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It’s time for the newest North American Nintendo Download report for the week of September 12, 2024. The latest releases include Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, The Plucky Squire, and more.

Here’s the full roundup:

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:

Piczle Cross: Rune Factory

Piczle Cross: Rune Factory is in development for Switch, publisher Rainy Frog and developer Score Studios just announced. A release is planned for 2025.

Piczle Cross: Rune Factory will offer 300 nonogram puzzles. The game has a few other aspects to it as well, including fighting and capturing monsters, customizing your farm, and more.

Here’s a full overview with all of the details:

Worms Armageddon Anniversary Edition physical collector's edition

Good news for Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition fans – a physical release is happening in the form of a collector’s edition. Retailers began opening pre-orders today.

Fans will be given a few different goodies alongside the game. Each unit contains a double-sided collectable anniversary coin, Worms stickers, a Weapons & Utilities Guide booklet, a double-sided poster and three exclusive pins.

Mortal Kombat 1 Noob Saibot

Warner Bros. and NetherRealm Studios are back with another DLC trailer for Mortal Kombat 1, this time showing off Noob Saibot. The character will be featured in the Khaos Reigns expansion and will be offered in Kombat Pack 2.

Here’s the latest information:

Splatoon 3 Ordertune soundtrack, BancalaWalker art book

Splatoon 3 is celebrating its second anniversary with a couple of announcements – specifically the Ordertune soundtrack and BancalaWalker art book. Both are releasing in Japan on December 11, 2024.

First up, the Splatoon 3 Ordertune soundtrack contains four CDs. You’ll get all of the music from the Expansion Pass here, including tunes made for Side Order. Plus, it comes with all the tracks from Free Association that plays in the Side Order DLC, “Unconscience”, “Short Order”, “Spectrum Obligato ~ Ebb & Flow (Out of Order)”, special tracks from the Grand Festival, and everything that played during the Splatoon 3 Live Concert featuring Deep Cut which has been newly remixed and remastered.

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System: Switch
Release date: September 9, 2024
Developer: Wallride
Publisher: The Mix Games Inc.


Rugrats is one of those cartoons that seems to get better with age. As a child I enjoyed watching the adventures of the babies as they transformed the everyday into something new and exciting, and as an adult I can appreciate the dry humor and now very relatable struggles of their adult parents. Although they have featured prominently in Nickelodeon titles, it has been some time since the Rugrats have had a game to themselves. Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland, their first solo outing for many years, feels like a platformer taken straight out of the era when they were at their most popular, for better and for worse.

Carmen Sandiego Switch

Today, publisher Gameloft and developer HarperCollins Productions announced a new Switch game based on the Carmen Sandiego franchise. A release is planned for Q1 2025.

The new project is based on the animated series that ran from 2019-2021. Players will take on the role of Carmen Sandiego herself as they look to stop the criminal organization VILE. Player, who appeared on the Netflix show and references the unseen live-action figure from the 1994 animated series Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, acts as your sidekick and helps out with “navigating missions, solving puzzles, and outsmarting VILE operatives.”

Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection Duel Monsters 1 and 2 Dark Duel Stories

During the the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2024 live stream, another batch of games were revealed for Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection. The Switch release is now confirmed to include Duel Monsters, Duel Monsters II, and Dark Duel Stories.

Duel Monsters originally released on the Game Boy. Duel Monsters II and Dark Duel Stories both appeared on the Game Boy Color. Note that the Duel Monsters games were never localized for the west, and only came to Japan.

System: Switch
Release date: August 29, 2024
Developer: Mages / Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo


I like it when Nintendo gets weird. It’s usually at about this point in their consoles’ lifespans, well after they’ve sold roughly a bajillion Mario and Zelda titles, when we see them start to resurrect dormant franchises and experiment in genres that other platform holders are ignoring. So, here we are – it’s 2024, and Nintendo decided now is the perfect time to release a new entry in in the Famicom Detective Club series of visual novels, which hasn’t seen a new entry in 27 years. Emio – The Smiling Man has some compelling ideas driving its core mystery about a serial killer with an unsettling modus operandi, and initially, it had hooked. Unfortunately, this story’s lethargic pacing, tedious writing, and general lack of meaningful character development fails to live up to the high bar set by earlier entries in the series.


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