Nintendo Download: Go Behind the Seams with Kirby

The Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn game is available on March 8. (Graphic: Business Wire)

The Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn game is available on March 8. (Graphic: Business Wire)

REDMOND, Wash.--()--This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:

  • Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS
    • Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn – One ticked-off sorcerer just banished Kirby, warping the poor puffball to a yarn world in need of saving. The twist? Having a yarn body is epic! Kirby can transform into knitted versions of vehicles like tanks and flying saucers. Plus, his new ravel abilities mimic his classic copy abilities, adding something new to every stage of this action-adventure game. The Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn game is available on March 8. Players that want to try before they buy can download the free demo, now available in Nintendo eShop.
  • Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch
    • Baba Is You – Baba Is You is a puzzle game in which you can change the rules of play. By manipulating blocks in every level, you can change how the level works and cause surprising, unexpected interactions. With some simple block pushing you can turn yourself into a rock, turn patches of grass into dangerously hot obstacles and even change the goal to something entirely different. The Baba Is You game is available March 13.
    • The Caligula Effect: Overdose – Something’s amiss in the seemingly perfect world of Mobius. Escape from the false paradise and return to reality, or risk losing more than just your identity. Befriend and recruit more than 500 students to your cause, or turn the tables and sabotage the Go-Home Club’s efforts to return to the real world. The Caligula Effect: Overdose game is available March 12.
    • Assault Android Cactus+ – Experience an arcade-style twin-stick shooter set in a vivid sci-fi universe. Junior Constable Cactus is outside her pay grade when she responds to a distress call and ends up stranded on a space freighter under attack by its own robot workers. Think fast and shoot faster. Charge head first into an army of refitted robots, transforming stages and massive boss showdowns. The Assault Android Cactus+ game is available March 8.
    • izneo – The izneo BD Comics Manga Webtoon application is a Nintendo Switch app with thousands of digital comic books available for purchase. Nintendo Switch, laptop, tablet, smartphone, Smart TV: Your comics are synchronized in your library and available anytime, anywhere, making it easy to pick up where you left off. A convenient and pleasurable digital reading experience to enjoy comics as you always have done: on the train or on the bus, on your couch or in bed, and even offline. Explore all kinds of comic book genres: Adventure, Romance, Thriller, Heroic Fantasy, Sci-Fi or Comedy. Enjoy your comics with the panel-by-panel mode called eazycomics for the most comfortable reading experience possible.

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In addition to video games available at retail stores, Nintendo also offers a variety of content that people can download directly to their systems. Nintendo adds new games weekly to Nintendo eShop, which offers a variety of options for the Nintendo Switch console, the Wii U console and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

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Customers in the U.S. and Canada ages 18 and older can also link a PayPal account to their Nintendo Account to purchase digital games and content for the Nintendo Switch system both on-device and from the Nintendo website. Once the accounts are linked, users may also use PayPal as a payment option when buying digital content for the Wii U or Nintendo 3DS family systems from the Nintendo website.

My Nintendo members can earn Gold Points on eligible digital purchases. Already have Gold Points? Redeem them toward your next digital purchase of Nintendo Switch games and DLC on Nintendo eShop, or on discount rewards for select Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software. Visit https://my.nintendo.com/reward_categories for more details.

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Contacts

Eddie Garcia
Golin
213-335-5536
egarcia@golin.com

Rich George
Golin
213-335-5554
rgeorge@golin.com