MLB The Show 24 has been updated to Ver. 1.08 on Nintendo Switch. You can see the patch notes for this update below.
General:
- Detroit Tigers City Connect uniform has been added.
Online Head-to-Head
- Fixed an issue where a few players would tip their pitches.
- Online stability improvements for 1v1 and Co-Op.
Franchise:
- Rule 5 eligible players on user-controlled team(s) will now be selected for Rule 5 Draft if not protected when setting a 40-man roster. Player cards will reflect Rule 5 draft eligibility.
Stadium Creator:
- Fixed a bug that allowed incorrect placement of the batter’s eye on the field.
- Various bug fixes to Future City stadium props.
Storylines:
- Derek Jeter Storylines side missions will now grant the proper rewards.
Custom Leagues:
- Fixed a bug that would cause an invalid roster error when attempting to randomize a winner.
- Team stats will now display correctly after completing a game.
Miscellaneous:
- Fixed a bug that would prevent Jackie Robinson socks from changing after switching pant styles.
- Various audio and presentation bug fixes and adjustments.
An update is available for Double Dragon Gaiden on Nintendo Switch. You can see the patch notes for this update below.
- Leaderboard has been fixed for Survival Mode users with over 250+ Tokens
- Special characters are now displayed properly in Sonny Lee’s character description
- Characters and upgrades chosen for Survival Mode will no longer overwrite characters and upgrades in Story Mode saves
- ‘Double Tap to Run’ setting now retained when loading into new stages
- Added the ability to kick users from multiplayer lobby (behave!)
- Added latency/ping icon to search results UI for online multiplayer
- Added ability for the user to cash out early in Survival Mode instead of quitting to Main Menu
- Updated Sonny Lee’s action display picture
- Fixed a phenomenon where enemies get trapped at the top of the screen in Survival Mode
- Exchange rate in Survival Mode has been updated
- Increased difficulty of enemies (stats and overall quantity) past Wave 15 in Survival Mode
Clever Endeavour Games has announced a free update for Ultimate Chicken Horse. Dubbed as the “Pandamonium” update, it will include a new Panda character, four skins, two outfits, two levels, and three music tracks. The update will be released for all supported platforms, including Nintendo Switch, on May 13th, 2024.
The Pandamonium Update adds:
- 1 new character: Panda
- 4 new skins: Brown Bear, Polar Bear, Black Bear, and Blue Bear
- 2 new levels: Islands and Toxic Tower
- 2 new outfits: Mail carrier and Viking
- 3 music tracks: Island Buddies, The Kraken, Toxic Tower
- Improvements and bug fixes
A new patch has been announced for Guardian Tales on Nintendo Switch. The patch will be available on May 14th, 2024, and will include new content and events for the action role-playing game.
A Link to Classic Adventure! Begin your adventure in Kanterbury, a world in turmoil from the Invaders’ attack, destined to be saved by the Legendary Guardian!
TERAVIT has been updated to Ver. 001.94 on Nintendo Switch. You can see the full patch notes for this latest update below.
New Additions & Changes
- Added a function to display a dialog when the first thumbnail is empty in the World upload settings.
- The playtime displayed in World Details will now display down to the second.
- Changed so that the room master will not leave the room if they block a player.
- The message display command in the Event Editor has been changed so that the following message will be executed even if the menu is open: Speech Bubble, Tips, Hint: Solved, and Pop Up.
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed an issue in the World Details ranking where the points would overlap the player name when the player name was long.
- Fixed the following bugs that occurred when playing with a gamepad:
- Fixed an issue where the world could not be selected on the world search screen.
- Fixed a bug where the Build option settings would change if the player input the left stick while holding down the LT button.
- Fixed an issue where the World List could not be scrolled vertically in some environments.
- Fixed an issue where only 10 favorite Skins were displayed; now up to 1000 favorite Skins can be displayed.
- Fixed an issue where, when certain operations were performed while the following Mode Items were equipped, an error would occur and all players connected to the same World would be kicked out: Horse Mode, Pig Mode, Cow Mode, Ostrich Mode, Boat Mode, and Minecart Mode.
- Fixed an issue where players could die automatically when performing certain operations while operating a submarine.
- Fixed an issue where an error could occur when targeting a specific Gimmick during Build Mode.
- Fixed an issue where thumbnails could not be uploaded in the Nintendo Switch version.
- Fixed some incorrect icons on the following screens: Cash Exchange Screen, Storage Box Screen, Gacha Storage Screen, and Personal Box Screen.
- Fixed an issue where, when equipped with a bow or spear, if players attacked with their back against some blocks such as glass, the attack would not go where they intended.
- Fixed the issue where the thumbnail was not set correctly when using the streaming mode to send Build Invites.
A finalized release date for Fireside has been announced. The narrative adventure game from publisher Nordcurrent Labs and developer Emergo Entertainment will be available for Switch digitally for via the Nintendo eShop on June 4th, 2024. Check out a brand new trailer for the upcoming game above and more details below!
🌲Fireside🌲 is an uplifting narrative experience about a journey, and the breaks that follow it 🏕️ Make friends, trade and chat at the campfire, weave connections, and explore a serene magic-filled world!✨
The latest Japanese sales data has come in via Famitsu, giving us a look at what the best-selling games for the last week were, alongside the usual hardware sales. First up, let’s take a look at the top software for April 22nd to May 5th, 2024.
- [PS5] Stellar Blade (SIE, 04/26/24) – 67,131 (NEW)
- [NSW] Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (505 Games, 04/23/24) – 46,729 (NEW)
- [NSW] Endless Ocean Luminous (Nintendo, 05/02/24) – 28,345 (NEW)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 21,089 (5,825,584)
- [PS5] Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (505 Games, 04/23/24) – 19,434 (NEW)
- [NSW] SaGa Emerald Beyond (Square Enix, 04/25/24) – 18,434 (NEW)
- [NSW] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Sweep the Board! (Aniplex, 04/25/24) – 17,404 (NEW)
- [NSW] Princess Peach: Showtime! (Nintendo, 03/22/24) – 17,171 (160,351)
- [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 16,080 (1,846,076)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 14,083 (3,516,475)
Next, let’s check out how hardware sales went for the week.
- Switch OLED Model – 72,592 (7,195,696)
- PlayStation 5 – 43,033 (4,808,908)
- Switch Lite – 16,247 (5,833,845)
- Switch – 11,199 (19,786,390)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 6,501 (767,403)
- Xbox Series X – 2,982 (271,121)
- Xbox Series S – 2,353 (310,852)
- PlayStation 4 – 202 (7,925,781)
The next batch of weekly releases for the Switch eShop is here! As usual, there’s a huge list of titles coming to the platform, with both small and large releases to pique your interest. Take a look at the full list for Europe for the week of May 9th, 2024 below.
- 1000xResist
- Adventure Field Remake
- All Noobs Must Die: Craft, Survival, Mine
- Amelia’s Diner
- Animal Puzzle for Kids and Toddlers
- Animals Drop
- Animal Well
- Baking Time
- Battle Minesweeper Online
- Blood Lines: Magicians’ Chase 2
- Bomb Cat
- Chronicles of Magic: Divided Kingdoms
- Coconut Farm 3D
- Corgi’s Travel
- CorpoNation: The Sorting Process
- Dark Fantasy Epic Jigsaw Puzzle
- DungeonSmash: Medieval Dungeons
- Eggconsole Wanderers From Ys PC-8801mkIISR
- Exit Slum 11
- Gift
- Imagine Earth
- Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack
- Kinduo 2: Frostbite
- King of Pyramid Thieves
- Knight Sim Life
- Let’s Throoow: Street Basketball Simulator
- Little Kitty, Big City
- My Horse Stories
- Mysterious Adventure of Michael 2
- Ninja Shuriken Master
- Outbreak the Fedora Files What Lydia Knows
- Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs
- Pirates Golden Quest
- Pummel Party
- Puzzlerio
- Rainbow Cotton
- Simply Snakes
- Spot the Odd
- Summer Games Challenge
- The Night fo the Rabbit
- The Prisoner of the Night
- Tractor Farming Simulator 3D
- Vampire: Darkness Falls
- Yacht Haven Tycoon: Marina Port Parking Simulator
- Zombie Survival: The Walking Pandemic
The next batch of weekly releases for the Switch eShop is here! As usual, there’s a huge list of titles coming to the platform, with both small and large releases to pique your interest. Take a look at the full list for North America for the week of May 9th, 2024 below.
- Little Kitty, Big City
- ANIMAL WELL
- PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs
- 1000xRESIST
- Amelia’s Diner
- Animals drop
- Arcade Archives RASTAN SAGA
- Athenian Rhapsody – Available May 14
- Battle Minesweeper Online
- Beach Girls 2: Sports in Bikini
- Biomutant – Available May 14
- Blood Lines : Magicians’ Chase2
- Braid, Anniversary Edition – Available May 14
- Bruce and Box
- Chronicles of Magic: Divided Kingdoms
- CorpoNation: The Sorting Process
- Crab Digger Tropical Island – Available May 12
- Culinary Cooking Master Simulator – Available May 11
- Dark Fantasy Epic Jigsaw Puzzle
- EGGCONSOLE WANDERERS FROM Ys PC-8801mkIISR
- Free Lives Collection
- Gearhead Karting Simulator – Mechanic & Racing
- Gift
- Hand in Hand – Available May 11
- Hotel Hustle – Available May 10
- Imagine Earth
- Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack
- Kinduo 2 – Frostbite – Available May 10
- King Of Pyramid Thieves
- Lysfanga : The Time Shift Warrior – Available May 14
- Mars Farming 2034 – Available May 10
- MergeZ – Available May 11
- Mysterious Adventure of Michael 2
- Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution – Available May 14
- Oniko Kororin Game
- Plantabi: Little Garden
- Pummel Party
- Puzzlerio
- QUALIA ~The Path of Promise~ – Available May 10
- Rainbow Cotton
- Roman City Tycoon – Available May 11
- Simply Snakes
- Smack
- Spirit Swap – ココロシャッフル –
- Spot the Odd!
- Summer Games Challenge
- The Land Beneath Us – Available May 13
- The Purge Club ~救済!粛清サークル~
- There’s No Dinosaurs
- Vampire: Darkness Falls
- Yacht Haven Tycoon: Marina Port Parking Simulator
- Zombie Survival: The Walking Pandemic
FuRyu has teamed up with Square Enix to bring content from NEO: The World Ends With You into their upcoming dark action RPG, REYNATIS. A sub-quest storyline featuring Shoka Sakurane will be included in the game. A Japanese trailer announcing the collaboration has been released, with an English version coming soon. Check out the trailer above and a message from Takumi Isobe, the producer and director of REYNATIS, below. REYNATIS launches for Nintendo Switch on Sept. 27th in the west and July 25th in Japan.
Does the “noise” at the end of the second trailer make sense now? That’s right—we’ve transcended company boundaries to make this exciting collaboration happen! And… surprises don’t just end on April Fools!
Marin and the others acquire Reaper Pins and become participants in a strange game… What will happen? Find out in the new Shibuya storyline exclusive to REYNATIS! Please look forward to the fate of Marin and Shoka with excitement!
The English version trailer will be released soon! Don’t miss it!
Fire Emblem Heroes, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, Pokémon Master EX, and Pokémon Café ReMix have all received a content update. Check out the full details for each game below via perfectly-nintendo.com.
Fire Emblem Heroes
- [Special Maps] The Grand Hero Battle feat. Lloyd (Vengeful Wolf) is now live (available until May 17th)
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
- [Cookies] A returning Fortune Cookie and related set of Stamp Trade rewards are now available: Vesta’s chic cookie, Apollo’s cinema cookie, Ace’s sky-high cookie (available until May 14th)
- [Happy Homeroom] Reissued classes are now available in Happy Homeroom (available until May 14th)
Pokémon Masters EX
- [Events] The latest Trainer Files event, Lovable Numskulls, is now live (available until May 23rd)
- [Missions] A new set of Event Missions is now available: Lovable Numskulls (available until May 23rd)
- [Scout] The following Sync Pair is now available via Variety Scout: Guzma & Ariados (available until May 23rd, with Ticket Scout running until May 30th)
- [Other] The latest Ultimate Battle, Leon’s Unbeatable Blaze, has been added to Challenge the Strong in the Side Area (no end date)
Pokémon Café ReMix
- [Events] The latest Cook and Collect Event, Collect with Gholdengo, is now live (available until May 12th)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 1/7 scale Mio figure up for pre-order
Let's seer off to production
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 superfans, your next must-have piece of merch is here.
Good Smile Company has officially opened pre-orders for their 1/7 scale figure of Mio from Xenoblade Chronicles 3. The dynamic figure was based on an original illustration drawn by Masatsugu Saito, the character designer of the series.
According to Good Smile, special care was put into the thorough sculpting of the details and texture of Mio’s clothes, and the multilayered base features the Zephyr icon, the mark of her initial class.
This painted plastic 1/7 scale complete product includes a stand, and measures approximately 8.86in in height. The figure is priced at $94 and is expected to ship out in Q4 2025. If you’d like to get a better look at this Mio figure or lock in a pre-order, you can do so through this link.
RUMOR: Another round of Switch successor tech specs surface
Team Real or Team Fake?
Nintendo fans have been hungry for Switch successor info for months now, but that’s gone into overdrive this week, and it’s all thanks to Nintendo saying they’ll be sharing the first, official details on the hardware sometime this fiscal year.
While we wait for Nintendo to give us that first real drop of details, the industry insiders and superfans are making the internet rounds trying to figure out anything and everything about this hardware. That leads us to the latest rumor, which supposedly gives us some insight into the platform’s specs.
Some incredibly dedicated Nintendo fans have gone out of their way to track shipment and customs data between Nintendo, NVIDIA, and other companies, all in the hopes of gleaning details on Switch’s follow-up. Those efforts may have paid off recently, as tracking info has returned the following tech details:
- 12 GB RAM (two 6 GB 7500 MT/s LPDDR5 modules)
- 256 GB of UFS 3.1 internal storage
- built-in microphone
- RAM is specifically LPDDR5X
Now as always, nothing is confirmed until Nintendo says so. With that in mind, you’d have to think that the sources behind this info lead to the info itself being at least somewhat trustworthy. As Nintendo never shares tech specs on their platforms, we likely won’t know if this leak is legit until we have the hardware in our hands.
Vampire Survivors "Operation Guns" Contra DLC launches today
Run and gun and survive
Vampire Survivors continues to expand through all different kinds of DLC, and now a new collaboration has been revealed. Vampire Survivors dev Poncle has announced that the game is getting Contra collaboration DLC today for $2.50, and you can see the expansion in action via the trailer above.
Are you a bad enough Vampire Survivor to save the President’s cousin’s sister’s dog from the traitor squadrons of Red Falcon? Join Contra Force and stride into a doomsday extravaganza in Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns.
Assemble a squad of classic Characters and arm yourself with an explosive arsenal of arcade weaponry in this action packed expansion for Vampire Survivors. Blast through thousands of fearsome foes and bonkers bosses from throughout the lauded lineage of Contra games. Persist determinedly through prodigious stages inspired by iconic Konami series, but be prepared for a bullet-hell of a fight, because if your trigger finger lacks stamina, Earth may lack a future.
Operation Guns embraces the visceral simplicity of classic Contra, with build-focused Characters that encourage min-maxing and stat manipulation, a tonne of weapons (we’re talking 22 including evolutions!), and a difficulty curve that combines quintessentially arcade-hard gameplay with the Vampire Survivors formula.
11 Contra-Tough New Characters
A squad of determined Contra Force Survivors deployed to become the bullet hell, including:
- Bill Rizer - a big guy with a big gun, bent on vengeance against an alien menace. Loves: action movies, high-calibre rounds. Hates: Cryogenic coffins, space creatures.
- Lance Bean - known for attacking aggressively, always having hair dye on hand, and having a brain almost as impressive as his muscles, Lance is partially responsible for creating Contra Force’s strange new weapons.
- Ariana - forced to defend her home amongst the jungles of Galuga from the vile traitors of Red Falcon, Ariana is an expert in evasive manoeuvres, turning her Movement Speed into extra Armour.
- Lucia - is she a clone? A cyborg? A tabula-rasa terror tutored by Team Contra to be the perfect warrior? Her past is a mystery, but her deadliness on the battlefield is well known, as is her reputation for rebounding from any supposed defeat even stronger than ever.
- Brad Fang - the bad-butt product of twisted genetics and cutting edge cyber-tech, Brad Fang is half-man, half-wolf, half-robot, and 150% super soldier.
- Browny - designed to be an all-purpose battle bot, a string of strange bugs (or features) in Browny’s programming have caused this diminutive droid to be obsessed with partying. Fortunately, this calamitous coding error does nothing to impede Browny’s prodigious combat prowess.
- Sheena Etranzi - a guerrilla combat genius especially skilled in jungle combat and all manner of experimental weaponry, Sheena is a true survivor and no stranger to prevailing against impossible odds.
- Probotector - a hyper advanced recon robot programmed to protect humans in inimical environments, this RD009 Probotector Model can convert any enhancements to its Armour into more Might for its many modular weapons.
22 New Fully Automatic Weapons
Arm yourself with Contra Force’s radical arsenal with almost-homing missiles, a bevy of high-tech blasters, and the ever faithful Spread Shot. Evolve these deadly contraptions into experimental Prototype weapons, and supplement every salvo with 3 new Pickups - you’ll need every edge you can get to survive the challenges of Operation Guns.
Galuga & Beyond
Run and gun through multiple mayhem-filled biomes inspired by classic Contra levels. Explore Galuga Jungle, Neo City, and the treacherous Alien Zone in a hazardously horizontal main Stage bristling with iconic enemies and brutal bosses. Rev your jetbikes and take on a highway of horrors in a furiously fast-paced challenge stage.
Contra Tracks & Remixes
Includes classic Contra tracks and covers:
- Battle in the Jungle - VS version
- Bloody Falls - VS version
- Yoru no Nikusyokujyu - VS version
- The Hard Corps - VS version
- GTR Attack!- VS version
- Military Fortress- VS version
PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs takes a bite out of Switch today
Pac it up, Pac it in
PAC-MAN™ MEGA TUNNEL BATTLE™: CHOMP CHAMPS is bringing competitive eating, PAC-MAN™ style, to PC and consoles. Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. announced the game will launch on Switch today.
PAC-MAN MEGA TUNNEL BATTLE: CHOMP CHAMPS is a raucous take on PAC-MAN multiplayer, featuring cross-play for the first time and amping up game play with 64-player battles, a variety of colorful interconnected mazes, customizable PACs, and Power Items that not only boost players’ abilities but can also help the GHOSTS chase down the competition. The game is available now for preorder in Standard and Deluxe editions, with all preorders receiving the Chomp Challengers Pac Preorder bonus, and is coming to Nintendo Switch.
PAC-MAN MEGA TUNNEL BATTLE: CHOMP CHAMPS captures PAC-MAN’s insatiable appetite in a game where everything except the maze is edible. In the game, players must eat their way through multiple interconnected mazes to become the Chomp Champ – a.k.a. the last PAC standing at the end of each match. Gain the upper hand on other players or turn the tables against GHOSTS by utilizing a variety of Power Items which give PAC-MAN shields, enhanced speed, and more. Players can also sabotage their competition by using Power Items that help the GHOSTS. Not only will they be able to chomp through PAC-MAN’s regular diet of dots and fruit, but they can also chomp through other players’ PACs in true competitive head-to-head competition.
Ready to welcome players of varying skill levels, game modes include Elimination Mode with arcade-style action where players of any rank can compete and earn Tokens to redeem on customization items, and Ranked Mode where players battle against similarly skilled opponents from around the world and gain Rank XP earning their place on the leaderboards. With 63 other players per match, bling is the way to stand out in the crowd; players can customize their PAC with a variety of body, head, and face cosmetics. PAC-MAN MEGA TUNNEL BATTLE: CHOMP CHAMPS includes a Friend system that lets players drop into the same match with friends, track progress, and spectate the action when their friends – or foes – are playing the game.