Daily and Indie news (Feb. 27): Shovel Knight symphony / Minecraft

Today’s Daily Briefs (Round 2!): a Shovel Knight medley at an orchestra concert next month in Japan, but also…

• Minecraft
• Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo
• Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
• Jools Watsham’s weekly show

Shovel Knight

On March 12th, the 8bit Prince Symphony Concert -For Game Music Lovers- concert will be held at the Olympus Hall in Tokyo. Today, it was announced that this concert would feature a Shovel Knight medley, with the following tracks: Main Theme, Steel Thy Shovel, Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage), The Rival (Black Knight – First Battle), and Reprise (Credits).

Here’s a demo version of the orchestra arrangements:

There will be several guests at the concerts, such as Nobuo Uematsu and Yoko Shimomura. Besides Shovel Knight, there will also be music from Xenoblade Chronicles and Gyakuten Kenji 2 (Ace Attorney Investigations 2).

Source: 4Gamer

Minecraft

Today, Mojang announced that Minecraft’s sales have topped 122 million units: it looks like absolutely nothing will stop that game… especially not the upcoming Nintendo Switch version!

Hurrah! Sending a big thank you to all our amazing players. pic.twitter.com/5RaD1dpW65

— Minecraft (@Minecraft) February 27, 2017

Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo

Here’s the latest trailer for Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo, showcasing the Resetti amiibo!

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

Today, FDG Entertainment published a Q&A on their official blog, in order to answer some of the most common questions they get about their game. Here’s the questions they provide an answer for:

• Is Monster Boy a remake or an all new game ?
• Does it play like the old games?
• What can you tell us about the animal transformations ?
• Is the game level based ?
• Is this an official successor ?
• Then why don’t you name it Wonder Boy in Monster World V?
• On which platforms do you release Monster Boy?
• How long is the game?
• Physical Copy??
• I’ve seen reviews of the game. Can you send me a review copy?
• WHEN ???
• Why don’t you release the demo ?

Click here to check out the answers!

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom (Switch – eShop) comes out later this year in Europe and North America.

Jools Watsham’s weekly show

Here’s the latest episode of Jools Watsham’s weekly show: