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Week of July 18th, 2021 Nintendo Switch Physical Releases & Limited Pre-Orders

Updated: Jul 21, 2021

SUPER BLOOD HOCKEY RETRO UPGRADE - NOW SHIPPING!

Limited Quantities Available! Grab your bundle of physical goodies here.


What is this Retro Upgrade you ask? Let me explain! First and foremost, you DO NOT need to rebuy the game! For the low price of $19.95 + shipping, we're offering a way to enhance your current copy of Super Blood Hockey. Included in this Retro Upgrade are the following items:

  • NES-Inspired Retro Box

  • Exclusive Mini-Prequel Comic drawn by Shawn Daley

  • OST CD with Unreleased Tracks

SHIPPING NOW! SUPER BLOOD HOCKEY & PIGEON DEV GAMES COLLECTION (PREMIUM & RETRO EDITION)

You read that right! Super Blood Hockey and Pigeon Dev Games Collection Premium Edition are now shipping everywhere! Grab your copies here.

Retro Edition” (1,000 available), priced at $59.95 plus shipping, includes:

Deluxe Edition” (1,000 available), priced at $99.95 plus shipping, includes:


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New Releases/New Preorders


Sunday, July 18th

(LAST DAY PRE-ORDER) Dragon Star Varnir ($39.99) Distributed through Limited Run Games

Pre-orders open at 12 PM ET and will close on Sunday, July 18th at 11:59 PM ET. This is a distributed title and not part of their numbered run.

(NEW PRE-ORDER) Rolling Gunner + Overpower from Strictly Limited Games

  • Regular (34.99€) Link - Limited to 3,000 copies

  • Collector's (69.99€) Link - Limited to 2,000 copies

Pre-orders will be in two batches. The first opens up at 6:00 PM EST on Saturday, July 17th. The second batch opens up at 12:00 PM EST on Sunday, July 18th.

The Collector's Edition includes:

  • Collector's Edition Box

  • Nintendo Switch Game

  • Reversible Large Poster

  • Snow Globe

  • Keychain

  • OST

  • Patch

  • Artbook

  • Instruction Card

(LAST DAY PRE-ORDER) Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol from Limited Run Games

  • Regular ($34.99) Link

  • Collector's ($99.99) Link

Pre-orders open at 10 AM EST and will be an open pre-order for both editions until Sunday, July 18th at 11:59 PM EST.


The Standard Edition includes:

  • Includes interior art

  • Full-color manual. The manual includes a 3D gallery.

  • Each copy of the game comes with a pair of Zeke's 3D glasses.

The Collector's Edition includes:

  • A physical copy of Limited Run #411: Zombies Ate My Neighbors & Ghoul Patrol on Nintendo Switch

  • Manual with 3D gallery

  • Zeke's 3D glasses

  • Official Nintendo Switch sized SteelBook with 3D art.

  • Official CD soundtrack collection

  • Full sized functional red watergun based on the in-game weapon

  • Reversible 18" x 24" posters

  • 10 retro monster cards

  • Premium Collector's Box with spinning hypno disc


Tuesday, July 20th

(NEW RELEASE) Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed - 10th Anniversary Edition ($49.99) Amazon

The Day 1 ‘10th Anniversary Edition’ includes:

  • Collector's Box

  • Game

  • 96 page softcover art book

  • 2-disc soundtrack consisting of 47 tracks.

(NEW RELEASE) Blasphemous Deluxe Edition ($39.99) Amazon

This retail release includes:

  • Full Game with all current DLC + Patches

  • Stickers

  • Poster of Cvstodia

  • Digital Comic

  • Digital Artbook

  • Digital Soundtrack

  • 2 Bonus Skins: Alloy of Sin & Golden Burden

(NEW RELEASE) Cotton Reboot! ($39.99) Amazon

(NEW RELEASE) Cris Tales

The retail edition includes a collectible game poster.

The Collector's Edition includes:

  • Cris Tales Game

  • Collector’s 60-page art book

  • Matias Plush (approx. 9”)

  • 4 Enamel Character Pins

  • 3 Character Stickers

  • 2 Lithographic Art Prints (approx. 4”x6”)

  • ‘Peek-a-boo’ Game O-sleeve

  • Collector’s Box

  • Bonus: Digital download of 4 desktop wallpapers, 8 phone wallpapers, and 10 character avatars

(NEW PRE-ORDER) Going Under ($34.99) Distributed through Limited Run Games

Pre-orders open at 12 PM ET and will close on Sunday, August 22 at 11:59 PM ET. This is a distributed title and not part of their numbered run. This includes a mini concept art booklet.

(NEW RELEASE) Panzer Paladin ($34.99) Best Buy Exclusive

This has a variant cover different from the one offered on Limited Run Games' website previously.

(NEW RELEASE) Shantae ($29.99) Best Buy Exclusive

This has a variant cover different from the one offered on Limited Run Games' website previously.

(NEW RELEASE) Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut ($29.99) Best Buy Exclusive

This has a variant cover different from the one offered on Limited Run Games' website previously.

(NEW RELEASE) Terra Trilogy ($39.99) Amazon

Includes the following 3 games on one cartridge:

  • Terra Lander

  • Terra Lander II: Rock Slide Rescue

  • Terra-Bomber

(NEW RELEASE) TowerFall ($34.99) Best Buy Exclusive

This has a variant cover different from the one offered on Limited Run Games' website previously.

(NEW RELEASE) Trover Saves the Universe ($39.99) Best Buy Exclusive

This has a variant cover different from the one offered on Limited Run Games' website previously.


Wednesday, July 21st

(2ND CHANCE PRE-ORDER) No More Heroes 3 (CE & Deluxe) from Pix'n Love

Please note that this is a 2nd chance/batch pre-orders. Long story short, the company had website issues that led to a lot of people not being able to pre-order and once they had access to the site, the games were practically sold out. So, the company decided to add 500 more copies of each edition.

  • Collector's Edition (€79.90) Link - Limited to 500 copies

  • Deluxe Edition (€149.00) Link - Limited to 500 copies

The Collector's Edition includes:

  • The game No More Heroes III (physical edition) for Nintendo Switch™.

  • A certificate of authenticity numbered at 2000 copies.

  • A richly illustrated 96-page artbook on the No More Heroes and Travis Strikes Again trilogy.

  • Four lithographs.

  • An exclusive cardboard sleeve.

The Deluxe Edition includes:

  • The game No More Heroes III (physical edition) for Nintendo Switch™.

  • A certificate of authenticity signed by SUDA51 and numbered at 500 copies.

  • An exclusive vinyl featuring a selection of tracks from No More Heroes III.

  • A richly illustrated 96-page artbook on the No More Heroes trilogy and Travis Strikes Again games.

  • Four lithographs.

  • A large format Deluxe box (12 x 12 inches) with Pantone silver.


Thursday, July 22nd

(NEW RELEASE) Super Crush K.O. from Super Rare Games

  • Game Only ($36.80) Link - Limited to 2,000 copies

  • SteelBook Bundle ($53.83) Link - Limited to 2,000 copies

Sales open at 1 PM EST and both editions listed above are limited to 2,000 copies each.

The SteelBook bundle includes:

  • Fully assembled Nintendo Switch game with cartridge

  • Steelbook

  • Slipcover to hold both the game and SteelBook

  • Interior art

  • Full-colour manual

  • Exclusive sticker

  • Set of 3 card trading card pack

  • Fully reversible cover


Friday, July 23rd

(NEW RELEASE) The Keep (£12.99) Amazon UK

This is a fauxical release (digital code in case; no cartridge).


Limited/Indie Physical Publishers

Please note that due to the constantly changing availability and releases, I have decided to just provide links to the limited/indie publishers' sites. I encourage you all to visit their sites, see what they have, and support their continued efforts to help bring digital only games physically!


If I am missing any companies, please let me know so I can have them added.


Companies (Listed Alphabetically)

Companies No Longer in Physical Publishing

  • Physicality Games (Website still offering Mastiff titles, but not publishing titles under their Physicality brand) - Main Website

  • Warned Collectors (Never published a game, but stole people's money) - Main Website


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