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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (September 4, 2018)— Ninjin: Clash of Carrots, the high-speed beat-’em-up from Pocket Trap and Modus Games, arrives today on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation®4, Xbox One and Steam.

Ninjin: Clash of Carrots is a fast-paced action game set in a colorful fantasy world inspired by Feudal Japan. Play as the title character Ninjin, or Akai, his female fox friend, as you fight to recover the precious carrots stolen from your people by the nefarious Shogun Moe. Purchase new equipment, weapons, and many more customization items to become the very best ninja in the land and get justice once and for all!

The side-scrolling beat-’em-up action can be enjoyed in a single-player campaign as well as local or online 2-player co-op. Need even more wild, ninja bunny action? Test your strength in the “Oni TV Show”, a special survival mode that pits players against endless waves of brutal enemies for the chance at earning special rewards.

Key Features:

• Be a Ninja. Play as either Ninjin, the charismatic rabbit, or Akai, the ninja fox, and fight across a feudal Japan to defeat the evil Shogun Moe and retrieve the carrots he’s stolen!
• Engaging Storyline. Follow a robust Story Mode, meet a diverse cast of characters, and play through multiple stages in a crazy universe.
• Fast and Furious Combat. Dodge rockets, blast through throngs of incoming enemies and battle bosses in frenzied, fast-paced action!
• Deep Customization. Choose from a huge variety of equipment with more than 150 weapons and items, including masks, swords, projectiles, and more. Equip your character to better defeat rivals.
• Slash, Smash and Bash with Friends! Join your friends in 2-player local or online co-op as you progress through the game’s story.
• Oni TV Show. Compete in a “Live TV Show” survival mode, solo or with a friend, to see who can get the furthest without dying, as wave after wave of enemies attack from all angles. Rack up special rewards when you successfully finish each challenging stage!
• Stylish Visuals. Play through unique environments with anime-inspired HD pixel art graphics.

Source: PR Email

4th September 2018, UK – Hound Picked Games, a progressive and supportive one stop UK indie publisher, is pleased to add a new and exciting title, HyperParasite, to its growing release schedule, developed by small and experienced Spanish studio Troglobytes Games.

Development has recently begun on the Nintendo Switch version of HyperParasite, which is marked with a brand new trailer, whilst work continues on the PC Steam platform to be complemented with an Xbox One and PlayStation 4 release in 2019!

HyperParasite is a relentless twin-stick shooter/brawler with rogue-lite mechanics and is set in the roaring 80s, offering cool looks, fast action and great controls. The onscreen cast of characters, 60 different classes, all of which you can control, exploiting their own attributes weapons and moves, present a game of outrageous action, rip roaring brawling at is very best, laced with a comical slant which adds spice and fun! So no more looking for weapons, it’s the dude you control that is packed with the surprises!

Every Breath You Take
A dystopian world presents an ambience of dislocation, menace and tough love which is set around World War III. The unseen aggressor marauding and consuming its way through the population is a parasitic organism capable of making hosts of unsuspecting human beings, consuming what’s left of their souls and wreaking unfathomable havoc.

Game On
Players will traverse a total of 13 game levels: 5 main levels and 8 sub-levels, plus the customary crazy boss fight at the end of each main level and several mini-bosses . With martial law having been declared to make way for a global hunt, battle-hardened law enforcers have made allies of the most degenerate of criminals, while the rest of the world is paralysed with paranoia. So who can be trusted? Who can see it, let alone destroy it? That’s for them to worry about. For YOU are the enemy. YOU are the organism with a mission.

YOU are… HyperParasite

“Hound Picked Games is happy to be working with Troglobytes Games, a small but very accomplished team who have already worked on a number of titles. Their vision for HyperParasite is commendable and we believe there is a huge collective of gamers who will find this title one that they will enjoy immensely. We have great faith in this title and Hound Picked Games will support it throughout until release in 2019!”
Dan Muir, CEO Hound Picked Games.

Exciting Features Include:

• A fresh twist on the genre: hop from one host body to another
• 60 Playable Characters to Body-Snatch and utilise their attributes
• Unique retro 3D-pixelated visual style
• Original retro inspired synth-wave soundtrack
• Cast+weapon includes – cops+guns, Werewolves+claws, robots+lasers, aliens and so much more
• Procedurally generated levels that will play differently each time, challenging even the most seasoned of players
• Extremely fun co-op mode: will the humans handle TWO HyperParasites?

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Izneo, the first online platform dedicated to comics, European comics, mangas, graphic novels and Webtoons, is announcing today the availability of its reading app on the Nintendo Switch for this October 2018. Already available on computer, smartphone and tablet, the Izneo player will allow Switch owners to brilliantly access and purchase their favorite content from Izneo’s ever growing and hugely popular catalog on the go or on their TV. Additionally to the Switch launch, Izneo will also be available on Nvidia Shield, Smart TV Phillips, Sony and all the Android TVs.

Readable both online and offline, Izneo will give Switch owners access to thousands of digital comics. While comic books fans alike will be delighted to find renowned titles like Hellboy, Aliens, Buffy or Doctor Who, European comics enthusiasts will devour the best of the genre: Blacksad, Largo Winch or Valerian.. Mangas aficionados are not forgotten either with Appleseed, Sherlock, Assassin’s Creed and many, many more!

“We are proud to bring the Izneo reader to Nintendo Switchand offer the best comic books reading experience to gamers” said Luc Bourcier, CEO of Izneo. “Nintendo’s console is a\the perfect platform for comic book reading. From gamer to reader the gap just got a little bit smaller!”

For more information on Izneo, discover the full catalog of 25,000 titles and try the reading experience, head over to https://www.izneo.com/en

Source: PR Email

London, UK (4th September, 2018) – Square Enix Collective is excited to that announce that, after a successful debut earlier this year, 2D cinematic adventure Forgotton Anne is heading to Nintendo Switch in 2019.

The story-driven adventure, set in the beautifully hand-crafted 2D cinematic Forgotten Lands, launched on console and PC back in May. Its forthcoming release on Nintendo Switch means it’ll soon be available on all three major consoles, alongside the PlayStation 4 entertainment system and Xbox One family of devices, including the Xbox One X.

Forgotton Anne reveals the hidden dimension where all mislaid items from the human world – the odd socks, the lost letters, the missing toys – are sent to linger. It’s the job of the Forgotlings – creatures formed out of all of these missing items – to help the trapped Anne and Master Bonku find their way home.

The end result is a game critics heaped praise on upon release, with Eurogamer describing it as a “brilliant” game with a “huge amount of heart” in its Recommended review, adding to GameReactor’s assessment that it is “one of the standout experiences of the year” and VentureBeat’s conclusion that it’s a “wonderfully animated adventure”.

“It was always only going to be a matter of time before Forgotton Anne made its way over to Nintendo Switch,” says Alfred Nguyen, Creative Director and Co-founder of ThroughLine Games. “We are big fans of Nintendo’s inventive platform and experiencing Forgotton Anne in handheld mode feels amazing even for us and we believe it’s a perfect match for Switch’s fast expanding audience.”

“Forgotton Anne is undoubtedly one of the classiest, most dazzling adventures we’ve ever put out,” says Phil Elliott, Director of Indie Publishing at Square Enix West. “Ever since we started showing the game at events around the globe, people have been spellbound by how ThroughLine Games has brought life and interactivity to anime – it truly is a captivating take on how to incorporate animation in gameplay that we think will really find a strong and loyal home on Nintendo Switch.”

Forgotton Anne is already available on Steam for £15.49/$19.99/€19.99, on Xbox One for £15.99/$19.99/€19.99, and PlayStation 4 for £16.00/$19.99/€19.99.

The game will launch on Nintendo Switch with a 10% discount for two weeks (normal price £15.99/$19.99/€19.99).

Source: PR Email

September 3 2018 – Nova Scotia, Canada. Causal Bit Games are today pleased to showcase Battle Princess Madelyn’s Arcade Mode!

Arcade mode is a showcase of the game’s story mode’s levels with a faster paced game, completely different level structure and style of play for a more difficult style of play. A true homage to games of yesteryear, a real old school experience.

Battle Princess Madelyn will be available for Xbox One, PlayStation®4, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U and PC.

About Causal Bit Games
Causal Bit Games is an independent developer based in Canada. Owner and Creative Director, Christopher Obritsch is a young, retired professional graphic designer and creative director and long-time hobbyist-turned-indie game dev. His partner in crime, Daven Bigelow, is the coding brains of the operation and works on hitch hiking robots in his spare time! Last but not least, we have the keeper of the cheese, Angelina Obritsch who is in charge of the finances, as well as hiring.

About Hound Picked Games
Brought to you by the award winning team at PR Hound – Hound Picked Games specialise in, teaming up with, and co-publishing the quintessential indie game releases.

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TOKYO – Aug. 30, 2018 – Azure Reflections, the vibrant, side-scrolling bullet hell shooter from Sony publishing label UNTIES and developer Souvenir Circ. where players’ performance against bosses impacts how the story unfolds, is out now for Nintendo Switch.

Azure Reflections is an unofficial entry in the Touhou Project, a series recognized by the Guinness World Records as the “most prolific fan-made shooter series.” As the Touhou Project has grown in popularity, it has spread to other media including commercial fan books, music, light novels, manga and several fan-made anime in addition to the main series.

In the otherworldly realm of Gensokyo, a mysterious evil emanates from Scarlet Devil Manor. Investigate the source of this dark power as the Touhou Project’s principal protagonist Reimu while evading deadly barrages of bullets and blasting enemy youkai into oblivion.

Unlock new playable characters, Marisa and Cirno, to experience Azure Reflections from a fresh perspective with their distinct attributes and special abilities. Spend currency earned during each run to upgrade the girls’ skills with adorable stat-boosting accessories, including everything from bunny ears and devil wings to shoes, masks, eyewear, mustaches and more.

Put the gear to good use by harnessing increased speed, smaller hitboxes, an expanded pickup radius and other handy powers to better weave through complex patterns of bullets, run up the leaderboards and perhaps even perfect the game’s boss battles to see the story’s true ending.

“Azure Reflections builds on the Touhou Project’s rich 20-year history and the Souvenir Circ. development team’s experience to create a fresh and exciting new take on the phenomenon,” said John Davis, G&R Representative, UNTIES. “We’re proud to bring the game to a new audience with Nintendo Switch today and look forward to having more fans join the fun.”

In celebration of the launch, Azure Reflections is currently discounted (through Sept. 12, 2018) via both the Nintendo eShop and PlayStation Store for 30% off its base $24.99 / €24.99 MSRP.

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August 30, 2018 – Radial Games is excited to announce gorgeously minimalist subway simulator Mini Metro is available now on Nintendo Switch, available for $9.99 USD on the Nintendo eShop. Originally developed and released on desktop and mobile devices by Dinosaur Polo Club, Radial Games teamed up with the original development team to bring this beloved title to Nintendo’s handheld console. In addition to the gameplay fans know and love, the Nintendo Switch release features fluid controls that just work, regardless of whether you’re playing with a controller, using motion controls or the touch screen, and a huge, exclusive addition: multiplayer!

Featuring support for four players, team up (or argue) with your friends to design the most efficient metro network you can. Spread across three different modes of play – Normal, Endless, and Extreme – try your hand at designing subway systems in 20 different real-world cities, each with their own unique colour schemes and obstacles. From New York City, to Osaka, to Mumbai, get ready for a world tour of efficient and collaborative metro mapping that offers up a unique experience with each session thanks to randomized city growth.

In addition to gameplay that bridges the gap between hectic and relaxing, Mini Metro also features a soundtrack by Disasterpeace that dynamically adapts to your gameplay, evolving as your subway grows and becomes more complex. Right down to the visuals which are based closely on the iconic and abstract subway designs of Harry Beck, Mini Metro is a feast for the senses.

Mini Metro is available now for Nintendo Switch, alongside Steam (PC / Mac / Linux), iTunes App Store, and Google Play.

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TOKYO – Aug. 30, 2018 – Chiki-Chiki Boxy Racers, the colorful slot car racing party game from Sony publishing label UNTIES and developer Pocket, is now available for Nintendo Switch.

Buckle up, push the pedal to the metal, and put those drifting skills to the test while racing against up to seven other drivers in both local and online multiplayer matches. Master the intuitive controls in this easy to pick up, but difficult to put down racer to maneuver around tricky curves and shoot into first place across 15 charming tracks set in three distinct environments.

The competition doesn’t end at the finish line. Chiki-Chiki Boxy Racers also sports four battle modes to keep the experience fun and fresh for the whole family. Enjoy a game of soccer on wheels in “Goal,” collect the most cash in “Coins,” push other players out of a battle arena in “Smash” or see who can win a vibrant turf war in “Paint” by coating the city in color.

Whether playing solo, on the couch with a group, or online, Chiki-Chiki Boxy Racers is a fast-paced party experience bursting with charisma. Race and battle while unlocking the game’s 20 customizable cars, rocking out to poppy tunes and soaking in its splashy voxel aesthetic.

“Chiki-Chiki Boxy Racers is a delightful experience that fills us with an infectious enthusiasm,” said John Davis, G&R Representative, UNTIES. “We can’t help but smile every time we play, as it transports us back to our childhood days spent playing with toy cars, and we’re so happy to finally be able to share that feeling with Nintendo Switch fans across the globe today.”

Chiki-Chiki Boxy Racers is available via Nintendo Switch eShop for $9.99 / €9.99. It supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), and Japanese.

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PQube (London, UK) August 29th, 2018 – PQube Limited and Antigravity Game Studios are proud to announce Hell Warders, a third person action tower defence hybrid coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC this fall worldwide.

Hell is at our gates! Rise up as one of the mighty Hell Warders, an ancient order of heroes with unique powers and abilities, to resist the demon hordes head-on. Push back wave after wave of Hell-spawn with an arsenal of weapons, rip apart their fearsome commanders with powerful hero skills, and deploy your army of knights, archers, and mages to bring the fight back to Hell!

Annihilate the legions of Hell
Control powerful Heroes, unleash devastating abilities and deploy strategic defensive units in this brand new sub-genre title.

Fortify your defenses
Set up archers, knights, mages and catapults – choose their position, upgrade their abilities and create the strongest resistance possible.

Join forces online and locally
Combine forces with up to four players and battle the legions of evil! Hell Warders supports co-operative play with friends and online matchmaking.

Choose from three class-based heroes and enhance them
Choose from three diverse heroes – each with their own unique weapons, skills and abilities. Completing stages rewards you with beacons which upgrades your skills and unlocks powerful artifacts allowing you to stand toe to toe with even the toughest of demons.

Challenge Epic Encounters
Battle demonic monsters, from the small and numerous to the epic and towering. Every resident of Hell is out to stop you!

Hell Warders is ready to defend the Nexus worldwide on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC this fall

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SANTA ANA, California, August 28, 2018 — Nicalis, Inc. today announced that Blade Strangers, the all-new crossover fighter, arrives digitally and physically in stores beginning today on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation4 and Steam (digital only). Old school meets new school when the excitement and subtle dynamics of a classic one-on-one fighting game are combined with the polish and high-quality visuals expected from a current-gen contender.

Blade Strangers embraces a traditional and streamlined four-button control scheme that offers accessible inputs for new players, while still providing advanced players with endless opportunities to discover new tactics as they hone their skills. The new challenger in the fighting-game arena delivers tons of action-packed content, complete with a wide variety of gameplay modes and offerings including offline Story, Arcade, Versus, Challenge and Survival modes in addition to a host of online modes, leaderboards and extra features.

The diverse roster in Blade Strangers includes unique characters from different backgrounds, headlined by Quote and Curly Brace (from Cave Story+), Isaac (from The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+), Solange, Ali, Liongate and Master T (from Code of Princess EX) and Kawase, Noko and Emiko (from the Umihara Kawase series). The 14-character launch roster also features video game superstars Shovel Knight and Gunvolt as special guests, plus the debut of new characters Lina and Helen.

Developed in Japan by Studio Saizensen and produced and published by Nicalis, Blade Strangers is rated “T for Teen” by the ESRB and is available digitally and physically beginning today for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 and digitally for the Steam platform for $39.99 MSRP. For a limited time, launch copies of the physical versions will include reversible box art, an instruction booklet and one of two different PVC character straps (Solange or Kawase) inside the package.

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