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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Alex Kidd’ is Back, ‘Sunset Riders’ and Today’s Other New Releases, and Tons More Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 11th, 2020. A whole bunch of news is slipping out, and not all of it seems to be hitting at the time its publishers originally intended. That’s how it goes some days. We’ve got a few cool retro-bits to talk about before we go into the usual new release summaries. I’ve also gathered up all of the new sales that have hit since yesterday and added a bunch more from the Summer Sale for good measure. It’s a big

Evan’s Remains: The Perks of Coming From a Small Gamedev Community

Hi there, Xbox Wire readers! I’m excited to announce my indie game Evan’s Remains is finally coming to Xbox One today. If you like puzzles, loads of story, and colorful pixel art, feel free to check it out. I’ve talked in the past about a bit of Evan’s Remains background and my own, and how coming from a South American country may present its unique boundaries and limitations when it comes to making and selling games. However, on this occasion, I’d like to talk about the good things about my

Amazon MMO New World Shares How Crafting Will Work

New World, Amazon's upcoming MMO, has revealed more details about how its crafting system will work. According to a post on the game's official website, crafting will allow players to not only decorate houses but to acquire powerful items. This information comes hot on the heels of an announcement from Amazon about how character progression will operate in the game's setting of Aeturnum. While New World's release has been delayed to later this year, it looks like other announcements about the title's mechanics are planned for the interim to keep

Inside Xbox Series X Optimized: Dirt 5

When it launches this holiday, Xbox Series X will be the most powerful console the world has ever seen. One of the biggest benefits of all that power is giving developers the ability to make games that are Xbox Series X Optimized. This means that they’ve taken full advantage of the unique capabilities of Xbox Series X, both for new titles built natively using the Xbox Series X development environment as well as previously released titles that have been rebuilt specifically for the console. In our Inside Xbox Series X

You Have To See Danny Trejo’s Animal Crossing Island

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has taken the world by storm, and has meant a lot to many who have been stuck in isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Danny Trejo, the iconic actor who starred in Machete and has featured in Predators, Breaking Bad, and much more, has been putting time into the game too--and now you can take a video tour of his island. The video, which is part of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story writer Gary Whitta's "Animal Talking" series, gives us some insight into Trejo's island

Fortnite Spy Base Locations Guide: Where To Find And Open Faction Chests

Fortnite's Storm the Agency challenges are now live alongside the game's 12.61 update, giving you a few more tasks to complete before the upcoming Doomsday event sets the stage for Season 3 of the popular battle royale shooter. One of the trickier challenges asks you to open a faction locked chest at three different spy bases. If you're having trouble hunting those down, this guide will show you where the spy bases are located and how to complete the challenge. Where Are The Spy Base Locations? Much like the safe

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition’ Review, ‘Jump King’ and Today’s Other New Releases and the Latest Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 9th, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got a full review of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, a little bit of news about an upcoming release, summaries of today’s latest new games, and the usual list of new and outgoing sales. It’s a surprisingly big one today for a Tuesday, so let’s put on our gloves and get to work! News Action-RPG ‘CrossCode’ Looks to Release in July I’ve heard nothing but good things about CrossCode since it came out on