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Obviously not every single story out there can make it in, there's hundreds and thousands of stories that come out seemingly by the day, let alone by the week, but these are some of the ones I felt were the biggest ones that I wanted to make sure all of you guys knew about. Let's get into it. The first one obviously being the thing that everyone is talking about in Nintendo Land right now, and that is a new Paper Mario game. That's right, Paper Mario the Origami King is coming to Nintendo Switch on July 17th. Now it's obviously, Origami makes a lot of sense for a Paper Mario game in terms of the style, you know, story wise it's another Princess Peach related thing, you know inviting Mario and Luigi to attend the Kingdoms Origami Festival, something that's a little off with Princess Peach, all that jazz. Turns out the King Ali, which is like the King of Origami Land, is hatching a plan to end up folding the entire world, Mario's invited to fold and do it, whatever. As you're seeing throughout the footage here on the reveal trailer, there's just a lot of stuff going on, including an interesting Metroid reference, however I'm not going to touch base on that because it's all speculation, it doesn't really necessarily mean anything, but I feel like this game is just exactly what we needed and it kind of also confirms a potential rumor out there about some other stuff that we're gonna get into a little bit later, but yes Paper Mario the Origami King is coming on July 17th along with another big game that we will talk about again soon. Next up, Venture Beat is reporting that Mario 3D remasters and the Pikmin 3 Deluxe is ready to release soon. Now we knew about the remasters because they were actually part of the initial rumor, if you guys remember from a couple weeks ago, that actually talked about how we are going to get a new Paper Mario game and we're going to get all of these 3D Mario remasters, including Mario 64, Sunshine, the Galaxy Games, etc. This is all exciting stuff and obviously with Paper Mario being confirmed, this naturally lends credence to the fact that yeah these 3D remaster rumors are probably true and apparently coming soon, so I guess this would suggest it's going to be releasing maybe in June or something? I'm not sure here since obviously Paper Mario is coming out in July. Now as for Pikmin 3 Deluxe or whatever it ends up being called, there's been rumors for a long time that we were gonna get the Pikmin game over, at least maybe assumptions that we were gonna get Pikmin 3 over. It's one of the few Switch exclusives to not come over yet from Nintendo side of things and one that was obviously very highly reviewed. Personally I want to see Nintendo Land come over as well, but yeah Pikmin 3 coming to Switch just feels natural. Obviously this is gonna springboard hope for Pikmin 4 revival. I don't know that we're gonna hear about that this year. You know is this Nintendo filling out 2020 with a bunch of ports and remasters? Maybe, but hey we got the Paper Mario game so now we got these to look forward to as well if you need something to fill your time this summer. Speaking of Nintendo Switch and games, can we do it? Here's a game or a franchise that has not previously been on Switch that you guys might care about? I guess if you're into sports games or a very niche sports game and that is PGA Tour 2K21. It is coming to Nintendo Switch. It's the first time the series has appeared in the platform. It's coming August 21st. They did a reveal trailer for it and all that. Looks pretty good. Obviously you know I have a lot of fond memories of playing golf games growing up whether it's the original Golf on NES or we're talking obviously the more advanced Tiger Woods series and all that. So I'm pretty happy to see this. 2K usually does an excellent job with their sports games. So if you're looking or itching to play some golf on Switch later this year, yeah you will have to play it on there. It'll also be available of course on Xbox and PlayStation and all that jazz and the next gen platforms as well. So yep it's gonna be on everything and that's pretty cool. Next up a little bit of sad news for some people. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is cut from Evo 2020. Now it's not as simple as just saying smash go away. Evo 2020 itself has kind of massively changed what it's going to be. Normally it's the largest fighting game tournament in the world or at least the most popular fighting game tournament in the world with you know oodles and oodles of different fighting games including Smash and many others. I forget the total slate I think is usually up around 15 different fighting games and it's always an in-person tournament and all that because obviously fighting game tournaments are best done in person. Well because of the worldwide pandemic they are not doing it in person and so they are doing it every single weekend in July and they're doing it all online which means some games had to be cut in particular Super Smash Bros. Ultimate had to be cut because they are focusing on games that have the best net code aka the games that present the least amount of chance of lag in a professional setting. They want to try to eliminate lag as a factor as much as they possibly can so that is what they're doing and that is why Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is not part of Evo 2020. That being said there are other games that aren't a part of the official tournament but are like pushed out to a more general audience that a lot of people can play. Mortal Kombat 11 as an example is one such game where it's not part of the main slate but it is part of a side dish that everyone can play and I don't know if there's gonna be prizes for that yet or anything but it's pretty interesting. They're doing kind of a more open style tournament for some games versus just having the pros play and it's gonna be really a very interesting event and obviously Evo is gonna be a big deal all throughout July. Speaking of events this summer Square Enix has canceled their plans for an online event. This is what this was originally it became a story because they announced they were going to have an online event to replace their E3 presentation they usually have every year and they along with a few other companies said they were gonna do something and now they're kind of backing off and have decided according to Bloomberg anyways again this isn't coming from Square Enix it's coming from a reporter at Bloomberg that Square Enix is going to be releasing individual announcements throughout the year and this was largely because they had a problem getting the assets together to do the larger presentation now obviously I don't know this is because the game delays or if it's just really hard to coordinate all the different teams and everyone's working at home I'm not exactly sure why that would be the case but again Nintendo is also kind of doing individual announcements like the paper Mario one earlier versus doing bigger broader general directs I mean we did get a mini but we you know it feels like Nintendo's might not be doing a big direct this year they're not doing anything for E3 as well we know they're not gonna have anything in June for direct so yeah but all hope isn't lost because Ubisoft is actually going to be doing something they are they've officially announced their own massive online presentation called Ubisoft Forward and it's taking place on July 12th which my fiance's birthday kind of cool her 30th birthday what a special day because it's not only her 30th birthday we also get the Ubisoft thing at 2 p.m. central standard time and they are promising a whole swath of announcements and big games and all that it's basically their E3 presentation a month later or a month delayed so it's gonna be pretty cool maybe a little bit different format obviously I'm maybe hopefully more of the Nintendo direct style way of doing it but we'll see what happens but yeah so Square Enix again is just gonna be doing individual announcements throughout the year likely through social media and YouTube whereas Ubisoft still gonna do a big event they're just doing a month later than they normally would now getting into some other non-news that isn't necessarily related to Nintendo per se we got Ghost of Shushima I hope I said that right I know it's a Chinese thing so I I apologize we got a huge gameplay presentation at Sony's state of play this week and yeah it looks pretty good I don't know if it looks like the most impressive game ever but it looks very very interesting for being an open-world game they did show off a lot of features in this presentation that went about 18 minutes long you know how to navigate the open world using wind which is kind of a different technique that I haven't really seen since I guess Wind Waker but it made more sense in Wind Waker I guess I don't know it's an interesting thing we also got our first look at some of the more in-depth samurai combat and combat in general including the ghost style combat which essentially to me looks like Assassin's Creed Assassin combat except like just the sneaking around assassinations versus the brute force where I guess Assassin's Creed kind of takes a samurai combat and the ghost combat and puts it all together this kind of separates it out into two different play styles and so I guess that's kind of its you know ghost of Tsushima Tsushima sorry the tea is silent I guess is where the ghost part comes from where you can like play the game really stealth like if you really want or you could just brute force it as a samurai they didn't show off also a more cinema like mode that kind of puts the game in black and white kind of like classic samurai movies I guess is the idea here also obviously for those that are colorblind this is going to be an absolutely masterful mode and how the colors are kind of blown out in this game actually works well for a black and white mode so it almost feels like maybe the intentional blowout of certain colors was intentional to make this mode be as good as it possibly could be by putting in black and white so I don't know I think it's kind of cool that they're even considering that then again the game does release as well on July 17th for PlayStation 4 so yeah we're getting Paper Mario for Switch that day and we're getting ghost of Tsushima on the same day I think it's kind of cool moving on there is a reveal event coming for PlayStation 5 at some point in 2020 right like that's what we're led to believe that there's going to be a reveal event I mean why wouldn't there be but Sony hasn't actually announced anything and it's weird they've been playing it really coy with the PlayStation 5 they guarantee it's launching this year and they'll talk about some of the specs and stuff at a GDC type thing but they don't show anything we got it's a little bit unreal engine stuff we'll talk about later but yeah we haven't really seen much of the PlayStation 5 well it looks like that's gonna be changing pretty soon according to Jeff Grubb who I have no idea who this guy is he's some guy on Twitter but he leaked I guess leaked I guess he reported on a bunch of events that were gonna happen throughout this year including the Xbox event that did the gameplay reveal for Xbox Series X over a week ago like they I guess that was like his first thing that he nailed on his list of summer things or things are gonna be happening throughout the summer and next up is an event on June 4th which he is calling slate of PlayStation whether or not that's what it's actually called I don't know that's just what he's calling it and he's essentially saying there's gonna be a lot of games shown off on June 4th including a bunch of PlayStation 5 games now it's either gonna be all PlayStation 5 games or it's gonna be a combination of PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games possibly like PlayStation 4 enhanced on PlayStation 5 etc he doesn't exactly know the exact slate of games but he's like really really confident that's when we're gonna see PlayStation 5 games PlayStation 5 reveal all that jazz so I guess we'll have to look forward to June 4th and see if Jeff Grubb nailed it because he nailed the Xbox thing you know over a week ago so maybe he's got this right too that's why people are paying attention because he might be an insider I don't know he's got a lot of followers on Twitter but that doesn't necessarily mean anything moving on we have the Unreal Engine 5 reveal I was shown off this week and I did an entire video on this reacting to a covering it and I even stated in that video that I don't know if it's gonna be coming to the switch that I would be scalable on future devices well I was wrong it will be fully scalable it will be arriving on Nintendo switch it will be coming out PlayStation 4 Xbox one current mobile devices you know you know the current phones and also some of the little bit older phones almost anything it seems like the Unreal Engine 4 runs on Unreal Engine 5 will run on now this doesn't mean all of the good features the lumen features all that jazz and new physics will necessarily be possible on some of these older devices but it is going to be runnable on those devices and fully scalable and pretty much any game running in Unreal Engine 4 will be able to port quite easily into Unreal Engine 5 so it makes you wonder if Unreal Engine 5 was actually built on top of Unreal Engine 4 as like a base that being said we know games like Fortnite and others will be transitioning to Unreal Engine 5 and that game is on well switch so there you go switch will already have an Unreal Engine 5 game running on it at some point in 2021 so yeah pretty cool I think it's nice to see that this new engine still will run on the current switch even though there's obviously going to be some features that won't work exactly the way they do on say the latest hardware PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and PC so yeah cool Unreal Engine 5 looks great at least on the best you know some of the best specs out there you can have with PlayStation 5 footage so we'll see what happens now this next story is one that I don't care a lot about but a lot of you will if you ever played a Tony Hawk game and you played the old school games were in particular Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2 you have a lot of reasons to be excited right now because they are being fully remastered for PlayStation 4 Xbox one and PC and I just see it in whatever I'm showing on screen right now I'm not sure if I'm showing footage or screenshots there is a big upgrade visually here and it does feature online play which wasn't obviously part of the original games because it just wasn't a thing back then and they have made the course builder in it much more robust so in addition to the updated visuals and all that there's going to be all the original content from the games is going to be present in it in addition to the online modes including most of the music tracks I think there's like five or six music tracks that did not make the cut because of licensing issues but I mean that's that's gonna happen in a game that uses licensed music you know licensed expire they can't be renewed or expensive to renew it is all being created and handled by vicarious vision who has done a lot of remasters imports over the years for things like PlayStation 4 and Xbox and such so they have a lot of experience and it looks pretty good and if it plays like the old games everyone that played those games is probably gonna love playing them again with upgraded visuals and all that jazz so it's kind of a shame it's not coming to switch I'm not seeing anything that shows that it shouldn't be able to run on the switch when we have games like the Witcher 3 and Doom Eternal coming I don't really understand why you know a remaster returning a pro skater one and two can't come but I don't get to make those decisions but hey you know what it's better they exist and they don't even if they might not come to my preferred platform they're still gonna be out there for a lot of people to play and the last story and this is more of a just in case I don't really have much else to say about it Grantham Auto 5 is available right now on the Epic Games Store for free I know some people are kind of against the Epic Games Store and all this stuff it's another steam like store on PC but hey it's free it's Grantham Auto 5 if you haven't played it you know check it out I don't know who hasn't played it at this point but it keeps selling in the top 10 on like all the various platforms every single month so clearly there's plenty of people who haven't played it just you know unless people buy multiple copies I guess I'm multiple systems I don't know but it's available for free on PC right now through the Epic Games Store take advantage of it while you can because I don't think it's a I think it's a timed period where they give it to you for free and you do get to keep it but yeah kind of cool kudos to you Epic Games Store for just giving games away this is actually part of an ongoing program they've had for a little bit now where they have like a big game here and there for free you know obviously we got contracts and all that think of it like Microsoft Game Pass except you know they just give you the game once in a while anyways thank you guys so much for tuning in I am Nathaniel Robledance from the Center Prime this was a special weird edition of Prime News a little recap of the week 10 big stories 10 biggest stories I felt from the week there's a lot of other stories that could have talked about you know potential switch shortages and blah I covered those in some other videos I don't know I'm just glad to be somewhat back kind of sort of fancier editing little with some green screen action Nintendo Prime merch check the link down in the description if you'd like to get some of that who wants Nintendo Prime merch anyways it does look pretty fly on me but doesn't mean it's gonna fly on you let's just be 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