Headup Games announced its full schedule of games the company intends to publisher during the second half of 2017. Four Switch games are included.

Slime-san will start things off when it launches in August. The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+, finally coming to Europe, is next up on September 7. Earth Atlantis is slated for Q3 2017, and Panzer Party drops in October.

Most of these titles we’ve heard about previously, but Panzer Party appears to be a new project for Switch.

Here’s some early information about the game:

Take your tank, aircraft or ship and fight against up to 3 players on your couch or around the world in this fast paced action arena brawler. Win round after round and take advantage of the items you will be given in return. Battle at various locales from the Desert, the Andes or even Venice, but be aware of the dangers each setting will confront you with.

• 6 settings, each packed with its own unique events
• 9 vehicles split into 3 classes: Water, ground and air
• More than 20 equippable upgrades and pick-ups combined

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Troll and I will be available for Switch on August 15, Maximum Games has confirmed. The game had been announced for Nintendo’s console earlier this year.

The Switch version of Troll and I lets players use the Joy-Con controllers for both solo and split-screen co-op gameplay.

Here’s the latest trailer:

A patch for Troll and I will be issued on other formats with a number of improvements:

– Addition of a mini-map
– Additional checkpoints
– Easy, Normal and Hard difficulty settings
– Increased crafting speed
– New tutorials
– Additional text hints
– Increased resources for crafting and survivability
– Overall balance improvements

According to Maximum Games, the Switch version will receive these changes when it launches in August. The game will be priced at $29.99.

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2K Sports appears to be taking the Switch version of WWE 2K18 seriously. When a fan claimed that the game would likely be based off an older release in the franchise from the Xbox 360, the official WWE 2K Twitter account noted that it’s “not based on previous gen versions”.

The tweet reads:

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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French website Jeuxvideo was recently able to speak with ARMS producer Kosuke Yabuki. Plenty of topics were brought up, including the original prototype and how the team approached development, the most popular characters / modes, update plans (including an interesting tease coming with Max Brass’ patch), interest in a sequel, and more.

We’ve rounded up some of the more notable excerpts below. Note that the responses were automatically translated with Google, so some of the comments are a bit rough in spots. However, it’s mostly understandable on the whole.

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UK retailer GAME is now taking pre-orders for the Metroid: Samus Returns Legacy Edition. You can reserve a copy here. Note that supply is expected to be extremely limited.

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A fairly sizeable patch is hitting Pokemon Duel tomorrow, and it’ll bring with it quite a few balance updates. Here’s what’s changing:

Snorlax:

• Changed the effect of Still (Snorlax can’t be affected by any special conditions other than Sleep)
• Increased the power of Body Slam to 110; can now paralyze
• Increased the power of Pound to 70; increased wheel size
• Decreased miss wheel size

Typhlosion:

• Changed the effect of Flame Acceleration (adds plus 10 to the damage value for each Pokemon in your PC)

Ho-Oh:

• Increased the wheel size of Fire Blast
• decreased the wheel size of Gust

Genesect:

• Techno Charge’s effect now lasts until the next time Techno Blast is used

Pinsir:

• Increased the Power of Vice Grip to 50
• Increased the wheel size of Guillotine and Seismic Toss
• decreased miss wheel size

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It’s Tuesday, meaning that new content has gone live in Pokemon Shuffle. First up, a special stage for Alola Cap Pikachu is now available. You have until July 18th to clear it.

A Mew Escalation Battle will be available until July 25th. Beating it repeatedly nets you rewards, up to level 500.

Until July 18th, you can take part in the Shiny Mega Rayquaza competitive stage. As always, earning more points and getting a higher rank gets you better rewards.

Finally, the Registeel event is back, giving you another chance to obtain the Steel type Pokemon.

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This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:

Cars 3: Driven to Win (NSW/PS4) – 8/8/8/8
Farming Simulator 18 (3DS) – 6/7/7/6
GoNNER (NSW) – 7/7/7/8
Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires’ Conspiracy (3DS) – 9/9/8/8
MXGP3: The Official Motocross Videogame (PS4) – 7/8/7/8
Portal Knights (PS4) – 8/8/8/7
Rabi Laby: Puzzle Out Stories (PSV) – 6/7/6/6
StarBlood Arena (PS4) – 7/7/7/8
Sumikko Gurashi: Koko, Dokonan Desu? (3DS) – 7/8/7/7
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] (PS4/PS3/PSV) – 8/8/8/8
World Election (PSV) – 8/7/8/7

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If you’ve played around with the Splatoon 2: Splatfest World Premiere demo a bit, you might have stumbled upon the food truck run by Crusty Sean. You can buy different types of food there which gives you a variety of bonuses, such as increased experience earned in multiplayer battles. However, you can’t buy this food with money – instead, you need meal tickets. In the Splatfest World Premiere demo, it’s not really clear how to obtain these tickets. The Splatoon Twitter account has now revealed they can be gotten in Hero Mode and in Salmon Run. Like the special pieces of gear that can only be obtained in Salmon Run, this is another example of how the various modes interact with each other and how rewards earned in one of them can help you in another.

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Quite a bit of Fire Emblem Heroes news today: first up, the Yamada Kotaro challenge is now live. Like the Kozaki Yusuke challenge before it, this pits you against teams used by Yamada Kotaro, an artist and character designer who’s  worked on the Fire Emblem series for a while now. For Heroes, he has designed Narcian and Lyn. If you beat the various challenge maps and the corresponding quests, you can earn a large variety of rewards.

New daily quests have also appeared. There are fairly simple, requiring you to defeat 10 and 20 enemies, respectively, and win two Arena duels.

Finally, the next new Grand Hero Battle has been announced. It will feature Berkut from Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. It will start sometime next week.

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