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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity’ Trailer, Mini-Views Featuring ‘Kirby Fighters 2’, Plus the Latest Releases and Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 28th, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got some news from the Tokyo Game Show along with a selection of Mini-Views on games like Kirby Fighters 2, The Long Dark, and more. There’s one new release to take a look at, and it’s a rather strange one. We finish things up with a look at the new sales that popped up over the weekend and the discounts that will be expiring tomorrow. Let’s get the week started right! News Check

‘Hearthstone’ Battlegrounds Ratings Get Overhauled, Masquerade Ball Brings Elementals and Rexxar Solo Experiencer

TouchArcade Rating:It’s time for another Hearthstone (Free) patch and limited time event called Masquerade Ball, and although we’re getting some fun experiences, what will undoubtedly be the star of the upcoming patch is the new Battlegrounds rating system, which will bring a reset of all external (player-facing) ratings with the goal of an improved matchmaking experience. The Masquerade Ball event will also bring new Tavern Brawls, Battlegrounds heroes and minions, and the usual card pack bundles and fixes. The new progression system will look a lot like the constructed Ranked mode.

Best iPhone Game Updates: ‘Phoenix 2’, ‘Knives Out’, ‘AFK Arena’, ‘Blackmoor 2’, and More

TouchArcade Rating:Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It’s time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. I found some things, everyone. Most of them are free-to-play, but I promise they are good. Some pretty hefty content drops, and the first volley of what is sure to be a huge wave of iOS 14 updates. Of course, you can keep an eye out for updates yourself using AppShopper or by participating in the TouchArcade forums. This weekly summary is just here to

TGS 2020: ‘Ys VIII Mobile’ Gets a New Gameplay Showcase with a Look at Areas from the Original Game, Character Models, and More

At TGS 2019, Shaun tried Ys VIII Mobile. Ys VIII Mobile is a mobile conversion of Nihon Falcom’s amazing action RPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana. Ys VIII Mobile was announced a while ago and it was even revealed to be getting a worldwide release. At TGS 2020, Linekong Entertainment showed off extended footage for Ys VIII Mobile giving us a look at how locations from the original game appear in the mobile conversion, character models, and more. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana is one of my favourite games ever

TGS 2020: Koei Tecmo Announced a New ‘Dynasty Warriors’ Game for iOS and Android with a Closed Beta Planned for Next Month

Over the years, many developers and publishers from Japan have brought their franchises to mobile through old ports, new licensed releases, and more. Koei Tecmo and Omega Force’s popular Dynasty Warriors franchise is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and there were two announcements made at TGS 2020 to celebrate this. The first was Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires for literally every console and PC that is set for an early 2021 release in and outside Japan. The second is Dynasty Warriors for iOS and Android. Dynasty Warriors is a hack

Magical Adventure RPG ‘Genshin Impact’ is out now on iOS, Android, PS4, and PC

TouchArcade Rating: Genshin Impact (Free) from miHoYo is a magical adventure RPG with great visuals. It has been in the works for a while now for multiple platforms including mobile, Nintendo Switch, and PS4. Pre-orders for it went live recently and the game was available to download as a preload beginning last night. The servers went live a few hours ago on iOS, Android, PS4, and PC. The Nintendo Switch version is releasing at a later date. As detailed before, Genshin Impact includes both singleplayer and multiplayer including cross platform

Nintendo Goes WAHOOO! – The TouchArcade Show #463

In this week’s episode of The TouchArcade Show we discuss Amazon’s recent event where they unveiled some new hardware products as well as announced a new cloud gaming service called Luna. Were you aware that Amazon held an event this week? You’re probably not alone! With Eli’s Android device finally updated he tries out Microsoft’s xCloud for the first time LIVE ON AIR, and of course we dig into all of the big mobile gaming news stories of this past week. It’s an XL episode this week, so strap in!

TouchArcade Game of the Week: ‘Aruna’s Adventure’

TouchArcade Rating:There were a bunch of really good games released this week, but the one I find I keep coming back to is the one that offers exactly what it says it does on the tin. It’s Aruna’s Adventure ($4.99) from developer James Swiney, and it promises an adventure in a similar vein to the original 8-bit The Legend of Zelda. That’s precisely what you get, and while it sounds strange, it’s that focus and simplicity that makes Aruna’s Adventure so enjoyable. Don’t expect any huge skill trees or complex

Apple and Sony Events – The TouchArcade Show #462

There were two pretty big events in the world of tech and gaming this week, so in this episode we discuss Apple’s latest event where they announced a new Apple Watch and a couple of new iPads as well as their decision to suddenly drop iOS 14 on everyone out of the blue. We then dive into Sony’s latest PlayStation 5 event and talk about our thoughts on the coming generation of consoles which leads nicely into a discussion about Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming service that launched this week. Finally

TouchArcade Game of the Week: ‘Songbringer’

TouchArcade Rating:Mobile is home to a bunch of great original games, but equally important is the huge number of excellent games that have been ported over from other platforms. Back in 2015 Wizard Fu Games successfully crowdfunded a project for an idea that was essentially “What if the original The Legend of Zelda was different every time you played it?" A couple of years later that project, called Songbringer, launched on desktop and consoles with a Nintendo Switch port following in 2018. One of the original stretch goals of the