Earlier today, Nintendo NY celebrated Mario Day with a special event. We have a few photos straight from the Big N below, along with their descriptions.
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A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include big discounts on LEGO games and the SteamWorld series, Bomber Crew, Fe, Flipping Death, and more.
Here’s the full roundup of sales:
Retailers have started to go live with their offers for Mario Day.
Over on Amazon, you can nab digital copies of a few different Mario games for $20 off. Also, if you’re not a Switch owner yet, you can get the system and one of the Mario titles for only $329.99. Best Buy has the same offer for the games here and console here.
At least as of now, it seems that GameStop isn’t running the same deals as Amazon and Best Buy. However, a bunch of Mario-related products are on sale here.
Fire Emblem Warriors is one Switch game that lets you choose between two technical modes. One favors frame rate while the other emphasizes resolution. This isn’t something we’ve seen with many Switch titles, but Darksiders Warmastered Edition is another game that makes use of similar functionality.
While playing Darksiders Warmastered Edition, you can choose between High Quality and High Performance modes. The former uses a 720p / 1080p native resolution and hovers around 25 – 30 frames per second. If you go with High Performance mode instead, the resolution will be lower but the frame rate jumps up to 50 – 60 FPS.
Darksiders Warmastered Edition launches for Switch on April 2.
After updating its maintenance schedule for the coming week, Nintendo has four different sessions of downtime planned. Splatoon 2 will be impacted tonight, and Switch overall has three windows planned within the next few days.
Here’s the current schedule:
Corcell has published two more combat videos for AeternoBlade II. Find a bit of gameplay featuring Bernard and Felix below.
Accompanying some of the other E3 news we’ve heard this week, Limited Run Games has announced that it will hold a press conference during the big expo in June.
Last year’s show treated fans to plenty of Switch news. Much of it pertained to games getting physical releases, but we also found out about Dust: An Elysian Tail making its way to the platform – which was entirely new.
Limited Run’s E3 2018 stream took place the Monday of E3 week. If that holds true again this year, the 2019 event would be live on June 10.
