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GAMING PREVIEWS

JUNE

NINTENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: NES EDITION Hold your own legendary Nintendo World Championships at home! Bringing an array of 150-plus bite-sized timed challenges across 13 classic Nintendo Entertainment System games, including Donkey Kong , Excitebike , Kirby’s Adventure, Metroid , and a quartet of classic Mario outings, speedrun, face online challenges, or party with up to eight others locally. WHAT’S COMING IN JULY ?

MULTIPLAYER SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI V: VENGEANCE The legendary demon hunting series set in a ravaged future Tokyo continues, with this definitive expanded edition. It’s huge, with an entire new storyline - Canon of Vengeance - sandwiched in that boasts new locations, choices, and, of course, demons! Plus, you can also explore the original angels-versus demons battle in the Canon of Creation storyline. STILL WAKES THE DEEP In a wild storm, the power has been cut to the North Sea oil rig upon which you work. With all lines of communication severed, and the rig rapidly flooding, you must search for your crew and help them survive whatever strange horror it is that has come aboard. Masters of the first-person narrative game The Chinese Room are behind this one. 14/6/24

MULTIPLAYER SUPER MONKEY BALL BANANA RUMBLE SEGA’s manic monkey AiAi is back, for another outbreak of wild banana gathering rolling platform action over hundreds of stages. Yes, it’s bigger than ever, with arcade and adventure modes (plus local four-player action) joined by a wild 16 simian multiplayer online fight to the finish mode. Plus, if customising is your bag, then there are over 300 items to play with. LUIGI’S MANSION 2 HD All the wonders of the classic 2013 Nintendo 3DS outing return, greatly enhanced in this high-definition Switch update. Armed with his trusty Poltergust 5000, a spectre hunting Luigi will go, seeking out and retrieving the missing shards of the Dark Moon that are strewn across several puzzle (and ghost) filled haunted mansions. Be brave, Luigi! 25/6/24

ACTION MULTIPLAYER? EVERDREAM VALLEY

18/7/24

How does a super cute farming adventure sound? Now available in a special edition physical edition that includes a map and sticker set, you’re spending the summer holidays on your grandparents’ farm.

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It’s fallen into a bit of a state, however, so you’ll need to get busy helping to grow fruit and veggies, raising animals, and dealing with dreamy night magic!

SIMULATION MULTIPLAYER?

19/7/24

HOT LAP RACING Competitive “simcade” racing comes to the Switch in this red-hot new track-based racer. Imbued with the history of racing, from GT Cross to Formula 1, it not only features real cars, and real tracks, but

also 30 real champions from throughout motorsport history. Go for one-off races alone or with others, or enter the challenging career mode and go for glory.

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18/6/24

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RACING MULTIPLAYER?

19/7/24

ELDEN RING: SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE EDITION The fantasy masterpiece by FromSoftware returns, with its biggest expansion yet. This fresh story finds you in a whole new game world - the uncharted lands of shadows - where long-buried secrets await your discovery with the guidance of Miquella the Empyrean. With new weapons, abilities, spells, and other extras, there’s more to Elden Ring than ever!

GOTHIC CLASSIC KHORINIS SAGA

THE STANLEY PARABLE ULTRA DELUXE The legendary first-person exploration experience returns, now expanded, and housed in a highly collectible physical edition, including four art cards. Be Stanley, as he searches the office in search of his missing coworkers, facing all manner of contradictions and conundrums along the way. Will you follow the script, or will you go rogue?

Fans of classic fantasy RPG adventuring rejoice, as not only is the original Gothic brought bang up to date, but also its sequel, Gothic II . All up we’re talking over 100 hours of epic gameplay, all optimised for the Switch. Take on the role of the Nameless Hero and discover the secrets of the city of Khorinis and its mining colony in these two award-winning classics.

ADVENTURE MULTIPLAYER?

19/7/24

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ACTION RPG

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27/6/24

Are you up to answering all eight of this month’s game related posers? 1. What was the name of the very first (Shin) Megami Tensei game, released in Japan in 1987? 2. What was the name of the 1989 NES game that’s renowned as being the first ever example of survival horror? 3. What was the name of developer FromSoftware’s first game, released in 1994? 4. Which 1984 Atari arcade game saw you moving the world via a trackball, rather than controlling a character? 5. What is the name of Luigi’s ghostly doggy pal in the Luigi’s Mansion games? 6. What was the uplifting name of the first game in an eventual trilogy from developer Piranha Bytes that launched in 2009?

Answers: 1. Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei 2. Sweet Home 3. King’s Field 4. Marble Madness 5. Polterpup 6. Risen 7. GuitarFreaks 8. Harmonix

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7. What was the name of Konami’s plastic guitar shredding series that predated Guitar Hero ? 8. Which well-known music game developer created the Fortnite Festival mode in Fortnite?

50 JUNE 2024

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