Nintendo announces PAX East 2018 lineup
Dark Souls Remastered, Travis Strikes Again, and more playable.
Nintendo will attend PAX East 2018 in Boston from April 5 to 8 with playable demos of Switch titles such as Dark Souls Remastered, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, and more, the company announced.
The following Switch titles willl be playable at the Nintendo booth:
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo)
- Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition (Nintendo)
- Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido (Nintendo) (Public Playable Debut)
- Dark Souls Remastered (Bandai Namco Entertainment) (Public Playable Debut)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Bethesda Softworks) (Public Playable Debut)
- Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes (Grasshopper Manufacture) (Public Playable Debut)
- SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy (NIS America) (Public Playable Debut)
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (Activision) (Public Playable Debut)
Additionally, Nintendo will offer a selection of playable indie titles within the Nindie Arcade at the Nintendo booth. Playable Nindie Arcade titles include:
- Just Shapes & Beats (Berzerk Studio) (Public Playable Debut)
- Dead Cells (Motion Twin) (Public Playable Debut)
- The Messenger (Sabotage and Devolver Digital) (Public Playable Debut)
- Lumines Remastered (Enhance Games) (Public Playable Debut)
- Runner3 (Choice Provisions)
- West of Loathing (Asymmetric) (Public Playable Debut)
- Pool Panic (Adult Swim Games)
- Pode (Henchman & Goon)
- Garage (tinyBuild Games) (Public Playable Debut)
- Next Up Hero (Aspyr Media and Digital Continue)
Visitors to the Nintendo booth will also get the chance to compete in informal four-on-four Splatoon 2 matches, mini-game challenges in Super Mario Odyssey, and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze speed runs, among other activities.
Nintendo will also have free poster giveaways at its booth, and visitors who check in using their My Nintendo QR Code at at the booth will receive a My Nintendo pass on a first-come, first-served basis. These passes will allow them access to a prority line to skip ahead and play select games during specified times.