Nintendo Switch And 3DS Games On Sale On The US Eshop

The Nintendo Eshop doesn’t have regular weekly sales like Microsoft and Sony’s digital stores do, but it does offer game discounts periodically. So if you’re looking for something new to play on your Nintendo Switch or 3DS, you can generally find some good deals on games worth playing. We’ve combed through the deals available now and picked out some of the highlights below. So get out your Switch or 3DS and let’s save some money.

The Metroidvania game Axiom Verge is currently half off, at $10. Battle Chef Brigade, a brawler-meets-puzzle game that recently got a big update, is on sale for $12. The adventure games Syberia and Syberia 2 are discounted to $20 each.

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Looking to add some retro action to your gaming life? Capcom has dropped the price of Mega Man Legacy Collection to $11.24. It comes with games 1-6 in the series and adds some nice quality-of-life touches to these old-school-tough games. Mega Man Legacy Collection 2, which bundles games 7-10, is on sale for $15.

RPG fans looking for a game to play on 3DS have a few good discounts to choose from right now as well. The JRPG 7th Dragon III Code: VFD is on sale for $20 (down from $30), and two remakes of great DS dungeon crawlers are also on sale. You can get Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl on sale for $10 and the sequel Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight for $15.

You can find even more games on sale by checking out the full list here.

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Rocket League’s Rocket Pass Gets a Release Date

Rocket League’s limited-time progression system, Rocket Pass, will go live on Sept. 5 at 10 a.m. PDT and run through Nov. 26, developer Psyonix announced today. Rocket Pass will be available on all platforms (PlayStation 4, Switch, Xbox One, and PC).

With both free and premium versions, Rocket Pass challenges players to increase their tier to earn new unlocks by completing matches. The Premium Rocket Pass costs 10 keys ($9.99 USD, £7.99 GBP, or $13.45 AUD) and includes up to 70 tiers’ worth of rewards, more than double the free version’s 29. Premium players can also continue advancing past the 70th tier to unlock painted and certified versions of some Rocket Pass items. All items are cosmetic-only.

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Spider-Man PS4 Dev Responds To “Downgrade” Claims

Video game development is a fluid process; things change all the time through development until launch and beyond. One thing that changed with the upcoming Spider-Man PS4 game due out next week was the size of puddles in one particular scene. This has led to claims that developer Insomniac Games in some way downgraded the game’s graphics, and now the developer has spoken up to stress that there has been “no downgrade.”

This issue picked up steam thanks in part to this popular Reddit post (via IGN) that shows more puddles in an older, E3 trailer for Spider-Man and fewer puddles in a newer video. Writing on Twitter, Insomniac confirmed that it changed the size of the puddles, but stressed, “There’s no downgrade at all.” Some believed that Insomniac had to scale back the graphics to meet performance demands, but it appears this is not the case.

Community manager James Stevenson said in his own tweet, “The puddles being moved had nothing to do with performance.” Then why remove them? “Pretty sure it was a design / art / usability reason thing,” Stevenson explained. “Definitely wasn’t performance, as we have spots with tons of puddles in the game with no performance issue.

Other Spider-Man fans have criticised the look of Peter Parker’s suit in newer trailers. It may look different, Stevenson conceded, but that’s because Insomniac is using different, better technology today than it did at the start of development. Importantly, the suit is meant to look good while Peter Parker is swinging from building to building.

“Bright sunlight causes concrete to blow out and look bright. Plus our post effects ( DOF and motion blur tech in particular) are way better in 2018, which causes stuff to be blurrier when pulled like that, but that’s because it’s supposed to look good IN MOTION,” he said.

GameSpot’s Spider-Man PS4 review will go live on September 4, a few days before the game launches on September 7. While the game isn’t even out yet, Insomniac has announced the first DLC expansion will be released on October 23.

Venom: Eminem’s Surprise New Album Includes Song from Soundtrack

Marshal Mathers, aka Slim Shady, aka Eminem dropped a surprise album on Thursday night, and one song is notably from the soundtrack to the upcoming Venom film. He announced the album on twitter, and it launched simultaneously on various streaming platforms.

The album, Kamikaze, is executive produced by Dr. Dre and Eminem. It’s 13 tracks long, with the final track titled Venom (Music From the Motion Picture). The song contains a mixture of drum loops, synth tracks, guitars and a classic flow from Eminem.

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The Little Stranger Review

Many directors like to tackle something completely different for each project, to flex new muscles and show they can take on a wide variety of stories. This maxim has been proven true time and time again, most recently with Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson, who follows up his critically-acclaimed 2015 drama/thriller Room with the moody drama/horror/mystery The Little Stranger, which couldn’t be more different in many ways. While the majority of Room is set in the one-room dungeon where Ma (Brie Larson) and Jack (Jacob Tremblay) are kept, The Little Stranger is largely set in a sprawling gothic mansion that has fallen on hard times, along with the Ayres family who inhabits it.

In many ways, an atmospheric period piece like The Little Stranger is the perfect antidote to the splashy summer movie season, a slow burn drama where there is barely any actual movement among the characters, let alone action. In fact, the biggest beef I have with the movie is that said burn is a touch too slow at times, but the performances and this gripping, mysterious yarn do make up for it.

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