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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Darius Cozmic Collection’ Review, ‘Ys IX’ Coming to Switch, Today’s New Releases, Sales, and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 24th, 2020. In today’s jam-packed article, we’ve got reviews of the two Darius Cozmic Collections, a bunch of news, summaries of all the nifty new releases, and a full list of new and outgoing sales for you to consider. There’s a whole lot in here today, friends, so fill up your mug and settle on in. Let’s go! News ‘Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2’ Heading to Switch “Soon" One of the stretch goals for Koji Igarashi’s then record-breaking

One Big Thing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Should Learn From Odyssey

The Assassin's Creed franchise is known for being very serious--but Odyssey was a refreshing change of pace with its boisterous and joyful humor. In a new video, Jess McDonell explains why she hopes the humor from Odyssey carries forward to the new Assassin's Creed game, Valhalla, which is releasing later this year.Be sure to watch the full video to see Jess explain why Valhalla should carry forward Odyssey's light and humorous tone, or at least retain some element of it.This would help vary the tone of Valhalla beyond the serious

Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass for PC and Console: Observation, Night Call, Streets of Rogue, and More

My favorite part about Xbox Game Pass is discovering new games I might not have otherwise played, and often that’s indie games. We love working with ID@Xbox to bring you some great games you might not have heard about yet! Let’s give these games a round of applause (and downloads) and jump in! Coming Soon Night Call (Console, ID@Xbox) – June 24As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you’re many things to different people: friend, confidant, counselor, voyeur. You have the keen ability to get people to talk; and

Borderlands 3 Bounty Of Blood DLC Won’t Reintroduce An Old Character Like Previous DLCs

The third campaign expansion for Borderlands 3, Bounty of Blood, is scheduled to release on June 25. In a GameSpot Play For All interview, Gearbox creative director Matt Cox revealed that this new DLC would break the pattern of seeing the return of a Borderlands character. You can watch the full interview in the video embedded below."We do have some freedom to try some new things with certain story moments," Cox said. "And we're keeping a lot of the story close to the chest because we built something that we

SwitchArcade Round-Up: Mini-Views Featuring ‘Ruiner’ and ‘Sister Location’, Today’s New Releases, the Latest Sales, and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 22nd, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got summaries of a couple of new releases that hit the eShop since we last checked in. There are also a pair of Mini-Views for a couple of recent releases. We finish things up with a full list of incoming and outgoing sales for you to comb through. The big news is the unveiling of which character from ARMS will be joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but that’s unfortunately in the future for

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘New Pokemon Snap’ Coming to Switch, ‘Namco Museum Archives’ and Today’s Other New Releases, Plus the Latest Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 18th, 2020. The Pokemon Presents video yesterday had lots of news in it, but only some of it was relevant to the Switch. We talk about that before heading into the giant list of new releases that hit the eShop today. After that, we catch up on all the incoming and outgoing sales to finish things up. Let’s snap to it! News ‘New Pokemon Snap’ Coming to Switch Ever wait literally two decades for a sequel to a really

Wasteland 3 Interview: Brian Fargo Tells GameSpot About Offering Meaningful Choices

GameSpot has officially kicked off Play For All--a celebration of all things gaming--and we were recently joined by Brian Fargo to talk about his long career and his upcoming title, Wasteland 3. Fargo talks about numerous topics with editor Michael Higham in the video below, and gives us a few interesting insights into the upcoming third Wasteland game.Fargo reflects on the long road between Wasteland 1 and 2, and tells us that Wasteland 3 players won't need to have played the first two to understand what is happening. However, fans

Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio, a Great Challenge, Full of Nonsense Humor and Retro Goodness

Today is a great day for the indie games lovers. The little gem Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio is ready to land on Xbox One! Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio is a fixed screen (remember those?) action/platformer that will make you travel through a crazy mansion. You control a weird guy called Tcheco trapped in a cursed castle where you can only expect the unexpected (it’s probably the only place in the world where you’ll see a demon hanging out on a soccer field). To escape this demonic

SwitchArcade Round-Up: Mini-Views Featuring ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted’, Today’s New Releases, and the Latest Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 1st, 2020. Wow, June? We’re already just about halfway through this year? Time flies when everything is awful, I suppose. At least the games have been good, and they should continue to be good for the foreseeable future. In today’s article, we’ve got Mini-Views of the latest Five Nights at Freddy’s game and the aerial dogfighter Red Wings. There are summaries of all the new releases that hit since we last checked in, and of course the list of

WWE’s 2020 Money In The Bank Ladder Match Was Exactly What We Needed

The 2020 Money in the Bank match was a dumb, ridiculous spectacle with tons of fan service and an action film soundtrack. But most importantly, it was funny and entertaining. It felt surprisingly spontaneous for something that was pre-taped. WWE needs to do more matches like this for the remainder of the COVID-19 pandemic.The dialogue between the fans and performers is indispensable in a professional wrestling event. This is not a dramatic play, where the audience sits quietly and holds its applause for the final bow. In professional wrestling, fans