eShop news (April 17) – Shovel Knight: King of Cards / Venture Kid / Shakedown Hawaii

17 April 2018 Lite_Agent Daylight Studios, FDG Entertainment, Flyhigh Works, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!, NBA 2K Playgrounds 2, Ninja Striker!, Q-Cumber Factory, Rising Star Games, Saber Interactive, Shakedown Hawaii, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, VBlank Entertainment, Venture Kid, Yacht Club Games

Today’s Nintendo eShop news: Shovel Knight: King of Cards to be released in the second half of the year, but also…

Venture Kid
Shakedown Hawaii
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!
Ninja Striker!
NBA Playgrounds 2

Shovel Knight: King of Cards

In their PAX East Round-Up blog post, Yacht Club Games shared a quick update on the development of Shovel Knight: King of Cards. They explain that while the game / expansion does look like it’s completely done, it’s not quite the case: the developers still need some more time. As a result, they expect development to be completed in the latter half of 2018!

Source: Yacht Club Games

Venture Kid

Today, FDG Entertainment announced Venture Kid (an action platformer) for the Nintendo Switch. More details will be provided at a later date, but in the mean time, here’s some gameplay footage:

#VentureKid 30 seconds action clip! pic.twitter.com/Wot2vWmrj6

— FDG Entertainment (@FDG_Games) April 16, 2018

Venture Kid (Switch – eShop) does not have a release date yet, but it’s already been added to the Upcoming Games page!

Source: FDG Entertainment (Twitter)

Shakedown Hawaii

Here’s the latest video clip for Shakedown Hawaii:

Some slightly less compressed footage… #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/UT6wTNda5d

— Vblank (@RetroCR) April 15, 2018

Shakedown Hawaii (Switch, 3DS – eShop) does not have a release date yet.

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!

Here’s a video clip for Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!:

You may need a bit more than salt and pepper in @DaylightGames @holypotatogame A Weapon Shop? to forge amazing weapons on demand.

Coming soon to #NintendoSwitch and #PlayStation4 – level up your potato smiths and create the fastest, strongest, most magical weapon known to spud! pic.twitter.com/EH5T6DOiav

— RSG Team (@RisingStarGames) April 16, 2018

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! (Switch – eShop) comes out this Spring in Europe and North America.

Ninja Striker!

Here’s some screenshots for Ninja Striker!:

Ninja Striker! (Switch – eShop) comes out on April 19th worldwide.

Source: Flyhigh Works (Twitter)

NBA Playgrounds 2

NBA Playgrounds was released last year on Nintendo Switch and other platforms, and was a bit of a mess at launch. A few months ago, in January, Saber Interactive released NBA Playgrounds – Enhanced Edition, that features the many improvements and content updates that didn’t make it to the base game due to the updates being too big.

And despite both the original release and update being less than a year old, it looks like Saber Interactive has already been hard at work on… a sequel, logically called NBA Playgrounds 2.

Right now, it’s unclear whether the Nintendo Switch will get it or not, as the game hasn’t been officially announced (the only reason we already know about it is because the Australian Classification Board rated it), but it’s quite likely that it will given the developers’ support for the console. Hopefully, an announcement is made in the near future!

Source: ACB