Surf and turf.
Dave The Diver has quickly become one of the most bankable titles for an appearance at each and every game showcase since it arrived on PC and console last year, and The Game Awards was no exception.
Developer MINTROCKET popped up at this year’s Geoff-fest to reveal the upcoming ‘In the Jungle‘ DLC, an expansion that will see Dave and co. leave the Blue Hole and set out into greener pastures (literally) to search for their next catch.
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The Switch might be winding down, but more games are on the way.
Nintendo may not have really been present at this year’s Game Awards, but there was one brief Switch trailer featured during the event.
While the company is in the process of signing off from the current Switch generation, this trailer was still busy hyping up the many third-party releases coming to the hybrid platform in 2025. This includes games like Civilization VII, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Sunderfolk, and Tales of the Shire.
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“I didn’t plan to say it, but I’m going to say it anyway”.
There have been a lot of comparisons this year suggesting the PlayStation hit Astro Bot is more like a Super Mario or Nintendo game than a Sony one. With this in mind, it seems the game’s director Nicolas Doucet might have finally put all of this debate to rest.
In a surprising moment during the ‘Game of the Year’ segment at this year’s Game Awards, he took a moment to pay tribute to a few key inspirations…
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Relationships will be broken.
Well here’s a surprise from The Game Awards! The team behind Overcooked, Ghost Town Games, has announced that it’s teaming up with No Man’s Sky‘s Hello Games on an all-new couch co-op experience, Stage Fright.
From what we’ve seen so far, this isn’t Overcooked (nor is it Overcooked 2), but it does look just as chaotic. Hello Games has noted that it aims to bring “a brand new two player experience” to the couch co-op realm, with a spooky setting that has a definite whiff of Luigi’s Mansion.
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Gong show.
It’s time for The Game Awards, the annual bash that sees a load of industry people head to LA to showcase their upcoming games and accept awards in the company of their peers (and sometimes some random who managed to get on stage).
Geoff Keighley’s main show officially kicks off at 5pm PST / 8pm EST / 1am GMT (Fri) / 2am CET (Fri) / 10am JST (Fri), but a pre-show section takes place half an hour before that.
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Hello JimBen (Starr).
Do you need yet another reason to go back to the incredibly moreish poker roguelike Balatro? Yes? well how about eight more Friends of Jimbo!
Friends of Jimbo 3 is out now for free, and it adds eight new cosmetic flairs that you can apply to your cards. And at last, Shovel Knight has managed to dig his way into the game — it was only a matter of time, right? He’s the king of indie crossovers.
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Scaled back ambition.
When Victory Heat Rally first appeared on Kickstarter back in 2020, the game appeared set to pay homage to Sega’s wonderful Super Scaler range of arcade games from the 1980s. In the four years that have followed between that Kickstarter launch and this Switch release, something appears to have been lost along the way.
Rather than the Kickstarter trailer’s segmented rollercoaster-like tracks, which immediately conjured up memories of Seger’s brilliant arcade racer Power Drift, instead the tracks in Victory Heat Rally look a lot more like the typical 3D environments expected from a modern racing game, albeit with cel shading designed to deliberately make them look more basic.
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Lucky dice.
Well, this is becoming something of a trend, isn’t it? After retaking the throne last week, Super Mario Party Jamboree has stuck around at the top of the Japanese charts in Famitsu‘s latest look.
In fact, the top three are unchanged this week, with Jamboree, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe all maintaining their spots on the podium. Echoes of Wisdom has popped back into the top 10 this time around, which is always nice to see, and Mario & Luigi: Brothership has moved up a spot to land in fifth.
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Five gold RINGS.
We’re almost halfway through December, so you know what’s almost upon us? That’s right, it’s nearly time for Christmas Day Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s theatrical release!
Before the blue blur arrives on the big screen for the third time on 20th December, Paramount Pictures is filling the holiday season with festive tie-ins, including the above promo, ‘A Very Sonic Christmas’.
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Pre-orders open next week.
In some surprising news, the excellent Sonic-style platformer Freedom Planet 2 will be getting a Limited Run Games physical release for the Switch.
This game originally launched on the eShop earlier this year and received a 9 out of 10 from us here at Nintendo Life. The physical launch will include a standard edition for $39.99 USD (or your regional equivalent) and a deluxe edition for $69.99 USD.
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