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In celebration of Hobbit Day, the release date for Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game was just announced. The game heads to Switch on March 25, 2024.

Today’s news follows the recent delay announcement that came in a few days ago. After it was originally slated for this year, the title was pushed back to early 2025. Now we have a proper date.

Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game delayed

Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game has been delayed, and a 2024 launch is no longer on a table.

News about the decision was posted on social media. In a social media post, the team indicated that the extra time will be used to deliver a quality experience.

The full message regarding the delay for Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game reads:

Tales of the Shire A The Lord of the Rings Game

Today, publisher Private Division and Weta Workshop unveiled Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game. The title is due out later in 2024 for Switch.

Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game is a Hobbit life sim that takes place in the Middle-earth universe of J.R.R. Tolkien. We’ve got lots more details via the following overview:

Pennys Big Breakaway update 1.2

A notable version 1.2 update has been announced for Penny’s Big Breakaway.

For Switch specifically, it will include a video mode to unlock the frame rate to 60 similar to Bombrush, or adds anti-aliasing if you choose to stay locked. Elsewhere there are lots of improvements, fixes, and more.

Here’s the full rundown:

Penny's Big Breakaway review

System: Switch
Release date: February 21, 2024
Developer: Evening Star
Publisher: Private Division


When the initial reveal trailer for Penny’s Big Breakaway debuted last year, it felt like the stars were aligning. Here was a small development team of die-hard platformer fans delivering a wholly original IP, fresh off the back of crafting Sonic Mania for SEGA. Killer looks along with subtle, stylish nods to their prior work enamored a clamoring and captious demographic. Even as a relatively new team, developer Evening Star has prestige streaming from their ears, and an expectant fan base to go along with it. Now the game has finally dropped, and the resulting experience might not be all we had held our breath for.

OlliOlli World Finding the Flowzone

Publisher Private Division and developer Roll7 today announced Finding the Flowzone, the second and last expansion to OlliOlli World. Switch owners can pick it up on November 2, 2022.

Here’s what’s been shared thus far:

OlliOlli World Oxenfree

The worlds of OlliOlli World and Oxenfree are colliding as part of a new collaboration.

Private Division and Roll7’s partnership with Night School Studio comes about in celebration of OlliOlli World’s VOID Riders DLC. Players can now skate through a procedurally generated level in OlliOlli World through the Gnarvana Portal which unlocks an all-new remix by Nikitch of scntfc’s “Beacon Beach” from Oxenfree.

OlliOlli World: VOID Riders launch trailer

Private Division have readied a launch trailer for OlliOlli World: VOID Riders. It offers up another look at the just-released expansion.

Below is some information about the DLC:

OlliOlli World VOID Riders

Publisher Private Division and developer Roll7 today announced VOID Riders, the first of two expansions for the skateboarding action-platformer OlliOlli World. It will release for Switch on June 15, 2022.

Here’s what we know thus far:

olliolli world update 1.0.2

Private Division and Roll7 have issued a new 1.0.2 update for OlliOlli World. It includes a bunch of bug fixes as well as quality of life changes.

The full patch notes for the OlliOlli World version 1.0.2 update are as follows:


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