTH as of next Thursday. Have a look at some footage below.
Next Thursday, the rhythm-platformer 140 will be appearing on the Switch eShop. Check out some footage in the video below.
Every week, we’ve been posting the best-selling physical games in the UK. Data collector GfK has now compiled the sales data for whole year, giving us the top 10 best-selling physical games in the UK in 2019, as reported by gamesindustry.biz:
