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.
These days, when when you think of Unreal Engine games, Unreal Engine 4 comes to mind. However, that isn’t the case with Mortal Kombat 11.
According to NetherRealm Studios graphics programming lead Jon Greenberg, Mortal Kombat 11 is built on a custom version of Unreal Engine 3. Greenberg added that the company’s version of the tech “is radically different from Epic’s at this point.”
Switch works well with Unreal Engine 4, but it isn’t often that we seen Unreal Engine 3-developed titles on the system. Rocket League is one example of this, which required custom work to make possible.
As we heard a few days ago, AngerForce: Reloaded will be appearing on the Switch eShop starting April 2. Get a look at a trailer for the game below.
Moero Chronicle Hyper joined the Japanese Switch eShop at the end of January. Idea Factory followed up soon after that and shared the surprising news that the game will also be released in the west. Thanks to a listing on the eShop, we have a final release date.
Moero Chronicle Hyper was previously scheduled for a general spring launch in North America and Europe. However, the eShop listing shows a final date of March 15.
It was nearly a year ago that we first found out about Crystal Crisis, a new puzzle-based fighting game from Nicalis. The game is currently on track to launch on May 28. Ahead of its release, we spoke with Nicalis president Tyrone Rodriguez to learn a bit more about what fans can look forward to.
In our interview, Rodriguez spoke about where the inspiration for Crystal Crisis came from, how characters were decided, teased the story more, and commented on trying to appeal to both casual and competitive players. You can read our full discussion below and check out some brand new screenshots.
