Thanks to GamesIndustry, we have new insight into the UK gaming market for May 2024.
There’s some good news here for Nintendo as Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door manages to crack the top ten – and that’s without digital data being reported. Elsewhere we see some of the usual games like EA Sports FC 24 and Hogwarts Legacy make the list.
Acquire is gearing up for another Switch release, and has announced Scars of Mars is heading to the platform. A worldwide launch is set for June 20, 2024.
Scars of Mars is a real-time RPG in which players are tasking with rescuing survivors trapped in a Mars research facility that has gone dark. For more information, read the following overview:
SteamWorld Build just received its latest free update, dubbed “Steam Wave”.
A new round of content is now available at no extra cost. The game added in new decorations, and there are a number of little touches in celebration of summer.
Here’s the full rundown:
Atlus is almost done showing off the demons in Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, but for today’s video, we’ve got a look at Beelzebub. The creature, which has shown up in many different games, has taken on various appearances over the years.
May 22: Starting today, Nintendo Switch Online members can obtain new icons for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. This celebrates the release of the Switch remake.
The first wave just went up a couple of minutes ago. As we typically see, there are designs for characters, backgrounds, and frames. Characters cost 10 Platinum Points each on My Nintendo. It’s 5 Platinum Points each for backgrounds and frames.
Publisher We Dig Games and developer Mass Creation have been working on Date Z, and the upcoming title is heading to Switch. It’s on track to debut in 2024.
Date Z is a visual novel dating sim in which you play as a transfer student who needs to secure a date by Friday to survive a deadly virus outbreak. High school drama, romance, and mystery are promised.
Fresh off its Switch release, a bunch of gameplay is available for Airhead. It just came out for the platform after it was announced back in 2020.
Everything you need to know can be found in the following overview:
Switch screenshots have been a thing ever since the console’s release back in 2017. Unfortunately, sharing these screenshots and video just got harder – thanks to the newly-raised (and extremely high) cost of Twitter / X’s API, every major game console has cut support for the platform. Nintendo was the last to do so, and support for screenshot and video sharing on Twitter officially ended on June 11. Fortunately, there’s an incredibly easy way to share Switch screenshots and videos that has gone rather overlooked until now – and if you want to continue sharing your content, you’ll definitely want to know about it.
Limited Run Games will host its LRG3 2024 showcase next week, the company just announced. It will air on June 20 at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 7 PM in the UK / 8 PM in Europe.
LRG3 is Limited Run Games’ annual showcase. The company will be highlighted upcoming physical and digital releases for Switch in 2024 and beyond. We often hear about a few brand new titles as well.
You’ll be able to watch next week’s presentation on YouTube and Twitch. We’ll be sure to pass along all of the notable Switch news during the show.
System: Switch
Release date: June 14, 2024
Developer: Atlus
Publisher: SEGA
It took almost five years for Shin Megami Tensei V to release after it was first revealed and now, less than three years later, Atlus are re-releasing it as Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance. It’s an extremely bad habit the company has maintained over the years with both the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series in particular, but it’s difficult to be angry when the amount of additional content added, combined with the quality-of-life changes, transform the game to feel like a completely different title. Any ill will I felt towards Atlus for doing this yet again evaporated within the first half hour, as Vengeance proved to be yet another case of fixing something I didn’t even realize was broken.
