European retailers began taking pre-orders for the Super NES Classic Edition almost as soon as it was announced earlier this week. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been any news for North America, and that won’t be changing anytime soon. Polygon spoke to a Nintendo representative who told the site that the company has nothing to announce regarding North American pre-orders as of now.
When the NES Classic Edition launched last year, pre-orders weren’t held in North America. It’ll be interesting to see if the same thing happens this time around.
Nintendo is ramping up its promotional efforts for Splatoon 2 with the Switch game just a few weeks away. Have a look at the official North American commercial below.
Nintendo just published a new Hey! Pikmin video ahead of its launch later this month. View the “Lift-Off” trailer below.
The shoot ’em up Sine Mora EX originally debuted back in 2012. THQ Nordic is now reviving the game for new platforms, including Switch.
One of the new features in Sine Mora EX is a co-op mode. Two players will be able to experience the full story mode together at once.
In an interview with Nintendo UK, localizer and designer Brandon Sheffield talked about how the team is going about including co-op:
“Narratively, it doesn’t make sense to have two ships because the story is basically broken if there’s more than one ship on screen, because you’re the pilot and somebody else is talking to you from somewhere else, because they’re doing something else. The whole thing about this game is most of these actions take place simultaneously and so you wind up hearing the same conversation again because then you’re the other person that was involved in that incident.
So the second player essentially plays as a drone. It plays differently from the main ship as well. If it gets hit, it doesn’t have its own life bar, it loses you time. And it works pretty well, it’s about as natural as you can make it and it’s obviously fun to play games together. And you know, obviously with Nintendo Switch, players want to have multiplayer experiences that can be enjoyed on one screen or in tabletop mode.”
Painted Black Games has announced that its adventure-puzzle game The Long Reach is in development for Switch. It’s slated for the console later this year – possibly in Q3.
Here’s a trailer giving you a brief look at the game:
And a comprehensive overview:
The Long Reach is an intricate adventure, where you solve puzzles, run, and hide. The world is a twine of reaching hands. Yet even endued with money power, divine blessing or technological might – they are nothing but hands of mere men. The story takes place in the Baervox, fictional American town. The scientific institute designs a revolutionary system of accelerated knowledge transferring. As it usually happens, everything went wrong. Technology went out of control. As an aftermath, Institute, and the whole town turned into a real nightmare, and the experiment participants grew into…
Fire Emblem Heroes added in new content today centered around the Ylissean Summer event. Check out some footage of the latest paralogue map below.
Nintendo published a new piece of Super Mario Odyssey art on the game’s Twitter account showing off the Tyrannosaurus – one of many things that can be captured in the game. View it above.
It may not have been playable, but media outlets were recently about to go hands-on with the Super NES Classic Edition. Videos below contain new photos, comparisons to the original SNES, and more.
Starsign is putting a new game up on the Japanese Switch eShop in a couple of weeks. Super Ping Pong Trick Shot will be available on July 13 for 700 yen.
The main hook of Super Ping Pong Trick Shot is throwing a Ping Pong ball into a cup. Various modes are included like Challenge Mode (clear a mission with certain requirements), Score Attack Mode, and Battle Mode.
View a trailer for Super Ping Pong Trick Shot below.
