What are Yooka playing?
It’s time to check out everyone’s gaming plans as we dive into another edition What Are You Playing!
This week in the world of Nintendo, we got the announcement of a suspicious new Joy-Con charging stand, we finally found out who Emio is (he’s the start of the new Famicom Detective Club game, no less), Crocs and Pokémon teamed up on a new range of clogs and we checked out brand new updates for No Man’s Sky and Splatoon 3.
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A Nintendo sponsored event.
As part of the Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Switch launch this week, Nintendo has announced it’s sponsoring a special competition featuring a bunch of Hololive VTubers.
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How about it, Capcom?
Industry legend Hideki Kamiya, who left his job at PlatinumGames last year, has recently mentioned how he’s still interested in making new entries in the Okami and Viewtiful Joe series, as both stories remain incomplete.
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Flyin’ high?
Bandai Namco’s Ace Combat 7 is finally out on Nintendo Switch, and by all accounts, it seems like it’s a pretty successful port. In our own review, we called it the “absolute pinnacle of the series” and the “most comprehensive portable experience”, awarding it a hefty score of 9/10. If you want to read more of our thoughts, check out the full review below.
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Choose your wingman.
Updated with Ace Combat 7. Enjoy!
It’s taken a while, but as with most other genres since Switch launched back in 2017, Nintendo’s console has steadily built a good library of flight combat games. Whether you’re blasting bogeys and shooting your way though the clouds or the cosmos, there’s a host of quality dogfighting games available on Switch.
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Featuring two brand new maps.
PowerWash Simulator is having a blast in celebration of its second anniversary as developer FuturLab has released a fresh free content update containing two new mucky maps.
Titled ‘Muckingham Files 3’, this update includes an all-new aquarium environment and a submarine, both of which were voted for by the PowerWash Simulator community. You’ll be hosing down the exhibits, getting rid of dirt in every nook and cranny (or should that be hook and clam-my?) and hearing plenty of that satisfying ‘ding‘ when your task is suitably spotless.
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Following mobile team being shut down.
NetherRealm Studios, the developer behind the Mortal Kombat series, is reportedly facing multiple layoffs after select staff members from the studios’ mobile team shared posts on LinkedIn announcing that they have been put out of work (thanks, Eurogamer).
The NetherRealm mobile team seems to be the most affected by the layoffs, after the branch was reportedly shut down despite working on multiple active live-service projects including Mortal Kombat Mobile, Injustice 2, and Mortal Kombat Onslaught. Tony Lazzara, a quality assurance analyst, wrote “Netherrealm’s mobile team was shut down. A ton of very talented people were put out of work”.
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Excitement activated.
Developer Tiny Wonder Studio has announced koROBO, a spiritual successor of sorts to the cult classic Chibi-Robo! series with ex-developers from Skip Ltd. working on the project.
The game follows koRobo, a small robot alongside his 10-year-old owner, Tom, set within the ‘urban jungle’ of New York City. When Tom receives koROBO as a birthday gift, he’s completely unaware of what the little robot is capable of.
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The fight gets underway this weekend.
This weekend is EVO 2024 and while the full roster of games has already been revealed, it seems there’ll be some other surprises…
Capcom’s official Marvel vs. Capcom social media account has announced it will be hosting a special “casual community livestream” which will showcase the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics from the show floor on 19th July. You’ll be able to see it in action on Capcom USA’s Twitch channel:
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Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, and Sonic 06 favourites return.
Continuing the Year of Shadow celebrations, Sega has shared a brand new trailer for Sonic X Shadow Generations, which showcases a couple of the stages returning for Shadow’s side of the adventure.
And, just like with Sonic’s stages in Sonic Generations, Shadow will also be revisiting levels from previous titles. Sega has highlighted three of those, and they’ll be familiar to all of you diehard Shadow fans.
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