Welcome to the SwitchArcade Roundup for May 2nd, where we're covering all the latest Switch news ? and there's a lot today ? recent releases, and a few interesting sales! Seriously, May is going to bankrupt me, folks. The number of games that I want to buy this month is too many.
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New interview with Splatoon 2 producer about Octo Expansion
The Octo Expansion is coming soon to Splatoon 2, and Nintendo just posted a dev talk video with producer Hisashi Nogami, discussing the DLC and its inspiration. This expansion is looking rather promising, so definitely check this out for more details:

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Ikaruga coming to the Switch this month

Treasure started teasing their legendary color-swapping shoot 'em up Ikaruga for the Switch in April, and now they've announced with publisher Nicalis that the game is going to hit on May 29th for $14.99. No physical release has been announced yet, which is bad for some folks, but good for me: my GameCube copy of the game is only growing more and more valuable. If I knew where the case was, I guess. But then, I don't actually like to sell my old games" At least I've never gotten around to it. At least this version will support portrait orientation, aww yeah!
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Lumines Remastered releases June 26th

Amazing to think that a PSP rhythm game could somehow manage to garner enough love to find a remastered release all these years later. Who cares h...