Guide: Every Game In Nintendo’s ‘Partner Spotlight’ eShop Sale (North America)

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk! Pentiment! Bioshock!

After the announcement of the European eShop’s ‘Blockbuster Sale’, we had a sneaky suspicion that North America would be treated to one of its own before long. Sure enough, the ‘Partner Spotlight Sale’ has kicked off on the US eShop today, bringing up to 80% off a selection of tasty third-party titles.

The sale began on 28th March and will run until 8th April so you have a good bit of time to decide what to spend your bucks on.

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A New Corpse Party Game Is Creeping Onto Switch This Autumn

Hey, who turned out the lights?

Those who are easily scared might want to look away for a moment because the cult-classic Japanese horror series, Corpse Party, is once again getting creepy on Switch as Corpse Party II: Darkness Distortion brings the chills this Autumn (or ‘Fall,’ if you’d rather).

Published by Marvelous Europe (XSEED in North America) and developed by MAGES, Darkness Distortion looks set to contain all of your standard scares. There’s a creepy old hospital, a spooky legend and a decades-old curse to deal with as you try your best to help three high school friends survive the night.

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Celeste Creator’s Next Game ‘Earthblade’ Gets Delayed, Will No Longer Release In 2024

“It feels like the start of a new era”.

It has been a whopping three years since we first heard about Earthblade, the 2D “explor-action” game from Celeste developer Extremely OK Games. This pretty pixel art platformer was given a 2024 release window back in late 2022, but now, it seems, things are going to be pushed back a little as the developers have announced a delay.

The news came in the form of a blog post from Extremely OK Games’ R&D Director, Maddy Thorson, in which she thanked fans for their continued support of the project, but confirmed that “this game ain’t coming out in 2024”.

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Exclusive: Slave Zero X Gets An Updated Release Date For the Switch

Countdown to zero.

After a last minute delay on Switch, publisher Ziggurat is now ready to unleash Slave Zero X into the world and we can exclusively reveal that it is scheduled for launch on 11th April, 2024.

Better late than never, of course, and we’re hopeful that the delay means the game can look and perform as best as it possibly can on Nintendo’s console. To give a flavour of what to expect, Ziggurat has shared several Switch-specific screenshots, and we have to say that it’s looking pretty tasty indeed.

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Reminder: Nintendo Is Ending 3DS And Wii U Online Play Early Next Month

The official shutdown is almost here.

In case you missed it, Nintendo is shutting down online play and other functionality for the 3DS and Wii U early next month.

As we get closer to this deadline, Nintendo’s Japanese social media accounts have been issuing regular PSA. The latest one was posted earlier this week, once again reminding everyone online play for both of these devices will end on 9th April 2024 (that’s 8th April in the US).

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Talking Point: Why Isn’t Nintendo Revealing Its Partner Devs Before Launch?

Wanted: Dev ‘fore it’s live.

Welcome to the Wild West of the modern gaming landscape.

Game sales are soaring. Film and TV adaptations are crawling out of the wilderness quicker than they can be counted. All eyes are on the saloon doors of a bar named ‘Nintendo’ as the smell of something tasty wafts from the kitchen and out into the nostrils of hungry customers after some fresh grub.

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Site News: So, Where’s Our MLB The Show 24 Review?

Don’t buy it on Switch for the moment.

This year’s edition of MLB The Show has been out for over a week at the time of writing, and some of you may be wondering where our review has gotten to. We’ve taken a look at each previous release of the Sony-helmed series that came to Switch starting in 2022, and you’d be right in assuming we would take to the field with this one, as well.

Unfortunately, we’ve hit exactly the same snag that many Switch owners have, it seems — namely, we can’t access the Diamond Dynasty mode without the game crashing. Sony San Diego Studio hasn’t made any official announcement on the issue, with a brief forum response being the only public acknowledgement we can find:

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Ship Customisation And New Space Stations Arrive In No Man’s Sky’s ‘Orbital’ Update

Blasting off today.

It has been a little over a month since the ‘Omega’ update landed in No Man’s Sky and Hello Games clearly hasn’t paused for breath as it today unveiled the next new patch.

The ‘Orbital’ update will be blasting off today and while it might not be quite as expedition-focused as some of those that we have seen in the past, it does introduce a couple of new features that are sure to go down well with the ship fans out there.

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