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Infliction is coming soon to the Nintendo eShop and will be priced at £15.99 It's a Psychological Horror title which could turn out to be rather good and it would be nice to see this do well on Switch. Zombie Driver: Immortal Edition is out now on the Nintendo eShop priced at £13.49 or £12.14 with 10% discount until August 8th This looks like an interesting take on the top-down driving/racing genre plus is has guns, explosions and zombies, so... a winner potentially? From the image, I might as well have just called it Crazy Taxi: Apocalypse Edition... hmm, now I kind of want that instead. Standby is available from August 1st on the Nintendo eShop priced at £4.49 or £3.81 with 15% off for pre-ordering It certainly looks like an interesting platformer, I know there's a lot of them on the Switch but this one looks pretty polished. Check the articles for the details and trailers.

True but with these Special Edition Nintendo Switch releases, at least from Nintendo, all of the actual game boxart on the case doesn't seem to have the USK logo or even the age rating. So there should be cleaner boxart on the actual game at least, though I kind of wish that the boxart from the main game was similar to the outer box of the limited edition.

High Noon Revolver is out now on the Switch eShop priced at £3 It certainly looks like it has that instant, pick up and play arcade appeal to it with some interesting setpieces. Damsel is releasing on the Switch eShop on August 7th priced at £16.99 with 15% off if you pre-order. Quite an interesting overall title, which has a unique comic book style to it and some twitch reaction gameplay. Check the articles for the details and the trailers.

Nintendo 3DS games? No problem... Here are my picks... The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Metroid: Samus Returns Monster Hunter Generations Kirby Planet Robobot Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon Again, I'm just going for the games I've enjoyed playing the most or in the case of Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon enjoying playing as I finally decided to start playing it. (It totally counts and I'm going to do my best to finish it or play as much as I can of it before more games come out) Look out for the N-E Top Ten Wii Games coming soon to the main site.

Well, the Suikoden games are cheap... so that's nice. I think I have some of them, maybe one or two I don't have so I might pick those up seeing as they're cheap. But that's about it for me.

You heard it here first, N-E is so hot right now!

Worth watching just for that Android Wilson quote. But seriously, how long can these companies really push for Social Networking in games? It's something that's clearly not needed or at least not in the way they are intending it to be. If they spent more time pumping out decent, engrossing single-player games rather than wasting time on trying to manipulate their audience it would be better for them long-term. I know... the "AAA" games industry doesn't work like that any more for the most part, it's a damn shame though because I find myself caring about certain games less and less. There are only a handful of decent, top-tier developers that I really have enough respect for that I'll actually buy their games on release now.

Gunpowder on the Teeth: Arcade is releasing on the Switch eShop on July 25th priced at £4.49 It looks like a monochromatic Metal Slug type game to me, hopefully it'll live up to that hyperbolic statement. Check the article for the info and a trailer.

Forza Horizon 4 (One of the best) Gears of War 4 (It's Gears) Halo 5: Guardians (It's Halo) Ori and the Blind Forest (Charming and challenging platformer) Panzer Dragoon Orta (Backwards Compatible) Phantom Dust (Digital Xbox Original Re-Release, Free) Phantasy Star Online 2 (Early 2020) Rare Replay (30 games from Rare's back-catalogue, a must have) ReCore (deserves more love than it gets, not amazing but good) Sunset Overdrive (another underrated launch title)

It is tempting but I just can't do it, to me Game Pass is Microsofts first step towards becoming totally digital so I can't support it. If I did that, then played the campaign then I almost certainly wouldn't have any need to pick up the retail version cheap at a later date. I know a lot of other people will go for the Game Pass around when Gears 5 comes out and I wouldn't try to fault anyone for doing so either because it is a fantastic deal. I'm in the minority over this one and it's fine but it will certainly be interesting to see the long-term impact Game Pass has over a big game like Gears 5. I think the price of the retail version will plummet within weeks and will be sub £15 by the end of the year. In the meantime though, I could do a lot worse than actually play Gears 4 to completion I suppose, I may do that soon.

I'll probably pick this up cheap at a later date, Gears just doesn't have the same draw for me that it used to. I most get it for the single player campaign so... it's not really worth full price to me and now that Microsoft have gone all out with Game Pass, I think that's going to devalue things further. I mean, with this offer and assuming a lot of people have gone for it, renewed their subscriptions and are subbed up to Game Pass for years then is there any point to anyone buying physical games on the platform any more? It just made me think is all... I don't have that many boxed games for the platform, I still have Gears 4 which I need to complete whereas Gears used to be games I would play day one. There's part of me which is still looking forward to Gears 5 but it's not really top of the list, I don't know if that will change nearer release day but I have to really ask the question at this point... is the single player campaign really going to feel like it's worth £40?

Madlittlepixel with a video on Selling Retro Games which I found interesting as that's what I'm doing currently, obviously not everything but the stuff I know I won't play. Yes, I know... I've still got to make that thread on Game Collecting, becoming addicted etc but I thought this was an interesting point as I start thinking about it. Is anyone else selling stuff from their collections at the moment? Or are you already really, really selective about what you purchase?

There's an interesting interview over on Nintendo Everything... https://nintendoeverything.com/super-monkey-ball-banana-blitz-hd-interview-remake/ It's got Toshihiro Nagoshi (supervisory role) and Masao Shirosaki (producer and director) answering loads of questions about it. From the depth that they go into, it does sound like they are actively trying to improve the game across the board, so maybe there's hope? I'd like to think so, even if I'm wrong come on though... with these two on board, I refuse to believe that this remake will be complete trash, it's got to be good. Although I must admit, I'm kind of longing for any decent(ish) Super Monkey Ball game that I'm not too familiar with at this point. Also, the whole thing about "why not the original Super Monkey Ball 1&2?" this leads me to believe that we may get a range of HD Remastered GC games at some point.

Oh snap! That's just reminded me that I actually voted for my games early this time (for a change) so I'm not on "the list" on this occasion. However, I shouldn't get too excited, I've just remembered that I've still got a Top Ten Wii Banner template to finish. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the results for this one, as if the previous entries are anything to go by, it could be quite an interesting top ten indeed.

And with Samus vanquishing Mega Man in the ring, there couldn't be a more perfect way to end the evening. (I wouldn't have had it any other way, and I was Mega Man!) Good games all round everyone!

A New Challenger Appears!

Fallout 76, trying to sell you "convenience" at a premium? Surely not.

I ended up unsealing the rest of my general release physical Switch games, around nine titles later I ended up with about four pounds in points plus another pound I had already. I spent £4.01 on Alex Kidd in Miracle World as it's almost the last Sega Ages title I need, just Gain Ground to go so I'll wait until that's on sale next and then that's all of them to date.

Just the standard edition for me, trying to save where I can.

I did wonder a bit when I saw that SolSeraph was being sold as "the spiritual successor to ActRaiser" and is published by Sega. This might be good... oh... nope! Oh well, back to the original then. It's a shame though as a spirital successor to ActRaiser would have been nice.

Sega Lord X looks at some awesome "New" Saturn and Dreamcast games, plus some aftermarket published games.

Pretty sickening stuff, it's currently being discussed in this thread as well but thought it best to post the video in here too.

I don't think my memory of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz is serving me well, I can't have played it for very long back in the day. I do remember Super Monkey Ball Adventure though... I can't forget that one. I always thought it was Super Monkey Ball: Step and Roll that was the one to avoid.

Up on the front page. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD published by Sega available on 29th October for £34.99 While it's good to have Super Monkey Ball back on a Nintendo platform again, let's hope the changes are significant. Hopefully the changes to the controls will make it more playable, though I can't see them changing the stages much. The minigames are now down to just ten so let's hope they kept the best ones.