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This week marks the release of Disney Illusion Island on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a brand-new 2D platformer with Metroidvania design – starring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. It also happens to include both solo and co-op play where you work together to “run, jump, swim, and swing your way to victory”.
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Fillet O’ Magicarp.
As has become something of a yearly occurrence, it looks like Pokémon cards will once again be returning to McDonald’s Happy Meals within the next month (thanks, Eurogamer).
In some European countries, the promotion has begun today (27th July) with 15 different Pokémon cards up for grabs with the purchase of a Happy Meal. It looks like the UK will be getting the offer a little bit later — 23rd August, according to Pokémon fansite PokéBeach — but either way, it’s happening folks, prepare yourselves.
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Not exactly scrap.
Q-Games’ PixelJunk series, essentially an umbrella name for their indie game output, is now in its second chapter. With little to no correlating factors, each game is largely a standalone work, with PixelJunk Racers, for example, being a Micro Machines-style overhead racing title, while PixelJunk Shooter is a subterranean search and rescue experience.
PixelJunk Scrappers Deluxe is an expanded version of PixelJunk Scrappers from 2020; a clean-looking 2D arcade-strategy title geared around junk collecting. In a future post-apocalypse, trash has become a currency and is fought for by rival gangs lining their pockets with other people’s refuse. This isn’t particularly logical, of course, because if junk was equal to gold nobody would ever throw anything out, but, in the world of PixelJunk: Scrappers Deluxe, the streets are lined with discarded objects in the upper and lower extremities of side-scrolling city stages.
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After weeks of rumours.
Nickelodeon’s take on the Smash Bros. formula is getting a sequel later this year on Switch. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 has been officially announced by developers Ludosity and Fair Play Labs and publisher GameMill Entertainment.
Revealed exclusively through IGN, the promise is that there will be more of everything — more characters, more stages, more modes, and a brand new story mode campaign, where you’ll be aiming to stop Vlad Plasmius (from Danny Phantom).
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Pre-orders now open.
Blasphemous 2, the highly anticipated sequel to developer The Game Kitchen’s popular indie Metroidvania, is inching ever closer to its Switch launch on August 24th, 2023.
To celebrate, publisher Team17 has opened pre-orders for the game and released a brand new gameplay trailer, showcasing heaps of gory combat and stunning pixel art visuals.
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Streetlight people.
When violence is the core vice of most video games, and in the case of Mortal Kombat, viscerally so, it’s worth exploring how it translates to sensory player feedback. Double Dragon Gaiden works well in terms of negotiating increasingly difficult enemy gangs with creative use of your expanding moveset, and, while the series’ signature knee-to-nose routine is still here, it isn’t carried off with the hard edge it once was.
Developed by Secret Base, and hailing out of Singapore, the team has added plenty of nuance to the belt-scrolling formula. Now, you choose two of four initial characters (with a generous nine more available for unlocking) and have the ability to tag between them as long as your super gauge is full. If one character is taking excessive damage, or has better range for certain sections, just switch them out. Likewise, if one of your duo desperately needs a health item, you can keep them safely in the background until one turns up.
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Oracle of Ages & Seasons return.
In a new Switch Online update today Nintendo has added the Game Boy Color classics The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. Both of these titles were originally released in 2001.
These games can be played individually, in any order but you’ll get even more out of this experience if you play both of them and make use of the password system:
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Horrid-min.
Pikmin 4‘s blossoming on Switch last week has opened up a whole new floodgate for many — the deep, dark world of Pikmin lore. Yep, there’s lore in the world of Pikmin, and it’s incredibly detailed and sometimes terrifying.
Our own personal Piklopedia Alex over on our lovely YouTube channel has gone right down the excavation hole and Cupid’s Grenade-picked some of Pikmin 4’s lore highlights. The in-game Piklopedia goes far more in-depth on each of the creatures you’ll encounter.
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Something wicked this way comes.
Devolver Digital has today given us another look at The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, a witch-filled narrative experience which we now know will be materialising on Switch on 16th August.
The game comes from Spanish developers Deconstructeam — the team behind 2019’s great cyberpunk tale The Red Strings Club — and will see you taking on the role of Fortuna, an exiled witch who takes her Tarot card-reading powers into her own hands in an attempt to regain her freedom. Creating your own deck of divination cards and using them to investigate your fellow witches’ lives, you will guide Fortuna through a heartfelt story that looks to tackle some pretty heavy themes.
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Update: Bite into it now.
Update : The Fortnite x Futurama crossover has landed today! Following the earlier reveal, outfits for Bender, Fry, and Leela have appeared in-game and you can get them from the Item Shop.
Not only that, Bender’s Shiny Metal Raygun has been added, along with other accessories and alt costumes. Let’s have a look at everything you can get from the Item Shop, courtesy of the official Fortnite website:
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