Samba de Amigo: Party Central DLC roadmap announced

By Antonio G. Di Benedetto, a writer covering tech deals and The Verge’s Deals newsletter, buying guides, and gift guides. Previously, he spent 15 years in the photography industry.

Remember Samba de Amigo? No longer relegated to serving as a racing game cameo who was once prominently featured in a franchise of old: the monkey with attitude returns in Samba de Amigo: Party Central on Switch.

Samba de Amigo: Party Central, the Switch instalment of Sega's classic maraca-shaking rhythm game, now has an eShop demo in Europe ahead of its full launch next Tuesday, 29th August.

"Save scumming"—the practice of quickly reloading saves after an undesired result in a video game—brings out some really weird opinions on Al Gore's internet. Yes, it's usually not how a game is "intended" to be played, but it's a feature that only exists in single-player games where players are free to dictate how they spend their time without hurting anyone else. It literally doesn't hurt anyone why do people have such weird opinions about it we don't need to have a hot take on everything oh my god.

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Disney Plus’ Ahsoka series was destined to bring in fans of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the 2008 animated series that introduced Ahsoka Tano, Jedi apprentice to Anakin Skywalker. But even those fans might be mystified when it comes to the rest of Ahsoka, which is continuing the story of the rather more recent animated series Star Wars Rebels, and its starring Jedi apprentice, Ezra Bridger.

In Baldur's Gate 3, if you want to change your party, you have to individually dismiss and recruit members at your camp. This means wandering around and sifting through dialogue to say "Go away" or "Come with me". It's not the most intuitive system, especially as their inventories don't transfer automatically, and has left a lot of people sticking with their original squad rather than faffing about. This is exactly why fans want Baldur's Gate 3 to adopt a party select screen.

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A demo for Samba de Amigo: Party Central is now available for Switch via Nintendo eShop in North America and Japan, SEGA announced. It will launch in Europe later in August.

Sega has released a demo for Samba de Amigo: Party Central on the Nintendo Switch eShop.

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