The Pokemon Company today unveiled a massive lineup of products inspired by this year’s Detective Pikachu film. Fans will be able to get their hands on new Pokemon Trading Card Game collections, exclusive Pokemon Center merchandise, action figures, interactive plush, construction sets from Mattel’s Mega Construx brand, and more.
Here’s the full rundown on what’s planned:
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Retail
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes – €29.99
HandyGames has announced Stunt Kite Party, a party game that features a full single-player story mode, four-player local multiplayer, ten game modes, and support for tournaments. It’s due out on February 8.
We have the following overview and trailer for Stunt Kite Party:
Towards the end of last year, the Norse comic action-adventure Fimbul was announced for Switch. EuroVideo’s publishing label Wild River and Danish developer Zaxis Games today announced that it’ll be launching on February 28. It will be sold both physically and digitally.
Here’s some additional information and a trailer:
This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Retail
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes – $29.99 (available January 18)
The Raven Remastered – $29.99 (available January 22)
The supported platforms for the Nintendo Switch Online service could be expanding in the future. Just a few days ago, fans datamined what appeared to be references to various SNES games. Some additional information has since surfaced.
The Nintendo Switch Online app was updated again yesterday, making a few new games available to subscribers. However, that apparently wasn’t all. New languages were added for SNES descriptions such as Spanish for Super Mario Kart.
Here’s a look at the rundown of existing language descriptions currently, which is speculated to be the SNES launch lineup:
Rake in Grass has announced that Rampage Knights is coming to Switch today. The well-received cooperative beat ’em up also features randomized dungeon crawling and exploration as well as RPG elements.
Here’s some additional information on Rampage Knights as well as a trailer:
Pokemon GO is doing better than ever. After a rocky launch, the game has seen an increase in player engagement as well as consistent revenue. It also helped inspire one of Switch’s first Pokemon entries, Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu / Eevee.
Speaking with Business Insider, Niantic CEO John Hanke noted that Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are very pleased with Pokemon GO as well as Pokemon: Let’s Go. Apparently the two sides are looking for more “synergies” between the mobile release and the core franchise. “We’ve benefited in a lot of ways,” Hanke said.
In 2018, Pokemon GO managed to receive a “regular pace of updates.” Hanke mentioned that this will continue in 2019.
Zerouno Games has announced that Bleep Bloop, a “playful puzzle game about working together”, is coming to Switch. A release is planned for January 31.
Zerouno shares the following information about its upcoming title:
Marvelous has once again published a new trailer for Altria Pendragon. Get a look at a video focusing on Altria Pendragon below.
