Pikmin 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition will launch on 12th November, bundled with a new mode called Dandori Academy.
Nintendo confirmed the date during yesterday’s surprise Pikmin Day Direct, which also revealed that a demo will land on the Nintendo eShop on 2nd November. Any progress you make in the demo will transfer to the full game if you buy it.
Dandori Academy is a timed exam mode. The Direct showed off one of its exams, Gargantuan Garden, which challenges players to collect gold nuggets before time runs out (thanks, Insider Gaming).
The Switch 2 Edition will also let you give voice commands to Oatchi, the game’s dog companion. If you already own Pikmin 4 on the original Switch, you can buy an upgrade pack from the eShop.
Nintendo had warned ahead of the broadcast that there would be no new game announcements. Instead, Shigeru Miyamoto introduced Japanese actor Fuka Koshiba as a new ambassador for the series, and Nintendo confirmed that 1st November, today, is now Pikmin Day.
Pikmin 4 originally launched on Switch in July 2023. The Switch 2 Edition is one of two big Nintendo releases this month, alongside The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake on 5th November.
Legendary Nintendo developer Shigeru Miyamoto – who directed classic games such as Super Mario 64 and produced The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – recently argued that the rise of generative AI tools won’t necessarily replace human talent.
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Nagoshi Studio has officially shut down and its first game called Gang of Dragon is seemingly no more, months after publisher NetEase pulled funding from the Yakuza-like project.
Toshihiro Nagoshi (often cited as the creator of the brilliant Yakuza and Like A Dragon game series) opened his new studio in 2021 and announced his next game with a very familiar title almost one year ago. Now, the Tokyo-based developer has closed its doors, as confirmed in the Japanese government gazette Kanpo.
The news arrives months after employees were told the studio’s future was at risk amid NetEase’s funding cuts. Nagoshi Studio reportedly needed another £33.1 million (about $44.4m at the time) to bring Gang of Dragon across the finish line — a sum NetEase purportedly declined to fund.
The China-based publisher of Marvel Rivals and Where Winds Meet has significantly scaled back its international investments over the past few years. Visions of Mana developer Ouka Studios was shut down shortly after launching its acclaimed action game, Worlds Untold (a studio formed by Mass Effect veteran Mac Walters) had to pause operations to find a new partner, and Halo Infinite lead Jerry Hook’s studio also ran into very similar issues last year.
Some developers have been a little luckier. Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacture saved itself with a management buyout and now operates as an independent developer, for one.
Not much is known about Gang of Dragon, but its debut trailer featured the violent crime and high drama you’d expect from Nagoshi’s previous work. The game also starred Ma Dong-seok, the acclaimed actor you might recognise from films such as Train to Busan and Marvel’s Eternals.
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