Pikmin 4 Receives Launch Trailer

Pikmin 4 saw a stellar debut in Japan upon its launch last week with over 400,000 physical copies sold, and it has continued to enjoy strong sales in its second week. As per the latest weekly hardware and physical software sales charts released by Famitsu, Nintendo’s strategy title topped software charts for a second week running, with over 115,000 physical copies sold in Japan in its second week (taking its total physical sales in the region to over 517,000 units).

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While the popularity of new battle royale titles has dulled, high-profile titles like Gunzilla Games’ Off The Grid are still in the works. The Battle Royale 2.0 shooter has received new screenshots via the PlayStation Store, seemingly showcasing some actual gameplay. Check them out below, courtesy of Gematsu on Twitter.

Fans of Atlus and Persona in particular have plenty to look forward to in the coming months, and Persona 3 Reload is, of course, one of the biggest upcoming highlights. The ground-up Persona 3 remake is promising an enhanced and reimagined recreation of the beloved original, and to continue to build the hype surrounding it, Atlus has released a new trailer for it.

Today, NVIDIA has announced that a soon to be released title is receiving some of its AI technology for graphical and performance improvements. Baldur’s Gate 3 will launch on August 3, and for those with NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU’s that support the tech, you will have access to two technologies at launch. The game has exited early access and this may have not been part of the game during that, but DLSS 2 and DLAA will be available for the game. NVIDIA DLAA will help to smooth out image quality while DLSS 2 will help boost in-game performance.

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Daedalic Entertainment has released a major new patch forThe Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which is live on all platforms. PC players can look forward to the default DLSS mode going from “off” to “auto”, which should help with performance when playing without the upscaling tech but with RTX enabled.

Highly-anticipated third-person shooter Helldivers 2 has received an official rating from the  ESRB, the official rating body in the United States.

Nintendo has released a new accolades trailer, this time for Pikmin 4. Its long-awaited sequel in the Pikmin series was recently released for Nintendo Switch and garnered exceptional praise from critics. Check out some of it below.

It may be hard to picture it, but it’s already been a week since the release of Pikmin 4. Yeah, where does the time go? We honestly don’t know, but the truth is that the game has been in the works for a long time, so it’s a relief to finally see it out in the wild. Despite the game being the fourth in a series, many people are hoping that this would be the game to “breakthrough” the wall that has been labeling it a “niche franchise” for some time and open it up to all manner of players.

Pikmin 4 has enjoyed a bumper debut in Japan. The long-awaited real-time strategy sequel released for the Nintendo Switch last week, and with three days on the market, topped the latest weekly charts for physical sales in Japan, as per data released by Famitsu. It’s also the biggest ever launch for a Pikmin game in Japan to date, exceeding what Pikmin 3 Deluxe managed upon its release for the Switch in 2020 (over 171,000 physical units sold upon release).

With a whopping nine varieties of Pikmin that can be found and used in Pikmin 4, there is almost always a Pikmin for the job. The further you get into the game, however, the more niche they become. None are quite as niche as the Winged Pikmin, however. Even after landing 100% in the base game, you only encounter these pink wonders once.