This week, Hamster is bringing Samurai Shodown II to Switch as its latest NeoGeo game. We’ve added in some footage below.
TorqueL: Physics Modified Edition arrived on the Japanese Switch eShop earlier today. We now have confirmation that a western release is planned.
Over on the European Switch eShop, you can pre-load TorqueL: Physics Modified Edition right now ahead of its February 15 release. Doing so will save you 20% – the current price is £7.19. TorqueL isn’t up on the North American eShop at present, but that will likely be changing soon.
We have more details and a trailer for TorqueL: Physics Modified Edition below.
Granzella has published a teaser trailer for its new trading card game Hototogisu Tairan 1553: Ryuuko Aiutsu. View a video for the Switch title below. You can also access the official website here.
Arowana Mall, the latest stage for Splatoon 2, will be added to the game tomorrow. Nintendo has announced that the map will be going live at the following times:
– 6 PM PT (February 1)
– 9 PM ET (February 1)
– 2 AM in the UK (February 2)
– 3 AM in Europe (February 2)
Arowana Mall originally appeared in the first Splatoon. You can get a look at how it looks in the sequel via the screenshots below.
The physics-based couch/online fighting title Stick Fight: The Game will release on Switch, Landfall has confirmed. The developer shared the news regarding a port on the game’s official Steam forum.
Developer Botten Hanna said that the Switch version will take “a couple of more months”. It’s unknown how much the game will cost, but “hopefully around the same price as for PC.”
Continue on below for more details and a trailer for Stick Fight: The Game.
GameXplain held a live stream earlier today to show off Dragon Quest Builders on Switch. Take a look at an hour of footage from the final game below.
A new update has gone live for Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It primarily acts as a way of adding in support for more languages, though Nintendo says fixes have also been implemented.
The full patch notes are as follows:
- You can now select Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), or Korean in the language settings menu on the Switch console to display text in the selected language.
- Voice Language selection is not supported for the above languages. If you choose “Match System Settings” in Options, voice data will be set to Japanese.
- Various fixes to improve gameplay.
Thanks to Cameron and Reddit for the tip.
This information comes from Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima…
As part of utilizing Nintendo IP, we hope to increase visibility of Nintendo characters in the daily lives of our consumers and boost familiarity with the worlds in games made by Nintendo as entertainment. By combining the effects of many such initiatives, we aim to create an engine of competitiveness in the dedicated video game platform business and all of our other businesses.
I will introduce several examples from 2017. The winners of the UTGP T-shirt design competition held in cooperation with Uniqlo were announced, and their designs were sold in Uniqlo stores worldwide.
Kellogg released a breakfast cereal in the US that features Mario on the box. The box contains a new initiative, an amiibo tag with an NFC chip.
Last year we also piloted the release of the main theme songs from game software on music distribution services, ahead of the release of the game software itself.
In addition to these examples, we are engaging in other initiatives to boost opportunities for consumers to interact with Nintendo characters by increasing the number and variety of regional and worldwide collaborations with partner companies. In this way, we will continue seeking to raise the value of Nintendo IP and maximize the potential of our
overall business strategies.Lastly, we will now introduce a new initiative to effectively use Nintendo IP. We have started development of an animated movie featuring “Super Mario” with Illumination, the movie studio that brought films such as “Despicable Me” and “Minions.” For this project Mr. Chris Meledandri, Founder and CEO of Illumination and Shigeru Miyamoto, Representative Director, Fellow of Nintendo will co-producing the film. The film will be co-financed by Universa Pictures and Nintendo, and distributed theatrically worldwide by Universal Pictures.
Further announcements on details such as release dates will be made at a later date. We look forward to providing further information about the release timing for this movie that we hope everyone will enjoy.
As a part of our effort to expand Nintendo IP beyond video games, we look forward to bringing smiles to people around the world through this movie.
