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The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

Switch eShop - Highlights

Apex Legends (Electronic Arts, 9th Mar) - Conquer with character in Apex Legends, a free-to-play* battle royale shooter featuring legendary characters with powerful abilities teaming up to battle for fame and fortune on the fringes of the Frontier. Master an ever-growing roster of diverse legends, deep tactical squad play and bold developments that level-up the battle royale experience.

Sea of Solitude: The Director’s Cut (Quantic Dream, 4th Mar, $19.99) - Adventure through a beautiful and troubling world, where nothing is as it seems, to confront and conquer your fears. Sea of Solitude: The Director’s Cut takes you through a drowned city where light has been submerged in darkness, and metaphorical creatures evoke painful emotions that Kay must face and overcome. Journey with Kay by boat and on foot, navigate harsh landscapes, solve puzzles and confront the monsters to help her find her inner peace and her sea of solitude.

Gnosia (PLAYISM, 4th Mar, $24.99) - In this adventure RPG, the crew of a drifting spaceship formulate a desperate plan for survival while facing off against a mysterious and deadly threat known as the Gnosia. The most suspicious among them will be put into cold sleep one by one in an effort to completely rid the ship of Gnosia. It’s almost impossible to tell whether each person put into cold sleep was really Gnosia or simply a poor, unfortunate scapegoat, sacrificed by the Gnosia for their own survival. Can the humans emerge victorious? Or is mankind doomed?

Switch eShop - New Releases

Ace Strike (6th Mar, $3.99) - Ace Strike will let you feel yourself as a battle pilot of combat copter. Fly with 4 different choppers, each with its own characteristics through multiple missions. Destroy your mission objectives like tanks, ships, turrets, military zones.

America Wild Hunting (5th Mar, $3.99) - If you love to shoot with the most well-known guns, rifles, hand guns and machine guns of the market, you will love playing this shooter. You'll find in this hunting game the real birds you can shoot in real life hunting on North American territory from Albatrosses to Eagles, Swans to Ducks, Pigeons to Bufflehead and many more. With its high-paced action, America Wild Hunting will challenge your dexterity and ability to concentrate.

Arcade Archives GUERRILLA WAR (HAMSTER, 25th Feb, $7.99) - "GUERRILLA WAR" is a survival shooting game released by SNK in 1987. Take control of a rebel leader and fight to take back your country from dictatorship. Use powerful weapons such as hand grenades and tanks to defeat the enemy and reclaim your country.

Ayakashi: Romance Reborn Dawn Chapter & Twilight Chapter (Voltage, 4th March, $49.99) - The city is under attack by the Wraith scourge! Only you and your handsome Ayakashi comrades have the power to protect those you love!

Counter Recon: The First Mission (4th Mar, $14.99) - A single-player FPS game that fights against terrorists around the world! Overwhelming number of stages with high quality graphic! Various Weapons that excite military fans!

Doug Hates His Job (5th Mar, $6.99) - With 8 styles of gameplay, you get to decide how Doug responds to annoying coworkers, crazy clients, and a ruthless boss.

Dreaming Sarah (5th Mar, $4.99) - Dreaming Sarah is a surreal adventure platformer game with puzzle elements, an engaging environment, an incredibly diverse cast of characters, and of course, a young girl named Sarah. Sarah has been in an accident and is currently in a coma. It's up to you to help her wake up by exploring her dream world.

Duel on Board (4th Mar, $7.99) - AHOY THERE! Duel on Board is a 1 vs 1 local multiplayer competitive / party game where pirates fight for the precious beer while sailing the dangerous high seas. These are the rules of the duel: -Reach the center of the ship where the beer is placed. -Don't get thrown off the ship. BEWARE! While sailing the dangerous high seas, you will encounter various locations with events that will change the mechanics and the rules of the game.

Estranged: The Departure (4th Mar, $5.99) - Experience what the island has in store as you uncover the secretive Arque Corporation, burrowing ever deeper into their dangerous and haphazard operations

Everhood (Foreign Gnomes, 4th Mar, $14.99) - Welcome to the world of Everhood Where up is down And left is right Where time has stopped And strange characters R O A M Here you control a wooden doll whose arm has been stolen by a blue gnome.

Give It Up! Bouncy (Zordix, 4th Mar, $9.99) - Boink through over 70 thumb-twisting levels, beat nerve-racking challenges, and collect ridiculous skins for your blob.

Into A Dream (4th Mar, $13.99) - In Into A Dream you wake up in a mysterious place devoid of all your memories and come upon a recording addressed to you. As you listen to it, you realize that your mind has been linked to the dreams of a Luke Williams, a man diagnosed with severe depression. You are Luke’s last hope and must prevent him from… fading away.

Kill It With Fire (tinyBuild Games, 4th Mar, $14.99) - The spider - mankind’s most ancient and deadly nemesis. As a licensed Kill It With Fire exterminator, it’s time to fight back! Assemble your arsenal of increasingly excessive weapons, track spiders across suburbia, and burn everything in your path! To defeat spiders you must exploit their one weakness: FIRE.

Mail Mole (Undercoders, 4th Mar, $14.99) - Running through the underground, climbing walls and soaring the skies, there's no place our hero can't reach! Traveling with Cannon Lines, Molty will take on the most demanding and varied platforming challenges to reach Carrotland's furthest and oldest Mailboxes: endless pits, giant boulders, steep slopes, bouncing platforms, sharp spikes..... tough roads! But when the power is out, you can't send an e-mail!

My Coloring Book (Cool Small Games, 26th Feb, $4.99) - Restore your sense of childhood magic and wonder with My Colouring Book! With this handy app, you can find plenty of drawings that will come to life, but only with your help. Thanks to an amazing variety, My Colouring Book is suitable for all from children to adults.

NENA (5th Mar, $4.99) - NENA is a short, top-down action-puzzler following Botley on his very first journey! Key Features Possession System: You control Botley, and by extent control the world around him. Botley can't jump, shoot, or explode. but the objects he controls can. Fight bosses: With each of the three levels come a unique boss! Can you master telepathy and take them down? Embrace the UNKNOWN: Venture forth on a quest to gain freedom for all Robot-kind!

NOBLE ARMADA: LOST WORLDS (8th Mar, $19.99) - Noble Armada: Lost Worlds is a strategy title based on the Noble Armada miniatures game. Set in the Fading Suns Universe, where the suns themselves are dying, humanity battles to revive its lost greatness, or just take what is left. The five great Royal Houses dominate human space as they battle each other for control of the greatest resource... humanity itself.

Pixel Game Maker Series Puzzle Pedestrians (4th Mar, $14.99) - Puzzle Pedestrians is not your ordinary puzzle game! Observe and guide pedestrians to help them have a safe time on their way to work, school, or otherwise fulfilling your mission objectives. With your toolkit of items such as bees and bananas, you’ll help moms deliver lunches to forgetful children, deliver more foot traffic to struggling shops, and so much more!

Real Driving Sim (SC Ovilex Soft, 25th Feb, $14.90) - Do you love cars? Real Driving Sim is the best driving simulator that features more than 80 vehicles and a huge open-world map to explore. A big selection of vehicles is waiting for you: sedans, supercars, off roaders, SUVs and more, with realistic engine sounds and accurate interiors!

Rock ’N Racing Bundle Off Road & Rally (5th Mar, $19.99) - Enjoy 2 games in 1 with this irresistible speed games pack!

Ruinverse (Kemco, 4th Mar, $14.99) - Follow Kit, a kind-hearted transporter, and his vivacious childhood friend Allie as they team up with a third-rate swindler, a quack physician, and a ditzy dwarf to travel the world in their quest to save Allie from a plight that threatens her very existence while experiencing their moments of triumph and hardship in what is sure to be an unforgettable journey for RPG lovers everywhere!

Spooky Chase (25th Feb, $4.99) - Every year we play scary games for the Halloween season. Running away from monsters, zombies, ghosts, and the list goes on. This time, you gonna run away from your own past. Watch out for every step you made and DON'T GIVE UP. If it has some one who can defeat you, it is YOU. Your Adventure: You are your enemy! In Spooky Chase, every movement you made towards the flag is recorded and then replicated by the monsters. For more flags you collect, more enemies will show on the map!

Sticky Monsters (Alcyone Studio, 4th Mar, $9.95) - Join the monsters of the same color together on a simple 4x4 grid. To move a monster just slide your finger to desired direction. The colored monsters can move up, down, left or right. When two monsters of the same color touch each other, they will join together. The joined monsters now move toghether as a group.

SUPER METBOY! (4th Mar, $9.99) - "SUPER METBOY! " features the main character "METBOY", It is a "casual arcade action" title in which you defeat enemies with MET BLADE. When you press the action button, METBOY fires a blade at the same time as they jump, and those blades can cause damage to enemies. A wave is clear when you defeat a certain number of enemies.

Task Force Delta – Afghanistan (Polygon Art, 4th Mar, $9.99) - As a member of Task Force Delta, Army's Elite special forces unit, you'll strive for vengeance for Terrorist Attacks against the United States. Formed to battle terrorism, you will engage in rough terrain against countless enemies with the sole target to eliminate leading terrorists in Afghanistan. Utilise a modern arsenal of machine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles and pistols to weaken the terrorists and protect the free world!

DLC

Wield the “Power of the Aegis” in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – The Cloud Sea of Alrest has never seen a battle like this before! Today, Pyra/Mythra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as its newest playable DLC fighters. Prepare for a massive brawl when deploying these two formidable warriors.

Challenger Pack 9 contains both Pyra/Mythra as playable fighters, a new stage based on the Cloud Sea of Alrest setting and a selection of sweeping music tracks from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Challenger Pack 9 is part of Fighters Pass Vol. 2, which can be purchased for $29.99 and also includes Sephiroth from the Final Fantasy series, Min Min from the ARMS game, Steve & Alex from Minecraft and two more yet-to-be announced fighters as they release. Challenger Pack 9 can also be purchased separately for $5.99.

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So that's your lot for this week's North American Nintendo Download. Go on, be a sport and drop a vote in the poll above, and comment below with your hot picks!