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Earlier this year, Bulletstorm: Duke of Switch Edition was announced for Switch. Gearbox Publishing has just now released the game out of nowhere, despite not revealing the release date previously.

Here’s an overview from the eShop listing, along with some screenshots:

Castle Crashers Remastered has finally been dated for Switch. The game will launch on September 17, developer The Behemoth announced today.

Here’s a bunch of information about the game:

Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers

After announcing Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers earlier this year, Atlus hasn’t had much to say about the game. The company provided a small update today, confirming that news will be shared on October 24.

A new teaser has also been released, which we have below. It seems to suggest that Sapporo, Sendai, Osaka, and Okinawa will be featured in addition to Shibuya.

Update (8/29): Amazon has now opened pre-orders here.


Original (8/28): Yesterday, Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King was leaked at the GameStop Managers Conference. The collection has now been officially announced, and we have first details / screenshots.

Here’s an overview from a Best Buy listing:

NIS America is bringing La-Mulana 1 & 2 to Switch, the company announced today. The package will be offered starting in 2020.

Here’s everything you need to know about La-Mulana 1 & 2, including a trailer:

Astral Chain

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Switch Retail

Astral Chain – $59.99 (available August 30)
Bubsy: Paws on Fire! – $24.99
Root Letter: Last Answer – $29.99 (available September 3)
Spyro Reignited Trilogy – $39.99 (available September 3)

Ian Flynn is best known for his work on the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series. At one point though, he was also now hoping to be involved with another big franchise: Mario.

On Twitter, Flynn revealed his pitch for a new Super Mario Bros. comic. He says that it was “well received” at Nintendo of America, but “stalled out” at the company’s Japanese headquarters.

In any case, here’s the full pitch:

This week, Japanese magazine Famitsu published a new Astral Chain interview with director Takahisa Taura, supervisor Hideki Kamiya, and producer Eijiro Nishimura. It was pretty in-depth at six pages long, but we’ll summarize some of the points here.

Astral Chain came into the picture after Nintendo contacted PlatinumGames to make a game with high difficulty. The game has been a long time coming, as they worked on the plans since before development on NieR: Automata started. To complete the entire project, it took a long time – somewhere around five years.

During its video presentation today, Yacht Club Games provided an update on its slate of upcoming Shovel Knight projects. Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Shovel Knight Showdown, the physical release for Switch, and upcoming amiibo 3-pack are slated for December.

Here are some new details about amiibo functionality:

Yacht Club Games and Bomb Chicken developer Nitrome have announced Shovel Knight Dig, a brand new game in the Shovel Knight series. It has been in development for more than a year.

Below are the first details:


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