Wow, he threw so many fighters off a cliff...

Kazuya is coming to Smash Bros, giving Bandai Namco's Tekken franchise representation in Nintendo's fighting series. The first video Nintendo played showed Kazuya dramatically dropping the bodies of his defeated opponents off a cliff into an ominous river of lava. (Notable, when Kazuya drops Kirby off the cliff, the pink creampuff merely flies away nonchalantly in the background.)

What - and we cannot emphasize this enough - the fuck is up with that last one?

Limited Run Games held their annual tribute to the physical game today with multiple game reveals - both for new limited physical releases and brand new games.

New Games

For Nintendo fans, it was exactly what was promised.

Capcom's summer showcase has detailed new announcements for the three promised games: Monster Hunter Stories 2, Monster Hunter Rise, and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles.

For Stories 2, a new story trailer was shown and a demo similar to the original's was announced. The demo will release on June... Read more...

It's got some elements of the GameCube original, heads up.

Boxart and screens for what appear to be a new Super Monkey are circulating around the internet.

Twitter user @NilsAhrDE first posted boxart for a Switch and PS5 version of what is called "Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania". Screenshots are posted as a reply.

This... Read more...

The company clarified details on the announcement in an official response.

Following the announcement on Friday that notable physical indie games publisher Super Rare Games would begin publishing a series of limited physical-only Nintendo Switch games under a new label called Super Rare Shorts, today the company released a statement responding to backlash over the past weekend.... Read more...

It could be mildly controlled chaos when we all scream as Star Fox Grand Prix is announced.

Tomorrow, members of the NWR Staff will be watching the E3 Nintendo Direct LIVE as it airs on the Nintendo World Report Twitch Channel. The Direct begins at 12pm Eastern / 9AM Pacific, and we'll be starting our stream around 30 minutes before.

Stop by to get our last minute predictions, live... Read more...

Adding to the burgeoning "violent fitness game" genre.

XSEED is picking up a fitness game from Japan for this fall.

Knockout Home Fitness has been confirmed for a fall 2021 release. The exercise title mixes in martial arts and boxing as part of an exercise program, which can be focused on different goals and portions of the body (full body, upper body, lower body, abdominals). Four virtual trainers will also be available.

They say it takes a village.

US sales were incredibly tall in May, but Nintendo still held on for a hardware win in the US NPD sales survey.

All rankings based on dollar sales from May 2 - 29 unless indicated: Nintendo titles are not counted digitally but most third party titles are.

The Switch has now been the top selling... Read more...

For once, Donald added fifty game pages on a weekend and a quarter of them end up in here.

*crickets*

Since apparently everyone is getting out of the way of Tuesday's Direct and the sale that's going to follow it, this is a positively New Year's list - in that it's got very little on it. Unless there's an absolute boatload of shadowdrops Tuesday. Or Sunday, given that Minute of Islands came out in between the writing of this piece and the publication.

The last show of a high-octane weekend.

Sunday's final video presentation was the Future Games Show, which unveiled the following for Switch:

Hey, we take 'em where we can get 'em.

Despite the name, there were actually a few Switch announcements at the 2021 PC Gaming Show.

The follow-up to one of 2019's most disturbing titles is the rare PS5/XBSeries/Switch game.

One of the games announced at Microsoft's showcase today was later confirmed for Switch release along with the obligatory Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 release.

Publisher Focus Home Interactive have announced A Plague Tale: Requiem, the sequel to 2019 horror adventure A Plague Tale: Innocence, would release on Switch in 2022 by way of a cloud version. It was confirmed in the small print of the game's reveal trailer.

The devil, you say?

The resurrection of Diablo II will be complete very early in the fall.

At Microsoft's summer showcase, Activision Blizzard confirmed that the remaster of Diablo II will release on September 23 - for all platforms. Previously only a release year (2021) was given.

The trailer also confirmed cross-progression for all consoles and 8 player online co-op.

...we're going to have a few words with Ms. Struthers about that last one.

Devolver Digital's latest skewering of game industry trends also featured a couple of new Switch announcements.

The publisher is releasing the latest game from Doinksoft, the makers of Gato Roboto - known as Demon Throttle, the 8-bit retro shooter is only available physically through a partnership... Read more...

The three constants of Ubi: A toxic work environment, leaks, and Just Dance.

The worst kept secret of the weekend is now official.

Ubisoft have revealed Mario + Rabbits: Sparks of Hope at their Ubisoft Forward presentation today. The sequel to the 2017 strategy game will add Rabbid versions of Rosalina and Luma, befitting its new intergalactic setting as Mario characters team up with Rabbids to save "Sparks" hidden around the galaxy. You can watch the gameplay and cinematic trailers below.

Almost coming faster than we can write them up.

The second show of the day was the Wholesome Direct, with the following announcements for Switch:

How can I hold... er, play... all these games?

Announcements continued to pour in for Switch at the second Guerrilla Collective show and its companion, the Wholesome Direct.

How will Ubisoft move forward from this?

Nintendo seemed to have uploaded the page for the-yet unannounced sequel to Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle early (Update: The page has since been taken down). The sequel will be called Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and releases in 2022. The game is published by Ubisoft and seems to feature new Rabbidfied versions of classic Mario characters like Rosalina and even a Rabbid Luma. The description on the page reads as follows:

The former of those announcements quite literally blew the news desk away.

IGN's seventy minute game showcase held earlier today featured multiple announcements and release dates for Switch project, including one thought to be impossible.

You can thank the home office and Nintendo Spain for Saber Interactive's next mega-project.

The head of the studio behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance admitted in an interview today that a pair of Nintendo errors led to them attempting to port the 2018 RPG to Switch.

As part of the Deep Silver / Koch Media showcase today, Warhorse Studio's Tobias Stolz-Zwilling mentioned the first error... Read more...