The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, a first-person story-driven mystery game, made it to the Switch eShop yesterday. Check out some footage below.
The next online competition in Tetris 99 (the Grand Prix or Maximum Cup, depending on your region) will take place next week. The European version will run from 09:00 CEST on 23/08 until 08:59 CEST on 27/08. Once again, this competition will have a specific theme following the Splatoon 2 theme of the fifth competition. This time, it’ll be a crossover event with Fire Emblem: Three Houses. If you reach 100 points, you will receive an exclusive Fire Emblem: Three Houses in-game theme.
Square Enix uploaded another gameplay video for Oninaki today. This one focuses on the Daemon Aisha:
Oninaki will be released on August 22nd.
The long-awaited third Choose Your Legends summoning focus, Brave Echoes, is now live in Fire Emblem Heroes. As always, you get to choose one of the four new 5-star focus units (Alm: Imperial Ascent, Micaiah: Queen of Dawn, Eliwood: Marquess Pherae and Camilla: Light of Nohr) for free. The regular summoning focus in which they appear will be available until September 6. There’s also a new paralogue story, as well as some time-limited quests, as a way to earn some extra orbs.
Today’s daily summoning focus is Heroes with Swift Sparrow. The 5-star focus units are Eirika: Anamnesis Lady, Katarina: Wayward One and Nino: Pale Flower.
Finally, next up for the Grand Hero Battle revival is Walhart: The Conqueror. You have 48 hours to beat him, as well as the time-limited quest to earn another copy of him.
Once again, a tidbit of info for Garfield Kart: Furious Racing has come out thanks to an Amazon listing — the game’s boxart.
Those interested can view the image above.
Starting tomorrow, Grandia HD Collection will finally be available on Switch. Get a look at some footage in the video below.
BBG Entertainment’s Boulder Dash 30th Anniversary is coming to Switch, Worker Bee has announced. A release is planned for this fall.
Here’s an overview and trailer from the Steam release that took place a few years ago:
System: Switch (eShop)
Release date: August 1, 2019
Developer: Matrix Corporation
Publisher: D3Publisher
Dungeon crawlers have hit a variety of different styles, licenses, and worlds that typically take the player into the underbelly of terrain. These titles set a tone filled with monsters, corridors, and surprises. Some can be totally random with procedural generation techniques that make for a unique playthrough while others can be meticulously crafted to be experienced with an intended sequence of events. Omega Labyrinth Life is in a league of its own due to its relentless onslaught of difficult gameplay while simultaneously lowering the guard of the player through visual stimulation – almost overwhelmingly so. It’s made known right away that Omega Labyrinth Life will be filled from top to bottom with plenty of skin, monsters, dungeons, cup sizes and the like. You’ll have to balance out a healthy education throughout your time as an exchange student while dealing with a horrible evil causing the beautiful flora around to wither and die. Unfortunately, the experience withers along with it because of barebones progression and lack of polish.
Switch is continuing to lead the way with hardware sales in the United States. In July, it was again the best-selling platform. It’s also still the hardware sales leader for 2019 as a whole.
July was a tough month for the overall gaming industry due to a drop in hardware spending. However, Switch is the only platform that has experienced sales gains year-to-date.
Thanks to the latest NPD report, we finally know how Fire Emblem: Three Houses performed in the United States. In July, it was the best-selling game across all platforms – and that’s not including digital sales.
NPD says Three Houses has secured the largest launch of a Fire Emblem game in U.S. history. Launch month sales tripled those of the previous best-seller in release month, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Three Houses is already the second best-selling entry in the franchise, and should eventually overtake Fire Emblem: Awakening.
