Starlink: Battle For Atlas Crimson Moon Update, PC Version And New Star Fox Content

Starlink: Battle for Atlas update, titled Crimson Moon, finally has a release date. You can download it on April  30th. There will also be new Star Fox downloadable content for you to immerse yourselves in and that will cost you $11.99. Here’s the details direct from the team at Ubisoft as well as a new trailer:

Crimson Moon Update

As part of the free update, players can explore the Crimson Moon, theater of the Outlaw Games. Players will be able to compete in all-new single-player and two-player split-screen racing tracks, fight waves of ruthless enemies in the Crimson Coliseum and see their rank and stats on leaderboards. The Crimson Moon will also impact the entire world of Atlas and let players engage with new faction story missions and weekly challenges. Additionally, players will be able to expand their roster and play through the new Crimson Moon content with five new pilots, three new starships and eleven new weapons available separately for digital-only purchase.

Star Fox Downloadable Content

Alongside the Crimson Moon update, prepare to take control of the Star Fox team members Peppy, Falco and Slippy in brand-new content coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch. Hunt down the Star Wolf team in a series of missions with the help of three new Star Fox team pilots, each with their own unique special ability and skill tree. The new Star Fox content will be available separately for digital-only purchase for $11.99 on Nintendo Switch beginning April 30, 2019. 

PC Version

Also, Ubisoft is bringing Starlink to PC. This version of the game will have all the content of the console versions and will launch on April 30 alongside the Crimson Moon update.

Starlink Releasing In October 16 And Includes A StarFox Tie-In On Nintendo Switch

During Ubisoft's E3 conference, Ubisoft announced that Starlink will be coming to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on October 16th. But, for Nintendo Switch players there will be a Star Fox tie-in in the game. Check out the trailer below. 

Retro Studios Next Project Rumored To Be Star Fox Racing Game

A recent rumor has been circulating regarding Retro Studios next project. It sounds a little far-fetched but Eurogamer says that they have heard from their sources that the company could be working on a Star Fox Racing game. We shall find out whether it’s actually legitimate at E3 next month.

UPDATE 5/19/18 - More rumors about Star Fox Grand Prix have been revealed.

• The game is not like F-Zero
• He’s seen a more complete version of the logo
• The game is based on the arwing (which differentiates it from F-Zero)
• He was told the title “Star Fox Grand Prix” was a tentative title
• The game is a mixture between classic Star Fox and racing
• You shoot enemies to propel forward and get combos; you can shoot other players too
• Each Grand Prix is three tracks with a boss fight- where the boss comes onto the track
• It has a big hub area where you can interact with the Star Fox characters
• You pick up new missions at the hub and there’s story content to go through
• The game looks really really good in motion
• He also heard Retro was considering adding cameos like Donkey Kong
• He also heard it was a 2019 game, but wouldn’t be surprised if it was a 2018 game

Here’s Why Star Fox 2 Was Included With The SNES Classic

Japanese gaming publication Famitsu recently interviewed Kazuhiro Maruyama from Hardware development department, Takao Shimizu from the Planning and development department, and Kazuyoshi Nishi from the Business department. They spoke about SNES Classic and the legendary games included on the system. One of the games mentioned was the mythical Star Fox 2. Here’s what they had to say (translated by Siliconera) about the more than welcome inclusion of Star Fox 2 on the SNES Classic.

Famitsu: Could you tell us how including the mythical Star Fox 2 on the Super Nintendo Classic Edition became a reality?

Takao Shimizu, Planning and development: From the beginning when we were thinking what we would add to a hypothetical SNES Classic, one of the issues were the titles that utilized the Super-FX chip, such as Star Fox and Yoshi’s Island. Of course, we knew about Star Fox 2, and we were talking about adding those titles if we could emulate the Super-FX chip.

Kazuhiro Maruyama, Hardware development: At the time, we didn’t know if the emulator would work or not.

Shimizu: In the end, we wouldn’t know unless we let NERD (Nintendo European Research & Development) try their hand at it, so they tried to work it out on the side while developing the NES Classic. Something else that was crucial was that we found the completed data for Star Fox 2 that still existed, in both Japanese and English.

Nishi: That really was important.

Shimizu: The source code still existed as well, so we thought we could finally work on it properly. Producer Shimada and the director of Star Fox 2, Eguchi negotiated with Miyamoto, and handed the data to NERD. After that, Super-FX chip emulation started.

Famitsu: Star Fox 2 is being released for the first time, so did you treat it differently compared to other titles on the SNES Classic?

Maruyama: Firstly, we tested to see if it was objectively fun to play. Just in case, maybe, the game was better off left as a myth. (laughs)

Shimizu: But the results showed that it was good, so it got included.

Star Fox Zero Comes With A Cool Mini Game

During todays Nintendo Direct, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto’s Project Guard is now known as Star Fox Guard and comes pre bundled with Star Fox Zero. Also if you use the Fox Amiibo with the game you can play as the R-Wing from the original game. Star Fox Zero is still set to release on April 22 for Wii U. You can watch the full Nintendo Direct below. 

The Falco Amiibo Will Be A Best Buy Exclusive

If you’re a amiibo fan or just like Falco, then we have some good or bad news depending on how you take it. Best Buy has informed us today in a press release that Falco is going to be Best Buy exclusive  and that the pre orders will start today. The Falco amiibo will be released November 20th. 

Star Fox Zero Is Delayed Into 2016

Nintendo has announced that Star Fox Zero is now delayed until quarter 1 of 2016. The announcement was delivered on Nintendo’s Facebook by the games designer Shigeru Minamoto. We have been developing Star Fox Zero for Wii U with the aim of releasing it this year," he wrote. "Although we felt that the development had been progressing well, we now believe that we will need a little more time to work on areas such as the unprecedented discovery that we want players to experience in the game by using two screens, and further polishing the level designs and perfecting the tone of the cut scenes." Miyamoto admits that the it would be technically possible to release the new Star Fox game this year but Nintendo wants to focus on polishing the game a bit more. This holiday season is already pretty packaged and to hear that Nintendo doesn’t want to pull and Arkham Knight (you should know what I’m talking about with the PC version) is really refreshing. Take all the time you need Nintendo, I can wait. What do you think ?   

Star Fox Zero Coming To Wii U This Holiday

Today Nintendo started out there E3 press conference by showing off the new Star Fox game called Star Fox Zero. The major changes in this Star Fox is that you'll need to split your attention between the television and the gamepad. As you use the gamepad for fine aiming in a cockpit view. You'll also be able to transform into a Walker which allows you to take the fight to ground based enemies. Star Fox Zero is coming this Hoilday for Wii U