It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Pokemon Sword/Shield is the only Nintendo game in the top five, but Trials of Mana and Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 appear for the first time.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between June 27 and July 3.
A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include Baba Is You, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Saints Row: The Third – The Full Package, Steins;Gate Elite, and more.
Here’s the full roundup of sales:
At the end of August, Bubsy: Paws on Fire! will be making its way to Switch. Take a look at the game’s launch trailer below.
This coming Thursday, Kemco will be bringing the RPG Archlion Saga to the Switch eShop. Have a look at some early footage below.
You may recall that Growtopia was listed for Switch towards the end of March. The game disappeared, only for it to be relisted this week. It now has a page once again on the eShop in Europe and Australia.
If what’s listed is accurate, Growtopia will finally be releasing on July 18. We’ll let you know if there are any other changes before then.
Leading up to the release of Gods & Monsters early next year on Switch, Ubisoft has begun sharing some developer insight on the game through internal interviews and blogs.
Specifically, their latest interview — involving Creative Director Jonathan Dumont and Senior Producer Marc-Alexis Côté — focuses on building the players’ journey as well as location and theme within the game. Check out the interview snippets below.
Activision has confirmed that an upcoming update for Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled on Switch — the Version 1.05 update — will introduce specific measures for improving load times.
Specifically, the support page for the game states that this will be done using a “Boost Mode”. No further details were given, aside from other fixes and that the update should go live this week. The full notes can be viewed below.
Following the game’s recent announcement for Switch, some gameplay footage of WayForward and Arc System’s Works’ River City Girls has surfaced.
Specifically, GameXplain has supplied off-screen footage of the PlayStation 4 version of the game from Anime Expo, so Switch owners can get a look at the upcoming game as well. Feel free to check out the eight minutes of footage below.
Hello my beautiful Popos and Nanas! Oni and Galen have a great discussion overall, in our most intimate episode of NEP yet. We talk localization and well-written characters in fiction, the pros and cons of the Switch Lite (and what this could mean for a future “Pro” variant), Dr. Mario and how different in design it is, and we tie things up with a discussion of Fire Emblem and LGBTQ+ representation in media and video games. We hope you enjoy.
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