A pair of new Super Mario Odyssey screenshots dropped on the game’s Twitter account today. Both show the Luncheon Kingdom.

In one screenshot, we’re shown Mario’s chef costume which is required to access certain areas similar to some other outfits. Additionally, the Luncheon Kingdom has at least one area with an 8-bit-styled platforming section, and naturally, the costume carries over.

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GameSpot has a video up showing extensive footage from Rogue Trooper Redux. The gameplay is in direct-feed and with direct audio, which is something we didn’t have at E3 last month. See the video below.

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A new Pokemon scan has emerged for Takara Tomy A.R.T.S battle products promoting an Ultra Beast line. That wouldn’t be noteworthy in most instances, but a mystery addition is to the right of Silvally in the image above. Some are speculating that this could be a brand new addition or form for the series that will be featured in Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon.

News about Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon has been absent since the original announcement last month. With E3 out of the way and the two games a few months out, hopefully we’ll hear more soon.

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Disastercake is still chugging away at its upcoming RPG Soul Saga. It’s still coming to Wii U, as we heard in February. Take a look at some new beta footage below.

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Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma will be hosting a special masterclass session at Japan Expo 2017 later this week. Aonuma will be joined by Breath of the Wild art director Satoru Takizawa and illustrator Yusuke Nakano at the event which will cover the franchise’s art.

In celebration of the masterclass, a new piece of art has been published online. Take a look at the image above.

“The Art of The Legend of Zelda Series” masterclass will be held on Friday. It will be hosted between 12:30 PM and 1:15 PM local time.

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Celeste, the newest game from TowerFall creator Matt Makes Games, was originally targeted for Switch’s launch window. Unfortunately, it’s now targeted for January 2018 – though there’s good reason for that.

Rather than the initial goal of including 200-300 levels, Celeste will now have 500 or potentially 600 when all is said and done. Additionally, Celeste’s narrative has taken a greater focus, and developer Matt Thorson says each one of the chapters “has big ambitious ideas that we went for despite feeling the whole time like we might not be able to pull them off, before totally pulling them off.”

Thorson adds that “releasing this game sooner than January would be a huge mistake. It deserves room to breathe and become everything it can be, and fortunately we can afford to give it that space. We need to know that we took it as far as we could.”

Thorson has more on Celeste’s release date situation here.

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Smash Bros. will once again be featured at this year’s Evo, one of the world’s largest eSports events. Melee will be around as usual, as will Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

The two titles will be represented during the latter two days of Evo. Smash Bros. Melee will be closing out the festivities on Saturday night (July 15). Then on Sunday (July 16), it’ll be Smash Bros. Wii U’s turn, right before Street Fighter V and the end of the entire event.

Smash Bros. Wii U and Smash Bros. Melee were second and third in the registration voting, just behind Street Fighter V. 1,515 people signed up to play on Wii U while 1,435 intend to fight in Melee.

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Having been released in Japan today, more footage is in for Kirby’s Blowout Blast. Watch another half hour of gameplay below.

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Over the past few years, the toys-to-life market seemed to be on the way out. Disney Infinity is dead. LEGO Dimensions hasn’t seen as much content as it once did. Activision also didn’t have a new Skylanders in 2017 for the first time in many years.

So at E3, it was somewhat surprising to see Ubisoft announce Starlink. And while Activision doesn’t have something completely new for Skylanders this year, it sounds like they’re still committed to the series.

In an interview with GamesIndustry, Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg had this to say about the state of Skylanders and the overall toys-to-life market:

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The Neon Green/Neon Pink Joy-Con have a new release date in Europe, and they’re arriving much earlier than expected. Nintendo announced on Twitter today that the controllers are slated for July 28.

The Neon Green/Neon Pink Joy-Con were announced during the ARMS Direct. At the time, they were planned for a fall release.

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