It’s a great week for indies on the Nintendo eShop, asFae Farm(September 8) headlines a pretty impressive set of games that will be arriving through September 13.Super Bomberman R 2andGunbrellaare dropping on that exact day, withMythForce(that Saturday morning cartoon-inspired game) launching just a day earlier on September 13. In what is decidedlynotan indie release,NBA 2K24rounds out the week on September 8. Hey, variety is the spice of life! you may find the rest of the lineup below, includingEscape Academy: The Complete Edition, which was a ton of fun on other platforms (the Switch port quality is still TBD, so keep that in mind)....

Next up is Smash Ultimate, which came out less than a year ago Due to its recent financial results posting, Nintendo has updated its software sales totals, and the results are nothing but good news for the company. As usualMario Kartreigns supreme, withMario Kart 8 Deluxepushing over19.01 millionunits to date. Arriving fairly early in the system’s life cycle (April 2017) it’s managed to push this far with staying power, but the more impressive figure isSmash Ultimate; it’s now at15....

That’s January 12 for the US After the brief Switch reveal, Nintendo kind of shut down entirely regarding details. They gave us the gist, and went “tune in next year for the rest!” It led to all sorts of theorycrafting about the hardware based on that short little video, but we should get some more concrete info come January. Nintendo has announced those details will come on January 12 in the US (13 in the UK and Japan), at a special Switch presentation live from Tokyo at 5AM CET (11PM ET)....

Shin Megami Tensei V is due on November 11, allegedly It’s been a while since we’ve heard aboutShin Megami Tensei V, but alas, the Atlus website gave us the info we needed. As reported by Persona Central, theofficial site forSMT Vwas briefly updated to provide a clear release date: June 28, 2025. That’s good! Then Atlus took it down 15 minutes later. Originally unveiled in 2017, Atlus games a whole take a long time to release, especially if they’re going to be doing a worldwide release....

I should hope so! I came into this federation with a background as a gamer, rather than in the industry. My view has always been ‘players first, community first’. This permeates throughout the whole team. If we treat the players the best way that we can then they will give us the best games and the best product that is put out there for the public. They are a key stakeholder – they are the intermediate between us and the publisher and the public....

Stay fresh inside of a mind prison of your own design We all know thatSplatoon 2is going to get months of free content like its predecessor, but the strategy has polarized a lot of the community. Some call it free DLC, others call the retail build “early access.” As someone who has played both for many hours online and felt satisfied with the campaign I think there’s more than enough already packed in, but alas, Nintendo is adding more stuff regardless of how we feel....

Even though the classicSTALKERgames of yore might never have been all that cinematic,that’s bound to change inSTALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Cinematic cutscenes and dialogue, for one, are hugely improved, and the characters and their respective voice actors are much more important than ever before. In fact, we already know thatSTALKER 2‘s main protagonist, Skif, will not be a silent stand-in for the player. Instead, Skif will toss out quips and talk it out with the various folks he meets in the Zone, which is a far cry from anything we had seen inSTALKERbeforehand....

At some point today, Bethesda was scheduled to roll out abig update forStarfield, complete with bug fixes a-plenty. However, there’s been a slight change to that, as the studio has had to delay the patch, but hopefully not by much. According to a recent post on Twitter, the team has “discovered an issue we want to address” before theStarfieldupdate can see the light of day. It doesn’t say what this issue actually is, but Bethesda evidently needs a little more time before it can be sent out....

Glassdoor, an analyst firm that lets employees rate their employers, has published study results labelingGameStopthe tenth worst place to work in America. Of course, anybody who has ever been in one can report on the dead, lost eyes of its workers, but now we have scientific facts! The study says that GameStop puts high sales over and above customer service, while workers criticized the pressure put upon them to push pre-orders on their patrons....

Take-Two istoo bootyliciousfor the games industry as it claims that EA isn’t its only suitor. Acting like a shameless, degradedslut, T2 is waving its arse for all to see and it makes mesick. Although no other sugar daddies are confirmed, both Ubisoft and Activision have been named as potential buyers by Forbes. However, while Strauss Zelnick parades around the dancefloor with too many shirt buttons undone and a skirt that any pervert could just wish away, cynical analysts like Evan Wilson feel the company has little to offer outside of Rockstar Games:...

Check out everything Destructoid did today Some screens and video fromBattlefield 4leaked onto the Internet today, with the big announcement still several minutes away! You must learn patience, young grasshopper. Otherwise, we still have some PAX East previews trickling out, and GDC coverage has begun. The Dtoid Show talked aboutSpelunkyon Vita, Fraser reviewed Episode 2 ofCognition, Patrick previewed a silly RPG, and much more happened today. Destructoid Original:High-definition and sexy: Pixelscopic on choosing 2DIn defense of shorter gamesMercenary Kings is Contra Pokemon for weapon collectersLive show: BioShock InfiniteSpelunky on Vita, XCOM on iOS, Borderlands 2 has more DLC...

Nice moves, Microsoft Here’s a nice little announcement: Microsoft is giving away the remaster ofPhantom Dustfor free and it’s coming tomorrow to Xbox One and Windows 10 PC. That’s right, Microsoft’s surprising us with both an imminent release date and a freebie. Head of Xbox marketing Aaron Greenberg just revealed the news onTwitter.Phantom Dustwas a cult classic on the original Xbox, and many people were thrilled to find out that it’s being gussied up and re-released....

Exciting news: Amazon Prime Day is finally upon us once again. Prime Day is a great day of the year for consumers, since there are plenty of awesome deals to snatch up. And just because there’s more than one Prime Day per year is because there’s more than one Prime Day each year doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get the best bargains when they do come knocking. Books kickstarted Amazon’s rise to worldwide domination and remain, aside from games, of course, the best way to immerse yourself in a great story....