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You’ll Be Able To Dress Miriam Up In Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will give you the chance to indulge your sense of style via a series of costumes, weapons and even hairstyles, and a short video has been released which shows off some of these changes.

Lead character Miriam is shown changing elements of her outfit and experimenting with a range of weapons, as well as a new haircut.

Here’s what IGA himself had to say:

All the weapons you see here are new additions. There’s a fire sword, a two-handed axe, and a few other kinds of weapons. There’s even a maid headband that’s similar to the kind you might see in Akihabara.

We haven’t shown this before today—we can actually change hairstyles and scarves, too. Miriam looks so different when her hairstyle changes. This new one looks very fierce! 

In addition, we included a look at three Bunny items—a headband, a scarf, and some boots. I think it’s a very stylish look, personally…

This system is another way to personalize the game, and I hope you have fun with it. 

We also have a new enemy to share: the Giant Rat. When I imagine medieval Europe, I can’t help but think of rats. That might be a stereotype, but we definitely had to have a rat enemy. 

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night will hit Switch alongside other systems next year.

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80’s Overdrive Comes to North America on 14th December

Some of you may remember 80’s Overdrive, an Out Run-esque racer set for release on the 3DS. Though it was announced over a year ago, the developers were suspiciously quiet for much of that time, leaving many fans to wonder whether the title would be seeing a release at all. Then in September, the silence was broken and we were reassured that it would be coming soon. Now, the game has been given a release date.

Insane Code recently announced that 80’s Overdrive will be hitting the North American 3DS eShop on 14th December, and the European eShop has it listed for a 3rd December release. We’ll be sure to take this one for a spin and post a review, so watch this space.

What do you think? Have you been waiting for this one? How do you think it’ll turn out? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

[via nintendoeverything.com]

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Nintendo Reveals the Ages of Pearl and Marina

After Callie and Marie played the part of the hosts of Splatoon, they moved into a different role in Splatoon 2, leaving the space open for two new stars. Pearl and Marina, the two members of “Off the Hook”, were the ones to replace them, and have since picked up the roles of announcing stages and Splatfests. Naturally, internet fandom has fawned over the two and a rivalry has existed between the two fanbases since launch this summer.

Japan has recently received a new art book for Splatoon 2, and some artwork of Pearl and Marina has revealed their ages. Pearl is the older of the two; she’s 21, and Marina is 18. It’s a fascinating bit of trivia to be sure, now we just have to wait for all those comments and artworks to start pouring in on Inkopolis Square to see what the fans think.

What do you think? What are you going to do with this information? Which host is your favorite? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Explore a massive new world in the clouds and collect powerful living weapons

Explore a massive new world in the clouds and collect powerful living weapons

Humanity’s last hope is in your hands. Join Rex, the powerful Pyra, and a diverse cast of misfits and heroes as they search for the fabled paradise of Elysium. As they search the world of Alrest, they’ll face a mysterious group called the Torna who have their own nefarious plans.

The Xenoblade Chronicles 2 game is a Japanese-style RPG with a deep combat system centered around living weapons called Blades. Blades are artificial beings with tremendous power–there are many different Blade designs to find so there’s always a new surprise around the corner.

Features:

  • Explore the massive titans, colossal beasts that roam the clouds. Entire civilizations live atop these titans and you will travel to diverse locations – from sprawling plains to lush forests. There is no rest in Alrest!
  • Collect Blades, powerful living weapons that bond with special individuals called Drivers. There are many Blades to find in Alrest (including special rare Blades) so keep your eyes open.
  • Master a deep combat system that includes powerful combos, attack chains, and special abilities called Arts.
  • Level up your character with new gear and abilities. Grow the bond between Blades and Drivers to access even more skills.
  • Purchase the Expansion Pass to gain access to special downloadable content throughout 2018. Content includes helpful items, new quests, a rare Blade, a challenge mode, and a brand-new story!

If you would like to purchase the digital version of the game or Expansion Pass, please visit https://xenobladechronicles2.nintendo.com

Game Rated:

Language
Suggestive Themes
Use of Alcohol and Tobacco
Violence

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Review: Serial Cleaner (Switch eShop)

The stealth genre is predominantly associated with gruff, grizzled, highly trained assassins with a renegade attitude, stern demeanour and corrupt superiors. Normally involving sneaking or silently killing to get out of dark and tight spots, the tension, evasion and strategy of a well executed infiltration garners a sense of accomplishment on par with a perfectly timed headshot or overtaking your rival on the last corner of a last lap. For all the character tropes that have been used time and again, a stealth game should still be a fun and memorable time.

Serial Cleaner, from Polish developer ifun4all (published by Curve Digital) is mechanically a top down stealth action game, but with a retro setting and a refreshingly cool twist it brings something new to the table.

You assume the role of Bobby, AKA ‘The Cleaner’. Trying to balance domestic bliss while paying off debts, our reluctant, less than proficient protagonist accepts a number of cleaning jobs from the mob to make ends meet. The issue is, rather than standard janitorial work, he is tasked with removing bodies from crime scenes, vacuuming up blood (yes, you read that correctly) and pocketing trinkets of evidence.

Of course, there are a number of eagle-eyed cops (and eventually other foes) to make sure nothing is too straightforward. It’s snappy, witty and aesthetically wonderful – the ’70s setting being fully realised in a papercraft style similar to indie darling Guacamelee. There’s also a rich soundtrack, with blaring organ, slap bass and a liberal use of wah pedal. Whether you’re sneaking around or lounging around at home, the music is funky, varied and perfectly suited to accompanying our aviator wearing and moustachioed antihero, while lovingly referencing crime caper movies, TV shows and beloved characters of the era.

The twenty levels that make up the main story (along with ten glorious movie-themed bonus stages) become increasingly elaborate but follow the same basic structure of retrieving items and bodies, lugging them back to your station wagon (or other deposit point) one at a time and making a clean getaway before you’re caught. The cops, complete with a vision cone familiar to anyone who’s played a Metal Gear game, follow a set path and are always on the lookout. If / when you get spotted you’ll have to find a hiding place, which they’ll investigate briefly before completely forgetting about you and going back to their route.

With a quick tap of ZL you’ll get a monochrome view of the whole level, complete with the locations of hiding places, bodies and items. This happens in real time, though, so don’t let your guard down. Another visual indicator shows how loud your footsteps are, which will also raise suspicion. It’s quite disappointing, then, that there’s no analogue movement to tiptoe, walk or run. Finally, holding down ZR will activate your trusty – yet noisy – vacuum cleaner so you can clean up all that unsightly blood on the floor.

The missions are varied in location and theme, if not in task. From camp sites to boxing gyms, each area has cool little details to notice and unique architecture to utilise. Later on it is possible and necessary to alter a guard’s path by moving a particular object, but the find, return and escape formula isn’t tinkered with, nor are new ideas implemented nearly enough. It is here that Serial Cleaner begins to show a few cracks. With meticulous planning, patience and good timing, a stealth game should make the player feel challenged and well as satisfied, which is inconsistently the case here. There are a few factors which make the game’s intentions more and more conflicting.

First off, the placement of the bodies and items are randomised each time you try. In theory this should keep things fresh, and some might argue it adds to the challenge. In practice, however, it can easily turn into a frustrating cycle of trial and error. Furthermore, the lack of any objective-based or geographical checkpoints, as well as having to fulfil all objectives to finish a stage, means that when the cops (who are much quicker than you) do catch up you start from square one.

If you are lucky or close enough to dive into a locker or cardboard box you’ll only have to wait a few seconds before everything returns to normal and you can have another go at progressing. It then often turns into a repetitive game of cat and mouse, grabbing an object, legging it to a hiding spot, waiting until the coast is clear and venturing out again. It feels unrewarding, brutally all or nothing, and the satisfaction of beating a stage is more often than not overcome by looking back on the numerous failed attempts it took to get there, with a feeling of mild relief rather than accomplishment.

Mixing up the genre by not using combat as a way out of a sticky situation does make sense, but the necessity to be patient and methodical, as well as the game sometimes being downright unfair, makes it feel like the gameplay is constantly pushing back against its style.

Conclusion

Serial Cleaner is undeniably cool, but can be at odds with itself. On the one hand, the bitesized levels and whimsical humour should allow for a fun, pick up and play jaunt, but it is obstructed by a handful of small but significant frustrations. It’s a game that both embraces the tropes of the genre and adds a neat little twist, but it won’t be long before even the most persistent of players wished it was just a bit more lenient regarding certain elements.

A neat if limited core concept, combined with some superb retro presentation, Serial Cleaner is held back by design choices that are at best curious and challenging, and at worst infuriatingly obtuse; as a result it is a good game rather than a great one.

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PayPal Launches Another Offer for Free eShop Credit in the UK

Update:

And it’s maxed out, which is a shame! Some seem to have gotten through, but a few have got the notification that it’s expired (including us when we checked it). We’ll double check at a later hour in case it triggered incorrectly, but it seems the offer may have run out.

Original Article:

Back in September PayPal ran a promotion for UK users in which they could get £20 of eShop credit on the Switch for £15. A similar deal has now gone live once again in the country, except this time you need to link your PayPal and Nintendo Account.

The details are in a news post on the Switch itself, lovingly recreated below.

If you’re yet to connect your Nintendo Account and PayPal account, do the following.

  1. Go to ec.nintendo.com/paypal/agreement
  2. Log in to your Nintendo Account
  3. Select “Link” and you’ll be re-directed to the PayPal website
  4. Log in to your PayPal account
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions to link the accounts

Once the accounts are linked, do the following.

  1. Go to Nintendo.co.uk/PayPalOffer
  2. Select ‘Save Offer’ and log in to PayPal when prompted
  3. Add a minimum of £20 to your Nintendo eShop balance via PayPal
  4. Your credit will be automatically redeemed with a saving of £5. Please be aware that the full amount will be displayed in the eShop and the eShop receipt. The difference will be reflected in your PayPal account.

This is only open to the first 3,700 customers in England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland, unfortunately, seems to be excluded). The offer ends when that cap is hit or on 20th December.

Are any of you UK gamers planning to take advantage of this offer?

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My Hero Academia: One’s Justice is Headed to the Switch

With its early momentum the Switch is earning solid third-party support, and Bandai Namco is among the most enthusiastic backers. It has another title on the way to the system, albeit it’s not certain whether it’ll be localised to the West.

It’s My Hero Academia: One’s Justice, which was announced through the Weekly Jump magazine in Japan and will get its trailer debut during Jump Festa 2018, which runs from 16th-17th December. It’s a “battle action game” and is coming to both Switch and PS4.

My Hero Academia started out as a ‘comedy adventure manga’ series in 2014, and a little over a year later was successful enough to prompt the start of an accompanying anime series. There was actually a 3DS game for the IP in 2016, but naturally it was Japan-only.

This will likely be Japan-only as well, but with the Switch being region-free any eager fans should be able to pick it up.

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Review: Aqua Moto Racing Utopia (Switch)

From one perspective Nintendo’s Switch is slowly striking the N64 classics off its hit list – in the nicest possible way. Over the past year the likes of Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time have passed the torch to the likes of Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Breath of the Wild respectively.

With Aqua Moto Racing Utopia splashing down onto the eShop (with a seemingly limited retail edition, too), should we dare to hope that Wave Race 64 is next to fall?

No, we shouldn’t. Sorry to be blunt, but we need to dispel that inevitable comparison straight away. It’s deeply unhelpful to what is a solid, inoffensive but rather mediocre aquatic racer.

Aqua Moto Racing Utopia has its roots in smartphone gaming, but it does have some Nintendo pedigree. Back in 2013 Zordix launched Aqua Moto Racing 3D onto the 3DS eShop. What you’re getting here is an essentially similar experience, but with vastly improved graphics and technical performance. 

You and a bunch of AI opponents bomb around a variety of watery environments on your jet-skis, nipping through mangroves, ducking under bridges and scraping past oil tankers.

Each open environment contains a loosely structured course for you to follow, as delineated by coloured buoys. Red buoys must be passed to the right, while yellow buoys need to be passed to the left. Passing closer to those buoys does more than maximise your racing line – it also fills your boost gauge faster. Once this gauge is full you can launch yourself forward at an accelerated rate for a few seconds.

Another way to fill that boost gauge is to perform stunts off the many ramps that are littered across each course. You can spin or flip your jet-ski by holding ZL and the left stick, perform a number of poses by holding the right stick in a direction, or combine the two. Fail to land your jet-ski straight, though, and you’re set for a messy fall and a time-sapping restart.

There are a lot of messy falls in Aqua Moto Racing Utopia, and that’s largely down to the game’s brutal water physics.

On the positive side, it makes every lap genuinely unpredictable. What were smooth waters on the first lap could be roiling swells by the end, often thanks to the wakes of your opponents. Memorising the courses only gets you so far here, as you need to be able to feel out the waters and predict what they’re going to do to you.

One open sea course sets you racing towards a brutally hemmed-in hairpin turn. If you just motor on into the turn you’ll probably leap off one of the huge waves straight into the side of a hulking boat. Feather the throttle, dip your nose down into the bigger waves and hold ZL to make a tight turn, however, and you have a chance of making it through.

Water has a pronounced effect, then, but it’s often overly exaggerated and lacking in that organic flow that the best aquatic racers (like Wave Race) have. Combined with the harsh penalty for any kind of direct collision with your competitors or the level furniture, ‘unpredictable’ can quickly become a negative trait.

Similarly clumsy are the graphics. Everything’s somewhat gaudy and cheap looking, and Aqua Moto Racing Utopia just can’t shake off that feeling of an eight-year-old smartphone game despite its sharpened edges. The water, meanwhile, has a slightly uncanny look and feel to it, and it often feels like it’s made of a jelly-like substance rather than liquid.

Aside from straight races you’ll also encounter stunt-focused rounds, and these tend to show off the clunkiness of the game’s physics systems as you struggle and jostle to line yourself up for a clean jump.

Local multiplayer fans are well catered for, with splitscreen competition for up to four players. It runs quite nicely even in handheld mode, where the basic graphics aid legibility on the Switch’s small screen.

There’s no provision to tackle the campaign mode in multiplayer, unfortunately, but there are four party games to keep you all entertained: Aqua Moto Hockey, Keep the Flag, King of the Hill and Duckling Mama. The latter resembles an aquatic Mario Kart battle mode (if you squint), with a colour coded arena and a cute duck-stealing mechanic. None of it’s outstanding, but there’s definitely entertainment to be had given the chaotic nature of the racing.

Conclusion

Aqua Moto Racing Utopia initially appeals for being a rare water-based racer. Scooting around on your jet-ski often feels more like riding a bucking bronco than driving a vehicle, and that makes it stand out from regular landlocked racers.

However, it’s lacking several layers of finesse and balance, the presentation is deeply unappealing, and those aggressive water physics are a mixed blessing. We’re just going to have to wait patiently for Nintendo to return to the Wave Race universe, aren’t we?

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Super Mario Cereal Will Start Milking the Franchise on 11th December in the US

It’s been a crazy week in the world of themed cereals, as rumours of a Super Mario Cereal with an amiibo box turned out to be true – though it’s only confirmed for the US. It brings to mind Nintendo’s pomp in the late ’80s and early ’90s when it dominated popular culture and breakfasts alike.

Nintendo has now finally confirmed the details on the cereal. Every box will indeed serve as an ‘amiibo’, as you’ll be able to scan it to receive coins or a heart in Super Mario Odyssey. It’ll launch on 11th December in the US as a “limited-edition cereal box” – yep, we can look forward to lines of people desperate to get hold of cereal as a collectable.

Below are some glamorous official shots along with some PR fluff that was a little too silly to ignore.

With Super Mario™ Cereal, Nintendo and Kellogg’s® have teamed up to take fans on a breakfast odyssey that will continue long after the cereal box is empty. In addition to collectible Super Mario Odyssey™ box art, each Super Mario Cereal box functions as an amiibo™ accessory, making breakfast a more playful experience.

This powered-up partnership with Kellogg’s is another exciting way for us to expand the Nintendo brand in unique and creative ways,” said Tom Prata, Nintendo of America’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. “We are always looking for new opportunities to bring smiles to people of all ages, and this is a fun way to kick off the day.”

The limited-edition cereal box will begin hitting store shelves across the U.S. as early as Dec. 11. Those playing the Super Mario Odyssey game can tap the cereal box on the Nintendo Switch™ system, like you would an amiibo, to receive gold coins or a heart in the game. Even the cereal itself has a Super Mario twist, with colorful power-up marshmallows and a blast of mixed berry flavor in every box.

“We are thrilled to pack so much fun into one box of cereal,” said Brad Schwan, Senior Director of Morning Foods Marketing. “The package adds value and excitement for fans, with marshmallow shapes in the cereal inspired by Super Mario power-ups to tie the theme together.”

Just how fun can breakfast be? We’ll soon find out!

Weary old cynicism aside, we hope that Nintendo and Kellogg’s get a decent amount of stock into stores so that fans can pick up a box and try it out. We’d hate for it to become another under-supplied release that causes a lot of disappointment.

Are any of you US cereal munchers planning to pick up a box?

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Nintendo Download: 30th November (Europe)

It’s time for European Nintendo Download Update, and this week has a number of tempting Switch releases both at retail and as download-only titles. The 3DS and Wii U don’t entirely miss out, while there are also plenty of DLC options and discounts to consider – let’s get into the details, shall we?

Switch Retail Downloads

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Nintendo, €59.99 / £49.99) – It’s a series that’s now embedded within Nintendo console gaming culture, offering a hefty dose of immersive (and downright complicated) RPG gaming. This ‘main’ sequel does a lot of things very well and will keep plenty of Switch owners busy into 2018 – here’s our full Xenoblade Chronicles 2 review. Available from 1st December.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 + Expansion Pass (Nintendo, €89.98 / £76.98)

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 (WB Games, €59.99 / £49.99) – For fans of LEGO and Marvel this is high on wishlists, and as expected it serves up crazy crossovers, knockabout charm and an open world to explore. It does very little to take the LEGO series forward, but we gave it a recommendation in our LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 review. Available from 1st December.

SUPERBEAT: XONiC (Rising Star Games, €44.99 / £39.99) – Another welcome music rhythm release on the Switch, adding its own spin to the genre along with 68 songs to play.

Gear.Club Unlimited (Microïds, €49.99 / £44.99) – This aims to fill a gap in the Switch library with realistic driving and some tasty licensed cars. It has multiple modes and local co-op and aims to deliver a premium driving experience; we gave it a test drive in our Gear.Club Unlimited review.

Switch eShop

Resident Evil Revelations (Capcom, €14.99 / £11.99 if you own Resident Evil Revelations 2 on Switch, otherwise €19.99 / £15.99) – Originally a game that showcased the 3DS and its Circle Pad Pro, this solid spin-off entry in the series then made its way to Wii U and other assorted HD platforms. The arrival on Switch offers motion controls that bring back good memories of Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition. Here’s our Resident Evil Revelations review.

Resident Evil Revelations 2 (Capcom, €19.99 / £15.99 if you own Resident Evil Revelations on Switch, otherwise €24.99 / £19.99) – It’s the first time that this sequel will be playable on Nintendo hardware; it was an episodic release originally, but now comes as one complete package. We put it to the test in our Resident Evil Revelations 2 review.

Serial Cleaner (Curve Digital, €14.99 / £14.99) – A rather quirky 2D / stealth game in which you play the role of crime scene ‘cleaner’ for the mob. It’s heavily stylised and certainly looks like a fun concept; our review will be with you later today.

Syberia 2 (Microïds, €29.99 / £26.99) – This series of remastered point-and-click titles continues, following a very solid first outing on the Switch not too long ago. “Kate Walker and the eccentric old Hans Voralberg set forth in search of a forgotten world” in this one, which sounds like a reasonable way to pass a weekend.

OPUS: The Day We Found Earth (Flyhigh Works, €5.00 / £4.49) – A title that seems to aim for an atmospheric experience, it’s set millions of years in the future as a small robot tries to find Earth by charting the stars. It looks like a mix of stargazing and a touching narrative, and we’ll see how it fares in a review.

Star Ghost (Rainy Frog / Squarehead Studios, €8.99 / £7.99) – Developed by Rare alumni Rhys Lewis (with music by David Wise), this adds an interesting spin to the sidescrolling space shooter; it has controls not too dissimilar to Barrel Rocket levels in Donkey Kong Country Returns, and we thought it was a darn good combination when we reviewed it on Wii U.

ACORN Tactics (TACS Games, €9.99 / £8.99) – A turn-based strategy title, this sees mechs go to battle with alien blobs over a 25 level campaign, seemingly also offering some nice customisation and depth. We’ll dive in for a review.

MUJO (Oink Games, €8.99 / £8.09) – A blend of match-three and puzzle elements in which you use combinations to destroy mythological monsters. It has a simplistic (but relatively clean) look, but this is a pretty lazy port by the look of things.

Traverse USA (Hamster, €6.99 / £6.29) – This is the first IREM Arcade Archives release, a sentence to cheer the spirit of many retro gamers. Both a motorcycle overhead racing and sprite scaling hybrid game, you trying to get from LA to New York in once piece.

World Heroes (HAMSTER, €6.99 / £6.29) – It’s the Neo Geo ACA series, so we might as well get another fighting game into the line-up. What helps this one stand out is its use of somewhat demented representations of historical figures from through the ages; it was arguably bettered by its sequels, but you can check out our original World Heroes review for another bit of retro goodness.

Switch DLC

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Expansion Pass (Nintendo, €29.99 / £26.99) – If you own the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 game and buy this Expansion Pass, you’ll gain access to some new content, including new story content in fall 2018! On Dec. 1, the Helpful Item Pack will roll out, with the New Quest Pack opening up in January. Plus, the New Rare Blade Pack will be added to the game in spring, with the New Challenge Mode Pack next summer.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – Japanese Voice Pack (Nintendo, free)

Sonic Forces: SANIC T-SHIRTS (SEGA, free)

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 – TP Medal Pack (x5000) (Bandai Namco, €29.99 / £24.00)

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 – TP Medal Pack (x2000) (Bandai Namco, €12.99 / £11.00)

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 – TP Medal Pack (x1000) (Bandai Namco, €6.99 / £6.00)

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 – TP Medal Pack (x500) (Bandai Namco, €3.99 / £3.00)

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 – TP Medal Pack (x200) (Bandai Namco, €1.99 / £2.00)

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 – Extra Pack Set (Bandai Namco, €16.99 / £14.00)

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 – Extra Pack 1 (Bandai Namco, €9.99 / £8.00)

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 – Classic Guardians of the Galaxy Character Pack (WB Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 – Season Pass (WB Games, €14.99 / £11.99)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Bonus Bundle Pack (Rising Star Games, free)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Bundle Pack 1 (Rising Star Games, €4.99 / £3.99)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Bundle Pack 2 (Rising Star Games, €4.99 / £3.99)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Bundle Pack 3 (Rising Star Games, €4.99 / £3.99)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Bundle Pack 4 (Rising Star Games, €4.99 / £3.99)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – Americana Exotica (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – iNSANiTY (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track -Skyline (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – ZZuck ZZuck Groove (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – Going Back (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – PLUS (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – Blue Screen (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – Debonair Heavy Industry (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – Zombie Chase (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – Afternoon of Summer (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – Missing Parts (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

SUPERBEAT XONiC EX DLC Single Track – Indigo Wind (Rising Star Games, €1.99 / £1.69)

MUJO – 5 Lightnings (Oink Games, €1.09 / £0.99)

MUJO – 20 Lightnings (Oink Games, €3.49 / £3.19)

MUJO – 45 Lightnings (Oink Games, €5.49 / £4.99)

MUJO – 120 Lightnings (Oink Games, €10.99 / £9.89)

MUJO – 240 Lightnings (Oink Games, €21.99 / £19.79)

MUJO – 480 Lightnings (Oink Games, €40.99 / £36.89)

MUJO – 720 Lightnings (Oink Games, €52.99 / £47.69)

Switch eShop Temporary Discounts

The Bridge (The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild, €6.99 / £6.29 until 28th December, normally €9.99 / £8.99)

The Jackbox Party Pack (Jackbox Games, €14.69 / £13.29 until 7th December, normally €20.99 / £18.99)

JYDGE (10tons, €11.99 / £10.39 until 7th December, normally €14.99 / £12.99)

3DS eShop

80’s Overdrive (Insane Code, €9.99 / £8.99) – An OutRun-style racer with music by Vectorwolf, this certainly gives us a nostalgic feeling. There’s a Career mode in which you can earn car upgrades, Time Attack, and even a built-in track generator for making your own courses that you can then share. We’ll hit the accelerator and bring you a review soon.

3DS DLC

Culdcept Revolt – Racoon (NIS America, free)

3DS eShop Temporary Discount

Crollors Game Pack (Nvriezen, €0.99 / £0.93 until 31st December, normally €1.49 / £1.39)

New 3DS eShop Temporary Discount

Hit Ninja (Petite Games, €1.39 / £1.25 until 14th December, normally €1.99 / £1.79)

3DS HOME Themes

Xmas with Baby-JC (Animundi, €1.49 / £1.39)

Jurassic Cubs on the snow (Animundi, €0.99 / £0.89)

Nunzy and Bronto on ice (Animundi, €0.99 / £0.89)

JC 3pack Number 10 (Animundi, €2.49 / £2.29)

Wii U Virtual Console

Break In (Konami, €5.99 / £5.39) – The latest TurboGrafx-16 title to arrive courtesy of Konami, this is a retro pool game for your consideration. We weren’t big fans in our original Break In review.

Power Golf (Konami, €6.99 / £6.29) – Konami’s gradual and slightly surprising roll-out of TurboGrafx-16 games on the Wii U VC continues with Hudson’s take on the grand old sport. Unfortunately we were rather unimpressed when we review this on the Wii Virtual Console.

Wii U eShop Temporary Discounts

The Bridge (The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild, €6.99 / £6.29 until 28th December, normally €9.99 / £8.99)

Laser Blaster (Petite Games, €1.39 / £1.25 until 14th December, normally €1.99 / £1.79)

That’s the full line-up for this week – let us know what you’ll be downloading in the poll and comments below.