August 2020

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Today Takara Tomy released a new gameplay trailer of Zoids Wild Infinity Blast, alongside the release date for the Japanese market.

The game will launch locally on November 26, exclusively for Nintendo Switch. 

At the moment, a western release of this game, which is the second on Nintendo’s hybrid console, has not been announced.

The trailer showcases both CGI cutscenes and plenty of gameplay featuring well-known Zoids.

You can check it out below alongside a previous one, which I had missed when it was released, so you’re getting it now. 

If you want to see more, you can also check out a gallery of screenshots released with the original announcement.

While Tokyo Game Show will be hosted exclusively online this year, Japanese developers are already gearing up to participate, and among them is Square Enix.

The publisher opened its special site for the event and the lineup includes plenty of games that will be showcased.

Here is a list. 

• Marvel’s Avengers
• Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
• Dragon Quest XI S Definitive Edition
• Collection of SaGa
• Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai games
• Babylon’s Fall
• Balan Wonderworld
• War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
• Toji to Miko
• Dragon Quest X
• Dragon Quest Rivals Ace
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
• Romancing SaGa Re:Universe
• Dragon Quest Walk
• Dragon Quest Tact
• Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Iru and Luca’s Mysterious Key
• Final Fantasy Trading Card Game

Yet, perhaps the most interesting part is in the schedule for the livestreams split over four days.

There are five slots marked as “coming soon” which possibly indicates unannounced games.

Those slots are on September 24 at 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm local time, on September 26 at 12:30 pm local time and 10:00 pm local time, and on September 27 at 4:00 pm local time. 

It’s worth mentioning that possibly not all of them are unannounced games, because Babylon’s Fall and Balan Wonderworld appear in the lineup but not yet in the schedule.

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