THQ Nordic says SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated “was a fantastic success”, sold over one million copies
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THQ Nordic has commented on the performance of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated, and it seems that the company is quite pleased. CEO Klemens Kreuzer told GamesIndustry that the title “was a fantastic success”. It’s confirmed that over one million copies were sold across all platforms.
Kreuzer stated:
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydated surpasses one million copies sold
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Embracer Group, the parent company of THQ Nordic, reported its latest financial results today. THQ Nordic ended up having its best quarter to date, which was partially driven by SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydated. The game has now surpassed one million copies sold.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydated originally launched for Switch in June.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated update incoming for Switch, patch notes
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THQ Nordic and Purple Lamp have announced that a new SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated update is inbound for Switch. We don’t have an exact release date yet, but it’s targeted for arrival within the next ten days.
The upcoming update adds more concept art to the Theater, makes adjustments, fixes bugs and other issues, and more. Continue on below for the full patch notes.
Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated special editions get huge discounts
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Amazon has heavily discounted the two special editions for Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated. The Shiny Edition, which was originally priced at $149.99, is now $50 off. The $299.99 F.U.N. Edition has also received a $100 discount.
The Shiny Edition includes the game, SpongeBob figurine, wallstickers, six lithographs, and tennis stocks. You’ll get all of this in the F.U.N. Edition, but that version also packs in figurines for Patrick and Sandy plus keyrings.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated update out now (version 1.0.2), patch notes
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated has been updated. With version 1.0.2, the team has addressed “some minor issues” and implemented Yoji Ueda as the Japanese voice of Squidward.
Developer Purple Lamp “is already in the works and will fix major bugs reported by the community,” according to publisher THQ Nordic.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated is available for Switch.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated launch trailer
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In celebration of today’s launch, THQ Nordic and Purple Lamp have shared a new trailer for SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated. We have it below.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated is out today on Switch both physically and digitally.
[Interview] SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated dev on restoring cut content, multiplayer, speedrunning, and more
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom has gone on to become a fan favorite since its original debut on GameCube back in 2003. Now THQ Nordic and Purple Lamp have brought the game back with a new “Rehydrated” release on Switch, which gives the 3D platformer a fresh coat of paint and more.
Ahead of tomorrow’s release, Nintendo Everything spoke with THQ Nordic producer Martin Kreuch. We spoke about restoring cut content from the original, the new multiplayer mode, working with the speedrunning community, and more.
Here’s our full discussion:
[Review] Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated
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System: Switch
Release date: June 23, 2020
Developer: Purple Lamp
Publisher: THQ Nordic
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom would seem like an unlikely candidate for a remastering (or a rehydration) considering that – to the credit of the original – it’s merely an above average licensed 3D platformer of the GameCube generation. These games have almost completely vanished, but for its time these games were everywhere. I have an especially vague sense of nostalgia with this game: I actually can’t remember if I played Battle for Bikini Bottom specifically or if it was any of the other countless similar SpongeBob games that were released in the half decade following it. To further complicate this nostalgia, Battle for Bikini Bottom doesn’t just evoke the other SpongeBob games of its generation, but games like the now-forgotten Tak and the Power of Juju (which, as an aside, one might say was a trailblazer in the modern video-game-to-failed-TV-series pipeline.) Put aside the modern visual overhaul of Rehydrated in the Unreal Engine, which is competent but less than optimal on the Switch, and the game seems frozen in time. Rehydrated still feels like a game from 2003, but with the relative rarity of its kind in 2020, it’s hardly worse for it.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated Switch footage
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Ahead of the upcoming release, we have a look at the Switch verson of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated in action. View a half hour of gameplay below.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated is due out on June 23.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated – enemies trailer
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The latest trailer for SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated has gone live that focuses on some of the game’s enemies. We have a video showing Arf, Arf Dawg, Tubelet, Ham-Mer and Sleepy-Time below.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated is slated for June 23 on Switch.
