It’s January, which means it’s time for the Choose Your Legends: Round 7 event in Fire Emblem Heroes. As many fans are aware, these are always hosted at the start of the new year.
Voting has opened and you can vote on your favorite characters from the Fire Emblem series. The top two male and top two female Heroes will appear in Fire Emblem Heroes wearing special Choose Your Legends outfits at a later date.
Rokojori has announced Dash Cup Kickers, an action arcade sports title. A Switch version is planned, but there’s no word on a release window.
Dash Cup Kickers features local multiplayer for up to four players, online multiplayer, and a career mode. Gameplay is fast with dashes, trick shots, super skills, super shots, and more – not to mention a variety of stadiums. In career mode, players can develop teams. There’s also a stadium builder to create customized stadiums with gameplay-changing elements like hurting-hot lava, goals attacking with target-following lasers, shooting pirate cannons, and more.
Later this month, pixelBot Extreme will be appearing on Switch. Publisher FusionPlay and developer PlayHeart Games announced today that the title will be ready to go on January 25, 2023.
pixelBot Extreme is described as “a retro side-scrolling shooter with an intense difficulty level and an unique color-based shooting system.” Read more about it below.
Nintendo has just kicked off a new 2023 New Year Sale on the Switch eShop featuring games such as Cadence of Hyrule, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Fire Emblem Warriors, and Paper Mario: The Origami King. A few third-party titles are also at their lowest prices ever including Ori and the Blind Forest.
Here’s the full roundup of deals in the 2023 Switch eShop New Year Sale:
New data has been published that reveals the best-selling games in the UK for 2022, and we also know that Switch was the best-selling console of the year.
Nintendo only has one game in the top ten (physical and digital combined) – that being Nintendo Switch Sports. However, had the sales of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet been combined, they would have appeared higher. The new Pokemon titles did see a 36 percent increase over Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Also keep in mind that Nintendo does not report digital data, which limits how high the company’s games chart.
Digital Foundry has an early look at Fire Emblem Engage with a new technical analysis, which covers elements like frame rate and resolution. Based on what was said, it seems that this title is a step up compared to the last entry in the series, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, from a presentation perspective.
Here’s a roundup of notable tidbits:
Big Blue Bubble today announced that Power Chord, its upcoming heavy metal roguelike deck builder, is in the works for Switch. A release window was not provided.
Further information can be found in the following overview:
It’s time for the latest North American Nintendo Download report for the week of January 5, 2023. The latest releases include Children of Silentown, Scrap Riders, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
