Welcome to the latest SwitchArcade roundup, where we're covering the latest Nintendo Switch news, sales, and releases! Wednesdays are shaping up to be a quiet day for Switch releases, but Thursday and Friday of this week are going to be quite busy with a lot of intriguing titles hitting the eShop. Today is a lull, so let's catch up with some news, some sales including some deals at GameStop, and a rundown of Aegis Defenders.
News
Nintendo Direct on March 8th
A new Nintendo Direct is happening tomorrow, March 8th, at 5:00 PM EST. Nintendo is promising new details on Mario Tennis Aces, their upcoming tennis RPG. 3DS titles will also play a part of the broadcast, which will run about 30 minutes. Rumors going around suggest that some new Mario DLC is in the works, but we'll see when the second Direct of 2018 hits. You can watch and get notified of the start time via the embedded player below:
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ARMS Update 5.2 Out Now
While Nintendo is done adding fighters to ARMS, the content updates and balance changes keep coming. Update 5.2.0 adds in Party Crash's Big Time ARMS mode in regular, offline battles. This gives your fighter massive arms that also do a lot of damage. This can be a helpful assist for players trying to get into a fair fight against each other offline. If everyone had access to it online, nobody would not pick it, so you'll have to just enjoy it among friends. A whole bunch of balance tweaks are in the game now as wel...