Heya folks and welcome back to another M64 Latest, giving you a brief recap of news from the world of Nintendo as well as some personal insight into the happenings here at Miketendo64. It has been a while since our last M64 Latest update but only because we were waiting on rounding up news that we feel was substantial enough to actually talk about. We know how busy life can get and we hate to waste anyone’s time with short clickbaity articles so lets dive straight into our weekly roundup of news.
Latest News: Impact Direct Inbound
Impact Direct Airs April 1st
Don’t let the date make you think this is a joke, this is no April Fool’s. Our friend Barry Dunne over at Impact Game Station has a brand new Impact Direct for us all on April 1st. This special presentation will be focused on video games coming to various gaming platforms like Nintendo Switch, XBox Series S/X, PlayStation 5, and more.
The scheduled times for the Impact Direct are:
8PM BST – 9PM CEST – 3PM EST – 2PM CST – 1PM MST – 12PM PST
https://x.com/ImpactGameStat/status/1763655452838298075?s=20
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed – Ecto Edition 2024 Update Roadmap!
Just in time to celebrate the release of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, out now in cinemas, Illfonic has announced a Year 2 Roadmap for their game Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed – Ecto Edition. The Roadmap details four planned content updates for the game with one of them available right now! The first content update for this year adds The main antagonist of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Garraka, to the game as a playable ghost (overlord class) that will be unlockable after you have successfully completed the bounty for them. Bear in mind that you will need to have beaten the Samhain bounty first in order to access the Garraka bounty. Once that is done, you will be choose Garraka as a Skin when selecting the Overlord ghost.
As for the other content updates, the second update will be made up of Slimer variants featuring his different appearances in Frozen Empire, The Real Ghostbusters, and Classic Slimer. Update #3 which releases in Fall will add the shocking Scoleri Brothers from Ghostbusters II. As for the final update, there will be a special ghost reveal which has been teased as a fan-favourite.
If you would like to know what other content is incuded in each update, you can find the full roadmap below.
Johto Times Interviews Former General Manager For Pokémon US
Pokémon dedicated news site, Johto Times has recently had the chance to talk with former General Manager for The Pokémon Company US, Dave Hillenbrand. They sat down to discuss Dave’s time at The Pokémon Company US branch and his role in the Pokémon Center NYC store. Here is a short excerpt from the interview:
It’s great to be speaking with you, Dave! Could you please tell us how you got your start with the Pokémon Company USA and how your career led you to it?
Dave:
I was in retail management for about 12 years before working for Pokémon USA. Previous to accepting the GM position at Pokémon USA, I had worked as a District Manager for Blockbuster Video in the New York City area. Pokémon USA did a nationwide executive search with over 200 applicants. It came down to three finalists and I was lucky to be one of them. They asked each of us to write a business plan for Pokémon USA’s future growth with no information provided. I had my business plan translated into Japanese to make it [easier] to understand.
The Pokémon executives liked that I went out of my way to connect with them and offered me the job.
If you would like to read the full interview, please be sure to check out Johto Times.
M64 Latest: Its Showtime for Princess Peach, Our Review Is Here!!!
As for some internal news, we have plenty of Explain & Play reviews on the way for next week but I shall go into more depth on them later on in the week. What we do have for you are two of our most recent EXPlay reviews: Princess Peach: Showtime! and OTXO. Each game could not be any more different to the other with Princess Peach: Showtime being aimed at a child friendly audience and OTXO being an extremely gory game with high octane, shoot ’em up action. Both reviews are live now and can be found via the following cards.
Rounding Out
Well, that’s a wrap for this M64 Latest. thanks again for stopping by and we hope you found our selection of news to your tastes. Whilst there have been many more things happening in the world of video games that we could report on, we choose to look at topics that brighten our day and we hope that they brighten yours too.
Until Next Time, Keep On Gaming!
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