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Nintendo will be conducting another round of Switch maintenance tonight. Unspecified games will be affected for roughly two hours.

The maintenance schedule is as follows:

– 5:50 PM PT (August 2) – 7:30 PM PT (August 2)
– 8:50 PM ET (August 2) – 10:30 PM ET (August 2)
– 1:50 AM in the UK (August 3) – 3:30 AM in the UK (August 3)
– 2:50 AM in Europe (August 3) – 4:30 AM in Europe (August 3)

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Despite being a spin-off, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer has done pretty well for Nintendo. In Europe alone, the game has sold over one million copies in Europe.

Nintendo tweeted out the news yesterday:

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The second developer diary for Cat Quest has arrived with talk about the development and tidbits about the origin of the project. Check it out below.

The next DLC character for Blaster Master Zero, Shovel Knight, has arrived. Take a look at some footage below.

Minecraft: Story Mode – The Complete Adventure finally has a release date on Switch. Today, Telltale confirmed a release date of August 22 in North America and August 25 in Europe / other regions.

Telltale will offer Minecraft: Story Mode – The Complete Adventure as a physical cartridge and a digital download. It has all eight episodes from the first season of Minecraft: Story Mode: five episodes from the original season pass, plus the three bonus episodes from the ‘Adventure Pass’ add-on series.

Source: Telltale Games PR

Microïds today published a new trailer for Gear.Club Unlimited, its racer lined up for Switch. The video reconfirms a launch window of Q4 2017.

Microïds says Gear.Club Unlimited is “a genuinely realistic racing experience where you take the most incredible cars through breath-taking environments. Show your competitive spirit, on your own or with your friends, in different leagues and in frenzied races, and become a true driver by achieving the best times in the different available racing categories.”

Gear.Club Unlimited is one of many Switch games Microïds is planning. The others include Blacksad, Syberia, Syberia 2, Syberia 3, and Flashback – Remastered Edition.

Two new arcade games are beginning to see distribution on the Switch eShop. Gunbarich and Strikers 1945 are available in Japan, and we’ve been hearing reports that the former is also live in Australia.

Gunbarich originally debuted in 2001. It features a mix of brick-breaking, shooting, and pinball gameplay. As for Strikers 1945, the shoot ’em up arcade title first appeared in 1995.

We have trailers for the new Switch releases of Gunbarich and Strikers 1945 below.

Source: Switch eShop

Quest of Dungeons has already appeared on both Wii U and 3DS. Next week, it’s joining Nintendo’s latest platform as well.

A listing on the Japanese eShop shows that Quest of Dungeons will release on August 10 for 800 yen. We expect that an overseas launch will be taking place soon as well.

Here’s a trailer for the new Switch version:

Source: Switch eShop

This week’s Famitsu scans are now available. Highlights include Shinobi Refle: Senran Kagura, Fire Emblem Warriors, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi, and The Snack World. Scans of all games are below.

Listings on the eShop have pointed to Use Your Words launching on Switch this week. A new tweet from Smiling Buddha Games officially confirms the news.

The Use Your Words Twitter account sent out a brief message stating that the game will indeed be coming out this week. You’ll be able to pick it up on the eShop starting tomorrow.

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