To get up for Hey! Pikmin’s launch in July, My Nintendo has updated with several new Pikmin-themed rewards in North America. These include a 3DS theme, discounts, plus Pikmin 3 DLC and digital guide for the Wii U game.
The full lineup of rewards are as follows:
The first trailer is now online for Netflix’s Castlevania animated series. On top of that, we have a release date of July 7.
Here’s the video:
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— Netflix LATAM (@NetflixLAT) May 24, 2017
The new Castlevania show follows “the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepe himself.” According to producer Adi Shankar, it’s based on Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse. Shankar also previously said that it will be “very much Castlevania done in the vein of Game of Thrones” with very mature content.
Do you have a modern Samsung TV? Do you own a Switch and often have it sitting in a dock? In that case, you might be one of many people affected by an issue in which the TV randomly changes to the Switch’s HDMI input while the system is in sleep mode.
There is some good news, as Samsung is readying a patch that should fix this problem with Switch and other devices. The company said in a statement to The Verge that a firmware update is slated for the summer “that will address this behavior and provide the level of convenience that was intended.”
Jurgen Post has been the COO and president of SEGA Europe since 2012. The company as a whole was in a pretty fragile state back then. After having success with Mario & Sonic and Wii, SEGA saw that sales of the series and Nintendo’s console in general were slowing down, prompting a change.
Post spoke about the situation with GamesIndustry:
“The business model that we had wasn’t working anymore. We were starting to make sizeable losses, so we had to change. In the past, you could be successful by being a bit opportunistic. The Wii platform, ten years ago, was so successful and anything you launched on it was selling. Even with some lesser qualitative stuff, you were able to be successful. But that was all changing and you could only sell quality products. We had Mario & Sonic back in those days, and that game was selling so much that a number of other titles could afford to underperform. But when the sales of Mario & Sonic, and the Wii in general, began to slow down, it became very visible that we had to change.”
SEGA ended up going through a whole slew of changes. The company focused on PC, “being consumer-first, and digital-first,” and made sure that its various studios took on more responsibility.
This was actually Post’s final interview at SEGA. He’s leaving the company to take on a new challenge elsewhere. If you’d like to read the full interview, hit up the source link below.
Battle Sports Mekuru debuted in Japan this month. In the west, it sounds like we won’t have to wait terribly long for the game. Speaking with USgamer, designer Senri Tsunokawa mentioned that Battle Sports Mekuru should be available this summer overseas.
If you really can’t wait for Battle Sports Mekuru, you can actually get it now. The game can be downloaded from the Japanese eShop, and it’s mostly in English.
According to Licensing.biz, Jakks Pacific has won the master toy’s license for the Mega Man animated series. With this license, they are able to make various of different products from figures and plush to costumes and play sets.
Jack McGrath the COO of Jakks Pacific says:
“I grew up with Mega Man and am a big fan, so I’m thrilled for Jakks to team up with DHX Brands and Dentsu on the new animated series,”
The Mega Man animated series is supposed to air in 2018 on Cartoon Network.
Duck Block Games has been looking to fund Forsaken Castle on Kickstarter. The team was seeking $10,000, but ended up with over three times that amount.
Forsaken Castle has not only been funded, but will be coming to Switch as well. A $35,000 stretch goal was reached just before the campaign ended today.
As for the game itself, Forsaken Castle is a 16-bit action exploration platformer inspired by Metroidvania titles. Players will follow a paladin and her fight against evil and “discover new abilities, fight deadly creatures, and explore a handcrafted world created in a retro pixel art style.”
More on Forsaken Castle can be found on the Kickstarter page here.
Gaming Trends recently had a interview with Desmond Wong, the CEO of The Gentlebros talking about their upcoming game called Cat Quest. A couple of the questions in the interview talked about the pros and cons of this game of bringing this game over to the Switch.
Below are some of the Switch related questions from the interview:
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Retail
Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers – €39.99 (available Friday)
Disgaea 5 Complete – €59.99 (available Friday)
Switch Download
ACA NeoGeo The King of Fighters ’99 – €6.99
Wii U Retail
Darksiders Warmastered Edition – €19.99
Update: As a small bonus, here’s a new song Lindsey Stirling created for Rime:
Original: Members of Tequila Works are currently hosting a Reddit AMA for Rime. The studio is answering various fan topics that surround the Switch version, the game in general, and more. Topics include what to expect from Switch visually and developing on the platform, how the team approached puzzles, their inspirations, and more.
We’ve rounded up excerpts from the AMA below. You can continue reading the full thing here.
