“Progress has still been steady”.
Undertale creator Toby Fox has rolled out his “holiday newsletter” for 2024 and it’s got some “progress updates” in it about Deltarune Chapter 3, 4, and 5.
Chapter 3 has recently been tested by a “professional team on PC” and it’s “pretty solid now”. According to Fox, “only console-related aspects remain”. He’s even got some impressions from the team who playtested it:
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Japan-only for now.
SNK has announced new ACA NEOGEO Selections – this time including Vol. 3 and Vol. 4. It will be releasing for the Switch next year on 10th April 2025, with each collection featuring 10 games previously released as ACA NEOGEO games on the eShop.
Here’s a look at the collection, courtesy of Gematsu:
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Around £250k’s work have been taken in a “targeted attack”.
Thousands of pounds of Pokémon Trading Cards have been stolen from Ace Grading, a Banbury-based Card Grading company run by TCG YouTuber Randolph.
As reported by the BBC, the break in took place on Friday 13th December in what Randolph and his company has called a “targeted attack”. Thames Valley Police believes that an estimated GBP £250,000 worth of cards have been stolen from the company’s headquarters.
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“A unicorn is worth more than riches”.
In 2009, in the run-up to Christmas, I remember poring over a recent issue of Official Nintendo Magazine looking for games I might want for the holiday season. Flicking through the pages and taking in every single word, one review in particular jumped out at me. The art style was something I’d never seen in a video game before. I was obsessed with Japanese folklore at the time. And, even though the gameplay sounded like nothing new, it scratched my 2D action-platformer itch.
That review was for Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and this was my first brush with Vanillaware. My love of the Osaka-based developer, and this game in particular, is documented, but it was established at the very moment I saw Muramasa on the TV screen, with Edo Japan rendered in beautiful watercolour visuals. Vanillaware has always been known as the studio that makes pretty games with pretty food – and, sometimes, the studio that gives us, um, very exaggerated art – but over the past four years, I’ve seen a real shift in appreciation that I’ve been hoping for.
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Excitement rising.
Nintendo’s share price hit an all-time high of 9,578 JPY before closing the day at 9,490 JPY on 17th December 2024 amid increasing anticipation for the company’s upcoming new hardware.
The increase, however, is reportedly two-fold. The first and perhaps most obvious reason is that consumers are desperate for information on the ‘Switch 2’, and Nintendo has previously stated that it will be officially announced before the end of March 2025. That means that once the New Year has come and gone, we can restart the hype machine with extra gusto.
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Complete with some nasty AI art.
The retro-inspired ‘save them all’ platformer Moons of Darsalon launched on Steam last year, and now developer Dr. Kucho! Games has announced that the Switch will get a slice of the throwback action on 6th February 2025.
If the above trailer (and its wickedly catchy theme tune) hasn’t already spelt it out, Moons of Darsalon is all about saving your team of astronauts, or “darsanauts”, from whatever lunar catastrophe they find themselves in. To do so, you’ll lead them, Lemmings like, to the nearest base, helping them across platforming challenges, navigating perils and building structures to make sure the full gang gets home in one piece.
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It could help with the “development of future titles”.
Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics has been available on the Switch for handful of months now, and Capcom has this week launched an online survey asking fans what they think of it to “help inform the development of future titles”.
This survey is open until 28th February 2025 and asks basic personal information, if you’ve purchased the game, the platform you bought it on, the games you’ve played in the collection, and how you would rate the collection and its features overall.
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Here’s what you can expect…
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind made its debut on the Switch last week and it’s gone down relatively well so far with critics and fans alike.
In saying this, not everything is available on every platform (like online play), but the developers are working on it and have now rolled out the first major update. The Switch version is expected to receive this update “soon”. Here’s exactly what you can expect:
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More Mega?
There might not have been much activity on the Mega Man front in recent times, but it seems we’ve now got a new update courtesy of the Amazon ‘Secret Level’ episode. According to the fansite Rockman Corner, two new names have supposedly been added to the Mega Man development team:
Rockman Corner: “In the credits for Secret Level episode Mega Man: Start, we see Shingo Izumi and Hiroshi Ito. Izumi, who joined Capcom in 2018, was the producer behind Monster Hunter: World and the recent Ghost Trick HD remaster. Ito was a producer on Monster Hunter Stories, its sequel, and the Sunbreak expansion for Monster Hunter Rise.”
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The best Switch games for your little ones.
We’ve given this list a big spruce up ahead of the Festive season so you can prepare for some holiday gaming with the family!
Nintendo Switch is a console with brilliant software for gamers young and old. Nintendo’s wholesome, family-friendly image is well-earned, and with characters like Mario, Luigi, and the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom gang, Switch games cater to the young and the young-at-heart alike.
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