Updated: July 9th, 2020

This month, we’re getting 19 new games added to the Switch! All of these games can be pre-ordered directly from Nintendo’s site. 10 of the games have already released, so we’re going to cover the other 9. Let’s check out the upcoming Switch games releasing July 2020.

Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon 2

Releases: July 10th, 2020 

• Genre: Platformer/Action
• Multiplayer

Take control of Zangetsu, a swordsman with a grudge against alchemists and demons. Zangetsu must battle his way to the demons! Play as multiple characters with added game play options and abilities.

Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing In Disguise

Releases: July 10th, 2020 

• Genre: Action/Adventure
• Single Player

In 2005, FBI agent York visits Le Carré, a small town in New Orleans where he encounters a suspicious serial killer case alongside his “friend” Zach.

Story Of Seasons: Friends Of The Mineral Town

Releases: July 14th, 2020 

• Genre: Role-Playing/Simulation
• Single Player

A classic farm game with a twist! Tend to the fruits and vegetables, meet new and old faces once again, fall in love with the eligible bachelors and go fishing!

Neon Abyss

Releases: July 14th, 2020

• Genre: Platformer/Action
• Single Player

The newly-launching frantic, run and gun platformer Neon Abyss is launching on the Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC July 14th, 2020.

If you like 16-bit games and cyberpunk aesthetics, this game might be a win for you!

• Dungeons: The game features evolving dungeons that expand and change based on your personal upgrade choices. This unlocks special rules, bosses to take down, new endings and new rooms to explore! This means you can you can choose your playing style and tailor the dungeons to fit you.
• Items: Additionally, there are over 400 unique items to collect. Interestingly enough, passive effects between items stack, with no limit to the amount of items that can be applied to your character.

Paper Mario: The Origami King

Releases: July 17th, 2020 

• Genre: Adventure/Action
• Single Player

The kingdom has been invaded by an origami enemy! Join Mario and his new partner to battle evil soldiers, repair damaged land and try to free Princess Peach!

Out of all the upcoming Switch games for July, Origami Mario is the most anticipated.

Crysis Remastered

Releases: July 23rd, 2020

• Genre: First-Person/Action
• Single Player

The game’s story starts when a group of scientists discover an unknown life force in the Philippines. The North Korean army steps in to get a taste of the secrets hidden away on the island. You are left with no choice but to fight through the North Korean army and alien lackeys to uncover the race of life hidden away for so long.

Dex

Releases: July 24th, 2020 

• Genre: RPG/Adventure/Action
• Single Player

Dex is a 2D, action-filled RPG game. Play as Dex, a mysterious girl that is being hunted for her special abilities. Create alliances, customize your character’s abilities and kill from the shadows as an assassin.

Locomotion

Releases: July 30th, 2020 

• Genre: Strategy/Puzzle
• Single Player

Locomotion is a single player, train puzzle game. It can be a casual pick up and play game or all-day entertainment. Improve your trains mechanics and get back the stolen gold!

FAIRY TAIL

Releases: July 31st, 2020 

• Genre: Role-Playing
• Single Player

Based on the popular anime Fairy Tail! Play as mages from all different guilds, aid in powerful magic battles and try to reach the title of the number 1 guild in Fiore!

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New Switch Games: A New Open-World RPG

Releases July 24th, 2020

Qubic Games has just announced that Dex will be launching on the Nintendo Switch July 24th, 2020. This totals our new Switch games for July 2020 to 17 games!

Dex is a cyberpunk, open-world 2D RPG. In the game, you play as the mysterious Dex, a blue-haired girl who is being hunted by a powerful group for her special abilities.

Explore the streets of Harbor Prime and create alliances as you venture out to take down the system!

Dex was designed as a tribute to cyberpunk worlds with adult-like story lines and well-defined characters. It takes on classic 2D platformed action games and adds RPG elements  with real-time combat.

Game Features:

• RPG Elements With 2D Side-Scrolling Action
• Mature Story Line With Neo-Noir Environment
• Several Dialogue Choices With Unique Outcomes For Each
• Multiple Play Styles: Open Combat, Diplomat, Stealth, Hacker Or A Mix Of All
• Cyberpunk, Open-World
• Hacking Mechanic To Dive Into Cyberspace
• Customize Character’s Skills To Fit Your Playing Style

Dex gives you the option to choose what game play fits you. You can fight from a distance in space as a hacker, persuade others as a diplomat, kill from the shadows as an assassin or fight head-on as a gunfighter.

Dex is releasing at a price point of $19.99. Pre-orders are launching today.

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Neon Abyss

The newly-launching frantic, run and gun platformer Neon Abyss is launching on the Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC July 14th, 2020.

Check out all the latest Game News to stay up to date! 

If you like 16-bit games and cyberpunk aesthetics, this game might be a win for you!

• Dungeons: The game features evolving dungeons that expand and change based on your personal upgrade choices. This unlocks special rules, bosses to take down, new endings and new rooms to explore! This means you can you can choose your playing style and tailor the dungeons to fit you.
• Items: Additionally, there are over 400 unique items to collect. Interestingly enough, passive effects between items stack, with no limit to the amount of items that can be applied to your character.
• Maps: Expansive maps and dozens of monsters with unique styles to ensure no dungeon or player experience is the same!
• Eggs: Another interesting feature about this game is the eggs. You’ll run into eggs in the game and if you take care of them, they hatch into pets. These pets have special abilities that will aid you in gaining an edge inside the game.
• Mini-Games: Take a break from slaying monsters with piano performances, dance competitions, meditation challenges and more.

Game Play

Courtesy of Nintendo’s e-shop, we have screenshots of game play on the Nintendo Switch!

What We Know

Nintendo has not given us much to go on for Metroid Prime 4, but we do know it is on it’s way.

Metroid Prime 4 has been in the development stage for a long time. This may lead you to believe that it’s launching soon, but unfortunately, you may have to change those expectations. Metroid Prime 4’s long development phase is partly due to retooling. On January 25, 2019, the game’s producer, Shinya Takahashi, explained that the original studio developing Metroid Prime 4 didn’t deliver a satisfactory product. This lead to the game having to restart development from scratch under Retro Studios.

This is positive news for longtime fans, since Retro Studios developed the first three Metroid Prime games. But, it’s also bad news, since this means that a game with at least three years of development time had to restart.

Where Does This Put The Release Date?

Well, that’s a tough question. The previous release dates don’t help out much. At times, they’ve gone 8 years without a new game and at times they’ve released 2 games in one year.

If they started development on Metroid Prime 4 in 2017 and Nintendo ended it in 2020, we can assume the company ideally had a 3 year development-time planned. This leads us to believe the game may be done being developed in 2023, potentially 2024.

In short, the game is a way’s out. But, at the end of the day, we can appreciate Nintendo for pulling the plug on games that don’t meet their expectations.

There are game play trailers and screenshots that were released, but after Nintendo pulled the plug on the development of the game, the game will be drastically different than the game play shown below.

Hopefully we will see some more news soon!

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Gameplay trailer below.

Watch Dogs 2 For Free?

The summer of virtual gaming events continues on, with Ubisoft Forward scheduled to take place this Sunday, July 12. In addition to delivering world premiere reveals for games such as Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and Watch Dogs: Legion, Ubisoft Forward will also give you a chance to snatch Watch Dogs 2 for free on PC. 

Ubisoft’s 2016 open-world game will be available to anyone with a Uplay account for the entire day of July 12, so don’t miss out if you haven’t played yet. Here’s what you need to know to grab Watch Dogs 2 on PC for free.

How to get Watch Dogs 2 for free on PC

In order to get your free play for Watch Dogs 2, simply download Ubisoft’s Uplay launcher and create an account. According to Ubisoft, you’ll need to log in on July 12 to claim the game, although the company never specified a time on when the offer will go live. 

Ubisoft also mentioned that you’ll have a “chance to earn additional in-game rewards,” so you might want to tune in to Ubisoft Forward starting at 1: 30 pm EST. 

What to expect from Ubisoft Forward

The Ubisoft Forward stream starts at 1:30 pm EST with a pre-show, which will provide updates for titles such as Just Dance 2020 and The Division 2. The main stream will follow at 3 pm EST. It will focus on upcoming titles like Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Watch Dogs: Legion, Hyper Scape and “a few surprises.” 

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The 7 New EA Games Coming To The Switch

During EA’s Play media presentation last week, Electronic Arts exposed it’s  support for Nintendo Switch. This is probably due to fans asking Electronic Arts for more games on the Nintendo Switch for the past 3 years.

“You can expect seven new games coming to Switch [from EA] in the next 12 months,” Respawn social media boss Alex Ackerman said. “[That includes] Burnout Paradise coming June 19th and Apex Legends later this year.”

On top of Apex Legends and Burnout, EA announced that Lost In Random and FIFA 21 are both also making their way to the Switch.

One of the games is an EA Original. This one is from Velan Studios, who EA signed a deal with last year. Velan was produced during EA Play. It was part of a teaser for publishing efforts.

Then EA is going back to remaster a racing game. As a followup to Burnout Paradise Remastered, they are also going to update Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit. Similar to Burnout, that game will also arrive on the Switch, in addition to other consoles and PC.

Finally, EA is going to port its Plants vs. Zombies games to the Nintendo Switch. Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville will hit the shelves and Nintendo system at some point in the next year.

In Conclusion, here are the seven EA games launching on the Nintendo Switch this year:

• Burnout Paradise
• Apex Legends
• FIFA 21
• Plants vs. Zombies Battle for Neighborville
• Lost In Random
• Velan Studios game
• Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit

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Huge news was just dropped by Respawn about its free-play Battle Royale shooter, Apex Legends. It was announced during EA’s livestream that Apex Legends Crossplay is upon us in the near future!

The Released News:

• Apex is making it’s debut on the Nintendo Switch this fall. Until now, playing Apex entitled sitting in front of a TV or monitor for hours. This will bring a new twist and create mobility anywhere you want to go!

• Another Twist: They are launching cross-play for Apex this fall as well! In the past and even now, playing on Xbox meant playing solely with other Xbox players. This is fun and do-able, but what if your best friend has a PS4? That sucks, then go buy an Xbox. Not anymore! Once they release cross-play, Xbox, PC, PS4 and Switch players will be all be able to play the same game on the same servers. Specifics on how they plan to do this is still up in the air, but the good news is, we will get it soon!

• Previously, Apex was only available to PC players by EA’s Origins store. Soon enough, Apex will be making its way to Steam.

They also released a first look at an upcoming event they’re titling “Lost Treasures Collection”. Releasing June 23rd, it will bring brand new skins, a seasonal new game mode and new in-game locations to the pot.

Along with those updates about what’s to come in the next few months, Respawn also offered a sneak peek at the next collection event, ‘Lost Treasures’, which begins June 23rd. It includes a new spin on a previous limited-time mode. The big twist: there won’t be any re spawn beacons on the map. You’ll actually have a mobile one in your inventory you can use once time per match to bring back your teammate(s). How exciting! Check out the trailer below.

What Is Apex Legends?

For those who have never played, Apex is a Battle Royale game, similar to Fortnite or PUBG. The main difference is Apex is a first person shooter instead of  a third person shooter. It also does not have Fortnite’s popular ‘building’ system. You team up with one or two other players. Each of you pick from an increasing list of “Legends”, each with their own unique abilities. You then battle it out until only one team stands, similar to Fortnite or PUBG.

It’s fast-paced, hectic and fun. And the best part: it’s free! Similar to other games in this genre, Respawn earns their money on characters and skins, in-game currency and a premium ‘Battle Pass’ system that allows you to unlock special items.

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Animal Crossing Flower Breeding: A Complete Guide To Every Flower

In our complete Animal Crossing Flower Breeding Guide, we’re going to go through how to get flower seeds, what patterns to plant them in to spawn more flowers, how to cross breed them to get unique colors and more!

What Kind Of Flowers Can I Get?

In Animal Crossing flower breeding is fun, since there are 8 unique types of flowers you can that you can either find on your island or plant on your island.

• Windflowers
• Tulips
• Mums
• Roses
• Pansies
• Lillies
• Hyacinths

Where Can I Get Flowers?

When you first begin your adventure on your island, you will have limited ways to obtain flowers or seeds. You will have one specific flower that is native to your island, which will grow on cliffs and elevations.

You can’t access higher elevations until Tom Nook gives you the DIY recipe for a ladder when you start to furnish homes for soon-to-be villagers.

You will also find flowers growing on Mystery Islands. Mystery Islands can be accessed using your Nook Miles you earn doing different tasks around your island.

Typically, you will only find the same flowers native to your island or the ones sold on your island on Mystery Islands. But, you may get lucky and come across a rare island with special flowers.

Once you get the DIY ladder recipe, you can climb up the cliffs and dig up the flowers to plant in other parts of the island. Make sure you dig up the flowers with a shovel. If you pick up the flowers with your hand, it will only give you the actual flower and not the plant itself.

Where Can I Get Seeds?

If you want new types of flowers on your island, you can buy seeds from Tommy and Timmy to plant. You can plant seeds almost anywhere on your island, besides where a building is or near the ocean.

Seeds will grow in a few days after they are planted. The more your island grows (and Timmy and Tommy’s store grows), the more selection of flowers and colors you will have.

• Timmy in the Resident Services Tent: 3 Different Seeds, 3 Kinds Of Flowers – 1 Color For Each Flower
• Nook’s Cranny Store: 6 Different Seeds, 3 Kinds Of Flowers – 2 Colors For Each Flower
• Nook’s Cranny Store (Remodeled): 9 Different Seeds, 3 Kinds Of Flowers – 3 Colors For Each Flowers

If you have other friends that play ACNH, you can also visit their island to see if there are seeds sold in Nook’s Cranny that are not sold on your island. Your friends may even have a native flower you do not have yet. If you’re lucky, they may let you snag a few to take home!

Once you plant your seeds or flowers, you can sprout new flowers by watering them with a Watering Can. You can check on them once a day and you may have a new flower sprouted on any side of your original flower. Keep in mind if you only plant one flower, the new one will be the same color as the original.

“But I want new colors!”. Don’t worry, that’s our next topic. After all, this is a complete Animal Crossing Flower Breeding Guide!

How Can I Get Rare Colors?

Even though each flower type only has 3 basic colors, you can plant different colors of the same plant species and water them to create rare colors. How exciting! These rare colors cannot be bought or obtained any other way, unless they are gifted by a friend.

When a flower is watered, it can grow a new plant anywhere near it within a 5×5 grid area. This is a large area, so you may want to focus on breeding 1 specific color within this grid if you’re looking for a certain colored result. If a flower of the same species, but another color, is planted nearby, they can breed and create a new color. An example of the planting pattern is pictured below.

Creating A Planting Grid

This is considered to be the “most effective” breeding pattern. When you’re wanting new plants to sprout, always leave room for them to grow. If you plant all the plants directly on top of each other, there will be no more for any more to grow.

When planting your first row, try to skip every other space. When you start your second row below that one, plant the next ones directly underneath the spaces you just skipped above. Then on your third row, plant in the same pattern you planted the first row. Follow this same pattern for as many rows as you plant.

This creates an effective, organized pattern to optimize space on your island, but it leaves plenty of room for new flowers to grow.

I highly recommend using fencing for the areas you designate for flower breeding. It helps set a perimeter for you to follow and keep track of what flowers go in what area so you don’t get confused.

Just keep in mind that wherever you place fencing or other items, flowers can’t grow there. But, it creates a beautiful garden and helps you stay organized!

Once you have created your grid for your flowers (it can be anywhere from 2×2 to 5×5), you have an extremely important step!

Be sure to water your plants with your watering can! I would personally recommend watering them the second you are done creating your grid each time. After that, water your plants every day. Of course when it rains, it does water your flowers and you can skip that day.

Hybrid Flower Growing Times

There is no set time when or if a hybrid flower will grow. I’ve had a hybrid flower grow the day after I planted them (pink roses). I’ve also had hybrid flowers take 2 weeks to bloom (blue Hyacinths). If you check back on your flowers and an unwanted color has sprouted, simply dig up the unwanted flower. It still has a very high chance of sprouting a hybrid color in the same exact spot. In Animal Crossing flower breeding is a luck of the draw, so don’t fret!

Just remember there seems to be a certain percentage of hybrid colors sprouting. There’s no rhyme or rhythm to it besides planting the designated colors needed to cross-breed. Just pure luck!

Hybrid Flower Color Breeding Charts

I’ve listed below all 8 types of flowers and the combinations you can put together to produce rare colors. Keep in mind once again that some hybrid colors are more rare than others.

This means it may take you multiple tries with the same combinations to get the color you are looking for. But it’s worth all the work!

Mums

Mums come in 3 standard colors: Red, Yellow and White. But, you can cross-breed them to create Green, Pink and Purple!

• Parent Colors
• Red & White
• White & White
• Purple & Purple

• Hybrid Color
• Pink
• Purple
• Green

Windflowers

Windflowers come in 3 standard colors: Red, Orange and White. But, you can cross-breed them to create Blue, Pink and Purple!

• Parent Colors
• Red & Orange
• White & White
• Blue & Blue
• Blue & Pink

• Hybrid Color
• Pink
• Blue
• Purple
• Purple

Hyacinths

Hyacinths come in 3 standard colors: Red, Yellow and White. But, you can cross-breed them to create Blue, Pink, Orange and Purple!

• Parent Colors
• Red & Yellow
• Red & White
• White & White
• Red & Red
• Blue & Blue
• Orange & Orange

• Hybrid Color
• Orange
• Pink
• Blue
• Blue
• Purple
• Purple

Tulips

Tulips come in 3 standard colors: Red, Yellow and White. But, you can cross-breed them to create Black, Pink, Orange and Purple!

• Parent Colors
• Red & White
• Red & Yellow
• Red & Red
• Orange & Orange
• Black & Black

• Hybrid Color
• Pink
• Orange
• Black
• Purple
• Purple

Roses

Roses come in 3 standard colors: Red, Yellow and White. But, you can cross-breed them to create Blue, Gold, Black, Pink, Orange and Purple!

• Note: Any Roses with a * next to them require “special” versions of those colors of parents to create that color. These “special” versions can be created by breeding 2 of the same color together and sprouting the same color nearby.
• You can only get Gold Roses with a Golden Watering Can, which you can obtain once your island reaches a 5 star rating.

• Parent Colors
• Red & White
• Red & Yellow
• White & White
• Red* & Red*
• Red* & Red*
• Orange* & Orange*
• Purple* & Purple*
• Black & Black

• Hybrid Color
• Pink
• Orange
• Purple
• Black
• Blue
• Blue
• Blue
• Gold

Pansies

Pansies come in 3 standard colors: Red, Yellow and White. But, you can cross-breed them to create Blue, Red, Orange and Purple!

• Note: Any Pansies with a * next to them require “special” versions of those colors of parents to create that color. These “special” versions can be created by breeding 2 of the same color together and sprouting the same color nearby.

• Parent Colors
• Red & Yellow
• White & White
• Blue & Red
• Blue & Orange
• Red* & Red*
• Orange* & Orange*
• Blue & Blue

• Hybrid Color
• Orange
• Blue
• *Red
• *Orange
• Purple
• Purple
• Purple

Lilies

Lilies come in 3 standard colors: Red, Yellow and White. But, you can cross-breed them to create Pink, Orange and Black!

• Parent Colors
• Red & White
• Red & Yellow
• Red & Red

• Hybrid Color
• Pink
• Orange
• Black

Cosmos

Cosmos come in 3 standard colors: Red, Yellow and White. But, you can cross-breed them to create Pink, Orange and Black!

• Parent Colors
• Red & White
• Red & Yellow
• Red & Red
• Orange & Orange

• Hybrid Color
• Pink
• Orange
• Black
• Black

How To Get Gold Roses & Lilies Of The Valley

Gold Roses are one of the rarest flowers you can get in ACNH.

Once you get a 5 star evaluation on your island from Isabelle, she will give you a DIY recipe for a Golden Watering Can. This recipe involves gold nuggets, so make sure you save them up! Sadly, these watering cans also break.

Once you use the above chart to breed Black Roses, you can plant them in a grid and water them with the Golden Watering Can. This will give you a chance to sprout Golden Roses! If you pluck them, you can use them for special DIY recipes.

Lilies Of The Valley

The Lily Of The Valley is a very rare flower in Animal Crossing. It cannot be purchased or bred. The flower only makes an appearance once your island reaches a 5 star island evaluation.

The longer your island remains at a 5 star rating, the more Lily Of The Valley’s will grow along your cliffs and elevations!

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