Nintendo officially announced via Twitter that the new remake duology of Advance Wars, called Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, is being delayed. The turn-based strategy game will now release in spring 2022.
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is a new Nintendo Switch remaster of the Gameboy Advance games Advance Wars and Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising. It features both campaigns of these two entries completely remade, with new graphics and updated animations to suit a newer generation of console hardware.
Originally, this “reimagined and rebuilt from the ground up” remake was set to release this holiday season on December 3. Nintendo cites the need for “a little more fine-tuning” as the reason behind the delay.
The push comes as no surprise to most Nintendo fans, as many have noticed the recent marketing silence around the title. This was a big giveaway on a release postponement, especially with the 2021 holiday season so close. Other games like Metroid Dread and Mario Party Superstars were getting the red carpet treatment, in comparison.
The marketing was silent so I was wondering if there would be a delay, now we know..
This is fine by me though, I'd rather wait a little longer than get a rushed game!
— Joey (@Xeno_Joey) October 22, 2021
Part of the reasoning behind the delay may also be to avoid overlap with another first-party Nintendo title release. Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain, a party-puzzle game and the latest installment of the Brain Age series, is set to release December 3.
While a delay is great to assure that the quality of Advance Wars 1+2 is up to par with what buyers are expecting, hopefully, it isn’t released in February along with so many other long-awaited games.
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is currently up for pre-order and will roll onto Nintendo Switch consoles in the spring 2022, barring any other delays.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.