US: Nintendo Download for 9th July 2020

US: Nintendo Download for 9th July 2020

This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content: Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch CrossCode – Meet Lea as she logs into an MMO of the distant future. A story about the future of gaming from an unexpected angle, this retro-inspired 2D action-RPG might outright surprise you. CrossCode combines 16-bit Super NES-style graphics with butter-smooth…

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Crysis’ magical Nanosuit was so convincing that a nanotech conference asked Crytek’s boss to give a keynote speech: ‘I said, excuse me, but this is all fake’

Once, when I was in China, a Danish colleague of mine got invited by a business-type to attend some kind of fancy high-powered conference. Thinking it’d be a novel experience at least, she agreed, only to find herself on-stage, in a suit: a deer in headlights presented to shareholders as an exec from a foreign…

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After a tumultuous 7 years, Hytale has ‘officially secured the next two years of development costs’ a day before launch: ‘Thank you all for the support. Hytale is saved. We are almost home’

To say Hytale has had a tumultuous development cycle would be an understatement. Development began in 2015 with funding from Riot Games, which would go on to acquire the Hypixel team entirely in 2020, only to pull the plug on it five years later. It wasn’t until November 2025 that it was revived by its…

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You get a unique relic for beating Elden Ring Nightreign’s ‘supposed to lose’ tutorial boss, but don’t worry: There’s a buried menu option to fight him again

In grand FromSoftware tradition, Elden Ring Nightreign begins with a fight you’re supposed to lose. As is also tradition, it’s perfectly possible to gut it out and beat him anyway if you’re enough of a toxic Souls tryhard cool guy. Nightreign’s tutorial fight even furnishes you with a one-of-a-kind relic for your troubles. It’s nothing…

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SteamDB changes might finally herald the end of a long wait for Silksong (again), though with SGF on the horizon, I think Team Cherry has the potential to do the funniest thing of all time

Every time I write about Silksong, I feel as though I’m inching closer to an abyss of madness from which there is no return. Each article starts the same—a rite for the uninitiated, an explanation that yes, this game really was announced in 2019, and yes, it really was stated to be coming out “in…

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