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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Realms Deep 2020’ News, Mini-Views Featuring ‘Spiritfarer’ and More, Plus Today’s New Releases and Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 7th, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got a quick summary of some of the Switch news from 3D Realms’s Realms Deep 2020 weekend event. We’ve also got Mini-Views of a few games including Spiritfarer, Here Be Dragons, and Ary and the Secret of Seasons. There are summaries of the latest releases, and of course the usual lists of incoming and outgoing sales. Let’s go! News Realms Deep 2020 Had Plenty of Switch News [embedded content] 3D Realms had its

2015: The Renaissance and Golden Age of Korean SC2

by MizenhauerStarCraft II was always destined for great things.Its predecessor, Brood War, was the product of a bygone era where game developers weren’t concerned with balancing the game for full-time professionals, the concept of esports was mostly limited to a convention center in Mesquite, Texas and most people didn’t even have high speed internet. None of that mattered six-thousand miles away from Blizzard headquarters in South Korea, where Brood War became an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. An economic downturn, the proliferation of net cafes and high speed internet, and plain dumb