 Hey folks, I got a couple pieces of news here for you that are a pretty big deal, so big I needed to deliver them directly to you. The first one being that Nintendo announced on Twitter today that Super Mario Maker 2 is heading to the Nintendo Switch on June 28th. Also this announcement essentially confirms there will not be a Nintendo Direct this month. Of course, I think we knew that because tomorrow's really the last day they could do a Nintendo Direct and it's not yet announced. So there you go, no Nintendo Direct, they're just going to do another Twitter flurry which they did today because they threw a whole bunch of news out there. But we're just going to talk about that one, you know, really cool, Super Mario Maker 2 June 28th, they didn't release a new trailer or anything, they just literally shadow dropped a date for it on Twitter, I guess it's not really a shadow drop, they intentionally threw out a date for it that is in the future. That means we will see Super Mario Maker 2 at E3. So that's an exciting thing as well, it means I'll probably get to go hands on with it and give you guys some impressions and all that before the game releases which is great because Nintendo still doesn't send me review copies so at least I'll have my own experience with it to at least give you an idea of how this game is different maybe from the last Mario Maker game. Now the other piece of news we have is actually about Starlink Battle for Atlas for my money, one of the most underrated games of last year. And I think at this point we should just call it Star Fox Battle for Atlas because, well, they're releasing Star Fox content that we have to pay for in addition to a Crimson Moon update that is 100% for free for everyone who owns Starlink Battle for Atlas across all platforms. Now we know Starlink Battle for Atlas has performed under expectations according to Ubisoft but the fact they're releasing paid DLC for Switch I think hints at something in the future but first let's actually get into what they are releasing. So for starters the Crimson Moon update that releases on April 30th along with the Star Fox content update is 100% free besides a certain selection of weapons. So what the Crimson Moon update will be for Starlink Battle for Atlas is you get to explore the Crimson Moon. Oh my gosh right shocking. It also includes the theater of outlaw games that are there that's kind of the big deal about this new place to explore. You get to compete in single player and split screen multiplayer racing tracks and after looking at some of the footage here it reminds me a lot of pod racer back on the day on the Nintendo 64 so that's really exciting because it's a different type of racing that we're used to seeing with something like Mario Kart or say Forza. I'm really stoked to see how this goes and I hope it's really really good and the fact it's just a mini game inside of Starlink really excites me and it's free so you can't really complain about free content if you happen to own the game. Also there'll be another piece of content you'll be able to do with it in this area and that is Fight Waves of Ruthless Enemies in the Crimson Coliseum and you can see their rank and stats on different leaderboards so that's really really cool. It's something that'll be an online leaderboard kind of thing and an all out battle royale Coliseum mode which is just sick in my mind and I can't believe we're getting it so that with the racing is just fantastic. Also this Crimson Moon update actually impacts the whole of Atlas. Essentially it's going to add new story missions and there's going to be new weekly challenges. There'll also be five new pilots and three new starships and then what I mentioned before there'll be 11 new weapons but these are going to only be available through digital purchase so we're talking micro transactions so leave it to a new Microsoft game to not give us everything for free but hey cool at least the pilots and all that will be able to be obtained within the game which is better than they did in the past when you used to have to pay for all the pilots and all that stuff. Moving on beyond that is where it gets interesting for us Nintendo fans because they're releasing a Star Fox content update for the game on April 30th as well for $11.99. In this content update you'll be able to play as Peppy, Falco and Slippy so they will be now playable characters and you'll be hunting down the Star Wolf team in a series of missions. Now each of those individual characters will have their own little talent tree and their own unique abilities just like every other pilot in the game and yeah this sounds really really cool they didn't really reveal much you know they showed a little footage in a trailer for it first of which but they didn't really reveal much about it we obviously know much more about the Crimson Moon update than we know the one we're paying for but we've also known about this Crimson Moon update for a while when they initially announced that racing was coming to it also the fact that the Star Fox content is separate from the Crimson Moon update kind of makes me think that people that thought oh this racing update the Star Link is clearly what the Star Fox racing thing was is obviously incorrect because when they advertise this racing they're not even showing Star Fox in it Star Fox can be used I'm sure in this racing but it's not what this thing was built around it wasn't based on Star Fox it was something that was going to exist irregardless of the Star Fox crossover now with paid DLC coming the first paid DLC really for Star Link Battle for Islands like as a DLC pack and it being Star Fox related and exclusive to Switch tells you a couple things one this game clearly sold best on Switch because they're making Switch exclusive paid DLC they would not be doing that if it didn't sell best on Switch to with this game's failure in sales at the market that's led to them canceling the toys it makes you think that future Star Link games might be coming exclusively to Switch and in addition that it might become a permanent part of the Star Fox universe to have the first paid DLC be basically Star Fox is awesome and awesome for us Nintendo owners and is going to give people on Switch a reason to pick up Star Link Battle for Atlas on the cheap and maybe that's why this this DLC is $11.99 to kind of add additional revenue on top of that 50% off or whatever you end up buying Star Link for these days but I do think it's really interesting to see that this is the direction this game is going in and because of it I think you might as well call it Star Fox Battle for Atlas or Star Link colon Star Fox because that's what this is it is now becoming slowly and slowly more and more a Star Fox game and it is its own standalone space game with a crossover in it now the original crossover was already pretty massive with a bunch of exclusive content for Star Fox but to see the additional content coming and now a huge chunk of it is just Star Fox related content for Switch yeah I think this bodes well this bodes well for the future of Star Link on Switch because I think we will get a Star Link 2 it will not be toys to life and it will come exclusively to Switch I think in the future with a bigger emphasis on the Star Fox stuff heck they might even get like a Star Fox Battle for Atlas version at some point that is just Star Fox related I honestly think that we this just brings us like this much closer to Ubisoft making a Star Fox game whether it is a Star Fox Star Link game or just a Star Fox game in general because clearly they are doing an excellent job with the Star Star Fox content and IP I don't know if you've played Battle for Atlas it's very underrated so I what's wrong with you go play it especially on the cheap right now and yes Star Fox is awesome and it as is his content his content is really some of the standout content in Star Link so yeah I'm I'm excited about this what can I say why didn't I talk about it way more than Morning Maker 2 it also helps like they dropped a trailer by the way which we didn't get for Submariner Maker 2 I would have liked a new trailer with the release date but hey you know what you can't win everything anyways folks I understand RoboJance from the front you should enter our Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros Ultimate giveaway through the clean dot idling down in the description why don't we try to get this video to 200 likes I know we can do it if we all band together and I want to thank you guys for tuning in subscribe for more content and I'll catch all of you guys in the next video