Banchou Tactics coming to Switch on February 15

Super Rare Originals has announced that they’re bringing Bynine Studio’s Cavern of Dreams to Switch on February 29, 2024.

Publisher Super Rare Originals and developer Bynine Studio will release Nintendo 64-style collectathon platformer Cavern of Dreams for Switch on February 29 for $12.99 / £9.99 / €12.79, the companies announced.

Publisher Whitethorn Games and developer Gamious will release slice-of-life interactive story game Lake for Switch on February 15, the companies announced.

At The Game Awards in December, Sega announced reboots for five of its classic properties, with Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi probably being the most prominent among them. Details on all the announced titles have been understandably scant in the short time that’s passed since then, though a prominent leaker has now divulged some potential tidbits on both Jet Set and Crazy Taxi.

Corecell Technology has announced AeternoBlade II: Infinity, its latest update to AeternoBlade II. It is available now for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 for $14.99, or as a free update to existing owners, and will launch for Xbox Series, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam on February 6.

Details surrounding Nintendo's next piece of hardware have been few and far between, with only rumors, leaks, and the opinions of industry analysts to go off right now. We know that Nintendo probably won't rock the boat too much due to the overwhelming success of the Switch, and industry analysts have predicted that the console will most likely be an "iteration" rather than a drastic change in design.

In a stroke of exciting news for seafarers and pirates, Ubisoft has announced that multiplayer open-world pirate sim Skull and Boneswill get an open beta ahead of its imminent February 16 launch. 

Nintendo Co. will launch a new game console this year with an 8-inch LCD screen, according to Omdia analyst Hiroshi Hayase. The new device from the Kyoto-based games maker will be responsible for a doubling in shipments of so-called amusement displays in 2024, Hayase said in Tokyo on Friday. His research focuses on small and medium displays and he bases annual forecasts on checks with companies in the supply chain.

Take the Countdown numbers round, replace the number cards with cute woodland creatures and the mathematical operations with spells, and consider the target number a boss you must defeat, and you've basically got Super Algebrawl. This tactical mathematical RPG is the latest from Punkcake Délicieux, the small team behind the roguelikelike 'chess with a gun' Shotgun King. Super Algebrawl started life as a experiment by one of the devs to help teach his daughter maths, though frankly I think it'll teach her maths is cruel. This game and I have very different relationships with numbers.

There are a lot of eternal arguments in video games that will almost certainly never be settled. PlayStation or Xbox, graphics over gameplay, or for PC players in particular, keyboard and mouse or controller. Hori might have the solution for that last one. Its Tactical Assault Commander combines keyboard and mouse with a controller, and now you can pre-order a model that has been specifically designed with Final Fantasy 14 players in mind.

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Persona 3 Reload and Metaphor: ReFantazio are coming to the Nintendo Switch 2, a well-known Atlus insider has said. Their claim adds to the recent wave of Switch 2 leaks whose sheer volume suggests that Nintendo's next console is nearing its highly-anticipated launch.