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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Mini Motor Racing X’, ‘Super Punch Patrol’, and Today’s Other New Releases, Plus the Latest Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 17th, 2020. By the time you read this, Nintendo will have shown their latest Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase. As I write this, however, it is in the future. We will therefore have to bravely take on the monstrous task of covering whatever massive news comes from the presentation in tomorrow’s article. For today, we’ve got summaries of all of the newest games that hit the eShop today. Naturally, we’ve also got the incoming and outgoing sales to chronicle.

NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless

Sponsored Links Teraflops have been a popular way to measure "graphical power" for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it’s been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in marketing messages found in the launch of consoles like the Xbox Series X. With GPU core counts reaching five figures, it’s nice to have a simple point of comparison. Unfortunately, teraflops have never been less useful.The term teraflop comes from FLOPs, or "floating-point operations per second," which

Mulan Review — All Style, No Substance

Disney's recent history with live-action adaptations of their animated classics has been a mixed bag at best. There seems to be no real hard-and-fast conventions as to just what gets added or changed in the transition from 2D to 3D. New songs are added, new characters, new plot threads--all, presumably, in service to whatever will help reinvent a decades-old classic for a new generation. Unfortunately, in the case of Mulan, it seems that the calculations were botched right from the start.It's a familiar story. Hua Mulan (Yifei Liu), the eldest

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Chinese Parents’, ‘Peaky Blinders’, ‘Phoenotopia’, and Today’s Other New Releases and Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 20th, 2020. In today’s article, it’s all about those new releases. There are a dozen new games to check out, each one vying for a little slice of your wallet. But wait! There are also sales. A nefarious trap, no doubt. How many of us will it catch? Most, if not all. But we will live to fight another day! LET US HIE ONWARD, STALWART CHUMS! New Releases Chinese Parents ($12.99) SwitchArcade Highlight! This is a life sim where

Microsoft Flight Simulator Has Launched With Some Monumental Anomalies

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is already one of the year's biggest hits, offering a whole world for its would-be pilots to explore in a year when travel has been otherwise restricted. With such a huge world to build, MFS2020 relies on algorithms to generate most of it, which has resulted in some interesting new landmarks.In one case, the simulator has downgraded the Queen's house, turning Buckingham Palace in London into a fairly dismal-looking block of flats. While The Shard and the O2 Arena in London were modeled and added manually,

Team Liquid Signs Partnership Deal With Zoomph

Esports organization Team Liquid announced Tuesday a new social media measurement partnership with Zoomph.  Financial terms and length of the partnership were not disclosed. Zoomph has already created a custom version of its real-time social analytics platform to provide Team Liquid with “reporting data to create more engaging and meaningful partner campaigns,” according to a release. Team Liquid will also use the data it collects to grow its social media presence and increase engagement with its fans, the company said. Team Liquid will also use Zoomph’s data to increase fan

Team Liquid x Zoomph

Team Liquid Announces Zoomph as its Official Social Media Measurement PartnerTeam Liquid is excited to announce a brand new partnership with Zoomph. What is this “Zoomph” you ask? Zoomph specializes in esports and sports analytics while providing best-in-class, AI-based insight to help teams better understand their social media audiences and help measure the impact of their brand partnerships. So yeah, it’s a pretty awesome partnership!Through this partnership, Zoomph has created a custom version of its real-time social analytics platform to meet our unique needs as a global team with a

Liquid Rivalries: League of Legends

The Yankees. The Lakers. The Patriots. The Red Wings. FC Barcelona. These are all legacy teams.At this point, they’re known for being known. Even people with next to no knowledge about the game have heard these names. And if you do know the game, you probably love some of these teams for elevating it and also hate them for dominating it. Any fan from the Curse days can probably remember how frustrating it was to be a step behind TSM so often. Then, when TSM was finally slipping up, it

Code S Finals Preview: Rogue vs Stats

In recent seasons, the GSL Code S finals has frequently been the last trial for players with something to prove. We've seen first time-finalists, zero-time GSL winners, and online-bonjwas attempt to seize a career-affirming championship.This season, the Code S finals will offer StarCraft II fans a more traditional heavyweight bout. Entering the finals stage are two titans of StarCraft II, both entering with their hard-won Code S championships draped figuratively around their waists. These two players are already deeply ingrained in the history of competitive StarCraft II—this match is about