This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Switch Download

ACA NeoGeo Metal Slug 2 – $7.99
Bulb Boy – $8.99
Implosion – $11.99
Shephy – $4.99
Vaccine – $9.99

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A big update is on the way to Pokemon Duel. It’s unclear what’s planned, but more information is due to be released on July 19. For now, we only have an image that features a large purple crystal. Expect additional news soon.

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The Japanese Super Mario Odyssey Twitter account is back at it with another update. Along with art of a captured Hammer Bro., we have a quick clip showing it in action:

Nintendo notes that by quickly shaking the Joy-Con, frying pans can be thrown faster.

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Fire Emblem Heroes added in plenty of new content this week between the new Special Maps with Alm and Celica and Chain Challenge mode. Take a look at some footage below.

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de Blob didn’t achieve massive success, but the series was one of the more interesting experiments on Wii. THQ Nordic business and product development director Reinhard Pollice believes that the franchise has potentially, calling it “the perfect indie game.” Pollice added in an interview with GamesIndustry that de Blob “was a bit underrepresented on Wii,” and it should have been on Steam for the potential of being “a massive success.”

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Implosion is out today in North America and Europe on the Switch eShop. Watch the official launch trailer below.

When Namco Museum launches, players will be able to download a free app from the eShop. This will allow for Download Play on Switch, specifically for Pac-Man Vs.

If one person has purchased Namco Museum, the other Switch owner won’t need a copy of the game. The second person will only need to download the free app for Download Play. One Switch system is used to play as Pac-Man while the other is for three people to play as the Ghosts.

Pac-Man Vs. can also be played with one Switch system with up to three players. However, with one unit, you’ll be limited to playing as Ghosts.

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Circle Entertainment shared a new English trailer for the downloadable 3DS game AAlchemic Dungeons. We’ve included it below.

The possibility of a localization of the Switch version of Monster Hunter XX has been quite a hot topic lately, starting with some comments made by Capcom around E3 and now the appearance of the Japanese version at Nintendo’s booth at Japan Expo in Paris. Alex “cvxfreak” Aniel was able to speak to a Nintendo representative at the booth, who told him that “We are unable to comment on localization.” So, no news on that front unfortunately, but the rep also said that “Capcom accepted our offer to show the game at Japan Expo.” It seems like Nintendo pushed to show the game at Japan Expo then, and not Capcom. There seems to be some interest from Nintendo at least to show the game to Western audiences, but again, a localization of the game doesn’t seem to be happening at the moment.

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Asobo Studio’s A Plague Tale: Innocence will be coming to other home consoles and PC – but not to the Switch. Speaking to GamingBolt, Asobo Studio’s Chief Creative Officer David Dedeine says that this is due to the system’s lack of power:

“No. I will not lie by just saying…power. It’s really the power of the device. In this case it was the amount of rats we need to display. We already know that there’s too many rats, too many animations, too many AI at the same time. And if we want to give justice to – it’s like there is a large bridge between [it and ] Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro. And the Switch, it was too hard to make the same game in such a different context.

We’ve done the math, and had all sorts of discussions with Focus Home Interactive (the publisher). So maybe will try, but right now the discussion we’ve had with the publisher was to not make Switch a priority.”

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