PQube has set a final release date for the kart racer All-Star Fruit Racing. In Europe, it’s arriving on July 13. The North American launch is planned for a month later on August 21.
All-Star Racing will be offered both physically and digitally. For more on the game, check out the overview and trailer below.
de Blob is just a few weeks out from reaching Switch. The Wii classic will be available on Nintendo’s new console starting June 26, THQ Nordic announced today.
Here’s some information about de Blob as well as a new trailer:
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
Switch – 40,587
PS4 – 13,025
PS4 Pro – 5,146
New 2DS LL – 3,828
New 3DS LL – 2,653
Vita – 2,393
2DS – 337
Xbox One – 73
Xbox One X – 62
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
Switch – 36,590
PS4 – 12,595
PS4 Pro – 4,887
New 2DS LL – 3,524
New 3DS LL – 2,686
Vita – 2,298
2DS – 384
Xbox One – 89
Xbox One X – 74
And here are the software charts:
Ahead of tomorrow’s launch, Flyhigh Works published a new trailer for Samurai Defender: Ninja Warfare. We’ve posted it below.
Tennis World Tour likely could have used some additional time in the over. According to Bigben Interactive president, the game was just 20% finished weeks before release. However, a major delay wasn’t possible due to marketing having already been in place and wanting a release in time for the French Open.
Where do we go from here? Well, Flac says that a refined version is planned for 2019. A new game is also lined up for 2020 – 2021.
As for Tennis World Tour in its current state, Flac noted that it will meet expectations having shipped 500,000 to distributors and already achieving a profit. Bigben also hopes to increase its Meta score and be in the 80s in the next few years.
Scalextric, a top-down RC car racing game based on the popular electric toys, seems to be coming to Switch on June 12. You can see a trailer below.
Ripstone Games, the creators of The Spectrum Retreat, have posted an eleven-minute video with exclusive developer commentary throughout. The commentary is focused on puzzle design and game creation in general while cluing viewers into the world a little bit. You can watch that video below.
The video’s description also states that the game will be coming to Switch this summer. That’s pretty soon, so a more concrete release date should be incoming.
Famitsu recently had an interview with The Pokemon Company President, Tsunekazu Ishihara giving us a few more details about the upcoming Pokemon game coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2019.
The Pokemon President stated that the game is due to be released in the second half of 2019, it will have better graphics than any other previous Pokemon game, it will be completely new and not like Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu! & Let’s Go Eevee! and finally it will contain many brand new Pokémon to the series.
Arc System Works has announced that Radio Hammer Station will be coming to the Nintendo Switch. It’s an enhanced version of the 3DS title Radio Hammer that came out in 2015. Radio Hammer Station will be out in 2018 in Japan, though no release date has been announced for other countries at this moment.
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Pokemon Quest (NSW) – 8/8/8/9
Record of Grancrest War (PS4) – 8/8/8/8
Trove (PS4) – 8/7/8/8
