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A physical Switch release of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos has been announced. The remaster of the 1997 3D platformer will be distributed by Rock It Games, and will be available as both standard and collector’s editions. Pre-orders are now available from Rock It Games official website until December 10th, 2024. The release window for the game has also been announced, launching sometime the same month as pre-orders close in December.

The standard edition will include a physical copy of the game with a full color manual for $39.99 USD. As for the collectors edition, that’s gonna run you $129.99 USD. Check out what’s included below:

• Croc Legend of the Gobbos game for Nintendo Switch w/ full color manual
• 8” resin Croc statue with a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
• Four-disc CD soundtrack consisting of over 100 tracks
• PVC Croc keychain
• Ultra3DFX™ sticker sheet
• 18” x 24” artwork poster
• Premium box

Developed by legendary studio Argonaut Games, Croc Legend of the Gobbos follows the heartwarming journey of an endearing, humble little crocodile equipped with only his iconic backpack and a wiggly butt as he sets off on his quest to rescue the Gobbos from the clutches of the nefarious Baron Dante and his hordes of Dantinis.

Croc must platform his way across a series of unique worlds by running, jumping, climbing, swimming, and tail spinning to save the Gobbos from captivity.

With its charm and creativity, the original game quickly became a multi-million unit selling platforming classic and the Croc remaster delivers an authentic gameplay experience that will transport players back to the golden age of gaming.

The next batch of weekly releases for the Switch eShop is here! As usual, there’s a huge list of titles coming to the platform, with both small and large releases to pique your interest. Take a look at the full list for Europe for the week of Oct. 31st, 2024 below.

• Barbie Project Friendship
• Miraculous: Paris Under Siege
• Monster High: Skulltimate Secrets
• Police Simulator: Patrol Officers: Nintendo Switch Edition
• Totally Spies: Cyber Mission
• Ys X: Nordics
• Air Hunter
• Archery Legend
• Astral Flux
• Backrooms: Partygoers
• Cats Hidden in Spooky Places
• Cell Scientist: Beyond
• Clock Tower: Rewind
• Coloring Pixels: Collection 5
• Cute Bite
• Don’t Let Him In
• Farming Harvester Simulator 2025 Deluxe Edition
• Forgotten Memories
• Garbage Driver Truck Simulator 2025
• Ghost Assassin: Stealth Strike
• Gladiator’s Arena
• Hentai Girls: Winky Witch
• How to Organize Your Home: A Practical Guide
• Keeper’s Toll
• Legends of Heropolis DX
• Love Delivery
• Magic Cats Pots
• Monospaced Lovers
• Poppy Playtime: Chapter 2
• Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3
• Raiden Nova
• Rally Racing Drift 2024
• Rogue Flight
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl
• SankakkuDoku
• Schrodingers Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark
• Self-Delusion
• Shadow Corridor 2
• Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered
• Skater’s Solstice
• Solomon Snow: First Contact
• Street Survival: Homeless Simulator
• The Beast Inside
• The Bunny Graveyard
• The Coma 2B: Catacomb
• The Legend of Santa
• Unpacking Universe Dreams
• Vampire Hunters
• Vengeance Hunters
• Wings of Njord
• WolfFang 2001 SkullFang Saturn Tribute Boosted
• Wormhole
• Zebulon: A Lost Cat
• Zombie Crusher

The next batch of weekly releases for the Switch eShop is here! As usual, there’s a huge list of titles coming to the platform, with both small and large releases to pique your interest. Take a look at the full list for North America for the week of Oct. 31st, 2024 below.

• Farmagia – Available Nov. 1
• Let’s Sing 2025 – Available Nov. 5
• Totally Spies: Cyber Mission
• A Walk with Yiayia
• Aero the Acro-Bat: Rascal Rival Revenge – Available Nov. 1
• Air Hunter
• Alchemist Generations Bundle
• Arcade Archives Metamorphic Force
• Archery Legend
• Astral Flux
• Cafe 0: The Sleeping Beast – Remastered – Available Nov. 1
• Clock Tower: Rewind
• Coffee Pack – Available Nov. 1
• Coloring Pixels: Collection 5
• Ghost Assassin: Stealth Strike
• Giant Rush – Available Nov. 1
• Gladiator’s Arena
• Legends of Heropolis DX
• Love Delivery
• Love in Login
• Magic Cats Pots
• Mars Survivors – Available Nov. 1
• Metal Slug Tactics – Available Nov. 5
• Monarchy – Available Nov. 6
• Monospaced Lovers
• O.W.L Projekt – Available Nov. 6
• Poppy Playtime: Chapter 2
• Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3
• Raiden Nova
• River City Saga: Three Kingdoms Next – Available Nov. 6
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl
• SankakkuDoku
• Santa’s Spot It – Available Nov. 2
• Self-Delusion
• Shadow Corridor 2
• Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered
• Shanghai Mahjong Solitaire Deluxe – Available Nov. 1
• Skater Bunny Simulator – Available Nov. 2
• Space Planet Invader: Cosmic Power – Available Nov. 1
• Super XYX
• Synaxarion Christian Stories: Great Martyr Christina of Tyre
• Telebbit
• The Beast Inside
• The Bunny Graveyard
• Tinkertown – Available NNov. 4
• Tobla: Divine Path – Available Nov. 4
• Vampire Hunters
• Wings of Njord – Available Nov. 1
• Wormhole
• Zombies Crusher – Available Nov. 1

The latest Japanese sales data has come in via Famitsu, giving us a look at what the best-selling games for the last week were, alongside the usual hardware sales. First up, let’s take a look at the top software for October 21st to 27th, 2024.

1. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo, 10/17/24) – 81,393 (308,962)
2. [NSW] Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven (Square Enix, 10/24/24) – 70,367 (NEW)
3. [PS5] Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven (Square Enix, 10/24/24) – 32,157 (NEW)
4. [PS5] Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Activision, 10/25/24) – 26,947 (NEW)
5. [NSW] Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake (Koei Tecmo Games, 10/24/24) – 12,411 (NEW)
6. [PS4] Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven (Square Enix, 10/24/24) – 12,367 (NEW)
7. [PS5] Professional Baseball Spirits 2024-2025 (Konami, 10/17/24) – 10,182 (79,260)
8. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo, 09/26/24) – 7,567 (288,879)
9. [PS5] Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake (Koei Tecmo Games, 10/24/24) – 7,133 (NEW)
10. [NSW] Sonic X Shadow Generations (SEGA, 10/25/24) – 7,021 (NEW)

Next, let’s check out how hardware sales went for the last week.

1. Switch OLED Model – 46,256 (8,092,295)
2. Switch Lite – 15,790 (6,167,667)
3. PlayStation 5 – 9,829 (5,242,422)
4. Switch – 5,678 (19,928,186)
5. Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 536 (3,367)
6. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,116 (863,335)
7. Xbox Series S – 557 (321,845)
8. Xbox Series X – 108 (307,942)
9. PlayStation 4 – 38 (7,928,656)

Universal Orlando has announced that Super Nintendo World will be opening at Universal Epic Universe in 2025. Check out the video above for a first-look at the park, which will include both Super Mario Land (featuring the rides Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge and Yoshi’s Adventure) and Donkey Kong Country (Mine-Cart Madness).

Along with that comes another video that offers an animated fly-over of Super Nintendo World, including both the Mario and Donkey Kong portions of the park. You can give that video a watch below.

UPDATE: Plans for Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Orlando are moving ahead quite smoothly, and we can see evidence of that in a new round of photos. Check out the gallery below to get a closer look at the Donkey Kong roller coaster ride, which gives us a great look at the outside track as well as behind-the-scenes portions.

UPDATE 2: A report from the Wall Street Journal is claiming that Epic Universe is now set to open Memorial Day 2025, which would be May 26th, 2025.

UPDATE 3: Universal Orlando has now announced that the official opening date for Epic Universe is May 22nd, 2025. You can see the official announcement trailer below.

UPDATE 4: Yet another round of pictures has come in showing the progress of Super Nintendo World at Universal Orlando. Check out the massive gallery of photos below.

A romance visual novel based around Nekomata Okayu, the Hololive VTuber, has been announced for Japan. Launching for Switch on Feb. 27th, 2025, the Entergram-developed title will be available both digitally and physically, with standard, limited, and “Hololive Official” editions (pre-orders open Oct. 31st, 2024). It is unknown if the game, titled “Okayu Nyumu!” in Japan, will be released in the west. Check out the details on each of the editions below via Gematsu.

• A digital copy of the game

• B2-size tapestry
• Original soundtrack
• Newly recorded drama CD
• Acrylic magnet
• Three Polaroid-style cards
• Acrylic key chain
• Hanging acrylic stand
• Special Package Box
• A copy of the game

• Everything included in the Limited Edition
• B6-size holographic acrylic panel
• Additional drama CD
• Theme song CD
• Other bonuses

Developer and publisher SUCCESS Corp. have announced that a Switch port is in the works for HEAVEN SEEKER: The Savior of This Cruel World, a twin-stick rogue-lite shooter that first released for PC in June 2024. A release date has not yet been shared, but we’ll be sure to let you know as soon as more information is made available.

An update is now available for DAVE THE DIVER, adding three new collaborations to the deep-sea exploration RPG. The update includes: a new crafting system inspired by Potion Craft, a unique rendition of Balatro, and a special concert from Mxmtoon.

Check out the trailer above and the “Dev Dive” highlights below for further details about what’s featured in the update. A full list of patch notes for the v1.0.3.924 update can also be found here.

To celebrate the season, developer FuturLab and publisher Square Enix has released a new free DLC for PowerWash Simulator. The “Halloween Seasonal 2024” DLC tasks you with cleaning a haunted house, and it includes a new custom suit and power washer skin.

Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find. Build your own power-washing business and unlock new tools, upgrades and more – all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.

Need something new to play for spooky season? Nintendo of Europe has got you covered with the Halloween eShop sale, running from now until November 3rd, 2024. You can check out the full list of Nintendo Switch titles that are now on sale (up to 70% off) here.

For those in the US, Nintendo of America is also hosting a “Screaming Deals” eShop sale until October 31st, 2024.

The latest Japanese sales data has come in via Famitsu, giving us a look at what the best-selling games for the last week were, alongside the usual hardware sales. First up, let’s take a look at the top software for October 14th to 20th, 2024.

1. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo, 10/17/24) – 227,569 (NEW)
2. [PS5] Professional Baseball Spirits 2024-2025 (Konami, 10/17/24) – 69,078 (NEW)
3. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo, 09/26/24) – 13,273 (281,312)
4. [PS5] Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO (Bandai Namco, 10/11/24) – 12,928 (76,850)
5. [PS5] Metaphor: ReFantazio (ATLUS, 10/11/24) – 12,492 (95,319)
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 7,605 (6,033,177)
7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 5,408 (3,657,912)
8. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 4,665 (7,935,333)
9. [PS4] Metaphor: ReFantazio (ATLUS, 10/11/24) – 4,610 (29,995)
10. [PS5] Silent Hill 2 (Konami, 10/08/24) – 4,287 (33,661)

Next, let’s check out how hardware sales went for the last week.

1. Switch OLED Model – 37,294 (8,046,039)
2. Switch Lite – 16,911 (6,151,877)
3. PlayStation 5 – 9,649 (5,232,593)
4. Switch – 4,648 (19,922,508)
5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,666 (861,219)
6. Xbox Series S – 1,460 (321,288)
7. Xbox Series X – 147 (307,834)
8. PlayStation 4 – 34 (7,928,618)

The next batch of weekly releases for the Switch eShop is here! As usual, there’s a huge list of titles coming to the platform, with both small and large releases to pique your interest. Take a look at the full list for Europe for the week of Oct. 24th, 2024 below.

• Fantasy Friends: Dream Worlds
• Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Stunt Mayhem
• Orange Season
• Potionomics: Masterworks Edition
• Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
• Shadow x Sonic Generations
• SINce Memories: Off the Starry Sky
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed
• The Bridge 2: The Extrication
• The Smurfs: Dreams
• Anime Dance-Off: Ghost Party
• Arcade Room Simulator
• Arcade Tanks World II: Tank Battle Simulator
• Bookshop Wonderland: Supermarket Simulator
• Botworld Odyssey
• Captain Barrel
• Card-en-Ciel
• Care Bears: To the Rescue
• Catch Beshi Scooping Game
• Chippy&Noppo
• Comic Store Arcade
• Crash Puzzle Hammer-San
• Dizzy Hero
• Doodle Hunt: Halloween Rush
• dotage
• Easy Cute Clean Up Lesson
• Ecchi Fever
• Eggconsole Murder Club PC-8801
• Fear the Spotlight
• Fun Pack
• Garage Mechanic Simulator 3D
• Garden of the Sea
• Guess the Flag
• Hatch Tales
• Hidden Cats in Spooky Town
• House of Horror: 7 Psychos
• Interior Design: Transform Your Space with Style
• It Could Happen to You
• Killing Time: Resurrected
• Kingsgrave
• Medieval Grandmaster: Tavern Board Battle
• MiniGhost
• OnePunch
• Paint by Pixel 2
• Pixel Game Maker Series Chrotopia
• Princess Rapunzel: The Kingdom’s Legacy
• Prisnhax
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake
• Rookie Boxing
• Say Cheese
• Shin Chan: Shiro and the Coal Town
• Simply Cubic
• Slay the Princess: The Director’s Cut
• Sleeping Beauty: The Kingdom of Lost Dreams
• Soul Stalker
• Speedollama
• Stick Combat: Fighting Platformer
• Stickin’ the Landing
• Stilt Fella
• Super XYX
• Telebbit
• The Cheese Chase: Pizza Madness
• The Jackbox Survey Scramble
• The Rocky Horror Show Video Game
• The Seed: Unit 7
• The Sun Shines Over Us
• The World of Kungfu: Dragon and Eagle
• Viking City Tycoon
• Voidwrought
• While We Wait Here
• Wildermyth: Console Edition
• Yakuza Kiwami

The next batch of weekly releases for the Switch eShop is here! As usual, there’s a huge list of titles coming to the platform, with both small and large releases to pique your interest. Take a look at the full list for North America for the week of Oct. 24th, 2024 below.

• SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS
• Yakuza Kiwami
• Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
• Arcade Archives VIOLENCE FIGHT
• Arcade Room Simulator – Available Oct. 25
• Arcade Tanks World II: Tank Battle Simulator
• Backrooms: Partygoers – Available Oct. 29
• Barbie Project Friendship – Available Oct. 25
• Bookshop Wonderland: Supermarket Simulator
• Botworld Odyssey
• Bundle: memory – The Original Matching Game from Ravensburger + Rush Hour Deluxe – The ultimate traffic jam game!
• Card-en-Ciel
• Care Bears: To The Rescue
• Cats Hidden in Spooky Places – Available Oct. 25
• Cell Scientist: Beyond – Available Oct. 30
• Comic Store Arcade
• Crash Puzzle Hammer-San
• Cute Bite – Available Oct. 25
• Don’t let him in – Available Oct. 25
• dotAGE
• Easy Cute Clean Up Lesson
• EGGCONSOLE MURDER CLUB PC-8801
• Fun Pack – Available Oct. 25
• Garage Mechanic Simulator 3D
• Garbage Driver Truck Simulator 2025 – Available Oct. 25
• Guess the Flag! – Available Oct. 26
• Hidden Cats in Spooky Town
• House of Horror – 7 Psychos
• Hot Wheels Monster Trucks: Stunt Mayhem
• Idle Command: Supply Frontline
• It Could Happen to You
• Keeper’s Toll – Available Oct. 28
• Kingsgrave
• Medieval Grandmaster: Tavern Board Battle
• MiniGhost
• Miraculous: Paris Under Siege – Available Oct. 25
• Monster High Skulltimate Secrets – Available Oct. 29
• Moorhuhn Jump and Run ‘Traps and Treasures 3’
• Music Games
• OnePunch
• Orange Season
• Pixel Game Maker Series Chrotopia
• Pod Jam
• Police Simulator: Patrol Officers: Nintendo Switch Edition – Available Oct. 29
• Prisnhax
• Rogue Flight – Available Oct. 25
• ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS 8 REMAKE
• Rookie Boxing
• Say Cheese!
• Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town
• Simply Cubic
• Skater’s Solstice – Available Oct. 30
• Slay the Princess – The Pristine Cut
• Solomon Snow: First Contact – Available Oct. 26
• Soul Stalker
• Speedollama
• Stickin’ the Landing
• Stilt Fella
• The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
• The Cheese Chase: Pizza Madness
• The Coma 2B: Catacomb – Available Oct. 25
• The Jackbox Survey Scramble
• The Legend of Santa – Available Oct. 28
• The Rocky Horror Show Video Game
• The Seed: Unit 7
• The Smurfs – Dreams
• The Sun Shines Over Us
• The World of Kungfu: Dragon and Eagle
• Together We Live
• Vengeance Hunters – Available Oct. 28
• Voidwrought
• WolfFang 空牙2001 SkullFang 空牙外伝 Saturn Tribute Boosted – Available Oct. 30
• Ys X: Nordics – Available Oct. 25
• Zebulon: A Lost Cat – Available Oct. 27

Playtonic has released a new trailer for Yooka-Replaylee, revealing which platforms the Yooka-Laylee remaster will be coming to. Interestingly, instead of a Switch logo, the end of the trailer only features a plain Nintendo logo, likely alluding that the game is planned for Switch 2. The successor to Nintendo Switch, dubbed by fans as Switch 2, will be revealed before the end of this fiscal year. A release date for Yooka-Replaylee has not yet been announced.

Yooka-Replaylee is the remastered/remade, gorgeous, definitive version of Yooka-Laylee! A 3D-Platforming love letter to 3D-Platformers of old. Join dymanic duo Yooka and Laylee as they venture out across beautiful, varied worlds in a bid to put an end to Capital B’s nasty plan. With improved graphics, more dynamic worlds, new and improved challenges, new collectibles, new characters, a whole host of quality of life improvements and more to discover!

With a PC demo released back in 2020, the finalized release date for NAIRI: Rising Tide has now been announced. The narrative puzzle adventure game from developer HomeBearStudio and publisher Hound Picked Games will launch for Switch digitally via the eShop on Nov. 14th, 2024. Check out more details below via the press release.

In this next instalment of the series, players can expect to experience richer, vastly improved hand drawn artwork with many new characters and, of course, some beloved friends returning!

Set after the events of NAIRI: Tower of Shirin, NAIRI: Rising Tide sees Nairi continue on her journey to save her family. As Nairi and her companions try to overcome the many dangers of the corrupt city of Shirin, an apocalyptic prophecy emerges that threatens to devour everything.

In NAIRI: Rising Tide players experience an engaging story filled with charm and adventure. Exploration is key with a large, hand drawn world full of colourful and memorable animal (and human) characters that players know and expect from HomeBearStudio!

As players explore, they will be able to craft creative solutions by combining items with the new Toolbelt, which will aid them with challenging brain teasers that are contained within intricate puzzle-dungeons!

Will Nairi and her companions be able to overcome the many dangers of the corrupt city of Shirin while an apocalyptic prophecy threatens to devour everything?

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Features:

• World: A larger and more interconnected world/dungeons.
• Puzzles: more complex dungeons and puzzles require serious wit to overcome.
• Skip: for players who would rather focus on the narrative: dungeons can be skipped.
• Toolbelt: craft new items by placing items in the ‘Toolbelt’ and using the correct tool!
• Maps & Goal Markers: find maps to help with orientation and figure out where to go.
• Fast-Travel: alleviate backtracking by fast-travelling to key areas in the ‘overworld’.
• Improved Hint System: purchase hints system ranging from nudges to full solutions.
• Collectibles, Lore & Log: the Journal now includes much more than just hints.
• Recruits: earn coins by recruiting certain NPCs (which also spruce up your ‘base)’.
• Figurines: coins aren’t just for hints - purchase cute figurines for extra lore!
• Item Descriptions: items can now be examined for context and/or guidance.
• Synopsis: an illustrated synopsis explains the events of ‘NAIRI: Tower of Shirin’ to catch up new and old players alike.
• Artwork: another collectible comes in the form of hidden concept art pieces.

“We were fortunate to be able to work with fewer restraints this time around and are proud of how Rising Tide turned out. HomeBearStudio is beyond excited for NAIRI fans - and any fan of the genre - to finally get their hands on the sequel!” - Joshua van Kuilenburg, HomeBearStudio.